In this episode of 7 Days Inside: EMDR, counselor Kyle Lincoln from Salem, Massachusetts, explains how to stay safe during trauma memory work. Learn how EMDR’s built-in safety pillars—preparation, screening, and closure—help keep therapy grounded, and practice the Breathing Shift skill to find calm in your own life.

Is EMDR magic? No—just neuroscience in action. Kyle and Kellyn explain how Orienting Response, Working Memory, Memory Reconsolidation, and REM-like processing work together, introduce the TICES memory map, and guide a Spiral Technique practice to help “stuck” sensations move.

EMDR treats more than PTSD. Kyle explains how unresolved experiences can drive anxiety, depression, and more, then teaches Dual Awareness and the Butterfly Hug you can use today.

What is trauma, really? Kyle Lincoln and Kellyn explain how distress plus helplessness can “shatter the ice,” explore EMDR’s memory networks, and teach a calming diaphragmatic breathing practice to prepare for reprocessing.