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What Women Need to Know About Their Brains - With Dr. Daniel Amen

The Resetter Podcast with Dr. Mindy

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The Effects of Eye Movement, Desensitization and Reprocessing on Emotional Trauma

EMDR, eye movement, desensitization and reprocessing is a psychological treatment that has biological effects. On police officers who are involved in shootings, their emotional brain was busy but after an average of eight treatments significantly calmed down. As they bring up the trauma, it could be very upsetting, but then it tends to dissipate. Just talking about it retraumatizes you. If you do the bilateral hemisphere stimulation, you feel it, but it often then goes away,. where you still remember it, but It loses its emotional charge. And it's so powerful.

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