Getting Past Your Past

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

By: Francine Shapiro

Narrated by: Karen White

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 behind why we get stuck in various ways and what we can about it.

©2012 Francine Shapiro, Ph.D. (P)2012 Tantor

Critic reviews

"Dr. Shapiro is a pioneer in the field of helping people overcome trauma and negative past experiences." (Daniel G. Amen, M.D.)

Great book on working through trauma

This book is great for a clinician to learn from as well as for a client.

Mandatory Read

I am studying to become certified EMDR therapist. I learned so much about myself! Awesome book and I have shared it with others. I am looking for a therapist to do my own work as well.

So great!

This is a beautiful book about a wonderful psychological treatment, yet written so anyone can understand. The stories bring it to life! I can't wait to implement it's strategies.

Eye Opening

The book and the scenarios are so personal, it got my attention almost from the start!

Looking forward to learning for my clients

Really looking forward to utilizing the exercises to help the many clients that feel stuck