How to use EFT to assist with boundary-setting, making it easier to prioritize our well-being
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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 MoreEFT for Chronic Headaches: A Personal Story
The author, an EFT practitioner, describes her experience and reflects on how and why EFT might work for headaches and other chronic pain.
Read MoreUsing EFT to Address Imposter Syndrome
This article explores how EFT can help address imposter syndrome, a common experience where individuals feel inadequate or like a fraud despite their accomplishments. It discusses how tapping can reduce the emotional charge attached to self-doubt and negative thoughts, making it easier to quiet these distractions and improve performance and well-being. Practical examples and personal experiences demonstrate how EFT can be applied effectively in managing imposter syndrome.
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 MoreCan we tap successfully for our own headaches? Yes, No or Maybe
The author considers whether, when and how we might tap for our own headaches in order to modify or eliminate them using EFT. She provides a range of illustrations from personal experience to answer the question, ‘Can we tap successfully for our own headaches?’
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 MoreTapping into a Peaceful Birth
This article showcases the power of the ‘Tell the Story’ technique. It was used to help a young mother transform the emotional intensity of her past birth experience into a joyful birth experience of peace, self love and acceptance.
Read MoreMastering Self-Tapping: A Guide to Creating Effective EFT Phrases (Part 2)
In Part 1, we looked at how to define your issue using the “banana bread analogy”, where the overall issue (fear of driving) can be thought of as the loaf, which can be cut into slices (specific events – having to drive to another city to visit your son). Let’s see now what happens after […]
Read MoreMastering Self-Tapping: A Guide to Creating Effective EFT Phrases (Part 1)
Recently, someone asked me for tips on creating “effective phrases for self-tapping”. Drawing from my experience as a psychologist and EFT practitioner, here are some guidelines.
Read MoreNever Enough: The Compulsion to Keep DO-ING
What drives us to keep Do-ing more and more, vs trusting we can BE…enough?
Read MoreFeeling Lost with Your EFT Practice? Start with Future Events
In this article, we explore the effective approach of utilizing Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) to tackle future events and the benefits it brings. The process starts by focusing on negative expectations around upcoming scenarios, leading to the release of these anticipatory emotions. This can help to unveil important past memories, providing key areas for further EFT application. The method aids in sparking ‘cognitive shifts’ – spontaneous changes in perspective that lead to a more empowering viewpoint. While it encourages personal growth, a cautionary note is offered for dealing with intense or traumatic memories. The article emphasizes that even partial progress can help to kickstart actions previously inhibited by fear or resistance. Overall, the article presents EFT as an empowering tool for personal transformation.
Read MoreEFT As A Person-Centred Approach
What does it mean to “meet a client where they are at”? Learn how principles in Carl Rogers’ person-centered therapy applies to EFT.
Read MoreAn Innovative Approach To Working With Children
This article explains how I utilised a children’s book, to support a young client dealing with anxieties heightened by grief.
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