Jane Buchan

After several years teaching EFT to college students for specific learning issues, my personal experiences with EFT led me to to support EFT clients' and practitioners' use of these tools to safely address traumatic reactivity and patterns of behaviour rooted in early trauma. Adverse Childhood Experiences, ACEs as they are more familiarly known, show up as chronic health conditions, learning issues, social challenges, and professional sabotaging behaviours that prevent us from living happily within our own skin regardless of the chaos at play in the larger world. Working with traumatized people, whether in classrooms or EFT individual sessions requires trauma sensitivity. This concept is a relatively new one suggesting we ask "What has happened to you?" Without trauma sensitivity, the general approarch to disruptive or undesirable behaivour is punitive; using a trauma-sensitivity approach, we see such behaviour as reactively protective in situations that feel unsafe. Since many people grow up in climates of denial in which our traumas are normalized by authority figures who punish behaviours meant to keep us safe, we can live for decades without identifying as traumatic those events and experiences that have shaped us in very specific, often isolating ways.
EFT is a safe and gentle means of inching into the traumas that cause our reactivity. EFT makes use of story telling, curiosity, and physical responsiveness to understand, accept, transform, and integrate these isolating energies. Trauma, especially early, protracted trauma (also known as Developmental Trauma), exerts a powerful and ongoing impact upon our lives. Working with traumatized people (and this is pretty much everyone on Earth to a greater or lesser degree), requires deep respect, empathy, knowledge, skills,and self- and co-regulating tools. When used with sensitivity, EFT supports positive change, always with insight and often with humour. Visit www.winterblooms.net for more about trauma sensitivity, EFT, and Jane.