We dedicated this episode to exploring various methods of EFT Testing. What is the purpose of testing? What is basic EFT Testing/ What are different Gentle EFT Testing Techniques and more Provocative Testing Techniques? When do you test and when don’t you? These are the kinds of questions we discuss that will be of interest especially to EFT Tapping practitioners working with clients who are committed to great results!

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This episode explores some history and explanation about the Adverse Childhood, Positive Childhood and Positive and Adverse Childhood Experiences studies. It is critical that EFT practitioners and individuals have some safety and practice guidelines informing them when they should and should not be tapping on themselves or with their clients in order to not induce retraumatization. We offer our recommendations for how to use these tools as a guideline for finding your own score as well as your EFT client’s score in clinical practice. Here are some excellent resources that offer an immense amount of additional tools and resources pacesconnection.com and acestoohigh.com.

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While EFT is incredibly effective in assisting individuals to resolve past adverse and traumatic experiences it also is important to know how to use EFT Tapping for “in the moment” self-regulation. When a client starts becoming emotionally dysregulated and either begins to emotionally flood or freeze or abreact, it is critical that we have a variety of tools to help them return to the present moment and move towards a regulated state. It is also important to consider what you wish to teach your clients and students to do if and when they become dysregulated outside of a session. Here we offer our Top Ten Tips to help a person using Tapping to return to a neuro regulated state.

Additional Resource mentioned Podcast Episode 14 on Surrogate Tapping.

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How many of us never learned how to set healthy boundaries for ourselves when we grew up? How many of us never got to witness or experience clean boundaries that were empowering in our families of origin? How many of us have suffered emotionally or even physically because we learned to put others needs ahead of our own and then felt resentful towards others and angry at ourselves for not being able to express or maintain healthy boundaries to have our own needs met? This episode looks at how setting boundaries can be triggers for some and healing opportunity for others especially when using EFT to turn them into the latter.

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We are thrilled to share the wisdom and experience of our colleague La’Quesha Fonrose, a licensed therapist and certified EFT practitioner with over 15+ years of experience working in the mental health field. She specializes in working with millennial women, specifically Black mothers, who are survivors of childhood and complex trauma living with uncontrolled stress and anxiety who are looking to find relief and are ready to focus on their own self-care. In this interview we explore common signs and risk factors that increase mental health issues for mothers in the black community as well as some of the common myths ad challenges that black women and mothers face in our society. She also shares personal experiences of discovering and using EFT in her own personal journey towards greater balance and self care. You can find out more about her work wholelisticquestwellness.co or on Instagram at wholelistic_quest

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We often hear this phrase, that an EFT practitioner should meet a client where they’re at. We agree but what does that really entail? What kinds of circumstances or challenges might get in the way of that? Can the client be the problem in that scenario or is it more likely the challenge facing the practitioner? What kinds of obstacles might prevent a practitioner from consciously or unconsciously being able to do just that? What may interfere with clinically integrating a person centered approach into your work? Where do maintaining personal values come into play? What about vicarious trauma? It’s a great topic that we enjoyed exploring in this episode of EFT Nation.

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Changing old habits and adding new ones can be challenging for all of us. The end of one year and the beginning of a new year is a time when many people consider habit changes. In this podcast we review the four most common reasons people fail to build habits for the long term. Then we explore five specific tapping taps that you can personally apply to clear the obstacles that may show up for you when you decide you want to make a healthy change in your life. Learn how to use EFT and habit-stacking to take you from feeling challenged to creating success in your life whether it be creating new habits for your health, your relationship, your finances or more.

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Scattered amidst all the rave reviews of how EFT has profoundly transformed people’s lives are a smattering of reports that sound something like, “well I tried EFT and it didn’t work for me.” Of course that can be true as no single approach can be the answer for everyone. However, there are many reasons that EFT can appear to offer limited or slow results when tapping on one’s own or even with a practitioner. In this episode we explore the most important reasons (and strategies to overcome them) why EFT may not appear to be working well enough or fast enough. Understanding these elements can offer you critical responses that can turn a skeptic into a believer.

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Back pain is a rampant, pervasive and expensive problem. Over 70% of individuals suffer severe back pain in their lives with nearly one third suffering from severe back pain in the prior 30 days. As a chiropractor for over 30 years, Craig has treated thousands of back pain patients and has witnessed the mind body interactions regarding causality and chronicity of back pain both personally and professionally. In this podcast we touch on the most recent research demonstrating EFT’s effectiveness for chronic pain, the growing acceptance from a neuroscience perspective of back pain being much more than a “physical” issue and how through a META Health lens we can begin to explore and target the emotional roots of both acute and chronic back pain issues.

Useful additional podcast link: Exploring Emotional Root Cause Questions for Working with Health Conditions

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Being “polyvagal-informed” is perhaps the newest catch phrase for trauma-informed healing arts practitioners. Polyvagal Theory (PVT), as developed by Stephen Porges, PhD and extensively written about in clinical applications by Deb Dana, LCSW, is described as the science of feeling safe. It’s focus of application is to help us understand our body’s response to the world around us and how our sense of safety or danger or threat impacts our behaviors and our health. The purpose of the podcast is to illuminate the 3 key principles of PVT and explore how an understanding of the Autonomic Ladder/Hierarchy, Neuroception and Co-regulation will help the listener better understand why a safe EFT practitioner is one that intuitively and skillfully builds specific elements and concepts into their practice for more effectively working with clients who have experienced trauma and adversity in their lives.

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