Addiction recovery is a deeply personal and often challenging journey. Many people find that unresolved trauma significantly contributes to substance use, making it harder to sustain long-term recovery. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, or EMDR, has gained recognition as a powerful therapy that addresses trauma and emotional wounds tied to substance use disorders. For anyone…
If you’ve heard about it but haven’t researched it, you may wonder what an EMDR therapy program is. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is a mental health treatment that was originally designed to alleviate the distress associated with traumatic memories. EMDR therapy facilitates the processing of traumatic memories to bring them to an…
Trauma is an emotional response to a painful or disturbing event that overwhelms a person’s ability to cope. Experiencing it can have a wide range of effects, and the signs and symptoms of it can vary depending on the nature of the trauma. While trauma affects everyone differently, people with untreated trauma frequently develop substance…