I am a strong emotional empath, unintentionally but constantly reading and absorbing the energy of everyone I encounter. I've been like this for as long as I can remember and cannot say whether I was born this way or developed it as a survival mechanism in my emotionally charged home. One of my cousins does this kind of thing as a parlor trick, so most likely it runs in the family. I was the kid with whom no one wanted to play Trivial Pursuit, because if you read the answer t

ETT was developed in the mid-1990s by Steven Vazquez, as a revolutionary way approach to healing. It combines the power of light, color and rapid eye movements with traditional psychotherapy. The aim is to rewire our emotional responses at the neurological level. Check out this link for some of the science: Emotional Transformation Therapy: Revolutionizing Mental Health . After years of CBT and a year of EMDR, ETT changed the game. In only 4 sessions I went from being overwhe

In my childhood family, expressing emotions was bad. My father shamed anyone who cried, treated it as a weakness. When my mother cried, she would leave the room to gather her composure. My mother was embarrassed by any display of emotion: don't clap too loudly or dance in public, and never ever cheer out loud to show support at an event. Neither parent expressed love or showed affection, so that too seemed like a bad thing. I was desperate to please my parents, so constantl

I see a therapist trained in Emotional Transformation Therapy (ETT): it was my game-changer. I'm back in sessions with Irma to resolve the trauma response triggered by my mother's accusation of stealing her jewelry. ETT is fascinating, and I'll share some of my session here to give context to the assignment. We used the lightbox to help me process what I'm feeling and rewire my brain for this trigger. When asked to look to the right (so the color was showing primarily in my l