If you’re a fan of Marvel Comics superheroes and movies, you probably know who Deadpool is.  What you probably didn’t know is that you can have a superpower he doesn’t possess: the ability to heal your emotional traumas in an easy and direct manner.  Read on to find out how.

We All Could Be More Like Deadpool These Days

If you’re like any number of other people, you probably struggle with day to day stressors and other biggies thrown in.  Maybe Covid has thrown you off for the last 2 years or so, as well as some healthy political and social upheaval.  Maybe struggling with the climate crisis has been difficult as well and a lot of economic uncertainty, too.  Whatever it is, there’s plenty out there to get upset about.  Some people turn to addictions to self-medicate, but if you don’t take that route to cope you still have a lot to deal with.  In short, we all need the ability to be resilient, or to bounce back like Deadpool does.  Life simply requires that of most people these days.  Many people just don’t know how to do that.

What Image Transformation Therapy is and How It Helps You Be Like Deadpool

If you’ve watched the Deadpool movies you were probably struck by how quickly he was able to regenerate parts of his body that were injured or maimed by the villains he encountered.  Image Transformation Therapy (ImTT) is much like this in that all you have to be able to do is to breathe and visualize a color or substance that relates to the emotional upset you are dealing with.  Once you can do that, you are able to literally get out of your nervous system what has rocked your world, or whatever was previously bothering you.  It’s literally that simple.  

Deadpool and Resilience

The biggest thing about Deadpool, as I alluded to above, is how resilient he is.  Resilience is an innate human ability to bounce back from adversity that we all share.  Some of us need more help in being able to access it, however.  Once we do, we only need time for it to kick in.  It’s the same with Deadpool.  He didn’t grow back his limbs in an instant.  He needed some time at least.  With ImTT, you may start to feel better immediately, but it can take some time to recover from all the aspects of an emotionally jarring or traumatic experience.  But step by step you can make a full recovery.  There may still be scars, much like Deadpool had.  The thing about scars is they are stronger than the original skin they wind up replacing.  While you don’t necessarily get tougher from healing your emotional wounds, you can have more courage by not being as daunted by the difficulties you once may have been intimidated by in the past.

Deadpool and Healing

One of the things that’s been recently discovered is how we can heal our brains to much the same degree as the human body heals.  Deadpool’s limbs would grow back from small stumps or shoots.  The way the brain works if one part of the brain gets damaged, the nervous system shifts over to another part of the brain to take over the damaged part’s function in another part of it.  That quality is called neural plasticity, and it is how the brain heals differently from the body.  It still heals, however.  While ImTT doesn’t rely on this quality, it certainly helps allow you to make new neural connections to override your previously traumatic experiences.  

Deadpool Recovered Without Trying, But Emotional Healing Requires Effort

If you are struggling to recover from trauma or emotional upset of any kind, you can take your time to heal.  That’s pretty much up to you.  In some cases time doesn’t heal all wounds, however.  This is the way it works with trauma: it tends to stay in your nervous system like a stone in your shoe.  Unless you make the effort to reach out to others to get the help and support you need, the trauma is still there.  You can get help and support from loyal and trustworthy friends and family, but sometimes even that isn’t enough.  If you need more help and want to learn about ImTT, I have been doing it with my client for about 7 years now.  I have had much success with it and would be happy to talk to you about how I might be able to help you as well.  I offer free 20-minute phone consultations for prospective clients.  All you have to do is call my number at the top of the page or fill out the form at the bottom of the page, and I will get back to you as soon as I can to schedule something.  Take the steps you need to bounce back like Deadpool and be a ‘superhero’ in your own life today.  

Visit our page on trauma therapy to find out how Scott can help you with ImTT.

About the author:  Scott Kampschaefer, LCSW is a private practice therapist in Frederick, Maryland.  He has an extensive background in working with depression, anxiety, and bipolar disorder at a clinic for older adults with these disorders in Austin.  He now works with adults and adolescents 14 and up in private practice. His most recent book is titled The 5 Pillars of Addiction Recovery and is available for purchase on Amazon and in paperback on this website.