EMDR – Nicole Herron Writes

Write to Heal (9/14/2023)

Sep 14, 2023

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After only one week of being sick I almost forgot that I have my Write to Heal group tonight! I’m glad I remembered. What is Write to Heal, you may ask? Well, I think I’ve mentioned it before, but after taking the Write to Heal class with Lauren Sapala she suggested that anyone who wanted…

Making Progress

Oct 12, 2022

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Niki Herron

in anxiety, cognitive distortions, defective, EMDR, family, journaling, parenting, social anxiety, Therapeutic Thursday, vulnerability

Therapy today felt like a celebration of wins. I’ve had good weeks before, obviously (or not so obvious), but this week has felt like a lot of wins. I’ve talked a lot about my anxieties and worries in relation to my son, both here and in therapy. For some reason, he is the one I…

Therapeutic [Tuesday] – 10-04-2022

Oct 4, 2022

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Niki Herron

in anxiety, cognitive distortions, defective, EMDR, family, journaling, parenting, perfectionism, social anxiety, Therapeutic Thursday

I know it’s not Thursday, but I had therapy today. Another round of EMDR. Today’s memories and images were much more recent. All of them took place when I was an adult. I don’t know if that means we are getting closer to being “done” with reprocessing, or if I just had a lot of…

EMDR – 09-28-22

Sep 28, 2022

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Niki Herron

in anxiety, defective, EMDR, family, INFJ, introvert, journaling, perfectionism, social anxiety, Therapeutic Thursday, writing

We really seem to be getting in a groove now. Instead of me spilling my guts when my therapist asks me how my week went, I can generally give a brief vent about something in particular and then she asks “Do you want to continue diving into that, or transition to EMDR?” After my vent…

More EMDR and a bit of writing

Sep 21, 2022

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Niki Herron

in anxiety, defective, EMDR, journaling, social anxiety, Therapeutic Thursday, writing

I had another round of EMDR therapy today. This time was very different from the others. In my previous sessions the memories have all stayed in the hospital, with the exception of last week when I “saw” them in the hospital, but don’t think the memory of my parents arguing actually took place in that…

EMDR Update

Sep 14, 2022

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Niki Herron

in anxiety, defective, EMDR, journaling, perfectionism

I’ve been doing EMDR Therapy for awhile now, but not always writing about the sessions here. It’s harder to write up my experience when I have a 20 minute drive to get home after my session and I’ve already processed what came up. But I felt the need to write today, particularly for those who…

Therapeutic Thursday (8/17/22)

Aug 18, 2022

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Niki Herron

in anxiety, chronic illness, cognitive distortions, EMDR, family, journaling, shame, social anxiety, Therapeutic Thursday

I’m writing this on Wednesday, to be published on Thursday. My therapy sessions have moved to Wednesday, but “Therapeutic Wednesday” doesn’t have the same ring to it. So I’ll just delay my posts! Problem solved. Anyway, I was finally back in person today. It’s been since July 14th! We also did another EMDR session. I…

Therapeutic Thursday (7/7/22)

Jul 7, 2022

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Niki Herron

in anxiety, defective, EMDR, health anxiety, journaling, people-pleasing, perfectionism, social anxiety, Therapeutic Thursday

Wow. My therapist and I have been preparing to use EMDR to deal with my feelings of being defective for months now. We started history gathering way back in February, but life kept popping up and I would need to talk through current issues. We’ve gone back to it periodically, even managing to work on…

Where is the line?

Jul 3, 2022

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Niki Herron

in anxiety, Besties Club, cognitive distortions, defective, EMDR, journaling, people-pleasing, social anxiety

Does anyone know where the line is between doing things for others because you genuinely like helping and doing for others to feel worthy? Does that even make sense? I shared in my last post that I’ve volunteered to help with The Social Anxiety Besties Club FB group. In doing so, it has really made…

Therapeutic Thursday (6/30/22)

Jun 30, 2022

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Niki Herron

in anxiety, defective, EMDR, journaling, mental health professionals, parenting, phone anxiety, social anxiety, Therapeutic Thursday

It’s been quite awhile since I last did a Therapeutic Thursday post. Not because I haven’t gone to therapy, but because I’ve been going in person, which makes it difficult to immediately work on a post. And after I’m home the moment/processing is done. It’s a 20 minute drive. I decided to give it a…

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Write to Heal (9/14/2023)

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