by Deborah Cox | Sep 5, 2016 | Becoming More of Your True Self, child maltreatment, EMDR, Mood, Therapy, Write and Heal
Repression: I once knew what this was and then I forgot. Last weekend, I attended the EMDRIA conference in Minneapolis where physician, Gabor Maté, spoke about the connections between trauma, emotional repression, and disease. He told the story of his Jewish infant...
by Deborah Cox | May 31, 2016 | Mood
Several months ago, I wrote about dissociation, or being tranced-out. Trance feels like confusion or sleepiness and it blocks our energy in relationships. Trance envelopes us when we can’t make sense of the mixed information we’re receiving inside our relational...
by Deborah Cox | May 7, 2016 | Mood
I’ve been watching people turn into zombies all week in couples therapy. One woman said, I shut myself down so I won’t have to strangle him! Trance-induction is complicated. It robs us of moments, but it helps us avoid feelings we don’t want to have....
by Deborah Cox | Dec 5, 2015 | Mood
Yesterday, frost covered my car as I rushed out to go to my wonderful cardio boxing class. My mind overflowed with dilemmas to be settled at work AND all sorts of exciting connections lit me up because of deep family conversations I’d had the night before. I talked...
by Deborah Cox | Sep 29, 2015 | Relationships, Therapy
Dissociation takes us out of the moment. Yesterday, I stood in the MSU music building while my son warmed up for a violin performance. All around me, young pianists and violinists practiced their Chopin, their Mozart, in separate cubicles, getting ready to play for a...
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