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Change Your Brain Every Day

EMDR: Getting Over Past Trauma for Good

Change Your Brain Every Day

Dr Daniel Amen

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This in throwback episode, Dr. Amen and Tana Amen first began their relationship, Tana was carrying past trauma from her past experiences. Daniel suggested a unique treatment method for getting over trauma, but Tana wasn't convinced. Yet when she finally gave in and decided to give it a try, it changed everything. In this episode of the podcast, the Amens explain what EMDR is, and how it can help you to finally leave your traumas where they belong - in the past.

 

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Every day you are making your brain better or you are making it worse.

0:07.0

Stay with us to learn how you can change your brain for the better every day.

0:15.0

So the year is 2005. At the end of 2005, we meet each other online. Well, we left off with sort of

0:26.4

a cliffhanger story and life was a little crazy. So just we're not going to go into all of that.

0:31.8

Lots happens in the book between the Playboy cancer story and me meeting you, and it's not all good.

0:38.5

Some of it's very good, but there's a lot of ups and downs during that time.

0:41.8

And then I meet you, yes.

0:43.5

And then you meet me.

0:44.9

And our first formal date was January 1st, 2006.

0:51.3

We sort of think of that as our anniversary and actually we actually forget our real anniversary.

0:57.9

I know. It's terrible. We both forget our real anniversary. A lot. I mean, January 1st is easy to remember.

1:02.1

So we remember that. And so 15 years ago. Yeah. I totally didn't trust you. And I was like really excited.

1:12.9

Yeah, I almost canceled my first date.

1:14.5

To meet you, I've been divorced six years and had a couple of relationships that, you know,

1:22.2

we're fine, but they weren't awesome.

1:24.2

And then I meet you and you are beautiful. you're smart, you're funny. My heart goes pitter

1:32.8

patter. And then you keep pushing me away, pushing me away, pushing me away. Well, you kept trying

1:40.4

to marry me. Like you just like fell. I didn't ask you to marry me for 10 months. You were pretty serious, pretty quick. And it just, you were so nice and I didn't trust it. It's like I kept waiting for the other shoe to fall. There's no way I trusted that you were that nice. Yeah, no, I should have been way more anxious than I was. Yeah. About you. I tried to tell you. I tried to tell you.

2:02.2

I was helping you.

2:03.7

I tried to tell you I am doing you a favor.

2:07.3

Did I not?

2:08.1

You did.

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