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

Did someone drop a book or do I need to go run?

And once I figure out, okay, that sound, it was just someone dropped a book, my cortex can come back online.

I can kind of integrate all of that, realize I'm safe, that I'm here now with you, and then we can move on, right?

Yeah.

So this answers your question because especially when people are experiencing stress and trauma over and over again, which so many of us do, our lid is constantly flipping.

We don't get to always do that integration process and our lid flips more easily.

And so we're constantly in this heightened sense of stress and always looking over our shoulder and

so learning about all the different kinds of therapy that's out there is important because if someone is constantly stressed and they don't have supports, they don't have the context in their life to do perhaps deep work, they're going to need something that's more structured probably at first

help lift them up, to bring in those supports.

Yeah.

Then, and you talked about in the beginning, that kind of heart and head connection or disconnection.

Once we get some of those supports in, once that person can learn about what's happening in their brain and body as a result of stress and trauma, that's when we can oftentimes start doing more of that somatic work to help kind of connect the head and heart and to do more of the work that's going to target the subcortical parts of the brain, which is what EMDR and brain spotting do so beautifully.

Wow.

Yeah,

EMDR and brain spotting are considered bottom-up approaches, somatic approaches.

Somatic experiencing is another one in that, in IFS, internal family system.

So they are working more from kind of the body and these subcortical parts of the brain up towards the cortex.

Mm-hmm.

Versus top-down, which is going to be more of your cognitive processing therapy, DBT, dialectical behavioral therapy falls into this, which is more working kind of with those cognitions first.

Well, you know, especially early on, it was developed to work with those big T traumas.

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