Hidden Memories
An Investigation into the Emotional Life That Dementia Cannot Erase
What if the person you love still carries emotional wounds that dementia cannot reach — and healing them still matters?
What Dementia Cannot Erase
When a loved one disappears into the fog of Alzheimer’s disease, families grieve a presence that is still physically there. But what if the emotional life — the joy, the fear, the love, the long-buried pain — is still very much alive inside, unreachable by words but not by healing?
The results were unexpected, measurable, and deeply human. This is the story of what was found.
An Idea Original to This Investigation
At the heart of Hidden Memories is an original hypothesis developed by co-author Judee Beardsley, a gerontological social worker and dementia care specialist. Drawing on the Reisberg retrogenesis framework — which observes that Alzheimer’s patients regress through developmental stages in reverse order — Judee identified something that had not been formally investigated before.
As patients regress through each developmental stage, they appear to re-encounter the emotional content and unresolved trauma associated with that period of their life. The emotional wounds of childhood, adolescence, and adulthood do not disappear with the memories — they resurface, trapped and unresolved, in a mind that can no longer articulate them.
This intersection of retrogenesis and trapped emotion theory is original to this investigation and has not been published elsewhere. It represents a new lens through which dementia care professionals, researchers, and families may come to understand the inner life of those living with Alzheimer’s disease.
Who Is This Book For?
Caregivers & Families
If someone you love is living with Alzheimer’s disease, this book offers a new way of understanding what may still be happening inside them — and what may still be possible.
Researchers & Clinicians
Hidden Memories presents a formal investigation into proxy Emotion Code® sessions with Alzheimer’s patients, including methodology, session findings, and a hypothesis original to this research that warrants further clinical study.
Healing Practitioners
For Emotion Code® practitioners and energy healers, this book opens a compelling frontier — the possibility of meaningful proxy work with clients who can no longer speak for themselves.
Meet the Authors
Gaylen Beardsley
Gaylen Beardsley holds a B.S. in Philosophy and Religion and is a certified Emotion Code® practitioner, certified EFT practitioner, and an ordained minister. He has been involved in healing and ministry for more than forty years and is the author of The Universal Laws: Creation’s Pathway to Prosperity.
Judee Beardsley
Judee Beardsley holds a B.S. in Gerontology and is a gerontological social worker and dementia care specialist. Her clinical experience and original research into the intersection of retrogenesis and trapped emotion theory form the investigative foundation of Hidden Memories.
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For inquiries, speaking requests, or information about proxy Emotion Code® sessions, please reach out to us at hiddenmemories.jg@gmail.com