I’m in the middle of an EMDR intensive this week, and it reminded me how much I love it when we have time. Here’s what opens up when therapy has room to go deeper.

Healing doesn’t announce itself. It shows up as sleep that stops breaking at 3 a.m., food that tastes like something again, and the strange gift of being plainly bored. A Berkeley Heights trauma therapist on what a settling nervous system actually feels like.