Body Vitality, Safety, & Self-Image
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I Have To Be Perfect To Start!
How much does perfectionism run your life? Lots of us wouldn’t even call it perfectionism… we call it “just being adequate enough to start.” We think if we’re thin enough, prepared enough, polished enough, we won’t get hurt, and we won’t get rejected.
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You Do Not Have to Become the Body Your Family Predicted
Families hand down physical identities as casually as eye color: none of us are athletic, women in this family gain weight, we are clumsy, appearance is what people notice first. Repetition can make a family observation feel like biology and destiny. The goal is not to prove the family wrong with a perfect body. It…
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EFT For Fear of Rejection In The Age Of Invitation
Interview with Rick Wilkes by Gene Monterastelli of TappingQandA.com Gene writes: We live in interesting times. Every morning when I wake up I am bombarded with friend requests, invitations to attend events, fund projects, and try new programs. At the exact same time it is possible for me to go through an entire day and not…
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Listen to Body Guidance Without Demanding Certainty
Many of us were trained to make decisions from the neck up: gather enough facts, think harder, and eventually produce the correct answer. When the answer does not come, we assume we have failed. Body guidance offers another stream of information. It may appear as expansion or contraction, warmth, heaviness, curiosity, relief, nausea, aliveness, or…
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She Intimidates Me!
Do you ever feel intimidated? Even if the other person isn’t meaning to, isn’t doing anything to dominate or judge, we can sometimes feel intimidated and overwhelmed.
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I Have All Kinds Of Stuff Coming Up…Does That Mean I’m Regressing?
*So many people dear to us are going through challenging times. As Emotional Freedom Coaches, we’ve seen how deep changes in our core beliefs about ourselves, the healing of our old traumas, and the awakening of our heart to new perspectives… changes us. It changes our mind, it changes our body, and it changes the…