Shadow work is a self-discovery process where you explore the hidden or “shadow” parts of your personality—those aspects of yourself you might not fully recognize, acknowledge, or accept.

The “shadow” refers to the traits, emotions, desires, or patterns that you’ve suppressed, ignored, or denied, often because they feel uncomfortable, unacceptable, or don’t align with how you want to see yourself. This is important because those “shadow” parts don’t disappear just because you ignore them. They often show up in ways you’re not aware of, like self-sabotage, unhealthy patterns, or conflicts in relationships. By doing shadow work, which EFT Tapping can be incredibly effective for, you get to know yourself more deeply, heal old wounds, and ultimately become more whole, self-aware, and compassionate. It’s not about “fixing” yourself—it’s about understanding and accepting all of who you are, even the messy or uncomfortable parts. Shadow work can be challenging, but it’s also incredibly freeing and transformative.

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Recent news reports have highlighted the relationship between the debilitating condition of hypochondria as an illness anxiety disorder and its correlation with trauma, especially childhood trauma. The life altering pattern of heightened sensitivity, worry and fear associated with minor symptoms may well be connected to a variety of traumatic experiences. Such experiences can embed deep seated beliefs that a person’s body is fragile and constantly at risk of serious illness or death. These experiences can create hypervigilant behaviors around one’s body that are similar to PTSD and hence is sometimes referred to as medical PTSD. Some of the examples discussed include being raised in an overprotective environment, traumatic medical experiences, witnessing a family member’s chronic illness, the trauma of neglect and more can set the stage for this. EFT when safely applied through a trauma informed lens may help to release the limiting beliefs and emotional responses for someone suffering from this experience.

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How EFT Tapping is used in professional practice will vary by the practitioner’s scope of practice. The practitioner using EFT may well be a licensed mental health care provider/therapist or a licensed healthcare professional or life coach or an EFT Practitioner. How does one’s professional guidelines affect the way that EFT is delivered in a session? Where do professional boundaries, goal setting and accountability come into play? When is advice-giving appropriate? Should a non licensed practitioner be treating pain, physical conditions or mental health disorders? What about when working in collaborative approaches? How does having a trauma informed lens come into the picture? Listen in to find out!

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Recently in the US, hurricanes Helene and Milton have brought devastating consequences to Florida, North Carolina and the southeast. Lives, homes and businesses have been lost with millions of people affected. Such traumatic events have ripple effects on those directly impacted but of course it also touches the lives of family, friends, colleagues and those who are witnessing these events who can get retriggered by having experienced similar events in their past. There is of course a hierarchy of immediacy needs with regards to post catastrophe survival that initially need to be met, but with regards to EFT, trauma processing so early is not the highest priority but accessing self regulation is. In this podcast we offer our advice that you can personally use or share in response to such situations. Alina also shares her personal story about hurricane Andrew and offers information on how those affected by this can reach out for EFT practitioner support.

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In this podcast we discuss the distinctions between acute and chronic stress, post traumatic stress, acute stress disorder (ASD) and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The ability for a practitioner who uses EFT to understand and make this distinctions between these are elements of what go into being an effective trauma informed practitioner.

For more information on Tapping out of Trauma 1.0

For more information on Tapping out of Trauma 2.0

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This episode is dedicated to exploring boundaries; why they are difficult to set and why they are so important. Whether you are an EFT practitioner looking to establish clear boundaries with your clients or you are looking for ideas on how to tap with your clients on the topic or you are just someone who taps on themselves and are struggling with establishing healthy boundaries in your relationship or work or home life, this podcast will provide you with some important tips and insights on how to do just that.

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This podcast explores the ways that Internal Family Systems, as developed by Richard Schwartz, can offer an understanding for the many internal aspects of an individual that can be addressed with EFT.

Marion Blique explains how IFS can be used as a powerful lens to help better understand the myriad of inner personalities all of which contribute to why an individual makes certain choices or reacts in ways that may not seem to make sense but are the understandable sequelae of survival mechanisms at play.

Together we explore the role of inner parts such as exiles, firefighters, managers, inner critics and how “blending” with any individual part can lead to less desirable outcomes. We also discuss the larger “self” acting like the director of a symphony can be worked with in order to support a client to gain healing, wisdom and self autonomy. The conversation also includes the stalemate of polarization and complications of dissociation.

Marion also shares several client case studies to illustrate how both IFS and EFT and Matrix Reimprinting can be combined in a client session.

Marion Blique is a French Clinical Psychologist who has resided in the US since 1983. Upon her arrival in the US, she delved into the study of trauma and somatic approaches to deal with the healing of the deeper impacts of trauma on her clients. This included such aspects as: bodywork, Polarity, shiatsu, and mental imagery which she integrated into her more formal French psychoanalytic training, allowing her to address the healing of her clients more fully. In continuing her exploration of the impact of trauma she discovered Energy Psychology (EFT, Matrix Reimprinting, AIT, TAT…) around 2000; it was the missing tool allowing her to work on all levels of the psyche of clients: mental, emotional, physical (somatic) and spiritual. She trained in 2010 with Richard Schwartz and later obtained her level 1 with Tony Herbine-Blank, while she continued to deepen her studies on the somatic level.

For more information about her work please go to https://marionblique.com/

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In this episode, we explore multiple aspects of the power of being given a diagnosis. Who should and should not be offering a diagnosis? Is it empowering to be given one or is it a curse? How can EFT tapping be most effectively utilized to work with the “sentence” that the naming of a condition can offer? When one is shared with a patient, is it done in a way that empowers and supports healing or can it diminish a sense of control and possibility? This podcast has been revamped since a much earlier interview focused on this topic and was one of our most popular interviews.

Here is the article referenced in this episode.

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Alina Frank and Dr. Craig Weiner interview Dr. Adriana Popescu about the similarities and differences between EFT Emotional Freedom Techniques Tapping and Brainspotting. Comparing EFT Tapping with other Trauma Informed Techniques. This series of interviews is the culmination of a desire to help illustrate the similarities and differences that exist between the Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT Tapping) and other therapeutic and clinical approaches currently being practiced. For this series we have selected a variety of trauma-informed clinical approaches that we felt would be useful for both practitioners and the public to get insight into how EFT is similar or different to these other techniques. We have carefully chosen clinicians who have either had years of clinical practice or are trainers in these other methods and who also are well trained and familiar with EFT in order to bring you a comprehensive perspective. Alina Frank and Dr. Craig Weiner interview Dr. Adriana Popescu about the similarities and differences between EFT Emotional Freedom Techniques Tapping and Brainspotting. According to the Brainspotting website, Brainspotting is a powerful, focused treatment method that works by identifying, processing and releasing core neurophysiological sources of emotional/body pain, trauma, dissociation and a variety of other challenging symptoms. Brainspotting is a simultaneous form of diagnosis and treatment, enhanced with Biolateral sound, which is deep, direct, and powerful yet focused and containing. Dr. Popescu is a licensed clinical psychologist and empowerment coach with over 25 years of experience in the mental health field. She is also a certified hypnotherapist, Access Consciousness® Facilitator, Brainspotting Practitioner, and Neuro Emotional Technique (NET) Practitioner, having discovered that Energy Psychology provides incredibly powerful tools to identify and eliminate the deep-rooted causes of suffering and distress. She specializes in treating addiction, co-occurring disorders, and trauma, and has directed a number of treatment programs in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is currently the Founder and CEO of Firebird Healing, a treatment center for people healing from trauma. Adriana has authored and coauthored a number of books, hosts a fascinating podcast called Kaleidoscope of Possibilities: Alternative Perspectives on Mental Health, and travels around the world coaching and facilitating transformational and empowering workshops. For more information visit www.firebird-healing.com

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Alina Frank and Craig Weiner interview Dr. Christine Gibson about the difference and similarities between EFT, Matrix Reimprinting, and A.R.T. (Accelerated Resolution Therapy) Dr. Gibson is a family doctor and trauma therapist, author of The Modern Trauma Toolkit (with a chapter on EFT), and co-founder of Safer Spaces Training. A lifeline learner with a Masters in Medical Education and a Doctorate in Transdisciplinary Studies, she has been certified in over a dozen different therapies – and her favorite for trauma processing is Accelerated Resolution Therapy (with Matrix Reimprinting coming a close second). She loves to share her skills on TikTok as TikTokTraumaDoc. For more information please visit www.christinegibson.net or www.moderntrauma.com

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