Developing Emotional Resilience in the Era of Climate Change, Stress and Trauma A Conversation with Leslie Davenport This is a free event All registrants will be given access to the interview recording https://www.tappingoutoftrauma.com/developing-emotional-resilience-in-the-era-of-climate-change-stress-and-trauma/ The impact of climate change on physical health are everywhere ranging from fires to floods to fire born respiratory and cardiovascular disease. Emerging documentation is...

This weekend, starting at 12 noon Eastern US on Sat July 16th and runs for 24 hours and is an absolutely free online event as part of the "24-Hour Tap-A-Thon" livestream put on by Gene Monterastelli and is a fundraiser for the Peaceful Heart Network, an organization that has taught approximately 100,000 people to tap in some of the harshest conditions in the world. They work with people in war-torn countries, as well as serving refugee communities all over the world. The tap-a-thon team have...

The APA Journal Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy recently published a special issue on “Complementary Medicine and Integrative Approaches to Trauma Therapy and Recovery.” Along with articles on the use of yoga, mindfulness and Healing Touch to treat PTSD is an article on EFT: “Reexamining the effect of emotional freedom techniques on stress biochemistry: A randomized controlled trial” by Peta Stapleton and colleagues. This research study replicated an earlier...

“Sexual injury (assault or otherwise) can lie at the heart of a multitude of presenting client issues, ranging from money blocks to physical health problems to a “fear of being seen” as well as more obvious concerns like intimacy challenges.” Alina Frank, author of How to Want Sex Again This is not an easy topic to discuss, but it is an important one. It is a topic that as EFT professionals we continue to need to further understand and make a difference in helping people to heal from. It...

It seems each day’s headlines highlight another high profile politician, entertainer or business executive being accused of sexual misconduct. The activities themselves vary widely, including sexual harassment that may consist of verbal taunting, sexual innuendos, threats of career derailment and physical violence, inappropriate and unwanted physical and sexual contact and rape. Many of us feel betrayed each day by these famous men we have never even met in person. The topic is ubiquitous...

Addressing the long term affects of trauma has staggering implications. An emerging body of approaches showing success for working with the long term psychological and physical effects of adverse events continue to offer hope. One of those therapeutic interventions that is showing great promise and has been growing in use for the past decade is something called Matrix Reimprinting (MR).

A recent (July 31, 2017) Huffington Post article by Dawson Church PhD reports another significant milestone in the acceptance of EFT (tapping) as an accepted and recommended treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other post-traumatic and co-morbid conditions including depression and anxiety, this time by the US Veterans Administration: "Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) has been approved as a “generally safe” therapy by the US Veterans Administration (VA). After reviewing...

EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) is gaining a foothold in recognition recently by more academic and institutional health care delivery systems for use in a variety of conditions with causal roots in traumatic experiences and ACEs. Guidelines and recommendations for the use of EFT for PTSD have just been published by a major health organization. Kaiser’s peer-reviewed publication, The Permanente Journal, recently (Spring 2017 vol. 21 No. 2) published practice guidelines for using Emotional...

Imagine this scenario - A young man walks into your office for help and tells you the following story: He tells you his name is Al. He is a 20-year-old who graduated high school and is now working two jobs trying to make ends meet. He works as a dishwasher and a cashier at an auto supply store. He hopes someday to be an anesthesiologist. He seeks your guidance because he was recently fired from one of his jobs after shouting at his boss who had treated him unfairly. He recently moved to town...