Getting Past Your Past: Take Control of Your Life With Self-Help Techniques from EMDR Therapy

Francine Shapiro, Ph.D.

May 2012 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Karen White

About this audiobook

Whether we've experienced small setbacks or major traumas, we are all influenced by memories and experiences we may not remember or don't fully understand. Getting Past Your Past offers practical procedures that demystify the human condition and empower listeners looking to achieve real change.Francine Shapiro, the creator of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), explains how our personalities develop and why we become trapped into feeling, believing and acting in ways that don't serve us. Through detailed examples and exercises listeners will learn to understand themselves, and why the people in their lives act the way they do. Most importantly, listeners will also learn techniques to improve their relationships, break through emotional barriers, overcome limitations and excel in ways taught to Olympic athletes, successful executives and performers.An easy conversational style, humor and fascinating real life stories make it simple to understand the brain science, why we get stuck in various ways and what to do about it.

Ratings and reviews

I like the content. Very helpful but I found a big problem with the audiobook...the lady who is reading the book starts sentences in a higher soft voice tone and at the end ends in a lower sharper tone..... the voice flow is very irritating as the sudden abrupt changes in voice tone and volume and the speed is unnatural and makes me feel like the woman reading is trying her hardest to be nice but she is having a hard time hiding her repressed rage and anger.

I haven't read this, YET. So 5 stars for now for the book. I needed to say as skeptical as I was that anything in the world could help me. I didn't even realize I had such severe PTSD until I did the EMDR. I couldn't understand

About the author

Francine Shapiro, Ph.D., is a senior research fellow at the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto, California, director of the EMDR Institute, and founder of the EMDR Humanitarian Assistance Programs, a nonprofit organization that coordinates disaster response and pro bono trainings worldwide.

Karen White has been narrating audiobooks since 1999, with more than two hundred to her credit. Honored to be included in AudioFile's Best Voices and Speaking of Audiobooks's Best Romance Audio 2012 and 2013, she is also an Audie Award finalist and has earned multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards.