The Amgdala

Do you know what the amygdala is?
If you’ve heard of it, it’s probably in reference to the fight or flight response related to stress responses or PTSD.
That is true. The amygdala’s importance goes far beyond that though.
The amygdala is the emotional processing center. It works alongside other parts of your limbic system to process your emotional memories, good and bad, and store them.
You can’t access these emotional memories easily with cognitive thinking. This is incredibly important to understand for trauma healing as trauma memories are processed here.
This is also why I’m a big proponent of EMDR therapy for emotional and trauma healing.
I will share more on that later though.
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Read more on the relationship of the amygdala and your emotions in my article: “Emotional Memory & the Amygdala”
https://choosejoyinthemidst.com/emotional-memory-the-amygdala/