Do you have nightmares after the EMDR? If you , I do also, it scares the begeebers out of me. But my T says they could be flashbacks and not dreams. Because they contain all the senses and are very real, not dreamlike at all.
I was just happy to finally come up with a safe place. I had trouble because my mom was friends with the cops and other authority figures, so coming up with a place that she could to was so important. It reminds me of my old safe place as a young child. I used to get up before my mom during the summer, make a lunch and my breakfast, and hid out in the woods about a mile away. They had these junk piles made my the amish, that has all these old things like furnture, etc. I dragged some of it out, and make my self a safe house. It was scary during the thunderstorms, but it felt safer than being home with my mom. But even this safe place wouldn't be totally safe for me now. It was just last week when he was trying to calm me down after a EMDR session, and I started to look at his painting on the wall, and it calmed me down. I pointed at the picture, and told him about it. So on Monday we are going to practice with the safe place. He wants me to picture my mom in a way she can't get me. I told him the only way I will feel safe is when she is 6feet under.