The parts of your brain that store painful memories (your limbic system and brainstem alarms) aren’t wired to talk. They’re hard-wired to keep you safe. Your language centers sit up in the cortex, but when emotional flashbacks hijack you, words simply can’t keep up. ART understands the language of your limbic system. Using vivid metaphors and guided imagery, ART speaks directly to those deeper, nonverbal parts of your brain, so you don’t have to force the words. Instead, you replace stuck images