The Importance of Ego State in Healing Trauma

The EMDR protocol has a lot of guardrails to make sure that we are thorough in our process. But what Ego State does is it takes all of that and wraps it up in a human body, an internalized image of a full human person. It includes every aspect of what it means to be human, even what is not on the assessment process - attachment, which includes relationship. And there's so much wrapped up in that, that our language can't even begin to touch.