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Float-Back Worksheet

Link the current to the earlier

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The float-back links a current disturbance to an earlier target — the actual work of EMDR is usually behind the current story.

Recent disturbance (image, thought, feeling)
Negative belief showing up ('I am…')
Where I feel it in the body
Earliest memory this reminds me of (float back with the belief and body feeling)
What that memory would need to become the target

References & further reading

Conceptual background and further reading, not validation of this handout. Named instruments and methods belong to their original authors; custom prompts and trackers are not validated versions of those instruments.

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