Susie Morgan, LMFT

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Your Life Is Your Story

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“Your life is your story. Write well. Edit often.” -Susan Statham We don’t get to choose how our stories begin. There is a time though when we realize that we get to author what comes next for us.   To do so, we often must engage in the courageous work of editing the past – […]

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A Feeling To Escape

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“I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.” -Neil Gaiman This gave me chills when I read it. It is exactly the reason I do EMDR therapy.   Whatever any of us may believe about the afterlife, too many people are carrying around hell inside themselves now – memories […]

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Taking the First Step Toward Healing

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“Through Susie’s gentle and thoughful videos I received empathic skills and savvy tools to address the ways trauma had negatively impacted me.” -Participant of the EMDR Readiness course I received this review today from a woman who used The EMDR Readiness Course in conjunction with her work with a therapist (which I think is an […]

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Attachment Cry

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As little ones we are designed to have a cry that PULLS our caregivers to us! It is called the “attachment cry” and was identified by researcher Jaak Panksepp as linked to the affective system of panic. The first time I heard this, I was fascinated, panic is actually the cry and reaching for someone!! […]

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The Weight of Release

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“Sometimes you don’t know the weight of something you’ve been carrying until you feel the weight of its release.”  – Unknown I have had the incredible privilege of witnessing my clients experience this so many times through EMDR therapy. I cannot wait for the day when EMDR therapy is a household word and therapists are […]

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Hiding The Catastrophe

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“Ever so quietly, I walked around with the loudest heartbreak and I wondered how passers-by could not hear the bombs dropping; could not hear thunder; did not notice the catastrophe.”  – Choë Frayne There are some of us so good, so practiced, so skilled at holding all the pain inside – that no one can […]

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Be Her

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“Be the woman you needed as a girl.”  – Unknown Be the adult we needed as a child.  Yes, of course to the children in our lives. But, also to the little ones, our younger selves, that are still inside of us – locked in the perception that it is still the past, not yet […]

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Put Back Together By Her Own Hands

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“She is a beautiful piece of broken pottery, put back together by her own hands.  A critical world judges her cracks while missing the beauty of how she made herself whole again.”  – JM Storm There can come a day in which we can see ourselves accurately, in which we can see the beauty in […]

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The Miracle in EMDR Therapy

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“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”  – Victor Hugo The miracle in EMDR therapy . . . that the past can finally be in the past.

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Re-Inhabiting Our Bodies

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Activating trauma memory networks – so that they can be desensitized and reprocessed with EMDR therapy requires being able to notice where disturbance is felt in the body. Learning it’s safe to be present with and feel our body is no small feat, Lionhearts, if we have learned, since early on, that it is a […]

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