“Virginia wanted to work on her fear of totally loving and receiving unconditional love. She had difficulty really opening to loving herself and felt embarrassment around her emotions. She noticed a pattern of “checking out” in interpersonal relationships because she got afraid of being consumed.”

“I tapped until I didn’t feel any energy around these issues.”

“Melanie wrote: ‘I always tried hard to get them emotionally involved anyway, but it never worked, and I only got hurt. Stepping out of this pattern feels so good.’”

“More and more I notice it’s not what was done to me that creates the distortions but what I did to them and myself. Even if they did 99% to me it’s the 1% I did that is so often the key to real healing.”

“Vanessa left feeling like she’d shifted a major issue. What happened after was startling. A week after her session she was invited by a major media company to work with their team as a consultant to develop a product launch.”

“I first asked Lisa to feel her feelings and then imagine herself seeing a tree in front of her and asked her what happens to a tree when it is pulled out from the roots? “It naturally falls over and dies,” she said. This metaphor sets up the subconscious mind to let go.”

“Hanukah is over, but Solstice, Christmas, and New Year’s are ahead, and every day seems to bring another party or lack thereof, another family crisis or the reminder of loss. What is most important in navigating this geography of grit and grace is to remember to actually use the tools we have.”

“… the bakery was like heaven for Vivian. She felt safe, appreciated, useful, and loved by her mother. And it all was tied to cookies.”

“After four sessions, the horse was a different animal. We also instructed the staff not to call him names, because that hurt his feelings, and he felt he would live up to all the nasty names he was called. So we tapped that if anyone called him a nasty name, he would look at them and then ignore them for he now knew his self-worth.”

“Events are highly charged, one time experiences that change a person’s energy system forever. We are most familiar with trauma, but there are two other significant types of events…”