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Your Brain and Body Were Built To Heal Trauma
While a therapist can help guide your healing process, they are not the expert on you. You are.
You know yourself best.
Trust your instincts.
Trust your inner knowing.
What Is EMDR?
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) was developed over 35 years ago by Francine Shapiro. Its purpose is to activate your brain and body’s natural healing process. Just as your body knows how to heal a cut, your mind knows how to heal from trauma. EMDR helps you access this innate self-healing ability.
When Procrastination Is Trauma: A New Lens on Avoidance
Procrastination is often dismissed as laziness, lack of discipline, or a bad habit. But for many trauma survivors, it’s one of the most chronic, shame-filled, and debilitating struggles they face every day.
It can feel irrational, self-defeating, even humiliating. Clinicians sometimes minimize it too, treating it as a simple behavioral issue rather than a complex, protective, and adaptive strategy rooted in the past.
The word itself comes from the Latin procrastinare, meaning “to postpone until tomorrow.” Popular self-help literature from the 1970s and 1980s framed procrastination as a moral failure, a sign of laziness or lack of productivity. But what if we understood it through a trauma-informed lens?