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William J. Koehler
- May 19, 2019
- 4 min
Top 5 Questions I'm Asked About EMDR
Let me start by saying I am far from being an expert on #EMDR. In fact, I was only trained a year ago. During this year however, I have seen approximately 2 dozen clients who have had at least one EMDR session with me. Many have had more, but this process isn't for everyone. My youngest client was 3 years old, and my oldest is 62. Obviously, my sessions with a 62-year-old are vastly different than with the 3-year-old - I'll let you guess which one ended each session with yoga
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William J. Koehler
- May 12, 2019
- 4 min
Why Can't You Just...
... Leave the Past Behind You? We have all heard some version of this before - "Scrape your shoe and move on." "Let bygones be bygones." "Let it go already!" "Stop dwelling on what you can't change." - and on and on it goes. This is so much easier said than done. Often we end up berating ourselves for not being able to 'just move on.' We tell ourselves: "I F*cked up AGAIN!"or "I'll never learn." or "I'm broken/damaged goods/_____." The Voice It's not just our own thoughts tur
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William J. Koehler
- Apr 28, 2019
- 4 min
You're Going to Need a Map
The Way Forward... I have a friend who talks about some parts of her mind being off limits. “There’s Caution Tape over there,” She will say, “don’t go in there without an escort.” I suppose there is wisdom in her words. I can get lost wandering around the landscape of my mind. It’s not always a pleasant stroll. There are dark, abandoned corners, treacherous cliffs, and deep waters. Creatures of all kinds reside in here. Sometimes they cry out in need, but mostly they remain i
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William J. Koehler
- Apr 7, 2019
- 4 min
Monsters Beneath My Bed
Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are… Actually, I don’t know if any of my monsters are under my bed The creatures haunting me from my past have scattered like little gremlins playing hide and seek - and I am on a quest to find them. I’ve been on this quest for awhile now. To my surprise, most of those I find end up being scared, lost, and lonely. Sometimes they want to continue hiding, but most are glad to be free to join my ‘inner child’ playing in my safe place – a treehous
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