“But what are we going to do if there isn’t a therapist or coach available? Are we doomed to wander ignorant of our own limiting beliefs because we can’t see them? Fortunately, there is a simple way to bring lots of limiting beliefs into consciousness using just one word. It’s a simple word, readily available and deeply familiar: ‘Because…'”
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“The Bottle Story” Part 2: Follow-Up Six Weeks Later
“What is amazing is how long this has lasted. I’ve had chocolate on occasion, for instance I had some chocolate milk… but that’s all I wanted. I haven’t even wanted a chocolate bar. It’s great…”
Read More“The Bottle Story”: Healing a Core Issue
“We talked and tapped with regard to what the little girl needed: someone to pay attention to her feelings, to validate what she felt, to take her seriously, and to understand her. It wasn’t even so much that the little girl needed the bottle — she needed empathy and understanding for her feelings.”
Read MoreGood Questions Help Illuminate the “Big Picture” of a Core Issue
“In EFT, we are always on the lookout for core issues, but sometimes a core issue is so big, it’s like we’re standing too close to a large painting. Tapping through the questions in the way we did was a like a slow stepping back. With each step the whole story was allowed to come into greater focus…”
Read MoreA Fear of Flying with a Surprising Core Issue
“As she completed the sentences, she was tuning in more and more to the feeling: ‘I think it goes back to being very young… and I feel terrified… and no one’s going to catch me! And I’m going to hit! And it’s going to hurt! And it all makes me feel really sad….'”
Read MoreFeeling Stabbed in the Back
“It is almost as if the seemingly unrelated incident allowed me to bring these emotions into sharp focus so that the tapping could clear them. I love the way healing sometimes comes to us in mysterious and unexpected ways.”
Read More“The Voice of my Heart”
“I was captured by her phrase, ‘a resident sadness in my heart.’ I like to listen carefully to peoples’ language, and when they use a metaphor, I always assume that some part of the person is speaking literally. So this phrase meant to me that there was a presence in her heart that was somehow ‘not her’ – heavier, more painful, and only living there temporarily, not at home there in her heart…”
Read MoreMetaphysical Thoughts for EFTers: “You Are The Body of Your Beliefs”
“I love helping people develop more nourishing beliefs about themselves and the world – beliefs that nurture and sustain – and feel good when we inhabit them. Nothing beats watching people awaken to themselves, their own thinking and the possibilities of exercising greater conscious control over their own lives.”
Read MoreBack Pain and the Issue of Being “Not Good Enough”
“What’s important in our journey to healing is to discover how our emotional issues can fuel the pain and hold us back…”
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