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From Sideways to Standing: EMDR, Recovery, and Waking Up
Elizabeth Stewart Elizabeth Stewart

From Sideways to Standing: EMDR, Recovery, and Waking Up

I can feel my heart pounding as I continue to pace around whilst attempting to breathe the way my psychologist had taught me. My earliest childhood memories had resurfaced and so had I. I had been disassociating on and off for my entire life. Thirty-five years had hit me all at once...all because of one sentence my son said over the phone during his recent visit with my mother, “I woke up sideways in the bed.”  

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11/21/2024
Elizabeth Stewart Elizabeth Stewart

11/21/2024

“I have only just begun to recover from a lifetime supply of trauma, drug addiction, and heartbreak...but I am recovering, nonetheless.”

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