Everything everywhere all at oncewas incredible. I’m a trauma therapist (LCSW, EMDR Certified and a Consultant-in-Training, Trauma Resiliency Model Certified, and Perinatal Mental Health Certified) and seeing it through my professional expertise was an even more powerful experience. Trauma doesn’t have the same ability to grasp time and space, so what this movie represents is very much the way the brainstem reacts in the here-and-now to past events and with responses that can never be (stuck somatic survival responses). In trauma reprocessing, we endeavor to “timestamp” the traumatic experience so that our body can finally believe that the past is in the past and still not happening in the here-and-now. We have all different fractured parts of ourselves that we can slowly allow to come back into alignment. Whether the filmmakers knew it or not, this movie is the perfect example of the neurological and physiological Trauma response. I left the movie weeping because finally my husband was able to see what I do for my clients (minus the martial arts). This movie should be screened for every psychotherapy graduate student.

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