When Healing Feels Like Falling Apart: EMDR, Dissociation & Disordered Eating w/ Cory Scott

Adult Child

Andrea

Relationships, Health & Fitness, Education, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Mental Health

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🗓️ 25 June 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

So often the moment we finally started healing is also the moment everything falls apart.

For so many trauma survivors, healing doesn’t feel like light and liberation at first—it feels like chaos, confusion, and losing your grip on reality. This episode dives into what it actually looks like when the nervous system starts to thaw.

Cory Scott is trauma-integration coach, an EMDR-certified therapist, and Somatic Experiencing practitioner who brings deep nervous system wisdom to her work. But before she became a trauma specialist, she was a young woman clawing her way out of an eating disorder, dissociation, and suicidal ideation. Her own recovery now fuels the way she helps others find safety, connection, and wholeness in their healing journey.

🔑 Key Takeaways:

Why EMDR can be powerful—but also dangerous—without the right groundwork, especially for those with complex trauma or a history of dissociation.
How disordered eating is often less about food—and more about control, shame, and survival, especially for adult children of dysfunctional families.
What dissociation actually looks and feels like in the body, and how to recognize when you’re outside your window of tolerance.
A free and accessible somatic tool from HeartMath that can help regulate your nervous system in moments of overwhelm (yes, even when you're heating up your coffee).
Why real trauma healing isn’t about gritting your way through the pain—but expanding your capacity for joy, love, and pleasure.

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0:00.0	The longest journey you will ever take is the 18 inches from your head to your heart.
0:05.8	My name is Andrea and this is a little child. Welcome back to a deep dive in a disfunctional family.
0:33.1	Ahoy, my dear shit shows.
0:36.1	For any new listeners, my name is Andrea. I am a total and complete
0:40.0	shit show. I am the captain of this hot mess of a ship. And if you are new here, which I already said,
0:45.2	I highly recommend that you go listen to my very first episode titled, Why I'll Never Date Another Guy Name Brian, you will get to hear the raw and
0:59.6	filterless story of how I learned that I was an adult child.
1:04.7	You will also get to learn a little bit about what the hell this word, this term adult
1:10.4	child means. No shortage of
1:13.2	entertainment in that episode, okay? And so this is where we talk about what the hell to do when you
1:19.3	realize that your childhood fucked you up a whole lot more than you thought it did. Yes, we curse here.
1:24.0	You've been warned. I'm an acquired taste. You've been warned. And I am currently on a little
1:30.2	break. I'm coming back really soon, folks. I'm recording my first interview this week in a couple
1:35.7	days. And I got a bunch scheduled. So I will be coming back in the near future. But for today,
1:41.4	we are going to take a revisit to a conversation that I had with
1:48.3	a brilliant psychotherapist who I actually sat next to on an airplane. So that's how I connected
1:55.7	with her. I think my flight might I was connecting. My first was delayed and then I got booked on a second a different second flight because that flight was delayed and ended up sitting next to today's guest Corey Scott.
2:12.9	And we are talking about what happens when trauma lives in your nervous system, not just in your mind.
2:20.4	We're talking about EMDR. We're talking about dissociation, intergenerational trauma, something
2:26.5	called heart math, why healing can sometimes feel like falling apart. We're talking about food issues,
2:32.9	disordered eating, which is something that we don't
2:35.4	talk about enough on here, but I know is something that so many people can relate to.
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