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 […]
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How to Stop Emotional Eating for Good with EFT: Common Themes and Strategies.
Beliefs underlying emotional eating and EFT strategies to overcome it.
Read MoreWhat You Need to Know About EFT Tapping (Shape Magazine)
This article provides an overview of EFT including its effects, history and some of the theories around it’s workings, it describes some “murkiness” around the effects on the body systems and may not have been fully informed by all the latest neuroscientific research papers available. It does make for a good introduction to clients of the ideas around and behind EFT and offers reasons for self-administering and also recommending when to seek out a qualified EFT practitioner
Linked ArticleCan EFT Play an Integral Role in Helping Victims of Sexual Assault?
New research says YES FEBRUARY 5, 2020 Sexual injury (assault or otherwise) can lie at the heart of a multitude of presenting client issues. These range from money blocks, to physical health problems, to a “fear of being seen”, as well as more obvious concerns like intimacy challenges.” Alina Frank, author of ‘How to Want […]
Read MorePositive, Tolerable and Toxic Stress Responses; What are the Differences?
A definition of stress In the world of EFT/Tapping/Matrix Reimprinting (MR), we often refer to stress as something we are combating and fighting against. We are tapping on stress to release it, as it is something that is obviously not healthy for us to experience frequently. It is often a generically used term and it […]
Read MoreTrauma and PTSD
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 […]
Read MoreTransforming Trauma Tears to Healing Tears
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 […]
Read MoreResolving Trauma and Snake Phobia
I would like to share some insights that I have gained as an EFT practitioner of 13 years, on the effectiveness of EFT to release the physical and emotional symptoms of trauma. I recently worked with a client, Millie, to assist her in releasing a snake phobia, which led back to a former trauma. Here […]
Read MoreHow we construct traumatic memories
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 […]
Read MoreThe Road of Fire and Ice
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 […]
Read MoreComplex PTSD and EFT
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 […]
Read MoreThe 10 Day Trauma Window
The 10 Day Trauma Window; New Research Demonstrates Long Term Effects of Acute Stress
Read MoreEFT and Adult Self-Regulation
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 […]
Read MoreTrauma: An Insider’s Perspective
The background story I have not been raped. Neither have I been beaten or physically abused. I have not been in, or witnessed someone else’s, serious road traffic accident. I come from an averagely functional, professional family, and am not aware of any dark deeds in past or present lives. My background is materially privileged. […]
Read MoreWe Are Not This – Yeah Nah
New Zealand’s response to tragedy It has been a week since the fatal Christchurch massacre in New Zealand. Fifty Muslims killed, and another 49 injured by a lone gunman as they prayed in their mosques. Our small country has reeled. We are a multicultural society of 200 nationalities, speaking 160 languages and with many different […]
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