How a childhood incident can lead to a life-long struggle with accepting professional recognition, wealth and success and how we can identify and neutralise limiting beliefs through EFT.
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How EFT and Inner Child Work Helped Me Move Up the Polyvagal Ladder
This blog shares my personal journey of moving from the “freeze” of a Dorsal Vagal shutdown into the safety of the Ventral Vagal state. By combining EFT tapping with the emotional healing of inner child work, I illustrate how we can gently rewire our nervous systems for recovery and connection.
Read MoreAccessing the Early Years’ Nonverbal Energy
The author shares her experience of finding an image to connect with an early experience and then using EFT to process the resulting emotions.
Read MoreInsightful Decluttering with EFT Tapping
The author shares her experience with using EFT to support the process of decluttering her home and working through the resulting emotions.
Read MoreThe Gentle Simplicity of EFT: From Talking to Tapping
In this article I share how EFT has come to enhance my work as an integrative psychotherapist. I describe how EFT has become my preferred approach for exploring historical trauma with clients and how this method helps them to avoid revisiting past pain.
Read MoreOne-session wonder: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome gone
An EFT technique clears years of Chronic Fatigue as a spinoff from a woman’s current panic state.
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 MoreWhy Your Struggling Younger Selves Need More Than A Tapping Script
EFT is delightful in it’s simplicity. Unfortunately some problems are complex and resistant to change. In a world full of tapping scripts and tap-along videos this article explores the roots of more difficult problems and how they need much more than a tapping script can give them.
Read MoreCan Attachment Theory Explain All Our Relationships?
“Secure adults tend to value attachment relationships and are able to describe experiences coherently, whether negative (e.g., parental rejection or over-involvement) or positive, says Main. Dismissing adults tend either to devalue the importance of attachment relationships or to idealize their parents without being able to illustrate their positive evaluations with concrete events demonstrating secure interaction. Preoccupied adults are still very much involved and preoccupied with their past attachment experiences and are therefore not able to describe them coherently. Dismissing and preoccupied adults are both considered insecure.”
Linked ArticleThe Teenager, the Adult, and the Crone
“We tapped on my feelings of hurt and anger and powerlessness. And suddenly I had an image (from what Betty refers to as the ‘inner theater’ of the imagination) of myself standing in a hole…”
Read MoreThe Pain of “Not Belonging”
“The feeling of not belonging is often mixed with other emotions, like loneliness, deep sadness, feeling different, ‘what’s wrong with me,’ and abandonment and rejection. As we know, it is a basic need for children to belong, to have a safe place, to be at least validated if not cherished.”
Read MoreEmergency Tapping for a Distressed Inner Child
“When I called at the appointed time, Christine was in tears. She apologized, but I told her it was actually a good thing that she was so in touch with her painful feelings at a time when we could talk… Christine recognized that it was her own inner child that was the source of her intense feelings…”
Read MorePanic Attacks and Agoraphobia: EFT to the Rescue
“Melanie: ‘It is about what might come up when I am there. There is this fear: Anything can happen in this busy place, and I have no influence…’ “
Read MoreEFT Clears the Emotional Pain Caused by a Distorted Self-Image
“When we have this distorted image of our bodies, we are in bondage to our fears and we feel that at some level, there is something wrong with us, we are not good enough as we are. As a result, we build a prison that keep us stuck and it robs us of the courage to go after our dreams.”
Read MoreHow Violin Lessons Led To Profound Healing
“Sylvia surprised me by announcing that she had “fired” [her violin] teacher! She felt empowered and delighted that she had broken her own rule of “you have to take it, stick with it, don’t be a quitter.” She could reject those judgments and honor her feelings and needs…How beautiful to see her delightful child self coming through in her new freedom to play the violin for enjoyment, free of judgment, free of fear!”
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