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Category: Families & Parenting

Happy Trails: A Modern Day Family Travel Advisory

By: Jondi Whitis | 1 December, 2018
Categories: Children, Families & Parenting, Relationships, Self Care, Stress

Combining families, traditions or holidays this year? A guide to happier trails.

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Using EFT to Calm the Fight, Flight, and Freeze Response When Learning about Caged Children and Separated Families

By: Jane Buchan | 23 August, 2018
Categories: Borrowing Benefits, Children, Families & Parenting, Surrogate Tapping

This article briefly describes my abreaction to caged children and separated family stories and how I used EFT to self regulate and return to centre.

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Playing with fire – Even though I’m afraid of striking matches…

By: Hilary Jones | 27 April, 2018
Categories: Anxiety, Children, Complex Issues, EFT Strategies, Families & Parenting, Fear

The beauty of EFT is that it clears the unhelpful, life-limiting, excess emotional charge around something, but it does not remove normal emotional reactions (fire can be hugely destructive, a healthy respect for it is entirely appropriate) – nor common sense.

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Christmas Blues and Difficult Dates

By: Alice Grange | 28 December, 2015
Categories: Families & Parenting, Relationships, Stress, Trauma

“If there is a difficult date in your past, you may want to consider doing a little pre-emptive tapping on any remaining feelings you have about what happened. You too could end up feeling fine, or even fabulous, as you release and reframe the past!”

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Resolving Issues with Ex-Husband by combining Surrogate EFT and Matrix Reimprinting

By: Alice Grange | 21 November, 2015
Categories: Families & Parenting, Matrix ReImprinting, Relationships, Surrogate Tapping

“While she feels that he is a good man, he was just not the man for her and when she checked on her current feelings about him, she found she was concerned about how he was feeling, how much he was hurting…”

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Ancestral Matrix Reimprinting to Help Heal Present Day Relationship Issues

By: Alice Grange | 11 October, 2015
Categories: Ancestral issues, EFT Strategies, Families & Parenting, Integrated EFT, Matrix ReImprinting, Relationships, Spirituality & Metaphysics

“If time really is a constructed illusion, if everything really is energy and we are all actually energetically connected as the quantum physicists tell us, then the possibilities for healing the planet and everyone on it, with EFT, are even more incredible…”

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Getting To The Core of Impotence

By: Alice Grange | 22 August, 2015
Categories: Families & Parenting, Physical Issues, Relationships, Trauma

“What this session illustrates so well is the importance of continuing to dig, to find the real roots to an issue. I thought I had it figured out…”

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Learning To Take Care Of Herself While Being A Caregiver

By: JoAnn Skywatcher | 31 December, 2011
Categories: Caregiving, Families & Parenting, Physical Issues, Self Care, Serious Disease

“The way that I like doing EFT is to get to the biggest underlying issue, and for Belinda her biggest conflict centered around spending so much time taking care of her elderly parents that she hadn’t allowed time to take care of herself.”

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Healing the Pain of Growing Up with an Absent Father

By: Carna Zacharias-Miller | 9 April, 2011
Categories: Core EFT Skills, Families & Parenting, Inner Child EFT, Integrated EFT, Relationships, Trauma

“Melanie wrote: ‘I always tried hard to get them emotionally involved anyway, but it never worked, and I only got hurt. Stepping out of this pattern feels so good.'”

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The Gift of EFT Helped a Grieving Mom

By: Rossanna Massey | 12 February, 2011
Categories: Core EFT Skills, Families & Parenting, Grief and Loss

“What [EFT] does do is desensitize excessive, panicky grief — the kind that makes you want to die, too. Because it is a self-help tool, we are now capable of having an easier transition to life re-adjusted. An easier, kinder, and gentler way to reach inner peace and the clarity to move on with our lives.”

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Tapping Effectively with Family and Friends

By: Gene Monterastelli | 5 December, 2010
Categories: Core EFT Skills, Families & Parenting

“I even ask questions to which I think the answer is obvious. By doing this I am going to insure I am truly understanding where my loved one is coming from. The more they describe, the less of me that is going to be getting in the way of the tapping.”

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EFT for Pregnancy: Asking Good Questions to Relieve Physical Discomfort

By: Monika Benoit | 21 August, 2010
Categories: Families & Parenting, Physical Issues

“Pregnancy can be one of the most magical times in a woman’s life, but it can be one of the most challenging as well. EFT has proven to be an exquisite tool during pregnancy and asking good questions to help you formulate your tapping set-up and reminder phrases will help you achieve greater success…”

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Her Relationship with Her Son Was Challenging

By: Gillian Wightman | 24 March, 2010
Categories: Families & Parenting, Relationships

“She went very still and quiet and I could see she was in tears. She lifted her head and said almost with awe and said ‘I can see my son quite differently now, I sense a much closer bond with my son!'”

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Acknowledging Grief Brings Emotional and Physical Relief

By: Susan Eller | 17 March, 2010
Categories: Families & Parenting, Grief and Loss, Spanish Language

“Jackie then realized how hard she had been on herself, that she had been judging herself for missing that connection with her mother after all these years. She then realized that she expects a lot of herself in general. This was quite revelatory to her and she was able to see how that tendency plays out in other areas of her life.”

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Stepchild Brings a Gift of Healing

By: Lori Barnett | 7 February, 2010
Categories: Families & Parenting, Inner Child EFT, Relationships

“So I tapped while asking myself, ‘What is this really about and What does this remind me of?’ I find that tapping on questions often helps open up the awareness to the answers.”

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