EFT Nation Podcast

We are thrilled to share the wisdom and experience of our colleague La’Quesha Fonrose, a licensed therapist and certified EFT practitioner with over 15+ years of experience working in the mental health field. She specializes in working with millennial women, specifically Black mothers, who are survivors of childhood and complex trauma living with uncontrolled stress and anxiety who are looki...

We often hear this phrase, that an EFT practitioner should meet a client where they’re at. We agree but what does that really entail? What kinds of circumstances or challenges might get in the way of that? Can the client be the problem in that scenario or is it more likely the challenge facing the practitioner? What kinds of obstacles might prevent a practitioner from consciously or unconsci...

Changing old habits and adding new ones can be challenging for all of us. The end of one year and the beginning of a new year is a time when many people consider habit changes. In this podcast we review the four most common reasons people fail to build habits for the long term. Then we explore five specific tapping taps that you can personally apply to clear the obstacles that may show up for you...

Scattered amidst all the rave reviews of how EFT has profoundly transformed people’s lives are a smattering of reports that sound something like, “well I tried EFT and it didn’t work for me.” Of course that can be true as no single approach can be the answer for everyone. However, there are many reasons that EFT can appear to offer limited or slow results when tapping on on...

Back pain is a rampant, pervasive and expensive problem. Over 70% of individuals suffer severe back pain in their lives with nearly one third suffering from severe back pain in the prior 30 days. As a chiropractor for over 30 years, Craig has treated thousands of back pain patients and has witnessed the mind body interactions regarding causality and chronicity of back pain both personally and prof...

Being “ polyvagal-informed ” is perhaps the newest catch phrase for trauma-informed healing arts practitioners. Polyvagal Theory (PVT), as developed by Stephen Porges, PhD and extensively written about in clinical applications by Deb Dana, LCSW, is described as the science of feeling safe. It’s focus of application is to help us understand our body’s response to the world a...

OK, start tapping, in this podcast we focus on the legal stuff that can make some EFT Tapping practitioners nervous. We discuss with Midge Murphy challenges and misunderstandings regarding scope of practice, websites, testimonials and the use of practitioner description and titles. Awareness and knowledge will decrease your legal risk of a complaint ever being filed against you. This kind of infor...

Recently a TikTok video therapist got raked across the coals when they complained on the social media platform about her clients “trauma-dumping” on her. In this podcast we discuss the problem with this concept and tie in the common phenomenon that EFT practitioners get to experience in sessions when a client gets drawn into a “trauma-pull” response. We discuss important co...

When working to overcome many of life’s challenges or to change an unhealthy behavior our final category of why we may not feel ready for such a change is the sense of lack of safety. This is often experienced as a sense of fear or lack of sense of safety when considering how life will be as the desired change unfolds. Whether we are trying to lose weight, release resentment, put ourselves o...

Digging deeper into potential sources of secondary gains takes us to the arena of lack of deserving. When working to achieve something better in your life; i.e. healing from a chronic health condition, finding an ideal relationship, making the income you desire, finding close friendships, etc. the desired outcome can look very clear but the achieving of it can often feel out of reach. The many way...

We call carry the roles we identify with in the world that can both serve us and hold us back from change. Whether we identify as “the good girl” or “the responsible one” or “the eldest” or the “selfless caregiver” or “the empath” or “the breadwinner”… When we try to make healthful changes in our lives, we can run into c...

Every week we receive multiple inquiries from individuals seeking information about EFT training and certification programs. Individuals that are seeking to look beyond the online marketing ads and eblasts to find honest and reputable feedback regarding the wide array of programs that exist in-person and online for EFT training. Given the concept of Caveat Emptor or buyer beware, while the movemen...

We often hear of a “let down” that can occur for individuals who have dedicated themselves to the process of getting certified in EFT and then experience a kind of hole that occurs shortly thereafter. The transition from having a mentor and community and regular feedback and interaction suddenly changes and now there can be an experience of being more isolated, lacking support and with...

This episode highlights a special guest, Karl Dawson, the founder of Matrix Reimprinting (MR) EFT. As the approved North American trainers of this technique, we wanted Karl himself to respond to the three most common questions and misconceptions about this powerful technique. In this lengthier episode we explore just what is MR, questions about the most effective ways to learn this approach so tha...

One of the most searched for applications of EFT online is the use of EFT tapping for weight loss. With nearly half of adults (49.1%) attempted to lose weight within the last year in the U.S. alone, clearly this is a topic many are seeking help, support and guidance with. Whether you are attempting to lose weight, exploring the challenges of “emotional eating” or are a practitioner wan...

According to the CDC over 70 million Americans suffer from chronic sleep problems. Insomnia seems to be at epidemic proportions and more than ever we are witnessing an abundance of sleep experts and bloggers offering a wide array of suggestions for helping to improve your ability to get a good night’s sleep. Today we are offering our top tips on how to incorporate EFT Tapping into your good...

During the COVID pandemic, about 4 in 10 adults in the U.S. have reported symptoms of anxiety or depression, up from 1 in 10 in the 6 months preceding the pandemic. Many adults (and children) are experiencing increased negative impacts on their mental health and well-being, such as difficulty sleeping, increases in alcohol consumption or substance use and more. We are witnessing levels of anger ou...

There are many challenges that one can encounter when working on their feelings and experience of grief and loss. EFT can certainly facilitate this process, not necessarily to “tap away” the grief, but to facilitate the grieving process which can include a full acceptance of a wide array of emotions and feelings. Challenges and pressures to “move on” or additional pain that...

In this episode we discuss using EFT for feelings of anxiety that show up as anxiousness, nervousness, embarrasment, fear of being judged and more. We review some of the clinical research published regarding EFT’s effectiveness for reducing anxiety, including a meta analysis and clinical trials exploring EFT helping to reduce anxiety in children, university students, adult nurses and more. U...

In this episode we offer a wealth of tips and insights to how to creatively and effectively use EFT with your children. We begin with exploring how to tap on prenatal stress for parents, especially mom, as mothers and their babies are said to share energy systems throughout the first three years of life. We progress to different strategies for surrogate tapping on behalf of infants and toddlers an...

Trauma Informed EFT means using EFT gently with the understanding that individuals have often suffered adversity in their past, and that we work with keeping our clients regulated and safe during their EFT sessions. Integrating Dan Siegel’s concept of window of tolerance helps describe the best state of arousal for which we can best function and thrive in our daily lives, by feeling safe, ac...

There is a powerful trend that seems to be flourishing, especially across many social media platforms that can have a deeply harming effect on many viewers. Perhaps the prolonged pandemic and social political unrest has played role sboth in having people feeling persistently bad about their lives or their relationships and worldviews but then being told that they should instead look to the positiv...

In this podcast we explorew 4 levels of inquiry for using EFT for working with facilitating healing of physical conditions. By adopting a lense of curiosity, we can began to move past the obvious negative emotions related to suffering from health challenges and begin to look for purpose and meaning. How might our bodies be trying to speak on our behalf for actions we may not be ready to take? What...

In this podcast we discuss how EFT is a trauma aware modality as well as what is even more important, traits of a trauma informed practitioner. We review not only the key elements that are critical for working safely with trauma informed practices as well as the 4 R’s for empowering your clients who have survived adversity and are looking to increase their healing and resilience levels. EFT...

One of the ways we observe the growth and acceptance of EFT is in the surging numbers of licensed therapists and mental health care providers are finding, studying and integrating EFT into their therapy practice. Blending tapping into an existing therapeutic relationship provides its own set of unique challenges in navigating the process with clients. In this podcast Craig and Alina offer their 7...