In this week’s Safe Home Podcast, Beth talks with Emma Stevens, whose new memoir The Gathering Place: An Adoptee’s Story was written during her treatment with EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing). EMDR has helped her deal with her adoption trauma and other developmental trauma from her troubled childhood.

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RESOURCES:

Emma’s information:

• Emma’s book The Gathering Place: An Adoptee’s Story: https://www.amazon.com/Gathering-Place-Adoptees-Story/dp/B09HH8PDGL

Other resources mentioned in this episode:

• Find an EMDR Therapist: https://www.emdria.org/find-an-emdr-therapist/
• Reckoning with the Primal Wound documentary: https://reckoningwiththeprimalwound.com/
• Our episode with Rebecca Autumn Sansom, the filmmaker of Reckoning with the Primal Wound: https://anchor.fm/safe-home-podcast/episodes/Empowering-Adoptees-with-Rebecca-Autumn-Sansom---Ep-30-e1ejvje

Other Resources:

• Other Parents Like Me -  https://www.facebook.com/other.parents.like.me
• Heather Ross - Life Coaching for Parents of Addicted Teens: https://heatherrosscoaching.com/
• Find a Tele-Therapist: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/online-counseling
• Join the Safe Home Bookclub - https://bookclubs.com/clubs/5964570/join/d6adea/

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Music written and performed by Joseph Nakao

Cover art by Joseph Nakao, photo by Beth Syverson

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TIME STAMPS

3:56 Emma’s adoption story

6:38 Alcohol was part of her family’s routine…and later her routine

11:23 Exploited by a therapist, then found EMDR

12:45 Starting EMDR and her memoir

15:10  Implicit memories stored in our bodies

16:16 Adoption’s primal wound

20:08 EMDR today

24:43  In utero and infant trauma

27:44 Personal growth for struggling teens + for parents of struggling teens

29:22 Dealing with infertility loss

33:23 Reckoning with the Primal Wound with Emma’s cameo

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