Category: Areas of EFT Practice

Surfacing Phobia

By: Sophia Cayer
Categories: Areas of EFT Practice

Latent phobias Some phobias can be with us from birth. They may develop as the result of life experiences. Or they may arise from a variety of other causes. An interesting fact you may not know is that it is possible to be unaware you have a phobia until you are exposed to a trigger. […]

Introverts, Extroverts and Holidays

By: Liesel Teversham
Categories: Families & Parenting, Relationships, Self Care

If you’re an introvert, you might understand this thought: I look forward to the holiday… but so few people understand my need for quiet time! And of course, the feelings that go with it. Reluctance, inner conflict, maybe anxiety or dread about all the social interaction ahead. This topic always comes to mind for me […]

Graves’ Disease

By: Katie Walker
Categories: Areas of EFT Practice, Physical Issues

Have it surgically removed, radioactive iodine, or meds for life! Rubes was 10 months old when I was diagnosed with Graves’ Disease. Graves’ Disease is an autoimmune condition, which means the body’s immune system mistakes healthy cells for foreign invaders and attacks them. It causes the thyroid gland to produce too much thyroid hormone, which is called hyperthyroidism. […]

Trauma and PTSD

By: Maureen Blackabee
Categories: Areas of EFT Practice, Trauma

Using EFT to work on trauma & PTSD – how it made a world of difference! This is the story of a client, Maureen, who used EFT in her 40s to overcome 18 years of childhood trauma and PTSD. She grew up with a father who suffered depression. He drank to help him deal with […]

Transforming Trauma Tears to Healing Tears

By: Ranjana Appoo
Categories: Areas of EFT Practice, Trauma

Tips for Practitioners Editorial note: Ranjana is a practitioner of great skill and many years’ experience. Whilst it is wonderful to see the far-reaching potential of EFT, we all need to be mindful of ‘not going where we don’t belong’. This article can be an encouragement for us all to continue to develop our own skills […]

Anatomy of a Phobia

By: Liz Hart
Categories: Areas of EFT Practice, Phobias

Phobias are reasonably common Most of the time people adapt around them, and they go untreated. When approached to treat a phobia, there are some questions you need to answer: How did the phobia start? Phobias develop in a few ways: Direct conditioning (scared by a barking dog). Modelling (saw mum scared by a barking […]

Releasing the fear from within with EFT

By: Melody Lovell
Categories: Areas of EFT Practice, Phobias

We all know what it feels like to have fear A holding of breath, a pounding heart, sweating, a racing pulse, trembling or feeling frozen stiff. A panic about not being able to escape…that feeling of DANGER to your life. Why is the fear there? That fear is there for a reason. It is in […]

EFT for Emetophobia

By: Liz Fisher
Categories: Areas of EFT Practice, Phobias

Emetophobia is defined as a phobia that causes overwhelming, intense anxiety pertaining to vomiting. This specific phobia can also include subcategories of what causes the anxiety. Including a fear of vomiting in public, a fear of seeing vomit, a fear of watching the action of vomiting or fear of being nauseated. Most people have never […]

EFT for Phobias

By: Jennifer Moore
Categories: Areas of EFT Practice, Phobias

EFT Addresses Five Hundred Years of Dental Phobia Even the sight of a dentist’s business card made Isabelle break into a cold sweat. Since early childhood, she had dreaded visiting the dentist. Isabelle told me that, as a very little girl, she recalled a life as an old man who had all of his teeth […]

Tapping for Parents

By: Vicki Chisholm
Categories: Children, Complex Issues, Families & Parenting

An Article based on my own fears that I have carried for years. A deeper insight into how my presenting issue was much deeper than I expected it to be.

I love and accept myself…

By: Juliana Alves
Categories: Areas of EFT Practice, Self Care, Self-Acceptance

The EFT set-up phrase How much do you ‘love and accept yourself’? In EFT we use a set up phrase to prompt our brain for the shifts which tapping will enable. It always starts with the acknowledgement of the issue, plus the emotion connected to it, followed by an affirmation of self-assurance. With that, the […]

Resolving Trauma and Snake Phobia

By: Alison van Vuuren (Monaghan)
Categories: Areas of EFT Practice, Phobias, Trauma

I would like to share some insights that I have gained as an EFT practitioner of 13 years, on the effectiveness of EFT to release the physical and emotional symptoms of trauma. I recently worked with a client, Millie, to assist her in releasing a snake phobia, which led back to a former trauma. Here […]

How we construct traumatic memories

By: Judy Byrne
Categories: Areas of EFT Practice, Trauma

Memory is a construction. We do not have a video recorder to store memories as faithful and accurate representations of what actually happened. Every time we take a memory out of storage, we edit it in some way to make more sense in the light of where we are now. What goes back into the […]

The Road of Fire and Ice

By: Andy Hunt
Categories: Areas of EFT Practice, Trauma

Imagine you are driving down a road. It’s a wide road and you are the only car on the road. This road is very strange. On one side there is a raging forest fire that reaches right up to the edge, on the other there is a deep cold lake covered by a thin layer […]

Complex PTSD and EFT

By: Paul Lynch
Categories: Areas of EFT Practice, Trauma

Complex PTSD and EFT When I first started using EFT in my practice in 1998, like most therapists, I welcomed all emotional disorders with open arms. Then, after I co-authored ‘Emotional Healing in Minutes’ in 2000, my interest lay in the treatment of phobias. Why? Because phobias are so debilitating and they only ever seem […]