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Category: Self Care

The Gentle Simplicity of EFT: From Talking to Tapping

By: Claire Sainsbury | 8 December, 2024
Categories: Inner Child EFT, Self Care

Two women talking

In this article I share how EFT has come to enhance my work as an integrative psychotherapist. I describe how EFT has become my preferred approach for exploring historical trauma with clients and how this method helps them to avoid revisiting past pain.

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5 Ways To Incorporate Gratitude Into Your EFT Practice

By: Anne Marie Morello | 21 January, 2023
Categories: Integrated EFT, Self Care

Gratitude is an incredible practice. It invites us to look at life through a different set of frames. Significantly, it invites us to view life with greater generosity of spirit and it encourages us to look for the good in even the most challenging of situations that we’re confronted with…

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Processing Ecological Sorrow and Anxiety

By: Tamara Low | 13 September, 2021
Categories: Grief and Loss, Natural Disasters, Self Care

“Mom, come here!” My son called me to come outside. “It is so beautiful out, look!” He was pointing up to the stars. He said, “feel that”.….for the first time in close to two months, we could see the stars. Due to a MUCH-needed rainfall, the air felt clean, fresh, and alive. It felt incredible, […]

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Tapping into peace from silent stress from world events

By: Lareen Newman PhD | 22 August, 2021
Categories: Insomnia, Natural Disasters, Self Care, Stress, Trauma

this article describes how tapping can uncover hidden emotional impacts of seeing or hearing about disturbing world events. It explains how the author reduced her own silent stress related to 9/11, the Australian bushfires of 2019-20, and COVID, and how doing this for yourself, family and/or clients can strengthen the collective field for increased peace.

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EFT & Toxic Relationships – Gaslighting

By: Kate Munden | 28 October, 2020
Categories: Abuse, Areas of EFT Practice, Complex Issues, Fear, Relationships, Self Care

Challenging relationships Many of us have challenging relationships in our lives. The difficult sibling, the uncomfortable colleague, the challenging mother-in-law, or the boyfriend. Sometimes these relationships can be helped by openness and discussion from both sides. However, some relationships in life seem to be toxic and painful regardless of what you say or do. Perhaps […]

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The Woman Who Fell Down the Hole

By: Tamara Donn | 8 February, 2020
Categories: Areas of EFT Practice, Self Care, Stress

Do you feel as if you keep repeating the same negative patterns? Einstein said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Read about this common habit and how EFT can help you to overcome it.

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Introverts, Extroverts and Holidays

By: Liesel Teversham | 12 August, 2019
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 […]

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I love and accept myself…

By: Juliana Alves | 3 July, 2019
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 […]

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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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At The Crossroads: Using Imagery During A Personal EFT Session

By: Melody Lovell | 2 March, 2017
Categories: Core EFT Skills, Self Care

“As practitioners we work to help others and often we may forget just how important it is to help ourselves, to use this powerful tool on our own problems. My very personal ‘stuck’ issue needed addressing and tapping using imagery allowed me to do just that.”

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Over-Identifying With The Oxford Crew And That Disastrous Boat Race – Tapping Gold!

By: Hilary Jones | 2 December, 2016
Categories: Fear, Self Care

With one promising career behind me prematurely stopped in its tracks, then chronic illness and setting out expectantly on another, the sequence unfolding onscreen too closely resembles events in my own life – or rather my perceptions and fears around them. But it also gives me the perfect opportunity, metaphors, insights and lead-ins for processing them

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The Personal Peace Procedure

By: EFTi Volunteers | 31 May, 2016
Categories: All Tutorials, Complex Issues, Core EFT Skills, Featured EFT Training Articles, Self Care

The Personal Peace Procedure is an exercise for using EFT to make peace with what happened to you in the past. It was created by EFT developer Gary Craig and is considered a foundational EFT application.

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Try Timed Tapping Sessions!

By: Ann Smith | 12 September, 2015
Categories: Core EFT Skills, Self Care, Weight and Fitness

“Margaret Ann started with where she was at and then let herself follow where her new thoughts and feelings were taking her. This is a beautiful example of letting the tapping do the work!”

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Why I Tap With A Practitioner

By: Ange Dickson Finn | 6 April, 2014
Categories: Core EFT Skills, EFT Strategies, Motivation, Self Care, Self-Acceptance

“As practitioners, we have a commitment and a professional obligation to tend to our own healing, and fill our own well so we can continue to help our clients. And at the same time, we can learn and grow in our Art of Delivery by experiencing tapping with other practitioners.”

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EFT to the Rescue in an Unexpected Situation

By: Carna Zacharias-Miller | 21 December, 2013
Categories: Anxiety, Self Care, Trauma

“At that point, I was about to burst into tears. I felt humiliated and utterly vulnerable. When I realized that the doctor could enter at any moment, I started to panic. Until I remembered that this was the perfect time to do EFT!”

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