Dr. Emily Jones

And that's why you have visceral reactions to different things that might happen.

So say you heard a loud noise.

And there was somebody that was shot next to you a few years ago.

And you're like, I know somebody wasn't shot, but why do I feel this way?

Because when your brain learns that you're not safe, it teaches your body how to keep you safe.

And so that's why a lot of people have big responses to things that we may think aren't that big of a deal, but they actually are.

And so the first time I had EMDR done to me, personal story, not a therapy story,

I like walked into the room and could not speak about what had happened without like falling on the ground and crying.

And I walked out of the room after it was over and I was like, okay, that happened.

And so it doesn't like, it doesn't erase memories.

It doesn't do anything like that, but it just helps the traumatic memory move through your body in a constructive way to where you can handle it differently.

Absolutely.

You probably shouldn't go back to work afterwards.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's tough and it can take a few sessions, but depending on how, how rough it is, but

It's my favorite thing that I do.

What?

Well, no, I'm just saying even stuff like that, like things that we would equate as like, oh, that was a good thing and it was fun.

There can still be traumatic pieces to it.