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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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Echoes From The Past – Karl Dawson on Matrix Reimprinting
Rick Wilkes and Cathy Vartuli talk with Karl Dawson about his Matrix Reimprinting technique. Many people think of this as “inner children” work. Karl calls them “echoes” instead, partially because they can be any age. This technique is a great way to address core issues, including those with very young roots which may not be…
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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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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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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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Just Relax and Take a Deep Breath… Yeah, Right!
Have you ever had someone tell you, “Hey, just relax!” As if it was that easy! When we’re feeling stress and anxiety, we’re operating from a part of our primitive programming that isn’t INTERESTED in relaxing. It wants to fight, take flight, or freeze in place… quivering with fright.