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Waking at 2 a.m. can feel like your body has slammed the alarm button. Your heart thumps, thoughts speed up, and sleep feels far away. If this is familiar, you are not broken. Your nervous system is doing a very good job of trying to keep you safe at the wrong time. EMDR-informed strategies can help your system stand down, so you can return to rest.

Anger gets a bad reputation, yet it is one of the most useful emotions you have. It signals that something feels unfair, unsafe, or out of alignment with your values. When anger is ignored or pushed down, it tends to leak out as sarcasm, irritability, or shutdown.