These 2013 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
- Ask for What You Want Without Making the Answer Mean Everything
- Build Self-Esteem From How You Relate to Yourself
- Change the Perspective That Keeps You at War With Your Body
- Change Your Demeanor by Changing How You Treat Yourself
- Clear Clutter Without Fighting Yourself
- Collaboration With Clear Agreements and Clean Endings
- Create a Clearing Without Demanding a Perfect New Beginning
- Fear of Driving: Find Healthy Respect Between Panic and Recklessness
- Fear of Flying: Restore Choice and Ground Before You Board
- Find Calm Before You Solve the Money Problem
- Find Your Heart’s Desire Without Forcing the Form
- Give Yourself Permission to Be More of You
- Ground for the Holidays Without Abandoning Your Needs
- Honor Commitments Without Turning Them Into Tribal Obligation
- Let Celebration Register Without Waiting for the Other Shoe
- Let Hope and Inspiration Register
- Let Self-Expression Filter for Resonant People
- Listen to Body Guidance Without Demanding Certainty
- Reconnect With Holiday Dreams Without Requiring Family to Come Along
- Release Old Pain Without Erasing What Mattered
- Set Intentions Without Turning Them Into Another Rule
- Social Resilience When Not Everyone Approves
- Soothe the Frightened Self Before It Runs the Show
- Trust in Layers Instead of All or Nothing
- Turn Unspoken Expectations Into Clear Agreements
- Upgrade Your Life in Increments Your Body Can Join
- When Embarrassment Keeps You From Being Seen
- When It Feels Like Nothing Will Ever Change
- When More Abundance Feels Unfamiliar and Unsafe
Guides Drawing From Several Sessions
- Build Your Tribe by Inviting Instead of Waiting to Be Chosen
- Change Your Mind When New Information Changes the Choice
- Emotional Freedom Is Not Feeling Good All the Time
- Emotional Monogamy: What Kind of Exclusivity Does Your Heart Need?
- Every Emotion Needs a Pathway: When Feelings Are Too Much to Hold
- Evolve Out of a Job Instead of Escaping It
- Expertise Without Perfection: Teach What You Know While Staying Human
- Guidance Does Not Require Martyrdom
- How Could This Become a Yes? Turn a Body No Into Useful Information
- Set Your State Before You Start the Task
- Stop Ranking Yourself: Status Is a Primitive-Brain Shortcut
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 2013
January 2, 2013 — Open Call
Getting calmer about things; Finding your most FREE choice; So many years of feeling alone; Sons blowing me off like I don’t matter; Invite people to do stuff; I pick on my scalp.
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January 8, 2013 — Open Call
Why bother to try anything else?; Uncompleted acts of service; Saying YES to the 8, 9, 10’s; Inner tapping with myself to anchor.
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January 12, 2013 — Open Call
Breathing exercise; Energy flow and picking on my body; No energy… can’t focus; I don’t have the energy for the OLD WAYS of doing things.
January 15, 2013 — Open Call
Recommended books: 5 Love Languages, Ask and It Is Given; Picking problem continued: noticing what I’m feeling; Writing block; Negative inner voice messages; Practice on the waitress thing.
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January 16, 2013 — Intention Setting and Block Busting
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January 23, 2013 — Eliminating the Doubts and Fear-based Patterns
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January 28, 2013 — Open Call
Hard time finding other groups to engage with… practical ideas; Expecting it to be hard; Events this month have triggered an old reaction.
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January 30, 2013 — Anchoring and Expanding the Feelings of Hope and Inspiration
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February 2013
February 6, 2013 — Open Call
Tap while on the phone being triggered; People do what they do to keep themselves safe; Not getting the clients I think I should.
February 9, 2013 — Finding Your Heart’s Desire
Fundamental needs: seen and heard, deeply loved, offer love and have it received; Finding our own needs and desires; Blocks and traumas, blind spots; Sometimes we get our desires met and don’t NOTICE it; Want to see my partner in the BEST light; I don’t know HOW to connect to my heart’s desire!.
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February 12, 2013 — Open Call
Conflict with another employee; Civil, neutral, professional; I COULD feel afraid if I wanted to; Anger and accusations.
February 13, 2013 — Open Call
Divine filtering; Hierarchical structures; Longing to spread authenticity… how, whom, what, TIME?; Do I have to spell EVERYTHING out?; Clarity in switching gears; Thriving… while NOT perfect; Nutrient of Infinite Possibilities.
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February 20, 2013 — Open Call
My job, more resigned than ever; Gossip…; Move with ease, grace, joy.
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February 23, 2013 — Clutter Cleanse!
Emotions and energy in our STUFF; Clutter free means freedom; How does it feel to me?; What if I need it later?; Where does it GO from here? Practical plans; Can’t bear to give them up!.
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February 26, 2013 — Open Call
My list; Anchoring past times when I’ve coped well; Is death a catastrophe?; I feel ignored; Dorkey, too.
March 2013
March 2, 2013 — Open Call
Embarrassed about my award; Eyes shutting down; Ignored? Not..
March 6, 2013 — Open Call
Don’t like hearing my phone ring; Body out of whack; Generating energy through movement; Guidance – God, You and I Dance.
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March 12, 2013 — Financial Freedom
Shifting our energy around ONE THING in our financial world can make ALL the difference.
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March 15, 2013 — Open Call
Feeling SO emotional; Opening new energy pathways; My sense of optimism – will it survive?; My body froze up.
March 20, 2013 — Open Call
Using tapping with young clients; Agreements with my body; Awfully responsible for everybody…; When do I tell my truth, and when do I not.
March 26, 2013 — Body Guidance
Listening with our WHOLE body, not just with our heads; We all have body guidance and intuition.
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March 30, 2013 — Giving Yourself Permission To Be YOU!
I have to ____ or else _______.; If I don’t ______. they will _____..
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April 2013
April 2, 2013 — Open Call
Sorrow in my right leg; Stomach says Let Me OUT of HERE!; Driving anxiety from past accident; Are you kidding me moments.
April 9, 2013 — Letting Your Heart Attract Resonant People
Hoops we will jump through to try and make everyone love us; Heart guidance with clarity; Pre-requisites in our relationships; Issues of “deserving”; Attraction… or SELF-EXPRESSION.
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April 15, 2013 — Open Call
Driving anxiety kicked my ass; He said I was repulsive, revolting, and he didn’t want to see me any more.
April 20, 2013 — Healing Heartbreak
That person does not want me anymore; Lack of intimacy and how to address it; Pain will be more than I can handle; Heartbroken over what I did to me..
April 24, 2013 — Open Call
Human Doing to Human Being, inviting my energy back into my body; Feel trapped at my job, like when I was a child stuck at home; Clearing energy from abuse and the “special secret”; Shoulder pain and self-care; Healing after eye surgery; Irritable and don’t want to be touched.
April 27, 2013 — Collaboration and Co-Creation
Joys of co-creation; Strategies for ending; Working on the hard stuff; Expressing your wants and needs.
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April 30, 2013 — Open Call
Work stress related headache; They lie!; Really, really mad; I’m a mule that has been whipped back and forth across the desert; My sister doesn’t call… people float out of my life.
May 2013
May 8, 2013 — Open Call
Panicky about neighbors; Authority to take home away?; Flatulence; Bombarded by unwanted phone calls; Divine guidance in body distresses; Last fall transferred to a HORRIBLE team.
May 11, 2013 — Social Resiliency: Stepping Out
Becoming resilient to criticism; Not everyone will love you… so what?; Tapping to help you feel resilient no matter what.
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May 14, 2013 — Open Call
Jack Sparrow, the one-eyed pirate cat; New adventures… my insides are scared to continue; Just realized the last 4 relationships I had… I’ve been third wheel; Frustrated by my health problems.
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May 18, 2013 — Open Call
May 22, 2013 — Crack That Shell!
Do the hard stuff… or the stuff I want to do?; Present fear… past fear; Know the things in your Comfort Zone that actually COMFORT you; Tai chi class in two weeks… something new for me; Big Bad Wolf will get me.
May 28, 2013 — Open Call
My muscles are taking a battering; Muscle Energy Butter; Nervousness in my face; Listening to myself… and being heard.
May 31, 2013 — Open Call
Not together on our 4th year anniversary of meeting… crying for 4 days; The guy I REALLY liked… did not work out; Giving yourself Confidence and Courage; Lost my temper.
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June 2013
June 5, 2013 — Open Call
Magical package with my hands; I don’t want to cry when I tap; Unhappy and want to transfer; Congratulations to ME for saying it that way!.
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June 11, 2013 — Celebrating Your Life!
Primitive brain struggles to survive… and be perfect; Taught to be humble and give credit away; I don’t want it to be taken away; It’s okay to give yourself permission to celebrate; Gratitude is a soft form of celebration; Fear it will backfire.
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June 12, 2013 — Open Call
AAMET Level II; What do I do NEXT?; Fear he won’t get those capabilities back; Hard time tapping into my creativity; Upset and don’t even know why.
June 18, 2013 — Fine-Tuning Your Life
From a place of Gratitude… UPGRADE; Small increments… too big a leap leads to procrastination; What will you get EMOTIONALLY from the upgrade; What kind of people do you want to attract?; Fine tuning a business relationship.
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June 22, 2013 — Open Call
Suppressed and depressed; Wake up with lump in my throat; Driving anxiety getting worse.
June 25, 2013 — Upping the Ante
Share a vision; Try the unusual; Make the emotional connection; “Didn’t expect to be in this place in my life”.
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June 28, 2013 — Open Call
Man in my life’s youngest daughter and financial manipulations; Saying what they feel they need to say; Desire not to escalate conflict while being understood.
July 2013
July 10, 2013 — Open Call
July 16, 2013 — New Perspectives and Connections
How will some people behave if _____; Expectations and Agreements; How to clean things up; 3 exercises in saying NO.
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July 20, 2013 — Open Call
Completely overwhelmed; Self-sabotage when I start to feel better and heal; Growing my new business; Feeling slow, dull.
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- Change Your Mind When New Information Changes the Choice
- How Could This Become a Yes? Turn a Body No Into Useful Information
July 23, 2013 — Changing Perspectives On Our Bodies
Creating confidence and self-acceptance; I thought it was still me; Braless; Frustration in my brain.
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July 26, 2013 — Open Call
Fear of my ear condition returning; Anxiety that has been triggered; To what degree do I really want to step out of this Bubble.
July 30, 2013 — Enlightening Perspectives
Upgrading the possibilities; What were the disempowering things we were told?; Authority: “Facts” we have to “obey”; Afraid to open myself up to the point where I could be hurt; I want to publish the books I’ve written, but….
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August 2013
August 7, 2013 — Open Call
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August 10, 2013 — Open Call
August 12, 2013 — Fear of Flying
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August 16, 2013 — Open Call
August 17, 2013 — Building Self-Esteem
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August 19, 2013 — Arielle Ford’s Attracting Your Soulmate
August 21, 2013 — Open Call
August 28, 2013 — I Feel So Embarrassed By
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August 31, 2013 — Open Call
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September 2013
September 4, 2013 — Open Call
September 11, 2013 — Letting Go of Old Pain
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September 13, 2013 — Open Call
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September 14, 2013 — Fear of Driving
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September 18, 2013 — Open Call
September 24, 2013 — Open Call
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September 25, 2013 — When to Honor Commitments, When to Honor Different
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October 2013
October 2, 2013 — Open Call
October 10, 2013 — Asking For What I Want
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October 11, 2013 — Open call
October 12, 2013 — Soothing the Frightened Self
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October 16, 2013 — Open call
October 22, 2013 — Open call
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- Emotional Freedom Is Not Feeling Good All the Time
- Every Emotion Needs a Pathway: When Feelings Are Too Much to Hold
October 23, 2013 — Do I Deserve This Much Abundance?
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October 30, 2013 — Open call
November 2013
November 6, 2013 — Open Call
November 8, 2013 — Open call
November 13, 2013 — How Do I Know Who and How to Trust?
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November 18, 2013 — Open call
November 20, 2013 — Changing Your Demeanor with Self-Compassion
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November 22, 2013 — Open Call
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November 25, 2013 — Open call
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November 27, 2013 — Grounding For The Holidays
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December 2013
December 6, 2013 — Open Call
December 9, 2013 — Open Call
December 18, 2013 — Reconnecting With Dreams Around The Holidays
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December 20, 2013 — Open Call
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December 26, 2013 — Open Call
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December 28, 2013 — Creating A Clearing For New Beginnings
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