My EMDR Journey

The biggest thank you for the incredible outreach after speaking about how we can't not and showing up fully present as ourselves.

I received a lot of questions regarding my EMDR journey and questions about the practice. So, I am sharing my experience in hopes you will find this valuable practice in your self-development path.

At first, I was nervous about what would come up during a deep dive; also, reliving traumatic experiences can be intense. When I was 17, I got into a terrible car accident where I totaled my car, hit the median, spun out onto the other side of traffic, and had airbags; luckily, I was fine; I only hit my left leg. It was a pretty crazy experience for me.

Since my husband Kelly and I go on many road trips, it was tough to be in the fast lane, it was harsh to me going down the highway, and I would often cry; I'd often close my eyes and become very, very tense. It just wasn't working for me in my life. I never was, but it got to the point where it was too much. So I contacted my good friend Marta Pozzan, who recommended an incredible EMDR specialist.

My experience was during COVID, and we weren't supposed to be in close contact with each other. So I did this via zoom. The practice is about talking about your trauma, and you're desensitizing it with eye movement. My therapist would ask me questions about the trauma, "What is the worst part about this car accident?" Once you answer, she asks another question until things start connecting and coming up. When my therapist felt I was ready, fully feeling those feelings, she would put on the screen an egg-spaced figure that I would watch and move my eyes back and forth. I was desensitizing the trauma as well as reprocessing it.

It took me about three sessions of this for the trauma to lose power over me; it was as if the heavy fear around it melted away. It empowered me, and now going on road trips or being in the car is 90% better. I have an incredible EMDR therapist here in LA; please contact me if you would like me to share that contact with you, and thank you for allowing me to share.