Why a SUDS level zero can sometimes be misleading and how to ensure clients’ nervous systems feel safe enough for deep work
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Heal the Wounds of Estrangement Using EFT
This article explores how Emotional Freedom Techniques can be an effective support in dealing with the guilt, shame, anger, and grief that come with estrangement in relationships.
Read MoreRecovering from Musician’s Dystonia
Using EFT to reduce a known physical issue that afflicts musicians, sports people where precise movements are needed amongst many others. Case study of how we greatly reduced the issue in the client.
Read MoreTapping Into Hidden Emotions
Sometimes clients difficult emotions are hidden from them by their unconscious mind. This simple question, applied by a skilled practitioiner, can help them access those feelings for processing.
Read MoreShamework: The Most Important Work We’ll Ever Do
Shame is insidious. It’s the most painful experience a human can have yet it’s also one of the most overlooked core issues even amongst therapists and practitioners, largely due to our own shame around shame. In my practice I use EFT to unlearn toxic shame through a process I’ve started calling ‘shamework.’
Read MoreEFT to Resolve Group Conflict
How a tapper used tapping to bring peace to a group of young women on a study tour in the south Pacific.
Read MoreExtra Tips on Doodle Tapping With Adults
In this article, Lareen Newman gives some insights from how she’s applied Doodle Tapping on her own issues and with different adult clients. Doodle Tapping is an EFT technique developed by EFT Master Trainer Masha Bennett to help process complex and intense issues. It externalises what’s going on by making a doodle or scribble on paper with a pen, and then tapping rounds reduce the intensity. The article explores different ways that the technique can be used, and provides practical things that can enhance the art of delivery.
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 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 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 for Pregnancy and Birth
Resolving a memory of one’s own birth before one is due to give birth oneself is to my mind a gift to one’s children that is pretty hard to beat. This is exactly what happened in session recently. Firstly, I need to point out that this resolution happened spontaneously, as for most people ‘going there’ […]
Read MoreEFT & Toxic Relationships – Gaslighting
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 […]
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 MoreCan EFT Play an Integral Role in Helping Victims of Sexual Assault?
Like many studies, there are weaknesses. These include a small sample size, and no randomization or control group. There was no long term follow up, and there was a lack of formal psychiatric diagnosis prior to participation. The authors acknowledge these and state the need for further and more thorough examination of both interventions as singular and combined approaches.
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