What Did You Want to Say that You Couldn’t Say?

Recently I have found myself in EFT sessions asking people the question, "What did you want to say that you couldn’t?"  Here are five examples of tapping sessions that dealt with this question. #1 I was listening as someone was telling me how much...

Honoring Your Dark Angels

No matter what issues we are dealing with, learning to elicit the positive intention in a person or a situation is about the most powerful, heartening spiritual practice I can think of. You  probably have heard about "psychological reversals," or...

“I Thought I Had to Tough It Out and Soldier On”

This was the theme for the most recent Complimentary EFT Circle class, and it was very popular!  It seemed to touch a nerve for lots of people.  I have heard a version of this phrase so often. We are all so good at being the strong one, the competent one,...

Breaking the Cycle of Self-Created Stress

I recently worked with a young friend who just opened her first acupuncture clinic with another young woman.  When they were setting up their business bank account, and the personal banker found out that yes, in fact, acupuncture was useful for headaches, she...

EFT and a Neurobiological Model for Fibromyalgia

Some of you may have seen my recent 10 part series in Gary Craig’s EFT newsletter (emofree.com) on "Calming and Clearing Chronic Pain."  I thought you might be interested in reading this account by Dr. Nancy Selfridge.  She and I taught a...

Healing the Heart of the World

For most of this month I am traveling and teaching EFT in the UK.  This article is from my book This is Where I Stand. The word trauma means  “wound.” It is only in the last 115 years or so that “trauma” has been used in the sense of...

It Wasn’t Safe to be Happy

In the EFT Circle teleclass we regularly experience remarkable deep work, as members of the group take on and transform deep seated beliefs which have caused ongoing physical and emotional pain. This was the case recently for Christine, a 40 year old woman of Chinese...

EFT for WOE is ME

My own words in this issue will be limited by the fact that I am typing with one finger of my non-dominant hand. A few days ago I slipped on the ice here in the frozen north of Wisconsin, fell hard, and broke my wrist. I began tapping within seconds of falling. I lay...

How to Have a Happy New Year (Start Today)

Every January we so earnestly resolve to "be better." Lose weight. Stop smoking. Be a nicer person. We tell a well worn story about ourselves that is full of our flaws and failures, and we make New Year’s resolutions. Again. The problem with New...

Healing the “Were-ies” of the Past

I have a deep interest in how we hold the story of our personal and our ancestral past in our bodies and our lives. Also, I have questions. What leads us to make the choices we do? And especially: as ancestors ourselves, how can we change the story of the future? I...