These 2011 sessions include focused teaching and open exploration, primarily facilitated by Rick Wilkes and Cathy Vartuli with community contributors in some sessions.
Begin with one of the refined Guides below, or browse the original recordings chronologically. Each transcript was generated automatically and may contain errors.
Focused Guides
- Accepting Love: Receiving Love From Yourself and Others
- Acts of Love: Rekindling the Love You Feel For Yourself and Others
- Allowing Love
- Are You Helping—or Trying to Stop Your Own Discomfort?
- Asking For What I Want (or even knowing what that is….)
- Balancing Past, Present, and Future Selves
- Borrowing Trouble From The Future
- Caregiving: Setting Boundaries, Finding Balance and Connecting with Love
- Fear of Being Alone
- Fear of Intimacy: If I Get Close It Will Hurt
- I Don’t Feel Popular
- I Don’t Want To Go There Again
- I Want To Get Moving
- I’m All Alone
- I’m Too Old For That…
- Old Rules About Weight Loss
- Savoring Is Different From Soothing
- Self-Sabotage Support Call
- The Vow to Help Everyone: When Generosity Becomes Proof of Worth
- Turning Things I Can’t Control Over To The Universe
- What Is The Meaning Of My Life?
- When Family Discomfort Makes Your Boundary Feel Wrong
- When Freedom Looks Messier Than Control
- When Reassurance Feels Like a Warning
- You Can’t Handle My “No”!
Guides Drawing From Several Sessions
Explore the Original Sessions
The sessions are arranged chronologically. Recording titles and topic notes, where available, can help you find a useful starting point.
January 2011
January 4, 2011 — Team Call 2011-01-04 Open Call
Hard to get connected; Sharing with ME first; Difficult at all times to be happy; Suffering has value; Life is hard; Grounding and trusting myself more to _____.
January 11, 2011 — Team Call 2011-01-11 Open Call
Going blank about what I want; Feeling rattled and scared; Am I good enough?; Feeling conflicted; Resistance. Can’t make waves!
January 20, 2011 — Team Call 2011-01-20 Open Call
Feeling trapped…; Exercise?; Play? Only if it’s HARD; Parsing the clutter on the 8′ long folding table in the middle of my living room; Clutter and pain in my ear; Shoveling… pain in my lower back; Canker sore… and clammed up.
January 27, 2011 — Team Call 2011-01-27 Open Call
Anxiety Thing; Couple tho viewed home; Practice of coming from Love; Supposed to go to California… decided not to… “bad girl”; I want to… don’t want to!; Still a pain in my back.
February 2011
February 5, 2011 — Team Call 2011-02-05 Open Call
Don’t want to go back to work; Clenching my jaw; You know better than that; Ignoring physical hunger; Releasing tension (guided meditation).
February 9, 2011 — Team Call 2011-02-08 Open Call
I should have known better!; How to trust my intuition…; I can’t read my body, I’m missing something; I can’t visualize a positive future; Moving too fast.
February 16, 2011 — Team Call 2011-02-16 Open Call
Private or group?; Wall: metaphor for where I am; Playing the organ… lost interest; Ache of Potential; Scattered… reached for chocolate to connect.
February 18, 2011 — Team Call 2011-02-18 Open Call
No sleep for me, I’m still listening for Dad; Always worrying about what others think of me; I shouldn’t be feeling this much pain; Afraid to want a partner.
March 2011
March 1, 2011 — Team Call 2011-02-28 Open Call
I don’t do rest; Turning judgement on myself; If I ask for something I will never get it; Old energies ready to go; I don’t deserve help, I should be able to do it all alone.
March 5, 2011 — Team Call 2011-03-05 Open Call
Noticing new opportunities for co-creation; I should be able to tell them what to do (younger selves); Please get that rock out of my shoe; I can’t be safe if I don’t have control.
March 7, 2011 — Team Call 2011-03-07 Open Call
Anxiety about being in the public spotlight; Moving forward in my new business and new class; Always looking for approval; “They don’t know me. I fooled them.”; Pain around my incision.
March 16, 2011 — Team Call 2011-03-16 Open Call
Pain in my foot; Still pleasing Mom!; Younger me still reacting to the air raid siren; Biting my nails mindlessly all the time; Disconnected from Mom.
March 23, 2011 — Team Call 2011-03-23 Open Call
Anger related to frustration; All or nothing; State of being… a bit more _____; Busy creating more professional webpage; Know what, know how, want…; Love do, Next do, Could do.
March 29, 2011 — Team Call 2011-03-29 Open Call
Its all my fault, I should have done better; How can I change my expectations?; Twisted notions of abundance; Prepunishing myself for what I might do; Helpless and stuck, making me feel overwhelmed; Energy work to release pain.
April 2011
April 7, 2011 — Team Call 2011-04-07 Open Call
This scary feeling of being powerful; Self accountability; Out of body; I’ll never get rid of this.
April 8, 2011 — Team Call 2011-04-08 Open Call
Much better this morning; Life’s work; I aim hate at my body when it hurts; Deep listening to the body; Fever blister and inner screaming coming out; Student-teacher; Deciding between two YES’s.
Guides drawn from this session:
April 14, 2011 — Team Call 2011-04-14 Open Call
Getting support from different avenues; Addiction to crisis; Friendship ended, breaking orbit; Grumpolumpolous kryptonite; Projecting all over him.
April 23, 2011 — Team Call 2011-04-23 Open Call
Things keep coming and coming; There’s something wrong with me; Can’t have it all, can I?; Blaming myself for hurting; Carpel Tunnel Syndrome; Boundaries with toxic family; Missing opportunities.
April 27, 2011 — Team Call 2011-04-27 Open Call
Getting a second opinion on cancer; Using fear to connect with them; Fighting, moving up from frozen; Asking for the reframe; She’s intentionally blowing me off!
April 29, 2011 — Team Call 2011-04-29 Open Call
They are taking advantage of my sister!; Stalker incident; Home base…; Will my body ever be able to heal?; Support on my trip; Balancing their choices with mine; Asking for Three TIMES the Clarity.
May 2011
May 4, 2011 — Team Call 2011-05-04 Open Call
Impatience!; Angry at God for letting something like this happen; I gain freedom and my parents come back; Fear and nagging in right thumb; Presenting to EFT Vets on Saturday; Part of me wants to be invisible; What are you thinking? Your not up to his level!; Please note that when we talk about following guidance when working with someone, that can include guidance of “don’t go there” or “don’t go there yet”. Some people need to build up trust, resilience and hope before they can open the big issues up.
May 13, 2011 — Team Call 2011-05-13 Open Call
376 files… which one is the PERFECT one to start with?; Eenie Meenie Minnie Moe; I’m getting old… aren’t I?; My mother is very selfish; Mom called to apologize… sorta.
May 17, 2011 — Team Call 2011-05-17 Open Call
Female problems… and I’m scared; Flashing light aura and energy flow exercise; Triggered by someone who reminds me of how I was; Chiropractor and Circle of support; Blood vessel inflammation tapping for my son.
May 18, 2011 — Team Call 2011-05-18 Open Call
Resistance to taking any medicine; Fear of flying; Urinary tract infection…4th time!; Lists with things at the top.
Guides drawn from this session:
May 26, 2011 — Team Call 2011-05-26 Open Call
Look at how far I’ve come!; Old emotions coming up; Where do I fit in?; Accepting self as I am.
June 2011
June 2, 2011 — Team Call 2011-06-02 Open Call
Celebrating surprisingly easy surgeries; Your head will look like a pimple on an elephant…; I don’t belong; Pittbull of fear; You lose your say in a group!
June 10, 2011 — Team Call 2011-06-10 Open Call
Write down what you want to work on together; Grandson in my life… and how to play that tribal role; Art projects, clutter, and freedom; Interact more gently; Getting focused… naturally; Parents!!!
Guides drawn from this session:
June 15, 2011 — Team Call 2011-06-15 Open Call
10 min speech; Clenching; Pressure on myself… move into flow; Restless; Embarrassed to talk about it.
June 24, 2011 — Team Call 2011-06-24 Open Call
Molasses feeling; Being out of control of certain situations; Problem with two of my cats; Headaches / eye strain; Dream contact with my mother.
June 28, 2011 — Team Call 2011-06-28 Open Call
Part of my feels split off, staring into space; Specific event tapping; Rebooting; I feel homeless; Overwhelming rage when they tell me “but you’re so strong”.
June 30, 2011 — Team Call 2011-06-30 Open Call
My father wants money from me, but it isn’t a yes; Feeling like a slug (or is it guidance?); Beating self up in the morning, then not feeling empowered or energetic; I’m afraid of fatigue; Negative phone experience.
July 2011
July 5, 2011 — Team Call 2011-07-05 Open Call
Offer on the house!; Difficult emotional situation – eviction of renter; Transitions; I can’t make it work!; I only like clean, chlorinated water… but would like to swim in the lake; Judging…; Long virus… feeling better.
July 8, 2011 — Team Call 2011-07-07 Open Call
Nothing helps me sleep through the night; Little retirement, afraid for my survival; Skin problems, I feel like Swiss cheese; I’m not allowed to have energetic boundaries.
Guides drawn from this session:
July 15, 2011 — Team Call 2011-07-15 Open Call
Knocked me over out of the blue; He dumped me via text; Agreement with my body.
July 16, 2011 — Team Call 2011-07-16 Open Call
Repeating pattern of Blah, feeling my anger; Pain in my hands stopping me from doing what I love; Fear of lake water, baby steps; Beating myself up; I’m afraid I’ll back down…
July 23, 2011 — Team Call 2011-07-23 Open Call
Setting boundaries with sister; Too much release all at once; Residual trauma in my ankle; Healing crisis.
July 29, 2011 — Team Call 2011-07-29 Open Call
Deep pain waiting for me; Shocked I have a safe place to sit now; Big fight with best friend and business partner; Guru energy and how it keeps us from feeling connected as equals; What’s the new YES YES?; Irritated with my tooth; I need an industrial strength vacuum to suck out my negativity!
August 2011
August 5, 2011 — Team Call 2011-08-05 Open Call
Frustrated… I should be getting more clients; Mirroring anxiety around money; Getting more specific about my emotions and lighting my inner fire; Clearing test anxiety.
August 11, 2011 — Team Call 2011-08-11 Open Call
Visiting my parents, major pain in the back- literally!; Feeling guilty; Trying to control what’s going to happen; My crazy rules that limit me.
August 15, 2011 — Team Call 2011-08-15 Open Call
One son didn’t even call me for my birthday; Perplexed by recurring blurred vision that clears; I’ve spent so much of my life WORRYING.
August 20, 2011 — Team Call 2011-08-20 Open Call
Deep shame, blaming myself for his death; Scared of my own power; Missing something? I don’t see my family a lot; Sad I’m not near them.
August 23, 2011 — Team Call 2011-08-22 Open Call
Afraid to have more friends, my husband will be jealous; Daughter’s boyfriend is disrespectful, trouble being polite; Angry at myself for negativity; Clutter resistance/rebellion; Book mentioned in call: ” Don’t Be Nice, Be Real: Balancing Passion for Self with Compassion for Others” by Kelly Bryson.
September 2011
September 1, 2011 — Team Call 2011-08-31 Yes to Yes to Yes
Discussion about following your Yes; Stomach is always a “no”. If the gauge is broken, find a new indicator…; Going to yes too fast; Am I allowed to change?; Is life supposed to be this easy?
September 2, 2011 — Team Call 2011-09-02 Open Call
Lack of structure; Anxiety that it’s not going to happen; Shaken… 20 years.
September 9, 2011 — Team Call 2011-09-08 Open Call
Not feeling well, bad reaction to bug bites; Sick of not keeping promises to myself; I keep my expectations low to avoid disappointment.
September 10, 2011 — Team Call 2011-09-10 Setting Boundaries: Polite vs Honest
with special guest Reid Mihalko of www.reidaboutsex.com; Fear of being mean; Their feelings are more important than mine; They can’t handle my truth; Truth vs kindness; What is truth? And do you share everything?; “Who butchered you?”; People who are always late.
September 14, 2011 — Team Call 2011-09-13 Open Call
He was nuts, he jumped out of the chair; Allergies, what can I eat?; My father was too fat to hold me in his lap…
Guides drawn from this session:
September 17, 2011 — Team Call 2011-09-17 Open Call
RA arthritis in hands; I don’t know who I am anymore; Too much for them; Accidentally forgetting to get to the calls.
September 22, 2011 — Team Call 2011-09-22 Open Call
Trying to keep a cold at bay; Heaviness in my legs; “This guy” I supervise and my reaction to him; Guilty for leaving my mother.
September 29, 2011 — Team Call 2011-09-29 Open Call
I give myself permission to ask for help directly; Guilt about how it went down; A good person can’t say how they feel; Only think I have to hang onto.
September 30, 2011 — Team Call 2011-09-30 Open Call
Acceptance, depression, frustration; Frustration about moving forward; Guilt and my friend; Friday afternoon exhaustion… changing the pattern.
October 2011
October 1, 2011 — Team Call 2011-10-01 Clearing Clutter
What are the emotions in your stuff?; Hoarding, buried alive; Don’t feel alone; This “God only knows what pile”; Does it give me pleasure to have this?; Boxes we never unpacked 20 years ago.
October 5, 2011 — Team Call 2011-10-04 Open Call
Pattern of anxiousness; Carrying more than I realized; If I said what I really feel…; Resentful, I wouldn’t have to otherwise!
October 13, 2011 — Team Call 2011-10-13 Open Call
Interview and my weight; unworthiness- can’t help others unless perfect; What do I want to do?; Guilt and shame; Scary to be sick!
Guides drawn from this session:
October 19, 2011 — Team Call 2011-10-18 Open Call
Giving the doctor what he deserves; Sleep apnea; Can’t break out; Never get out of this!
October 28, 2011 — Team Call 2011-10-28 Open Call
Gratitude that it is safe to bring something… irrational; Bad luck streak… in my ankle; Intestinal problem for a few days; My 6yo has a bad cough… and I feel terrible about it; A strange place…; My ex- is in my dreams.
November 2011
November 5, 2011 — Team Call 2011-11-05 Open Call
Worst boss I ever had left his legacy; Letting myself feel anger; Dreams are easier than real life; I’ve let them walk all over them because of a promise I made when I was 6.; Is this going to last forever?; Sensitive to the bumps in the road.
Guides drawn from this session:
November 11, 2011 — Team Call 2011-11-11 Open Call
Unsettled, shaky, unfocused; Don’t want to do paperwork; Jaw healing from two implants.
November 17, 2011 — Team Call 2011-11-17 Open Call
Crazy EFT coach, breach of confidentiality; How do you meditate; Being right instead of being me; Fit into shoes too tight.
Guides drawn from this session:
November 23, 2011 — Team Call 2011-11-23 BOOYS Support and Open Call
Something is wrong with me; Always putting myself out there; Beating myself up over age; Enjoying the shell.
November 28, 2011 — Team Call 2011-11-28 Open Call
I don’t know where to start; Icky-bleh; I don’t know how to keep friends; Feeling wobbly right now with my cough; Being a friend.
November 30, 2011 — Team Call 2011-11-30 Open Call
I’ll always be like this…; Second guessing myself around clutter; Trouble sleeping; I don’t trust my decisions.
December 2011
December 8, 2011 — Team Call 2011-12-08 Open Call
In a funk!; Severe stomach spasms; simmering anger at people; Embarrassed, feel wrong for missing her.
December 10, 2011 — Team Call 2011-12-10 Balance and Resiliency Around the Holidays
Let the preparations be easy; Not attached to a specific outcome; Pleasing people with gifts; Let it unfold; Wish I could run away; Have to do EVERYTHING the RIGHT way; Some time to be social; Not feeling personally rejected if people don’t respond; Balancing my beliefs and my family’s more religious ones; Changing my story about what SHOULD be; Making conscious choices that are right for me; Okay to be here AND have peace.
December 14, 2011 — Team Call 2011-12-14 Open Call
I missed an appointment… and that’s NOT like me; Spasms in my stomach; Talking to the dead; Simmering anger; Making energetic decisions; Energetic heart issue.
December 21, 2011 — Team Call 2011-12-21 Open Call
Negativity… all my stuff from the past; All good!; All the preparations; Started craving cigarettes, loneliness, sense of disconnection.
Guides drawn from this session:
December 28, 2011 — Team Call 2011-12-28 What Do You Want To Create In The New Year?
Building Community; Building a circle of support; Moving visions forward; Want like minded people to share; How to dream bigger; Afraid people won’t like me; Starting a business; Playing through life; Food and wine festivals.
December 29, 2011 — Team Call 2011-12-29 Open Call
To save or enjoy money now?; I have to work hard; Shoulder treatment… reducing anxiety; I don’t trust the people in charge.
Guides drawn from this session: