What is it? Why does it work? When can we use it? Bilateral brain stimulation is used by Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapists to “tap” both sides of the brain alternately using the same rhythmic pattern to desensitize traumatic memories and help reprocess disturbances … [Read more...]

Grief2Growth Podcast with Brian Smith from Helping Parents Heal: https://www.buzzsprout.com/695488/2248505-judith-hancox-grief-trauma-specialist-ep-37 Natural Awakenings Magazine - March 2016 … [Read more...]

One Knight in NYC (2007) "What's a gal like you doing here alone, in Time's Square, the night before New Year's Eve?" He questioned me, looking down from his almost seven foot slim and elegant frame. He was a light-skinned dark man who made the dark night glow with his aura. He was like a bright … [Read more...]

(2003) Her dark eyes stare into mine; her expression is flat with a trace of anxiety. I notice ashen skin sinking into her bones. "She's probably less than 80 pounds," I muse. "But I have to see it to believe it," she protests. "I'm not going to believe I can get better until my body stops … [Read more...]

(9/11: From Horror to Healing) (2002) A young father was late for work. He had stopped to change his baby's diaper, then kissed his wife goodbye before leaving for the Path Train to his job at the World Trade Center. It was September 11th, 2001. As he pressed his finger to the elevator button, … [Read more...]

(2001) Growing up in a community of Italian relatives, how could one not share a hug? My early childhood years were spent on a great city hill, surrounded by a large Italian family—above and below me, up the street, down the street, downstairs in our two-family house. There were four uncles, four … [Read more...]

(2001) Winter appeared on December 21st, 1993 cold and snowy, chilled to the bone. He is a wondrous Being of Light who came out of the earth from under our deck and invited himself to dinner. His long, wild, Maine-Coon hair was stiff with frost. I studied my black & white 'crouching … [Read more...]

(2000, revised 2007) In February, 1996, during one of my first EMDR practice sessions with a client, I witnessed the true meaning of the term "client flooding." Confronted with a massive dark force that manifested before my eyes in my office, I realized this mass of energy was being released from … [Read more...]

(1999, revised 2006) It was high noon when we finally spread our blanket on the familiar shore of "our" secluded cove near Makena Beach. It was two days before our re-commitment ceremony in Maui. At my insistence, we had driven to two other beaches that morning. Our two-week vacation in Hawaii … [Read more...]