As a Clinical Social Worker I am all about empowerment and EFT is all about acceptance of self – a great therapeutic combination. Clients can often come to us feeling they have no power, little or no control in their lives, and have been spending lots of time in negative […] Read more »
Desiderata
We all have challenging times in our lives and, if we are lucky, there are inspirational influences in the form of books, poetry, music, places, activities and people that help encourage us, remind us of our strengths, renew our faith in ourselves (and sometimes in others) and guide us to […] Read more »
Five Positive Side Effects of EFT
SIDE EFFECTS of EFT: These are some of my favorite: You notice you are smiling – a lot. You feel more gratitude for things, people in your life. You have less worry, less judgment of yourself and of others. You realize you no longer feel you have to control every moment. You […] Read more »
The Dichotomy of SUDS
Getting a baseline for someone’s discomfort and checking for any movement in the intensity is – like getting to a specific – a key practice in EFT. Most often used is a 0 to 10 scale often referred to as “SUDS” or “SUDs” i.e., Subjective Unit of Distress Scale, developed […] Read more »
Stretching to Fit – Procrustes Style!
We talk a lot about our ideas about what makes us humans tick. We also tend to get ideas, hunches, or intuitions as to what is going on with our clients – even ourselves! Without getting into a debate about where all this comes from – or whether we are […] Read more »
Baby Steps
TAKING BABY STEPS CAN BE A VERY GOOD THING I am a very big proponent of baby steps. That’s how most all changes are made. If you will make just one – however small – change in your life it can break the cycle of “stuckness.” After all if you […] Read more »
How Professionals integrate EFT – videos
Sometimes when we are sharing EFT with a professional person or audience it would be useful to say, “Would you like to hear how others in your field integrate and use EFT?” My goal with this series of videos was to answer just that need. Here are some of video […] Read more »
What do VETs really want in therapy?
How Veterans Perceive Therapy and Therapists Only 50% of veterans with distress ever come for services. Of the half that do walk into the “Behavioral Health” services door, you have only about 20 minutes to show them you “get them” before 60% decide to drop out after the first visit. […] Read more »
Difference in Movie Technique and Tell the Story
While initially Gary often used the terms the Movie Technique and Tell the Story interchangeably he now clarifies them separately. The main difference? Privacy. The movie is done silently in their head, Tell the Story, as the terms indicates, is told out loud. In Tell the Story the person does […] Read more »
Perception turned upside down
Here’s FB post that Micheal DeMolina shared last year. This “exercise” illustrates the sort of shift of looking at self and the world we work to help our clients have. Watching that shift is what keeps me in this field. Today was the absolute worst day ever And don’t try […] Read more »
