Allison Bruce

Have you ever felt that surviving is how you actually learned to live??  This is true for more people than you might ever imagine.  We learned to keep going, no matter what. To stay alert, to overperform, to keep the peace, to hold everything together. Somewhere along the way, our nervous systems decided that constant vigilance was safer than rest, that control was safer than connection. Survival is wise. It’s not a flaw.  It’s brilliant.  It’s the body’s most elegant design. It’s how your...

State Change vs. Trait Change: What EMDR Really Heals There’s a moment in nearly every EMDR process when something inside shifts. breath deepens, shoulders soften. The image or experience that once felt unbearable starts to lose its edge. The moment when the exhale happens and this is what we call a state change . A state change is what happens when your nervous system moves from activation to regulation. It’s a temporary shift in how you feel right now. When we use therapeutic tools we...

Sometimes healing can’t wait and does not need to…. So many of us know what it’s like to feel stuck or caught in old patterns, weighed...