In this article I discuss the field of energy psychology, and how it is couched within the larger field of energy medicine. I review the latest trends in EP research, and discuss how nurses have contributed to the evidence base for EP. I also discuss the use of the “E word”, and why it’s both useful and problematic in describing the field of EP.
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Building Resilience Using EFT and The Feldenkrais® Method
Resilience is defined as an ability to regain our balance, to bounce back, to recover quickly, to be flexible and adaptable in response to difficult situations in our environment. This article explores how EFT and The Feldenkrais Method® can help in developing resilience.
Read MoreRecovery from Hysterectomy with EFT
EFT helped me handle a difficult phase in my life – surgery & the post-operative recovery.
Read MoreHow EFT Can Reduce The Stress Of Skin Cancer Treatment
This article describes my experience of successfully using tapping to reduce shock, fear, pain, fatigue and other emotions related to having treatment for pre-cancerous skin treatment. Tapping helped at four stages: initial diagnosis, fears before the treatment, calming me during the treatment, and coping better with the recovery. I offer this story in the hope that if you, or someone you know or are supporting, are facing this type of treatment, you can reflect on what parts of the experience could benefit from tapping. And for EFT practitioners, it may help to consider what range of hidden emotions and aspects could be still be sitting waiting to be resolved from an experience that may seem to their client like just a minor health treatment.
Read MoreHow EFT Helped My Newborn Baby
Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) for New-born baby with Torticollis
Read MoreEFT and the Cancer Experience: Part 1
This article is taken from material presented at the EFT Gathering, 2020.
It presents an overview, taken from personal experience, of how EFT can be used to assist people to deal with a cancer diagnosis, the treatment process and whatever comes next.
EFT and the Cancer Experience: Part 2
The process of dealing with cancer, or helping someone else to deal with it, can seem huge, complex and overwhelming. EFT can be a superb tool for navigating through the whole cancer experience when it’s used as a complementary therapy alongside the normal medical treatments. EFT Practitioners can help themselves or their clients though the […]
Read MoreEFT and Chronic Illness: The Challenges and Rewards
This article is about the effectiveness of using EFT, emphasizing safety and taking small steps over time, to help people with chronic illness heal their nervous systems. As their WOT grows, their biochemistry also changes, making it possible for them to heal from chronic pain, fatigue and other long-standing health issues they may have been told they “just need to live with”. My own personal experience is reflective of the fact that this group of people have significant early traumas and can easily be overwhelmed by going too far, too fast!
Read MoreHow I applied EFT practice to heal after a fall
Turning my day around After a nasty fall in my garden this week, I experienced just how far I had come in my own personal journey. This was on account of applying EFT practice and loving kindness to deal with challenges that life throws my way. When I landed on the ground and heard the […]
Read MoreLessons from Leading Covid-19 EFT Group Sessions
Overview What happens when an EFT trainer has the audacity to offer a daily free group EFT to help others handle the wide variety of stresses that accompany a global pandemic? I had no idea what I was getting into when I began to offer this service. Months later, after over 80 sessions, I am […]
Read MoreHow to Stop Emotional Eating for Good with EFT: Common Themes and Strategies.
Beliefs underlying emotional eating and EFT strategies to overcome it.
Read MoreIn and out of Covid-19 – a personal account
What actually happened to me Ok, I didn’t really have it badly. Just a minor dose. Other folk have had it so much worse than I. I feel so tired I don’t want contact with anyone What does that cough mean? I never get a fever My throat is scratchy, maybe it’s just a cold? […]
Read MoreGraves’ Disease
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. […]
Read MoreEFT and Allergy Relief
Effectiveness of EFT in alleviating allergy symptoms One of my favorite discoveries about EFT is its effectiveness in alleviating painful allergy symptoms. Diagnosis of allergies and some interventions A sensitivity test in a doctor’s office revealed I am allergic to a number of things. These include pollen, birch trees, raw potatoes, and cats. As a […]
Read MoreEFT for Everyday Accidents – Borrowing from Ho’oponopono
Have you ever stubbed your toe against the kerb, or caught your hand on the side of a hot oven/pan/iron, chopped your thumb when you were aiming for the cabbage (it’s best not to ask me to shred cabbage!), bumped into an armchair/doorway/person, missed a step up/down, scalded yourself in steam from the kettle, spilled a freshly brewed mug of tea, hammered your fingers and missed the nail, tripped on the mat, fallen off a swing, slipped on ice/mud/banana skin? What about paper cuts and blisters, bruises, grazes, insect bites, over-reaching for the top shelf, minor whiplash even?
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