People endure terrible assaults and then find that they're still intact below it, and they're able to connect with that and allow it to break through those prisons and end their self-blame for things that other people did to them. Being able to have that beauty shine through again is a constant reaffirmation of why most people went into clinical practice-to assist people to work through their suffering and be in touch with who they really are. I think that EMDR constantly shows us that it's not what happens to you, it's rather how you deal with it. With EMDR, you can allow a mobilization of the whole body-mind continuum towards processing the information and metabolizing it, so that what's useful is brought in and what's not can be discarded. You don't have to have language to be traumatized.
Children have pre-verbal trauma that is quite devastating without the language.
They have the affect of guilt, shame, fear, or terror locked into their nervous systems. Then these beliefs become very useful to pinpoint. I think the most effective therapy using EMDR incorporates the principle that health is inherent in the individual. The board . . . We can hammer at it or we can pry at it.