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Using EMDR Therapy to Heal Your Past: Interview with Creator Francine Shapiro

By Margarita Tartakovsky — 2021

Francine Shapiro, Ph.D, first discovered and developed EMDR therapy (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) in 1987 to help people process traumatic memories. Today, EMDR is recognized by the US Department of Defense and the American Psychiatric Association as an effective treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

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Oppression and the Body: Roots, Resistance, and Resolutions

Asserting that the body is the main site of oppression in Western society, the contributors to this pioneering volume explore the complex issue of embodiment and how it relates to social inclusion and marginalization.

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Christine Caldwell (editor), Lucia Bennett Leighton (editor)
2018
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The Body Awareness Workbook for Trauma: Release Trauma from Your Body, Find Emotional Balance, and Connect with Your Inner Wisdom

Move past trauma, balance your emotions, and reconnect with your body’s innate wisdom in The Body Awareness Workbook for Trauma. There is a piercing epidemic of trauma in the world today.

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Julie Brown Yau
2025
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Becoming Safely Embodied: A Guide to Organize Your Mind, Body and Heart to Feel Secure in the World

Whether you are stuck in the distress of life, or appear like nothing’s wrong, you may have faced trauma or incredible stress or suffocating fear. Maybe you wonder whether those emotions, memories, and experiences are blocking you from being as fulfilled and happy as you could be.

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Deirdre Fay, Janina Fisher (foreword)
2025
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Trauma has become so commonplace that most people don’t even recognize its presence. It affects everyone. Each of us has had a traumatic experience at some point in our lives, regardless of whether it left us with an obvious case of post-traumatic stress.

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Peter A. Levine
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Although humans rarely die from trauma, if we do not resolve it, our lives can be severely diminished by its effects. Some people have even described this situation as a ‘living death.’

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Peter A. Levine
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Trauma and the Unbound Body

Judith teaches the main practices of the Realization Process, a direct, embodied method of personal and relational healing and nondual awakening. She discusses the application of these practices to healing from trauma.

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Judith Blackstone
2020
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Trauma and the Unbound Body: The Healing Power of Fundamental Consciousness

Heal trauma. Reclaim your body. Live with wholeness. These are the gifts of utilizing the power of fundamental consciousness―a subtle field of awareness that lies within each of us. In Trauma and the Unbound Body, Dr.

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Judith Blackstone
2018
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Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)