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Stop Your Cravings and Emotional Eating – Karen Donaldson

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Karen Donaldson, MS, RD, LD helps women stop emotional eating and eliminate cravings so they can lose weight and keep it off. Karen is a Registered Dietitian, EFT Certified Weight Loss Coach, Emotion Code Certified Practitioner, and a Weight Loss Mindset Expert. She has helped thousands of women stop using food to tranquilize their emotions or feel better. She does this by helping women release the emotional baggage that is triggering their night-time eating, binge eating, and stress eating. And then she helps women create new beliefs in their subconscious minds that guide them to success in releasing excess weight and keeping it off.

Website: ExcelWeightLoss.com

The Time to Share is Now – Jondi Whitis

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Jondi loves energy work, from her beloved EFT to a host of Tapping adaptations that reflect years of practical hands-on training, mentoring and client work. She calls herself ‘The People's Teacher' in honor of her commitment to making energy work accessible to all. 

Jondi's body of work includes training for groups and individuals 

seeking to use energy tools for healing, recovery from trauma, and personal transformation. She has a particular place in her professional life for humanitarian outreach and work with veterans, indigenous peoples, and teachers.
She is a longtime member of EFT International™, and a member of its Training and Accreditation Board, as well as ACEP's Humanitarian Committee, an original member of the EFT Guild, and the founder of the annual Spring Energy Event gathering.

Website: JondiWhitis.com

Bringing Back the Gamut 9 Process – Dawson Church

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Dawson is an award-winning science writer with three best-selling books to his credit. *The Genie in Your Genes* was the first book to demonstrate that emotions drive gene expression; *Mind to Matter* showed that the brain creates much of what we think of as “objective reality”; and *Bliss Brain* demonstrates that peak mental states rapidly remodel the brain for happiness. He has conducted dozens of clinical trials, and founded the National Institute for Integrative Healthcare to promote groundbreaking new treatments. Its largest program, the Veterans Stress Project, has offered free treatment to more than 20,000 veterans with PTSD over the past decade. Dawson shares how to apply these health and performance breakthroughs through the EFT Universe website, one of the largest alternative medicine sites on the web.

Website: DawsonChurch.com

Tapping Into Motherhood – Sarah Tobin

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Sarah Tobin is an Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) Therapist and Trainer, who works with her clients all over the world to help them release birth trauma, ancestral trauma, limiting beliefs and emotional blocks. She hosts corporate workshops teaching EFT as a self-management tool for stress, anxiety and overwhelm. Sarah also runs an online membership and community called Tapping into Motherhood, which supports over 100 members from Alaska to Florida in the US, and in the UK and Ireland with tapping videos, audio meditations, workshops, courses and more. 

Sarah also hosts a ‘Tapping into Podcast', which explores spiritual and alternative practices that can change lives. She is passionate about helping her clients to tap into their true selves and find their path of personal growth and transformation. With the use of EFT, she helps people to reduce symptoms of anxiety, PND, depression, PTSD and physical pain. She also helps to increase energy levels and improve sleep through the release of stress. Sarah believes in creating lasting change by combining powerful techniques with gentle compassion and unconditional love. Her mission is to empower her clients to become their own healers and create a life they truly love living.

Website: TappingForMums.com

Release Secrets from Your Cells – Julie Schiffman

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Julie holds a Master's Degree in Social Work and is an internationally recognized expert EFT practitioner. For more than 30 years, Julie has counseled thousands of clients, helping them break through physical and emotional barriers. Her life-changing YouTube videos have been viewed more than five million times.

Julie is trained in multiple healing modalities but is best known for her expertise in Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT/Tapping). In her private practice, she uses energy medicine techniques to help clients all around the globe overcome their physical and emotional challenges.

Julie is passionate about empowering people to heal and transform their lives from their power within. She has been a featured presenter for the *Tapping World Summit* every year since its inception in 2008 and she regularly participates in health and wellness summits.

Website: JulieSchiffman.com

Getting Your Life Back After Any Kind of Loss – Jamie Lee Silver

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Jamie Lee Silver lets her brilliant light shine and in her work as a sacred guide, leads her clients to new insights and happiness too! Jamie has been a light-bringer her whole life, starting as a child, and developing her skills through crystals, meditation, a lifelong Buddhist practice, Sacred Energy Training in Sedona, Arizona and her practice as a Certified and Accredited EFT Professional.  

Jamie learned of EFT just as her son Ben, 20, was beginning his treacherous journey through schizophrenia, and death by suicide. Jamie suffered fathomless sadness, and knew her life would never be the same, because “the worst” actually could happen. She clawed her way back to the light through Tapping and Buddhist Chanting, writing and meditation. Having brought her light back through her tears she became even more determined to help others who have suffered life-changing setbacks.

Through her loving intuition, Jamie continued to feel Ben's loving energy after his death and she began written automatic correspondence with her singer, songwriter, and poet son. In 2017 she privately published “Our Forever Ben, One Mom's Letters to Her Son-in-Spirit and His Poetic Replies.”  

In 2019 Jamie earned her EFT Certification and Accreditation through the EFT Tapping Training Institute. Since then she has served a worldwide clientele using EFT and Past/Present/Future Matrix Reimprinting. Jamie provides a magic carpet of services through her Silver Lining System of Healing After Great Loss, including car accidents, divorce and other life changing losses. 

Website: TapforHappiness.com

The Value of Remote and Self-Tapping – Stephen Daniel

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Dr. Stephen P. Daniel was the fifth person to ever be trained in Voice Technology by the world renowned Dr. Roger Callahan. Dr. Daniel is a conference presenter on the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) or The Tapping Solution for chronic illness. He is also advanced level trained in Nambudripad’s Allergy Elimination Techniques (NAET) by Dr. Nambudripad, and Level 3 trained in Total Body Modification (TBM) by Dr. Victor Frank.

Dr. Daniel has Master’s level training in Neurolink and is a Licensed Scientific Investigator of the Institute of Technical Energy Medicine, using Resonant Field Imaging. He was also trained to use Heart Rate Variability Instrumentation as well as Heartmath. In addition, Dr. Daniel studied and developed expertise in Field Control Therapy, Chinese medicine, and Dr. West’s lymphatic work.

Website:.QuantumTechniques.com

Tapping for Postpartum Depression and Anxiety – Jackie Viramontez

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Jackie Viramontez is a Master Level EFT trainer, Reiki Master, and bestselling author. Her personal journey through anxiety, traumatic loss, and depression transformed into a commitment to share the most effective healing tools with others. She teaches future practitioners and counselors in trauma-informed approaches through EFTInternational. Her holistic approach, which blends EFT, Inner Child and energy medicine, has been featured in VICE, Fast Company, and ENews. When she is not teaching, she is exploring Northern California with her filmmaker husband and joy-bubble 2-year-old son.

Website: TheEftMasterClass.com

Using Tapping in the Correctional System for Trauma, Addiction and Recovery – Kerri Rhodes

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Kerri Rhodes is a licensed mental health clinician with 30 years of experience, personally touched by the opioid epidemic and fueled by the loss of her son, Taylor. With a powerful message and rapidly growing platform, Kerri is challenging and changing how America treats and addresses mental health, trauma and substance use disorder.

Kerri has spent the last 29 years working in schools, community mental health, the justice system, and private practice. 

She brings her expertise to bear as she educates and empowers, in addition to the lessons Taylor taught her.

Her platform has reached schools, prisons, and national leaders. Invitations to speak, collaborate and teach are growing and include work with Weill Cornell Medicine, Shatterproof, Discovery Channel Plus, Senator Patrick Kennedy, Psychology Today, and the National Safety Council. 

Kerri is currently a trauma therapist in the Chesterfield County Jail and works with the HARP program that helps those incarcerated with substance use and mental health issues to heal. The HARP program has certified over 100 inmates in the Trauma Tapping Technique in collaboration with the Peaceful Heart Network.  

Need is a 4-Letter Word – Brad Yates

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Brad is known internationally for his creative and often humorous use of Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT). He is the author of the best-selling children's book *The Wizard's Wish*, the co-author of the best-seller *Freedom at Your Fingertips*, and a featured expert in the film *The Tapping Solution*. Brad has also presented at numerous events, including Jack Canfield's Breakthrough to Success, on teleseminars with stars from *The Secret*, Bob Doyle and Dr. Joe Vitale, and on internet radio talk shows. Brad has more than 1000 videos on YouTube that have been viewed over 37 million times.

Website: TapWithBrad.com

Pod #624: The power of speaking subconscious thoughts

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One of the phrases that Gary Craig used in the original EFT training videos that has stuck with me is “the comedies of our mind”.

When using this phrase, Gary was referring to the recurring thoughts that we had about ourselves that, when they were examined in the light of day, were seen to be comical or even farcical.

For example, right before I try something hard my subconscious mind will pipe up with, “You have failed before and you are going to fail again.”

Unexamined, that thought could stop me in my tracks. But if I pull it from the echo chamber of my subconscious mind and into the here and now, it loses its power. It might slow me down, but I can work my way through it,

This week in the podcast I share with you the process I use throughout my day to ensure I am not a prisoner to these unhelpful and untrue thoughts.

This is an approach that you can use in your tapping and also in your daily life without having to tap.

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Pod #623: Five questions to ask yourself before making a change

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New opportunities can be so exciting as they bring the promise of growth, change, and countless possibilities.

The problem is that most of us already have full lives and we don't have the time or energy to add something new.

When this happens, we have a tendency to take one of two approaches.

One approach is to take the plunge in the hope that things will “just work out”…but they rarely do. We find ourselves stretched too thin and not doing anything well.

The other approach is to not try at all. We decide our life is already too busy and allow great opportunities to pass us by, only to feel bad about missing out afterwards.

This week in the podcast I share with you the five questions I use when I am presented with an interesting opportunity. These questions have changed my life to help me to add new exciting things to my life, while still maintaining balance.

I also share how I use tapping to super charge these questions.

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Pod #622: Eight ways to use content-free tapping

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Tapping without words is one of my favorite ways to tap and I do it multiple times a day.

Recently, a few of my friends from the tapping community referred to this type of tapping as “content-free tapping”.

When I heard this, not only did I learn a new piece of vocabulary, it actually reframed my understanding of wordless tapping.

This week in the podcast I share with you my eight favorite ways to use content-free tapping.

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Pod #621: Tapping to be charitable towards ourselves

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Maintaining high standards for ourselves is a good thing and means we have goals to shoot for and measuring sticks with which to evaluate our progress.

Unfortunately, it is all too easy to fall into self-criticism and self-judgment if we fall short of these standards. So much so that it rarely feels like a choice, but the moment we fall short, the internal critical voice comes roaring forward to berate and belittle us.

Even when we are critical of ourselves, we are still able to extend kindness to others and give them the benefit of the doubt.

Evaluating our actions is a good thing…but becoming overly self-critical is harsh and unhealthy.

When I am too hard on myself, one of my best friends gently chides me in a way that transforms the way I feel about myself and what comes next.

He doesn't say, “Gene, you are being too hard on yourself!” because that would not shift my mind or mood.

Instead, he says something completely different that turns everything around.

In this week's podcast I share the one phrase that changes my perspective in these situations, and how that phrase can be incorporated in our tapping.

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Pod #620: Tapping with the HARP participants featuring Kerri Rhodes

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One of the highlights of this year's 24 Hours of Tapping was the conversation that I had with Kerri Rhodes. Kerri is one of the program directors of the Helping Addicts Recover Progressively (HARP) program in the Chesterfield (VA) County Jail.

The inmates use many of the tools created by the Peaceful Heart Network to create emotional healing and transformation as part of their recovery process.

In addition to learning about the HARP program from Kerri, we also had the opportunity to hear from the women in the program. Not only did they share their firsthand experience of tapping, but they also led us in a number of rounds of tapping.

This is a conversation that you don't want to miss.

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Pod #619: Just feeling your emotions

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Most of the time, when we sit down to tap, we are trying to create positive change.

We are trying to:

  • Release a negative emotion and create a positive one in its place
  • Clear resistance and limiting beliefs so that we can take consistent action
  • Heal a past trauma or story so that our present is not haunted by our past

I love every single one of these tapping outcomes!

But there are times when we cannot create profound change or facilitate deep healing.

Sometimes the best and healthiest course of action is simply to be fully present to the emotions we are feeling. And that is no bad thing.

This week in the podcast I explore the power of feeling the full depth and breadth of our emotions in the moment as we tap. It is one of my favorite ways to tap and something I do multiple times a week.

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Pod #618: Tapping in response to failure

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The primary goal of our subconscious mind is to keep us safe.

To do this, it is constantly learning lessons from our experience. For example, after touching a hot stove a small child quickly learns quickly not to do that again.

This only becomes a problem when the subconscious mind learns the “wrong” lesson from an experience.

I frequently see this come up when working with my clients around their reluctance to take action. Their resistance usually stems from one of these lessons that is neither useful nor true.

The most common lesson learned is that failure is bad, painful, and must be avoided at all costs. At first glance, this seems reasonable…except that the solution proposed by the subconscious mind is not to try at all.

The logical fallacy is obvious: Not taking action doesn't keep us safe, it keeps us stuck.

In this week's podcast, I share two ways to release the resistance to taking action that is created by past failures.

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Pod #617: Overcoming the corrosive nature of the word “too”

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Wanting to belong is a basic human desire.

For our ancestors thousands of years ago, belonging to a tribe was a matter of life and death. Without the protection of a tribe and its strength in numbers, death was a real prospect, so this desire to be accepted is part of our genetic heritage.

Even today, on a subconscious level, belonging equals safety and not belonging equals death, though intellectually we know that is no longer true in most situations.

We evaluate whether or not we belong in many ways.

  • Are we included in activities?
  • Do people ask us for our input and listen to our contributions?
  • Do others share and celebrate their success with us?
  • Are we given a warm welcome when we arrive?

Those are clear indications of invitation and inclusion, but there are more subtle signs too. When I am working with clients and students, one of my favorite ways to unearth times in their past when they felt excluded is to ask the question, “In the past, when were you told you were too much of something?”

These types of being “too something” include being too loud, too emotional, too closed off, too dramatic, too quiet, too serious…and the list goes on.

Being told that you are “too something” can bring up subconscious fears of being wrong, and therefore excluded from your tribe.

This week in the podcast we explore how and why the word “too” feels corrosive and as if it undermines our experience. I also share a tapping process you can use to transform those times when you were told you are “too something” into an asset and empowering resource.

If you have ever been told you are too something, then this is a must-listen.

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Pod #616 Tapping for peak performance w/ Erik Tait

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Erik Tait is a world class magician and someone I love to see perform. He has spent over two decades performing as a juggler, standup comedian, and magician.

In 2020 Erik decided that he wanted to compete in the 2022 FISM, which is the world championship of magic. Even though he is comfortable on almost any stage in the world, in preparing for the competition he realized he had some deep-seated fears that were affecting his performance. His fear was so acute that it would cause his hand to shake uncontrollably, which is the last thing a card magician wants.

Erik's therapist taught him tapping and he credits it (and other tools) with helping him to overcome his fear and win third place in the competition. This made him only the fourth American to accomplish this, and the first American to stand on the podium for card magic in two decades.

In this week's podcast, Erik shares how he was first introduced to tapping, how he used it to overcome his fear when preparing for FISM, and how he still uses it today.

Even if you never want to perform on stage, Erik's insights are valuable for anyone interested in improving their performance in any arena or endeavor.

ALSO, if you want to be blown away by world class magic, you can watch the act we talked about during the interview here: Erik Tait's FISM performance

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Guest: Erik Tait

Contact: web @ ErikTait.com; instagram @eriktait

About: Erik Tait has won awards for both standup comedy and magic throughout North America, appeared on Penn & Teller: Fool Us, and was the 2018 International Brotherhood of Magicians Gold Cups Close Up Competition Champion. He took home third place at FISM Quebec 2022, the world championships of magic, in the category of card magic. Erik is only the fourth American to accomplish this, and the first American to stand on the podium for card magic in two decades. He graduated with honors from the prestigious Humber College Comedy Writing and Performance program, which means Erik can academically prove why he is hilarious. Beyond that, Erik is the only magician in the world with a degree in funny. He has put academic theory into practice on some of the most prestigious stages in the world, including The Magic Castle, Second City Toronto, and the Hollywood Improv. His client list has some of the most recognizable brands in the country including Honda, Macy’s, and Bark Box.

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