My T used EMDR this week when i asked him to help me prepare for my eye surgery next week. I have a sort of phobia about operating rooms. I thought the phobia came completely from all the times I had to accompany my youngest son into the OR over the past 6 or so years. There were many times. (He had some seroius health problems, and we had some frightening moments when I thought I was losing him, but he is ok now).

So, this week we did some EMDR, with T waving his fingers back and forth and me following with my eyes. He then asked me what came up and I remembered the difficult chldbirth of my oldest son. (It was an emergency c-section).

Then he did it again, and the difficult birth of my middle son came up (anesthesia failure). These two experiences were over 20 years old and so I had not considered them to be important to the "now."

So, I became aware that there were several experieces feednig into my fears. I'll let you know next week, if the EMDR helped or not! But so far, I have to say I was impressed with it.