What's fired together is wired together

Whatever is FIRED together is WIRED together

Thoughts, beliefs, feelings, and body sensations... what has been firing together in your brain and body? It can be positive or negative, helpful or distressing, a new narrative or an old one...

Did you know that whatever is fired together is wired together in our brain and bodies?

If you’re an ACOA, adult child of an alcoholic or dysfunctional family of origin, then you may understand this unspoken family rule - “don’t talk, don’t trust, don’t feel” Growing up if we weren’t allowed to use our voice to express our thoughts and needs, trust ourselves or others, or express our feelings, this becomes hard wired in our brain and body that it’s not safe to speak up and acknowledge and meet our own needs. This turns into a survival strategy so we can make it in our family of origin. Then typically we look up one day and realize things aren’t working in our lives and/or our relationships are painful and possibly traumatic. Sometimes it takes coming to this realization that things just aren’t working that leads us to further inspect why and get help. Maybe help comes in the form of working a program or going to therapy or opening up to a safe person about our internal struggles. This is so powerful. Once we acknowledge our lives are unmanageable or just simply not going the way we had hoped, we can begin to learn new, healthy strategies to relate to ourselves and others.

This is where EMDR therapy can be so life changing. We can identify the negative core beliefs associated with the growing up motto of “don’t talk, don’t trust, don’t feel” and begin doing the healing work needed through the EMDR process to rewire the brain and body. This process allows our neural networks to undo the old patterns of connecting and make new ones that are healthy and helpful. Essentially, we undo the old and make way for the new. How amazing is that?! Our brain literally creates new pathways! This leads to healing and transformation.

And the amazing thing with doing EMDR intensives, we can see results quickly through condensed sessions and focused attention on the unwanted symptoms, feelings, or body sensations.

EMDR Intensive Therapy = Symptom Relief Sooner

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I'm cheering for you!
- Brittni Kelchner, LMHC, LPC, EMDR Certified Therapist
100% Virtual EMDR Intensives in FL, MO, and SC

Hope & healing are possible!
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