If you've been considering EMDR therapy — maybe your therapist suggested it, or you've read about it online, or someone you trust swears by it — you might also be carrying a quiet question in the back of your mind. What actually happens in there? It's a fair question. EMDR can sound mysterious from the outside. Eye movements. Processing trauma without talking about it in detail. People describe feeling better after sessions in ways they can't quite explain. And if you're some

There's a story a lot of people tell themselves about trauma. It goes something like this: Trauma is for people who have been through something really serious. A war. An assault. A terrible accident. What happened to me wasn't that bad. Other people have it so much worse. I don't have the right to call it trauma. If any version of that story lives in your head, I want to gently challenge it today. Because one of the most common — and most limiting — misconceptions about traum