EMDR Demonstration Video with Colleen West • Part 2

http://www.emdrinaction.com/ This demonstration is intended to give people a chance to experience what EMDR is actually like in practice, not for teaching purposes. The 'client' here is a friend who gave her full consent to be filmed and for her session to be shared as a public service.

So I want you to bring up the image, and tell me what's disturbing about it right now.

Just like lying on the cold floor, a bathroom, alone like with no one there. It just has this - it's funny; like it's this image that I sometimes conjure up when I think of drug addicts or people who are just down and out. They're like passed out on the bathroom floor; it's got that connotation to it. So there's this almost a desperation, that's what it is. It's desperation.

Where do you feel it in your body?

Right in my stomach. I feel like a total screw up and that's really what I feel about money. I feel desperate, it really sucks, and I'll never get better. It'll never get better. Like "Oh yeah, that's Erin, she's just desperate and disgusting." Yeah.

So go back to the image when you're eight. [Sigh]

I know it's unpleasant.

It really is.

And just notice the feeling in your gut.

I don't feel disgusted about that little girl, but I do feel sad.

Go with that.

It's hard for me to actually be, like I'm seeing her but not in her right now. Like I was in her for a moment. Notice what you notice from that vantage point.

Like I just want to hold her. I just want to tell her it'll be okay. [crying]

Yeah, it's old stuff.

[breathing/crying]

Yeah, let it go.

[crying]

Yeah, that's it. [crying]

That's it. [deep breath] I just had this weird thought, come in, that I hate being cold. I'm terrified of being cold, and it was like "Oh my God, I wonder if I have all of these years associated being cold with being alone."

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[flaviasantini]

i got lots of issues, and this is obviously why i'm watching (and getting amazed by) this. this is also why the thought of having kids and possibly screwing them up scares the *beep* out of me.

[1976dreamer1]

I will be honest with you, it is tough work and yes you have to be committed to it. I just started doing this and I thought it was bs. but its not it will help you. At times you want to run and hide from whatever your holding on too but you cant, its not creepy but its scary bc you really see yourself in that place that she takes you too and its scary bc thats something you dont want to remember but if you stick with it, it will help you. Right now Im scared to go back but I know I need this.

[Storywithin]

@ruthven78 OK THANK YOU

[ruthven78]

@Storywithin - I believe that is part of the therapy, facing the bad memories so you can process them and work through them. i dont know though, I havent started yet. I originally wrote EMDR off as hocus pocus but a good friend of mine educated me on it and so Ill be starting hopefully soon

[Storywithin]

You know my therapist wants to do this to me but it looks creepy and does not look ok, I still see her pain it's just a repeat of your bad memories, not for me no thanks.

[rrrabbittt]

Really good stuff, hard to watch though. EMDR helps a lot of people. Thanks for sharing!

[lidia77711]

me gustaria verlos en español porque me cuesta seguir el ingles

[wolfgangk1]

I am confused as to the device given to the client in the beginning of the session and what role, if any, eye movement plays in this therapy. This resembles a variant of Gestalt.