SS, it stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. Originally, it involved moving one's eyes side to side while recalling and re-integrating traumatic memories. It can be done with tapping on alternating sides of the body. My therapist uses vibrating egg-shaped devices held in each hand, they buzz alternating right and left, while I call to mind a memory or conflictual situation, e.g. avoiding a feared task. Then, I tell the therapist what came to mind while holding the alternating vibrating thingies. That is a fairly lousy description of EMDR. There's a lot of info online. The point is to re-shuffle and better integrate memories and trauma in both hemispheres of the brain. Visualizing doing a task successfully helps me at times also, so it's hard to know which technique helped. Maybe it doesn't matter.

My parents wanted me to attend Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC. My dad made girls' sportswear. My mom was an interior decorator and both parents sewed for her customers. Even my grandfather was a tailor in NYC. It's in my blood. Too bad I lacked the self-confidence and my problems got in the way even at age 16 when I graduated high school. Had I been well, I would have been a fashion designer. I attended modeling school in Manhattan, though. I'm making some purses in 3 combined tapestry fabrics, though I don't have the speed to do it for money. I'm going to sell off a lot of my fabric stash because I'll never use it.