Author Christy Angelette

For the last couple of years, I have been attempting to get my life together, which entailed getting my mind together and healing from childhood and adult trauma. EMDR along with talk therapy has been essential. I have had four to five sessions of EMDR over the last six months, seeing a difference in how I respond to triggers and stress. The change has been profound and empowering. I am a new woman. We start the session by desensitizing an event that occurred leaving me traumatized. I had been repeatedly reliving the moment when triggered by current events. The therapist repeats the feelings I associated with the trauma, followed by rapid eye movement. The brain processes the event, next is my verbal response to it. After several rounds of this, the scenario is repeated in reverse by implanting positive affirmations over the negative experience I had. Towards the end of the session, I am left feeling the effects, in somewhat of a foggy state and numbed feelings. The details are somewhat difficult to explain, but the results are amazing. Talk therapy, EMDR combined with an active faith life sustains me, revives my soul and the beat of my heart. To any reader that is struggling with depression and trauma, don’t lose hope, try God and EMDR. Pick yourself up when you cannot count on others, and carry on. God is not done writing our story. Subscribe to this blog if you haven’t already to follow my journey of healing and entering my career as a writer. There is a calling of ministry within my heart. God has given me many talents and I am excited to explore them all.

The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace.
Romans 8:6 NIV