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Taking Baby Steps to Row Across the Ocean Alone
Baby steps? Where can baby steps get you? Well, all the way across the Atlantic Ocean in a row boat…
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Overwhelming Choices
With so many information sources available today, it can be easy to feel overwhelmed by all the choices. Sometimes when we are presented with a lot of choices, and have limited time (who doesn’t?), we end up doing nothing. It can feel like we’re invited to a free buffet… so we MUST eat everything there,…
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Dr. Robert Scaer on Trauma
Dr. Robert Scaer, a leader in the field of trauma and healing, shared his years of research with us in a recent interview. With 30 years of experience, and extensive study of the human brain and its response to traumatic events, he brings an unique insight and understanding to this process, including key components of…
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Why Do We Become Ungrounded?
We learn to disassociate… and it is also instinctual. For better or worse, we learn “coping” mechanisms from Mom and Dad and other early caregivers. Our primitive brain instinctually dissasociates us both in the freeze response and whenever pain or injury would keep us from fighting or fleeing. Energy Tapping (EFT) can certainly help! Tapping…
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Free Articles, Audios, and Videos
These free articles, audios, and videos are some of our favorites.
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EFT Tapping Points – Free Manual
I’d like to introduce you to EFT—Emotional Freedom Techniques. It is a simple and effective form of meridian energy therapy. Some call it “emotional acupuncture” but without the needles. You may not have heard of it, and it looks weird. The good news is… it works!
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Flight, Fight, or Freeze
In the Trauma and the Primitive Brain video, we talk about Flight, Fight, and Freeze responses. Let’s go into a bit more detail here. Say you are a 5-year-old kid on the playground swinging. You’re enjoying the day and the warm breeze. You are all alone, lost in your own daydreams. Suddenly, the 8-year-old school…
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Smoking With Shame: Finding the Need Under the Habit
We believe that smoking, like other addictions, is a symptom of underlying fears and blocks. Treating the symptom does not “cure” the problem. Unless someone is doing something immediately life-threatening (say taking heroine or crack), for us, it is not about quitting first. That would be rather like pulling a life raft away from a…
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EFT Tapping Tip: Try a Nurturing Location
Have you a favorite spot that nourishes and cleanses your energy system? Sometimes when we try to use EFT (or even relax and unwind) in the same space that holds a lot of emotional “charge” for us, it can interfere with our focus. So, experiment with new places and see if you notice a difference.…
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EFT Tapping Tip: Opposite Hand Tapping
When tapping on yourself, try switching hands. Use your non-dominant hand for a full day, then switch back to your dominant hand the next, and back again the next day. You could also alternate the hand you use between one round of tapping and the next.