Did you know that around I in 8 pregnancies is thought to start out as twins? But of those twin pregnancies, for every live pair born, 10-12 result in singleton births? The impacts on the surviving twin can be profound. EFT offers a powerful tool to process and heal them.
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Working Content-Free: Taking Tearless Trauma Further
This approach offers a way for EFT practitioners to facilitate healing without clients needing to disclose the details of their story.
Read MoreFeeling A Trauma Capsule Unfreeze
An advanced practitioner shares her experience of feeling her own “trauma capsule” unfreeze during a tapping session. She was working with an EFTI Practitioner to clear hard-to-shift pain from a recent ankle injury, which actually led to resolution of an early childhood trauma.
Read MoreAre You a Safe and Effective EFT Practitioner?
Would it surprise you to know that being a safe practitioner also correlates with being more effective? When clients feel well cared for by a trauma-trained or trauma-informed practitioner, they are more likely to feel safe and trust both the practitioner and the process. This trust often leads to the surfacing of long-suppressed memories or forgotten events, allowing the practitioner to navigate them effectively.
Read MoreUnderstanding Money Trauma
Money trauma is a complex issue that can deeply affect your relationship to your finances which often stems from various sources such as childhood experiences, financial hardship, negative beliefs, and inherited patterns.
Read MoreDoodle Tapping With Children: Part 2
Following my EFTi article providing insights and ideas from my application of Masha Bennett’s Doodle Tapping (DT) technique with my adult clients and myself, I thought it would be useful to share tips that I have from using this EFT technique with some child clients. You can read Part 1 of this article here. Doodle […]
Read MoreDoodle Tapping With Children: Part 1
In this article, Lareen Newman explains the process of using Masha Bennett’s doodle tapping technique with children. Lareen also provides practical tips and insights on different ways to use doodling with different children, depending on preferences, how doodle tapping easily works in online sessions and can also incorporate tapping supports such as toys.
Read MoreNegative Core Beliefs
Limiting or negative core beliefs are deeply held assumptions and attitudes about the world that shape our perception of reality. Trauma can have a significant impact on these beliefs, shaping the way we view ourselves, others, and the world around us.
Read MoreHow I Used Trauma-Informed Practices to Help a Student Return to Class in 20 Minutes
Using Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) with kids when I was a School Counselor felt like the magic wand I had been looking for. I finally found the tools I needed to help my students heal. Better yet, I was able to teach them how to self-apply the techniques to use in the classroom or anytime they felt their emotions getting uncomfortably intense.
Read further to learn about one of my most memorable stories using EFT in a school setting.
How Trauma Alters Memory – Why Every EFT Practitioner Should Know About the Amygdala and Hippocampus
The more you understand about how memory works, especially traumatic ones, the more effective you will be as an EFT Practitioner.
Read More7 Ways That Childhood Trauma Affects Your Ability To Find Your Earthmate-Soulmate
With the right tools, like EFT, and guidance, individuals can work through these issues that have resulted from unhealed childhood traumas so they can and build healthy, loving relationships.
Read MoreEFT and Trauma’s Upward Healing Spiral
As trauma survivors and EFT practitioners, we often hear the question ‘When is this going to end?’ The answer is complicated. When we are in the dorsal vagal state configured in the moment by big T traumas, we can’t scream or fight off those who hurt us. We can’t summon the energy to escape, or […]
Read MoreRacial Trauma
Racial trauma is the emotional and psychological harm that is experienced as a result of being subjected to racism, discrimination, and other forms of racial violence. It can take many forms, including microaggressions, verbal abuse, physical violence, and systemic discrimination.
Read MoreMindfulness and EFT in Schools
In July 2022 major news outlets published a flurry of articles about the findings of the MY Resilience In ADolescence (MYRIAD) study programme on the effectiveness of school-based mindfulness training (SBMT). The results were surprising. The project was conducted by researchers from Oxford, Cambridge, Exeter, Kings College London, University College London and Pennsylvania State University. […]
Read MoreClearing Claustrophobia in an fMRI Machine
A claustrophic client who had to be pulled out of an fMRI machine relives her birth on her way to finding peace in the machine
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