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Recent articles from Thriving Now.
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Power Without Tension: Work From a Thriving State
Many of us learned to recognize power by the tension wrapped around it. Tight muscles, urgency, fear of consequences, and the command to push harder became evidence that we were serious. That state can produce results. It also makes work expensive. The body spends energy defending against the task while doing the task. Power without…
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Ask Guidance for Possible Yeses, Not the Right Answer
We often ask guidance a question it cannot answer cleanly: What should I do? What is the right choice? Tell me the answer so I cannot get it wrong. The pressure inside the question can make every option feel heavy. “Should” imports obligation, other people’s expectations, and the demand for certainty. Guidance becomes easier to…
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A Proactive Approach to Safety: Trust Your Body and Plan Before You Need It
(FREE Audio) This is the outline and recording for the call Pro-Active Approach to Safety which is a part of our Body Vitality Workshop as we focus on Body Safety with co-hosts Rick Wilkes and Cathy Vartuli. We are joined on the call by Vivian Cannataro, EFT expert from Toronto who specializes in using EFT…
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Financial Trauma: Calm the Primitive Brain When Money Feels Unsafe
Financial trauma is not limited to a particular dollar amount. The primitive brain responds to perceived threat, powerlessness, and the possibility that resources essential to survival may disappear. A market drop, job email, overdue bill, business slowdown, medical expense, or retirement statement can activate fight, flight, or freeze before we have assessed what the numbers…
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Creating Safe and Healthy Boundaries
Healthy boundaries are crucial for feeling safe. In this Body Vitality Workshop call, we look at what is a boundary, the different types, boundary violations, why it is so hard to set boundaries, body guidance, emotional guidance, having a good NO, and feeling safe in your body through practicing boundaries consciously.
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Reconnect With Safe and Happy Feelings in Your Body
In this Body Vitality Workshop call we look at the deep benefits of reconnecting with our body, softening the blocks to reconnecting, the reasons we distrust our body, exercises to reconnect, building trust with the body, and accepting where we are right NOW (Yeah, Right!)
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#25 – Try It On Everything
Listen Download MP3 From the archived Rick and Carol EFT podcast series. The series is complete. Episode #25 – Try It On Everything – Movie Review How can we explain to others what EFT is all about? It is hard to describe EFT and its life-changing potential in words alone. The documentary Try It On…
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Try It On Everything … Seriously!
Those who try EFT diligently start becoming more aware, more honest with themselves, more self-accepting, and feeling more empowered. The movie The Tapping Solution (formerly Try It On Everything) demonstrates what happens in four days. What kind of difference could it make in your life if you used EFT every day and tried it on…
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Feeling Safe When You Feel Exposed, Ashamed, or Not Okay
You can know that a room is friendly and still feel exposed when it is your turn to speak. You can understand that you belong and still feel twelve years old when someone seems dismissive. You can receive reassurance about your appearance, ability, or worth while a younger part remains convinced that you are at…
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Why Do I Feel Disconnected, Unsafe, and Unhappy in My Body?
In this Body Vitality Workshop call we: explain some basic grounding techniques, discuss what being disconnected from our bodies means, explain why you may have initially lost connection to your body, and how the mind and body stores trauma, talk about why we want to connect with our bodies, list common blocks to reconnecting with…