What Stops You?

  Have you ever listened carefully to how we talk?    We talk in metaphors all the time. When things aren’t working, do you find yourself using phrases like this: I feel tied down… buried alive… stuck in quicksand… held back… frozen in place… trapped… It’s like I...

Traveling Light, Part 2

Here are the rest of the travel ideas that you sent to me, when I asked if you had tips for sensitive travelers. In some cases I have done a little editing for conciseness and clarity. This is a little long, but I wanted to get it all in! At the end, there is a...

Traveling Light

Are you about to take a long trip, across the country or across the sea, and you are feeling overwhelmed just thinking about it? One person recently told me about her church choir meeting where they were briefed about their upcoming trip to Italy. She said, “The...

Belly Dance Tapping

  If someone had told me a year ago that I would soon be belly dancing on stage in front of hundreds of people, I would probably have not even registered the words.  I would have thought they were talking to someone else. But I did do it, and tapping helped! Last...

Good as Gold

  “I deeply and completely accept myself” What happens in you when you say this phrase?  People who have done a lot of EFT can glibly let these words roll off our tongues without a second thought, and go right on to the next “Even...

Quiet

I worked with someone recently who started out by stating her problem this way: I am too different to be a success in the world.” She meant that she was too creative, too spiritually aware, too outspoken, too idealistic, and too sensitive to do the work of her heart,...

Create a Holding Space for Shame and Fear

How can we deal with big, heavy important issues that are not going to go away with tapping phrases that start “Even though I feel shame…” ? How do we know what to say when we are tapping, especially for big issues like shame and fear? The best strategy I know is to...

Is Self Help Selfish?

I just did an internet search on “self help.” I did this search because so often I hear people talking about being selfish.  I don’t know what it is like in other parts of the world, but at least in the US we are raised to be on the lookout for our own selfish...

The Art of Loving

Here are two offerings that I want to share with you. Each is a window into the art of loving, and each is written by friend and colleague. This first story was created by EFT practitioner and therapist Zoë Zimmerman. Zoë says: For a long time, in my psychotherapy...

Welcome!

Being Sunshine The true intent behind anything we do is to give a gift. What ultimately motivates us is love, and the desire to create something for people we care about, and the effect it will have, as it ripples out from us, to touch everything that we care about....