Sometimes there are no words. Just images. Some of us think in pictures, colors, and sensations, and we may struggle to translate our inner experience into nouns and verbs. This is primarily because images come from the right hemisphere of our brain and language comes from the left hemisphere. The "bridge" between our hemispheres (known as the corpus callosum) allows for integration of our right/left brain processes. Unless we have serious brain damage, we all have this bridge.

While some of us prefer the vehicle of verbal expression, some of us speak in images, metaphor, movement, sound, color... Even if we're comfortable with words, visual aids can be powerful for conveying and understanding ideas, concepts, feelings and experiences.

Research shows that traumatic memories are stored in the right hemisphere of our brain- where we do not have the language to process it. This means that accessing and processing that trauma effectively sometimes requires non-verbal processes.