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Rewind Therapy: Knowledge or Experience Anyone?

February 9, 20231 min readByHelen Kinch
Mental Health
I am troubled at present by PTSD. I have heard about Rewind Therapy - that it is highly effective without the need to re-live nasty stuff, but that it may depend upon the ability to visualize.
Have any of you Aphantasics used it, either successfully or unsuccessfully?

Rewind Therapy: Knowledge or Experience Anyone?

February 9, 20231 min readByHelen Kinch
Mental Health
I am troubled at present by PTSD. I have heard about Rewind Therapy - that it is highly effective without the need to re-live nasty stuff, but that it may depend upon the ability to visualize.
Have any of you Aphantasics used it, either successfully or unsuccessfully?
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Kathleen Stewart•recently•edited
I haven't used rewind therapy but I've been able to use EMDR even without visuals. It is more difficult and time consuming but I use the things I do have access to, like body sensations, limited emotions, spatial orientation, and thoughts that arise. It requires a little bit of a leap of faith to process things without the visual component. I can describe more what I mean if helpful.
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