Getting Your Way
Marisol began our session saying “I cannot stop eating sweets!” She said she was usually OK in the morning, and OK when there was a lot of work to do (she is a therapist and a mother and manages an apartment complex). However as the afternoon went on, she lamented: “I...“Mother Stuff” Sabotaging my Success
A theme in my tapping sessions this week seemed to be “my mother.” Our relationship with our mothers is a rich resource for learning how to honor what is right for us as individuals, instead of seeking the approval of someone else who appears to have power...“Knowing When I Am Satisfied”
Sheryl grew up with a fear of being hungry, and a belief that it is not safe to ask for what she wants. “Not surprisingly, I have eating and food issues now. I know that it is best to eat when I am hungry, but I don’t know when I am hungry.” She paused. ...A Template for Tapping to Honor the Highly Sensitive Temperament: Free your S-P-I-R-I-T-E-D Self Part 2
In part 1 of this series (#42) I described what the sensitive temperament can look and feel like. I described five different self-judgments or challenges, and offered possible reframes for each of them. I also included a kind of visual map that I use to sort out the...When You MUST Be Calm: Heart-Flow
I was recently in a really difficult situation where I needed to stay calm and resourceful. It wasn’t appropriate to tap outright. I was among people who, seeing something that looked so odd and foreign to them, had the power to make an already sticky situation...A Template for Tapping to Honor the Highly Sensitive Temperament: Free your S-P-I-R-I-T-E-D SelfPart 1
When I am tapping with someone, or for myself, it helps me to have a kind of template in the back of my mind to work from. I like having a way to track the information, and a way to hold a general sense of the direction I want to take in the session. This template is...“I project my fears from my childhood on my own child”
Kathryn was the brave tapping volunteer in a recent complimentary teleclass (http://tinyurl.com/EFTwithRue) Her story seemed quite simple on the surface. She was worried about her 26 year old son, who had moved into his own apartment with 3 other young men. She...Wanting Wasn’t Safe
In our six month Re-Imagine Your Life program teleclass, I had asked for participants’ feelings and beliefs about “wanting.” This is some of Sheryl’s response: Wanting seems to be less painful than it is numbing. I have wants now, but thinking back to childhood, I...Re-Imagining Marketing
Martha is a therapist who is having trouble “putting herself out there” in the world. She has some beliefs that are holding her back: “I can’t make it in the world on my own,” “I have to work for good things to come to me,” “I don’t want to make the effort.” “I am...
Welcome! Glad you found me, and my work with spiritual sensitives. If you don't yet know about EFT, I think you will find it a useful practice of self-blessing.