Why You Don’t Feel Safe After Surviving (Medical Trauma & EMDR)
You can be profoundly traumatized by something your body lived through — even when everyone tells you you’re “lucky to be alive.” Because surviving doesn’t mean your nervous system knows you’re safe. I’m Kelly, an EMDR therapist, and today we’re talking about medical trauma.
Surviving a heart attack, cancer, a stroke, or a serious injury doesn’t mean your nervous system knows you’re safe. In this episode, EMDR therapist Kelly O’Horo explains medical trauma — why life-threatening medical events get stored as trauma, why so many survivors stay “braced” and hypervigilant, the grief of a body that can’t do what it once did, and how EMDR helps the brain finally update to “that was then, this is now.” If you’ve ever wondered why you don’t feel okay even though you survived, this one’s for you.