{"id":27748,"date":"2026-10-06T03:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T09:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources2.soundstrue.com\/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=27748"},"modified":"2026-10-05T11:03:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T17:03:47","slug":"laurel-parnell-the-evolution-from-emdr-to-multidimensional-integrative-healing","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/resources2.soundstrue.com\/podcast\/laurel-parnell-the-evolution-from-emdr-to-multidimensional-integrative-healing\/","title":{"rendered":"Laurel Parnell: &#8220;The Evolution from EMDR to Multidimensional Integrative Healing&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px; border: 0 none;\" src=\"https:\/\/art19.com\/shows\/1632d73c-91ea-42a8-a3db-a62b135d081c\/episodes\/4eac2c8f-b0b9-4d0a-b1af-afa034e3724b\/embed?theme=light-gray-orange\" scrolling=\"no\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What if some of what we&#8217;re carrying was never ours to begin with?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This week, Tami Simon speaks with Laurel Parnell\u2014psychologist, 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, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Releasing What Isn&#8217;t Yours: Living from Your True Self Through Multidimensional Integrative Healing<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, she introduces her most far-reaching approach yet\u2014one born out of the devastating loss of her son.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Join Tami and Laurel to explore:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How EMDR works, and why bilateral stimulation\u2014whether eye movements, tapping, or sound\u2014seems to unlock the brain&#8217;s natural healing system<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The difference between EMDR and resource tapping, and how each supports transformation<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why Laurel came to believe that trauma work can open a portal to other dimensions<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Missing and attached soul parts, spirit release work, and how to sense what isn&#8217;t yours<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A profound, real-time account of guiding a soul&#8217;s crossing at Esalen, and its connection to the region&#8217;s Indigenous history<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why Laurel sees Western psychotherapy as, in some ways, colonized\u2014and what other healing traditions have to teach it<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The image of a multidimensional mycelium network of light and love that connects all beings<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Listen now to explore the evolving edge of trauma healing. \u2192<\/span><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Get a FREE month of membership at <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/STOne-Free-Month\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/STOne-Free-Month<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":27771,"template":"","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[392],"tags":[170,242],"contributor":[],"class_list":["post-27748","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-and-healing","tag-insights-at-the-edge","tag-tami-simon"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Laurel Parnell: &quot;The Evolution from EMDR to Multidimensional Integrative Healing&quot; | Sounds True<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Laurel Parnell: &quot;The Evolution from EMDR to Multidimensional Integrative Healing&quot; | Sounds True\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\ufeff What if some of what we&#8217;re carrying was never ours to begin with? 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