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I share Gary Craig’s passion to empower as many people as possible with the gift of EFT.  To that end I have worked with clients and students across the globe for over twenty years.

Healer, Heal Thyself

About 35 years ago, Stephen Levine, who worked with the dying, and who was one of my greatest teachers, said:

“You can only help others in their pain and suffering to the extent you have investigated your own.”

When he said that, it affected me deeply and I vowed that when I see something in myself that is not pleasant, I would do my best to release it.  EFT has helped me the most with this mission.  Meditation and other forms of mindfulness have also helped me a great deal as have supportive, nurturing friends.  I also have to say here that I am very human and, like all others, am perfect in my imperfection, which IS the human condition.

Heal Illness, Then Release Dis-ease

One of my favourite shamans, Albert Villoldo, once said that when you get bitten by the snake, you get medical treatment immediately.  After you are healed, you go to the shaman and ask, “Why did the snake bite me?”

Since I believe that everything begins with energy, a vibration, frequency, whatever you want to call it, and may then transform itself into the physical world, I believe Alberto is a hundred percent correct,  If you feel inclined to find out more about Alberto, his website is www.thefourwinds.com.

My Favourite Clients

Because EFT is so self-empowering, I teach clients how to tap as well as how to get the most out of EFT for their particular issues.  Most of my clients then tap on themselves and are able to fast forward their healing process.  I totally want to be available to clients when they want support.  At the same time if I don’t hear from you for a while and then you call, my assumption is you have been doing pretty well and then got stuck.  Typically most clients work with me 1-3 times, doing some tapping in between sessions.  If you do not want to tap on your own, that is also absolutely fine.  Then, 2 weeks, 6 months or even 10 years later, when you get stuck, you call or email me and we have a session or two.

Those are my favourite clients.  We work together, they do their inner work a bit on their own and they know to come back when they are stuck whether it is one week or ten years.  This is what most of my EFT Practitioner clients do.

And I have to say it again - I love the self-empowering ability of EFT.

How Do I Work With Clients?

If a client knows of a specific trauma or specific things that they believe have sabotaged them in any way, we go directly to those issues.

Sometimes it is not so clear.  Examples are when a client wants to release low self esteem, lack of confidence, chronic anger or critical mind issues.  Often these kinds of issues were created over time with nothing specific remembered.

One of the wonderful things about EFT is that you can do it from wherever the client is.  If you only have generalities, you can do EFT on those generalities.  In doing that, it is possible that specific traumas will show themselves as you are tapping.  We would then shift to doing EFT on the specific issues.

Foundation Traumas Create Triggers for Future Trauma

Sometimes a client will tell me about a trauma that happened last month or last year.  When that happens I will ask something like, ‘When do you first remember anything like that happening?”

What happens is that we have a trauma, most probably in childhood.  We may or may not remember it.  That trauma triggers more traumas when a similar situation presents itself and a similar feeling is felt in the body.

Here is an example:

“A man finally got his dream job but was dismayed to find that he had to work in a multi story building with an elevator to take him up to his office.  He had a long held  fear of small enclosures.  He worked with another EFT Practitioner before me and that person tapped with him and got on an elevator with him and they tapped and the client felt relief.  However, the next time he got on an elevator the old fear was back.  He called me to tell me that EFT did not work – at least it did not last.  I suggested we do a session and if he got nothing out of it he would not have to pay me.  He agreed.  I asked him what that elevator reminded him of and he told me a story about when he was a small child with an older brother.  They got into an argument and the older brother, who was baby sitting him, pushed him into a small enclosure under the stairs and latched the lock on the little door and then went outside and forgot about his little brother who was screaming in the dark.  My client was in total darkness in a small space and imagined all kinds of horrible things.  He hollered and cried and he said it seemed like forever.  Finally his parents came home, heard him crying and immediately let him out.  We did EFT on that specific trauma, got rid of it in one session, and he had no more fear of small enclosures.” 

He now loves working on the upper floor, jokingly saying that the views are much better at the top.

This is a great example of a foundation trauma creating triggers that create more trauma.  If you go into fear often when a certain situation arises, you might want to look back in your life and see if you can find a foundation trauma.  With EFT it does not matter how big it is or how long you have had it.

I have had clients tell me they do not want to go “back there” again but that is only because the techniques they were using did not release the issue.  If you have that mind set, please consider doing EFT, especially if there was a specific trauma involved.

Sometimes there will not be a specific trauma.  Using EFT, we can track the issue to the easiest way to work with it.  It is important for EFT Practitioners to be both great and gentle detectives.