EFT Nation Podcast

In a previous episode, we explored the use of EFT tapping for shame and in this episode we focus on the way that guilt can become deeply embedded in a person’s psyche. It can have both a useful purpose as well as an inherently problematic one. Feelings of guilt can alert us to actions that we have taken when we have crossed a line that is incongruent with our own personally held values and c...

Shame is a powerful emotion characterized by a deep sense of unworthiness or worthlessness or negative self evaluation and criticism that is often triggered by the perception of failing to meet a personal or societal standard. Whereas guilt is often associated with specific actions or behaviors, shame goes even more deeply as a way that we continue to cut ourselves down and remove ourselves from t...

Fear and anxiety are incredibly common emotional states and one that EFT can be a powerful healing tool for. There is a significant body of published research demonstrating EFT’s effectiveness for reducing these states. While they are related, they are distinct emotions with different triggers and durations. Fear is often a survival based response to a present and specific threat, while anxi...

This episode explores the phenomena known as Borrowing Benefits, which is a concept that describes how a person can most effectively receive the positive effects of tapping on another person’s issues. In other words, by tapping not on your own personal issues but tapping one’s points while observing another person tapping, problems that are unique to you can be achieved. We discuss its...

This episode continues our series on using EFT Tapping for specific emotional states. Sadness is a healthy emotion that is experienced after we have lost something meaningful but it can have many faces, varying from acute grief to chronic sorrow. It can be experienced in emotional, physical and energetic ways all of which can be supported for healthy release and expression with EFT. Today we discu...

In this episode, we explore how Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) tapping can be a powerful tool for healing anger. Anger, often a response to stress, frustration, or unresolved emotions, can take a toll on both our mental and physical health. EFT is a simple yet effective method that combines gentle tapping (somatic stimulation) on specific acupuncture points to help release habitual emotions. Wh...

Interpersonal disconnection appears to be occurring at an epidemic level. Estrangement is the experience of distance or separation from friends and family members. It can exist as diminished contact to complete lack of communication and connection. We are living through a period of time, accelerated by heightened political intensity that has resulted in significantly heightened emotional intensity...

This is a very special podcast with our guest Lisa Forbes, the founder of Operation: I Can Take it From Here. Lisa has a lived history of childhood physical and sexual trauma that resulted in her serving years of incarceration. After her release, with a passion to heal and a commitment to not have her past repeat itself, she discovered EFT and tapped feverishly to transform her life. As a result s...

In this episode we offer a variety of considerations on how to choose an EFT practitioner that will be a best fit for your concerns. What are the most important considerations? What questions might you ask potential practitioners? What selection criteria would make you feel most safe, comfortable and hopeful for a best outcome? This is the things we commonly recommend when someone asks us for a pr...

Shadow work is a self-discovery process where you explore the hidden or “shadow” parts of your personality—those aspects of yourself you might not fully recognize, acknowledge, or accept. The “shadow” refers to the traits, emotions, desires, or patterns that you’ve suppressed, ignored, or denied, often because they feel uncomfortable, unacceptable, or don’t alig...

Recent news reports have highlighted the relationship between the debilitating condition of hypochondria as an illness anxiety disorder and its correlation with trauma, especially childhood trauma. The life altering pattern of heightened sensitivity, worry and fear associated with minor symptoms may well be connected to a variety of traumatic experiences. Such experiences can embed deep seated bel...

How EFT Tapping is used in professional practice will vary by the practitioner’s scope of practice. The practitioner using EFT may well be a licensed mental health care provider/therapist or a licensed healthcare professional or life coach or an EFT Practitioner. How does one’s professional guidelines affect the way that EFT is delivered in a session? Where do professional boundaries,...

Recently in the US, hurricanes Helene and Milton have brought devastating consequences to Florida, North Carolina and the southeast. Lives, homes and businesses have been lost with millions of people affected. Such traumatic events have ripple effects on those directly impacted but of course it also touches the lives of family, friends, colleagues and those who are witnessing these events who can...

In this podcast we discuss the distinctions between acute and chronic stress, post traumatic stress, acute stress disorder (ASD) and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The ability for a practitioner who uses EFT to understand and make this distinctions between these are elements of what go into being an effective trauma informed practitioner. For more information on Tapping out of Trauma 1.0 F...

This episode is dedicated to exploring boundaries; why they are difficult to set and why they are so important. Whether you are an EFT practitioner looking to establish clear boundaries with your clients or you are looking for ideas on how to tap with your clients on the topic or you are just someone who taps on themselves and are struggling with establishing healthy boundaries in your relationshi...

This podcast explores the ways that Internal Family Systems, as developed by Richard Schwartz, can offer an understanding for the many internal aspects of an individual that can be addressed with EFT. Marion Blique explains how IFS can be used as a powerful lens to help better understand the myriad of inner personalities all of which contribute to why an individual makes certain choices or reacts...

In this episode, we explore multiple aspects of the power of being given a diagnosis. Who should and should not be offering a diagnosis? Is it empowering to be given one or is it a curse? How can EFT tapping be most effectively utilized to work with the “sentence” that the naming of a condition can offer? When one is shared with a patient, is it done in a way that empowers and supports...

Alina Frank and Dr. Craig Weiner interview Dr. Adriana Popescu about the similarities and differences between EFT Emotional Freedom Techniques Tapping and Brainspotting. Comparing EFT Tapping with other Trauma Informed Techniques. This series of interviews is the culmination of a desire to help illustrate the similarities and differences that exist between the Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT Tap...

Alina Frank and Craig Weiner interview Dr. Christine Gibson about the difference and similarities between EFT, Matrix Reimprinting, and A.R.T. (Accelerated Resolution Therapy) Dr. Gibson is a family doctor and trauma therapist, author of The Modern Trauma Toolkit (with a chapter on EFT), and co-founder of Safer Spaces Training. A lifeline learner with a Masters in Medical Education and a Doctorate...

Comparing EFT Tapping with other Trauma Informed Techniques This series of interviews is the culmination of a desire to help illustrate the similarities and differences that exist between the Emotional Freedom Techniques and other therapeutic and clinical approaches currently being practiced. For this series we have selected a variety of trauma-informed clinical approaches that we felt would be us...

Welcome to our 50th podcast! The holidays are a time of year that bring not only joy and celebration but also can be associated with many sources of stress. Time management stress. Financial gift-giving stress. Handling family conflict concerns. Food and alcohol related issues. How can you use EFT in advance to prepare for creating your best holiday yet? How might you use tapping for in-the- momen...

We dedicated this episode to exploring various methods of EFT Testing. What is the purpose of testing? What is basic EFT Testing/ What are different Gentle EFT Testing Techniques and more Provocative Testing Techniques? When do you test and when don’t you? These are the kinds of questions we discuss that will be of interest especially to EFT Tapping practitioners working with clients who are...

This episode explores some history and explanation about the Adverse Childhood, Positive Childhood and Positive and Adverse Childhood Experiences studies. It is critical that EFT practitioners and individuals have some safety and practice guidelines informing them when they should and should not be tapping on themselves or with their clients in order to not induce retraumatization. We offer our re...

While EFT is incredibly effective in assisting individuals to resolve past adverse and traumatic experiences it also is important to know how to use EFT Tapping for “in the moment” self-regulation. When a client starts becoming emotionally dysregulated and either begins to emotionally flood or freeze or abreact, it is critical that we have a variety of tools to help them return to the...

How many of us never learned how to set healthy boundaries for ourselves when we grew up? How many of us never got to witness or experience clean boundaries that were empowering in our families of origin? How many of us have suffered emotionally or even physically because we learned to put others needs ahead of our own and then felt resentful towards others and angry at ourselves for not being abl...