Stepchild Brings a Gift of Healing

by Lori Barnett
www.soul-escape.biz

I was noticing that every time my step daughter was coming over I would get nervous, anxious and uncomfortable.

One particular time I thought “I don’t like this feeling and I don’t understand why I even feel this way, she is just a little girl.”

So I tapped while asking myself, “What is this really about and What does this remind me of?”

I find that tapping on questions often helps open up the awareness to the answers.

As I tapped, I barely got a round in, when it hit me…

“This is the same feeling I had when I was a child and my Dad was on his way home from work.”

I often felt very nervous because I wasn’t sure if my Dad was going to be nice and happy to see me or irritable and unloving. I realized these feelings were exactly the same as when my step daughter was coming home. I didn’t know if she was going to be happy and nice to me or irritable and ignore me. As a “grown up” I thought why does this even bother me but when I realized it was my “inner child” being triggered I knew just how to heal it.

So I tapped:

Even though I was so nervous when I was a little girl and my dad was coming home from work.
Even though I didn’t know how he was going to treat me
Even though I didn’t know if he was going to be nice to me or mean to me

Because of my holistic experience I allowed myself to go into the “little girl” feelings even changing up my voice.

It didn’t take long to move through the process and by the time my step daughter arrived I had a new attitude. I haven’t had a problem with this particular issue since but she does provide me with many tapping opportunities.

Our children and step children can be great teachers for us, so before you react to a situation ask yourself “what does this remind me of” because most likely there is a gift hiding in there. By using EFT you can start to neutralize the negative feelings and enjoy true healing.

Lori Barnett
www.soul-escape.biz