Category: 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

The new Ralph Fiennes film about Rudolf Nureyev offers a glimpse into the world of unhealed childhood trauma.  It also highlights the physical and spiritual genius of a troubled child who learned to soar despite early adversity.  Please Note:  Because this article contains secondary-trauma potential, please tap while reading. In Russia, ‘White Crows’ are Shamed […]