A free, self-paced course with Rick Wilkes and Cathy Vartuli
Meet Old Childhood Alarms with Present-Day Choice
Early experiences can still shape what your body expects from closeness, conflict, mistakes, attention, and change. This course helps you approach those old fears and beliefs gently, use EFT Tapping with specific experiences, and create more room for calm confidence now.
The Past Can Feel Present Without Being the Whole Present
Old experience can still be active in the body even when life has changed. Tapping offers a way to listen to that emotional truth without treating every old conclusion as a permanent verdict.
When Protective Learning Stays Active
A child can learn that visibility, mistakes, needs, disagreement, or change are dangerous. Those adaptations may later feel like being frozen, bound by family rules, braced for criticism, unwanted, or somehow unlovable. They are not character defects; they are protections that formed when you had fewer choices and resources.
What Relief Can Make Possible
Relief does not require denying what happened or forcing forgiveness. It can mean less collapse around an old scene, more choice around a family rule, clearer boundaries, kinder regard for yourself, and a growing ability to respond from the adult resources available now.
Begin Gently, Work Specifically
Start with the orientation and e-book, then listen to the demonstrations before choosing among the coaching sessions. You can follow the full sequence or return to the topic that matches what is active now.
- Approach one scene, sentence, body sensation, or old rule instead of your whole childhood at once.
- Let the younger self have distance, permission, boundaries, and a real say in what happens next.
- Pause and orient to the present whenever the material becomes too intense.
- Invite trauma-informed professional support when the work needs more steadiness or company.
You do not have to prove that an experience was severe enough. Begin with what your body is ready to meet, and let stopping be one of your available choices.