According to the CDC over 70 million Americans suffer from chronic sleep problems. Insomnia seems to be at epidemic proportions and more than ever we are witnessing an abundance of sleep experts and bloggers offering a wide array of suggestions for helping to improve your ability to get a good night’s sleep. Today we are offering our top tips on how to incorporate EFT Tapping into your good sleep strategies. In this podcast we discuss the primary fears that sleep-challenged individuals commonly and repeatedly experience and how and when to tap most effectively for them. We also explore how to implement EFT for implementing improved sleep hygeine behaviors and reduce the fears and worries that will tend to keep your mind awake and prevent night time rejuvenation that is critical for physical and mental well-being.

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During the COVID pandemic, about 4 in 10 adults in the U.S. have reported symptoms of anxiety or depression, up from 1 in 10 in the 6 months preceding the pandemic. Many adults (and children) are experiencing increased negative impacts on their mental health and well-being, such as difficulty sleeping, increases in alcohol consumption or substance use and more.

We are witnessing levels of anger outbursts and dysregulation within families and across social media. Aggressive and violent behaviors have become commonplace on airplanes, in restaurants, school board meetings and more. These challenging times, filled with uncertainty about when things will “return to normal” have only served to escalate people’s responses to various situations.

Trauma Triggers and various Trauma Responses are not limited to pandemic situations but they have managed to increase their likelihood of occurring for many people. This podcast explores the role that these triggers and responses play and how you can learn to recognize them within yourselves and begin to mitigate your trigger responses and work toward healing the origin of them.

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There are many challenges that one can encounter when working on their feelings and experience of grief and loss. EFT can certainly facilitate this process, not necessarily to “tap away” the grief, but to facilitate the grieving process which can include a full acceptance of a wide array of emotions and feelings. Challenges and pressures to “move on” or additional pain that may arise from other people’s unhelpful comments or opinions about your grief journey. Often there is the inability to let go of any aspect of grief for fear of losing a sense of connection with the lost loved one. If you are dealing with grief, no matter what stage or how long it has been since the loss occurred, hopefully these tapping tips will be of healing service for you.

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In this episode we discuss using EFT for feelings of anxiety that show up as anxiousness, nervousness, embarrasment, fear of being judged and more. We review some of the clinical research published regarding EFT’s effectiveness for reducing anxiety, including a meta analysis and clinical trials exploring EFT helping to reduce anxiety in children, university students, adult nurses and more. Understanding what contributing factors and triggers are (especially relevant during Covid-19 pandemic times) as well as the kinds of anxiety linked limiting beliefs that can reduce your quality of life. Important distinctions are made between the self-application of EFT to shift from anxious to calm vs working withpossible causality and working with a skilled practitioner is also discussed.

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In this episode we offer a wealth of tips and insights to how to creatively and effectively use EFT with your children. We begin with exploring how to tap on prenatal stress for parents, especially mom, as mothers and their babies are said to share energy systems throughout the first three years of life. We progress to different strategies for surrogate tapping on behalf of infants and toddlers and ways to creatively explore a variety of different tapping statement adaptations. Older children and pre-teens are often still open to tapping but we offer tips for how to handle and overcome challenges regarding emotional awareness and difficulties with measuring intensity. Finally from our own experience we discuss the unique difficulties that can come with tapping with teenagers and how we learned to get out of our own way in order to provide opportunities for emotional regulation, especially when those teens would rather do anything else than tap with mom! We hope you enjoy this episode and would love to hear some of your tapping with children success stories in the comments section below.

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Trauma Informed EFT means using EFT gently with the understanding that individuals have often suffered adversity in their past, and that we work with keeping our clients regulated and safe during their EFT sessions. Integrating Dan Siegel’s concept of window of tolerance helps describe the best state of arousal for which we can best function and thrive in our daily lives, by feeling safe, acting effectively and relating well to ourselves and others and we explore how EFT can help to achieve that.

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There is a powerful trend that seems to be flourishing, especially across many social media platforms that can have a deeply harming effect on many viewers. Perhaps the prolonged pandemic and social political unrest has played role sboth in having people feeling persistently bad about their lives or their relationships and worldviews but then being told that they should instead look to the positive side of things when they are not feeling able or ready to do that. The double whammy of harmful ultra-positive influencers and spiritual “guru-lites” add further insult to our authentic emotional states and then result in people feeling bad about having those less than inspired states. In this podcast we offer insights and tips to support you and finding YOUR way with what YOU are feeling without making you feel bad about whatever you are feeling.

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In this podcast we explorew 4 levels of inquiry for using EFT for working with facilitating healing of physical conditions. By adopting a lense of curiosity, we can began to move past the obvious negative emotions related to suffering from health challenges and begin to look for purpose and meaning. How might our bodies be trying to speak on our behalf for actions we may not be ready to take? What might the wisdom of the body be trying to show or teach us? How can illness be the catalyst for healing? These are the kinds of perspectives that we explore in this podcast and can really make EFT tranformative when working with your own or a client’s physical challenges.

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In this podcast we discuss how EFT is a trauma aware modality as well as what is even more important, traits of a trauma informed practitioner. We review not only the key elements that are critical for working safely with trauma informed practices as well as the 4 R’s for empowering your clients who have survived adversity and are looking to increase their healing and resilience levels. EFT in itself has demonstrated in the published research to be very effective and considered generally safe for working with trauma and PTSD, but it all comes down to the safety, effectiveness and trauma informed skills of the practitioner.

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One of the ways we observe the growth and acceptance of EFT is in the surging numbers of licensed therapists and mental health care providers are finding, studying and integrating EFT into their therapy practice. Blending tapping into an existing therapeutic relationship provides its own set of unique challenges in navigating the process with clients. In this podcast Craig and Alina offer their 7 top strategies for professional therapists/counselors to assist and empower them in this process.

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