How EMDR Helped Me Pick Up Where I Left Off—Not Go Back To Square One
I didn’t make some dramatic exit. I just stopped showing up. No big speech. No confrontation. Just a slow fade from IOP, unanswered calls, unread emails. And the longer I stayed away, the harder it felt to come back. If you ghosted treatment and now feel too ashamed to return, I want to tell you […]
EMDR Questions We Hear Most from Clients in Early Recovery
Early recovery is an uncanny place—like standing in a quiet room with all the furniture moved but nothing put back yet. You think you should feel relief, but instead you feel exposed. Small noises startle you. Emotions sit heavy in your chest. That’s where EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) comes in, not as a […]
How EMDR Helped Us Understand the Relapse Instead of Just Fear It
When our 20-year-old relapsed, it was like someone yanked the floor out from under us. We had made it through detox. We’d done the early-recovery chaos. He had been doing “okay” by all external measures. He was going to meetings. Staying clean. Back at work. Even laughing again. And then, just like that, it all […]
The Relapse That Changed the Work: Why Alumni Return Ready for EMDR
It’s hard to explain to someone who hasn’t been there. You had 90 days. Maybe more. You were sleeping through the night again, your laugh came back, and your friends stopped looking at you like they were holding their breath. You were doing it—not perfectly, but earnestly. And then, quietly, something slipped. Maybe it started […]
How EMDR Helps When You’re Unsure If Drinking Is the Real Issue
It doesn’t always start with a rock bottom. Sometimes, it starts with a subtle hunch—an uneasy feeling that your relationship with alcohol might not be serving you anymore. You’re not falling apart. You’re functional. But something feels off. The wine that once helped you unwind now leaves you feeling a little disconnected. The drinks that […]
Why EMDR Might Be Exactly What You’ve Been Avoiding — And What You Finally Need
You already know something needs to change. Maybe it’s the way you’ve been coping. Maybe it’s how often you feel overwhelmed, flat, or like you’re watching life happen instead of living it. Maybe it’s the pain you’ve never said out loud but feel every single day. You don’t need convincing that healing is necessary. What […]
How EMDR Rewrites the Stories Your Brain Keeps Using Against You
Some people get sober after hitting rock bottom. Others just start asking different questions. Questions like: Why do I keep ending up here? Why do I feel okay… until I suddenly don’t? What if I’m not “an addict,” but I still don’t feel free? If that’s you—searching, unsure, quietly burned out by patterns that don’t […]
How EMDR Rewires the Brain After Trauma and Addiction Relapse
When your child relapses—especially after a stretch of real progress—it’s more than just discouraging. It’s disorienting. You may find yourself thinking: They were doing so well… what happened? Didn’t treatment work the first time? How are we here again? What you might not realize—and what many parents are never told—is this: relapse isn’t always about […]
Burnout Isn’t Just Stress — Why EMDR Reaches What Rest Can’t
You didn’t fall apart. You kept going. You held it together through the late nights, the care-taking, the performance reviews, the parenting, the pressure. You were the one people leaned on—until one day, even a good morning text felt like a task. And still, you showed up. But something inside you quietly shut down. If […]
The Relapse No One Talks About: Trauma, Shame, and Finding EMDR
There’s a kind of relapse no one prepares you for. It’s not the chaotic, crisis-style fall most people imagine. It’s the one that happens after the applause. After your 90-day chip. After people start introducing you in meetings as someone who “really turned it around.” This relapse is quieter. Slower. But no less painful. And […]