No Fight Club by Meagan Francis

Learn to Listen by Meagan Francis

Life Coach Has Had Adventurous Life

Trauma & Attachment Therapy by Robin Shapiro

(This background piece, written by Robin Shapiro, details how Ann-Marie became the

author of two chapters in the book EMDR Solutions II.)

The real name of this book won’t fit on the cover. It is EMDR

Solutions II for Depression, Eating Disorders, Performance,

Coaching, Dissociation, Attachment Issues, Complex Trauma,

Somatic Therapy, Early Trauma, Medically-based Trauma, Sex

Offenders, and Spiritual Issues. As EMDR matures, its clinicians

are targeting the trauma at the heart of, or secondary to, nearly

every emotional or behavioral malady.

As clinical research shows us the confluence of temperament,

attachment history, affect, and trauma in every complex client

(Siegel, 1999, Schore, 2003 and many more), clinicians have

found new ways to direct the EMDR’s Standard Protocol toward

their healing.

This book contains a broad sample of creative solutions to many

clinical conundrums.

In the beginning, I imagined a Depression unit, David Grand’s Performance chapter, and a

mixture of unrelated chapters. I put the word out, contacting the writers from EMDR

Solutions: Pathways to Healing, online communities, and people whose work I knew

about and admired. As the chapters came in, they fell into natural units.

I admired David Grand’s performance work for years and was delighted when he agreed

to contribute a chapter. His fifteen guidelines will help you guide athletes, performers, and

others through the blocks that keep them from doing their best.

Ann-Marie McKelvey had written a rave review of EMDR Solutions: Pathways to Healing in

the second issue of the EMDR Journal of Practice and Research. At the end, she

complained that there were no chapters about Coaching or Positive Psychology. So I

asked her for one. She gave me two. I paired them with the Performance chapter since

all emphasize positive function, rather than dysfunction. I placed this positive unit

between the ED and Complex Trauma units in order to give you readers a break from

deep, dissociative trauma. Anne Marie became the cheerleader of the entire project. I

hope that her enthusiasm infects you, too.