I’m passionate about helping my clients find their voices.
That’s because I know what it’s like not to be heard.
Growing up in a large family, I was fourth of 10 siblings very close in age. My parents struggled to make ends meet and were always very busy. We were expected to do our part to help, and we were not allowed to complain.
I struggled to be heard and was often ignored when I did speak up: the classic middle child syndrome. Becoming the quiet observer, I developed the ability to tune into the dynamics between family members.
How can my early experiences help you? As a result of this family dynamic, I developed a passion to help others find their voice.
This came in handy when I took a job in the criminal justice field, working as an advocate at a county attorney’s office. My clients were crime victims. I heard their stories and helped them deal with the fallout. The job was very intense; I was steeped in their trauma and their fight or flight responses, all day long.
EFT to the Rescue
You can’t hear the stories of people in severe distress without being affected yourself. Vicarious trauma, or secondary traumatic stress, is very common in healthcare providers and those who deal with others’ stresses on a regular basis. It began to affect me. Hearing my clients’ stories every day, all week long, keyed me up, leaving me unable to sleep.
I received ongoing training in how to reduce my clients’ stress, but the training didn’t address the ways in which their stress affected me. The situation was beginning to tell on me, and I was afraid that my health would suffer. I even began to wonder if I should remain in the field.
I began to search for solutions. I tried meditation, yoga, and Reiki.
Stumbling on Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), it was a game changer. I went to a mind/body/spirit seminar and was very interested in learning more. One of the speakers had a booth set up and offered to demonstrate the technique with me. My shoulder hurt, so I asked her for help with that. We tapped together for less than 15 minutes, and the pain disappeared. I was stunned.
Another friend used EFT to help me identify and release feelings of stress about finances. This allowed me to resolve some tough financial issues and began to change the way I feel about money.
That was all it took to convince me that EFT was a stress reduction technique that worked for me. I felt it could help my clients as well, and I became certified as an EFT Coach.
EFT for Anxious feelings and Stress
Right away, I began to see the efficacy of EFT. Simple and easy to teach, it worked wonders with individuals to reduce their anxious feelings. It also calmed them, so they were able to speak with ease and confidence.
When I worked with clients to take victim impact statements, for those who were open to it, I used EFT Tapping to help them deal with anxious thoughts that came up as they wrote about the stressful events and how those thoughts affected them. For many of them, their ability to feel and express difficult emotions had been suppressed. In finding the courage to speak, they discovered the power of their own voices.
EFT for Food Cravings and Emotional Eating
Later, when I started my coaching practice, I found that EFT helps address food cravings and emotional eating. Food cravings are often a side effect of “stuffing down our truth,” food cravings are also related to not being able to access our true voice. EFT is a powerful tool for helping people break their unhealthy relationship with food and move to a place of self-love and balance. I’ve seen it happen many times.
Whether you suffer from emotional eating, low self-esteem, self-sabotage, fear of success, limiting beliefs, chronic illness, procrastination, relationships issues, or many other emotional and physical ailments that stand in the way of your happiness and well-being, EFT may offer solutions for you.
You deserve peace and emotional balance in every area of your life as well. Let me help you find it.
A free consultation will help determine if we are a good fit to work together.