Tag: Thomas Zimmerman

• Overview of where problems occur in Flash approaches
  • Overactivation
  • Activating something other than a memory
  • Activating multiple memories
  • Anything confirming of the bad memory coming into awareness, including relationships between the memory and the calm scene
  • The calm scene not inducing an experience
  • Somatic disturbance is often why the SUDs is a “two” and won’t go lower
• Overactivation is inevitable sometimes
• It most often occurs in the first handful of times we check in on the memory
• Why activation and noticing in the same scene are problematic
• For EMDR and somatic practitioners, this is anathema, but… we do it in the service of recovery.
• Scoop it up
• Vacuum it up
• Shop-Vac
• Even if it doesn’t get all of it, simply some of the gunk going into the shop-vac is helpful
• The shop-vac canister is a container, send it out of awareness