Dr. Jenny Hughes

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RECOVERable: Mental Health and Addiction Experts Answer Your Questions · EMDR Therapy: Can It Heal Your Trauma? (Part 1) · 11 Jun 2026 podcast

But it's our body trying to decrease the activation of whatever has happened.

Yes, they're absolutely like serotonin and other neurotransmitter things that are going on.

But it also is your brain and body trying to slow down all that activation to disconnect you perhaps from experiences that could be re-triggering.

Anxiety, on the other hand, is how can I control everything so that nothing bad ever happens again?

I mean, and I'm biased because I'm a trauma therapist, but all roads lead back to stress and trauma.

And it is our brain and body trying to adapt to that and trying to figure out how can I keep getting through this world in

way that doesn't feel so triggering and activating all the time.

And then it turns into these things in the DSM that we have other words for.

Yeah.

Well, we're trying to control the future because of what's happened to us in the past.

And so EMDR absolutely is going to help reprocess that past stuff.

But remember, there's the three prongs.

there's the past, present, and future.

And so it can get very complicated.

But those eight phases can be applied to the past, to the present, and to the future.

Okay.

And in kind of the perfect world of the standard protocol, that's exactly what you would do.

So you start with that bullying that happened to you in middle school.

Then you work on, once that's been reprocessed, whatever that kind of looks like or means, because everyone is different.

once you're ready, then you can process how that's showing up at work right now, because you feel like everyone is just against you and is bullying you and ganging up on you at work.

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