A brief personal account (YouTube short) in which the speaker describes grieving their father's death and using 'havening' — a brief bilateral stimulation technique — to process a distressing mortuary photo; after repeated havening the image transformed into a peaceful favorite photo. The speaker advocates simple, accessible trauma-awareness/self-help techniques.
I told you. My dad died May 5th last year. And a couple of days later, I'm at my mom's house, and we're just going through paperwork, and somebody had a picture of my dead father in the mortuary in that stack of papers. And all of a sudden, I find it, and it hits me, and it just bothered me. And a couple of hours later, I realized it was bothering me. It was circling in my head. And so I teach my patients this. It's havening. Havening is just really simple. It's thinking about the trauma, and for 30 seconds, stimulate both hemispheres of your brain and do that, like, up to six times. And after the first time, I'm like, that's the last picture of my dad will ever see. And it was okay. And then I did it twice more, and the picture became my favorite picture of my dad because he was at peace. It's just simple. And there's these simple techniques that everybody should know. Why do you have to be sick to learn?
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