After we have realised something about ourselves we feel different. Our sense of who we are changes. Time, rhythm and intensity feel different to us. Our proprioception changes as we find our place in the world, physically, emotionally: a relationship to the ground beneath our feet, and to who or what we love or hate.

When I work with people, especially using EMDR, I find it so important to try and recognise how different life feels for them after treatment without lapsing into treating this change as something metaphorical, or purely psychical.

It’s a real thing. We feel ourselves occupy space differently, less affected by past experiences of space.