What if some of what we’re carrying was never ours to begin with?
This week, Tami Simon speaks with Laurel Parnell—psychologist, longtime spiritual practitioner, and a leading innovator in EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing). Laurel developed attachment-focused EMDR and resource tapping, and now, in her new book with Sounds True, Releasing What Isn’t Yours: Living from Your True Self Through Multidimensional Integrative Healing, she introduces her most far-reaching approach yet—one born out of the devastating loss of her son.
Join Tami and Laurel to explore:
- How EMDR works, and why bilateral stimulation—whether eye movements, tapping, or sound—seems to unlock the brain’s natural healing system
- The difference between EMDR and resource tapping, and how each supports transformation
- Why Laurel came to believe that trauma work can open a portal to other dimensions
- Missing and attached soul parts, spirit release work, and how to sense what isn’t yours
- A profound, real-time account of guiding a soul’s crossing at Esalen, and its connection to the region’s Indigenous history
- Why Laurel sees Western psychotherapy as, in some ways, colonized—and what other healing traditions have to teach it
- The image of a multidimensional mycelium network of light and love that connects all beings
This is a candid, moving conversation about grief, the limits of what evidence-based therapy can explain, and the courage it takes to follow where healing actually leads.
Listen now to explore the evolving edge of trauma healing. →
This conversation offers genuine transmission, not just concepts about awakening, but the palpable presence of realized teachers exploring the growing edge of spiritual understanding together, and it originally aired on Sounds True One.
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