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EFT Tapping for Trauma Recovery
Learn traumatic stress management with Emotional Freedom Technique training
The needs of people suffering from traumatic stress are sometimes misunderstood. Family, friends, society, and work infrastructures are well-meaning but often not equipped to provide significant support or understanding during challenging times.
Therapy is sometimes not an accessible resource for all. Some trauma sufferers are unable to speak about their pain, or they do not feel safe going to therapy. For others, the cost or fear of being subjected to discrimination within their jobs, families, or communities prevents them from seeking traditional therapy.
The result: a life spent feeling broken, isolated, and in the grip of hopelessness.
What is EFT tapping?
Emotional Freedom Techniques, or EFT tapping, is a somatic tool that can give trauma sufferers their lives back. It helps them process trauma and provides them a powerful coping skill for trauma recovery.
EFT tapping helps people build emotional and mental resiliency.
It is a potent resource for dealing with post traumatic stress, domestic violence, grief, shell shock, anxiety, emotional distress, and many other of life’s challenges. It’s a technique that is quick to learn and simple to perform.
EFT is based on the Traditional Chinese Medical practice of acupuncture and entails using the fingertips to tap on specific meridian points located on various parts of the body, including hands, face and chest. This tapping is combined with focusing on negative emotions or concerns a person is experiencing, and may also use positive affirmations to alleviate negative or burdening feelings.
EFT tapping using one of it’s ‘Tearless Trauma Techniques’ offers significant relief to those with post-traumatic stress, it is easy to use when you need it, and once learned can be done anywhere or discreetly in private. It is surprisingly comfortable even when dealing with tough and troubling memories, and usually the client experiences huge relief in just one session.
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Watch Wayne Tuttle work with a client to help her overcome her anxiety using EFT Tapping and his proprietary Flow State Techniques.
EFT Tapping with Flow State Techniques demonstration
EFT tapping services with the Tapping Hotline
The Tapping Hotline is a team of EFT practitioners specializing in traumatic stress relief. The hotline’s focus is to help relieve the debilitating symptoms of trauma for military veterans, law enforcement, victims of domestic violence, and anyone else needing it through group trainings, online offerings, workshops, and speaking engagements.
Wayne Tuttle is the founder of the Tapping Hotline and Flow State Techniques™, a proprietary, modified EFT technique that simplifies trauma relief so that people can gain control of their emotions and lives.
Learn more about Wayne’s approach to EFT tapping
Symptoms of trauma helped by EFT tapping
Anger
Anxiety
Combat fatigue
Combat stress
Complete exhaustion and physical malaise
Compromised relationships
Depression
Emotional distress
Emotional numbness
Fearful experiences
Flash backs
Grief
Guilt
Insomnia
Irritability
Shell shock
Social anxiety
Worry
Who EFT tapping helps
EFT tapping helps people coping with effects of acute and/or severe trauma from:
Work in law enforcement
Military service
Domestic violence
Mental trauma, including post traumatic stress, acute stress disorder, and combat disorder
Abusive relationships
Sexual abuse trauma, including MST, or military sexual trauma, and military sexual assault
Physical trauma
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Benefits of EFT tapping training
After training in EFT, most people, having addressed a disturbing memory, experience a sense of comfort, and at times even euphoria. Internal peace is reestablished, and some sleep more soundly than they have in years.
One of the most significant changes is in how trauma sufferers relate to others after EFT training. They can enjoy their relationships and feel able to take an active part in their lives.
Most astonishing of all: after EFT training many start to forget about what had been bothering them no, which often happens in mere minutes. The emotional or mental distress fades like an old memory.
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After EFT tapping
EFT tapping gives trauma sufferers the ability to control their emotions and choose to feel what they feel, without the need to push it away.
When in emotional pain, oftentimes people will try to push it away, suppress or compartmentalize it, distract themselves, and even use mind altering chemicals to get as far away from the pain as possible. Now, with EFT, they have a means to address the suffering immediately and to gain control over it.
Also, knowing how to deal with the pain allows people the freedom to actually experience pain and process grief in a healthy non-debilitating way. This is because they know that at any point they can neutralize the challenging experience with EFT tapping.
Folks are able to experience more joy in their lives, more control in general, and have significant peace of mind in knowing they have increased power and influence to manage challenging experiences, thanks to EFT.
Once the tool is in place for neutralizing traumatic stress, other issues can surface that may also be addressed. Tapping can help with those, too. If the issues are from a very young age, most people will have forgotten the memories that are causing them. Repeated tapping on these issues will alleviate much distress. However it may not remove it completely unless one can get to the original memories. Hypnosis is a remarkable way to help people surface what they can't remember. Wayne utilizes a self-hypnosis technique as part of his EFT/Flow State techniques that benefit those dealing with suppressed or forgotten memories.
“After an EFT session, clients feel as though they have trouble connecting with what had previously caused them such distress. It’s like they’re suddenly bored with it, the exact opposite of triggered, after an EFT tapping session.”
–Wayne Tuttle, Founder of the Tapping Hotline
“I stopped to see Wayne on the way to New York to teach a group of developers how to use a new development platform I had just learned. The material was new, developers are critical people, and I never liked public speaking. It's a common fear.
“Wayne took me through some EFT exercises and an amazing thing happened. I did not become fearless but he put that particular fear behind me. I taught a couple more classes like that and I don't mind standing up in front of a group of people now.
“The company I worked for also promoted EFT for all employees. It has done a lot to eliminate painful stress in many situations for me. Just ask me, in front of a lot of people.”
— Gary
Successful emotional distress recovery with EFT tapping
“I met a client at a local cafe. We sat in the front window and tapped for an hour and a half as people around us watched. One woman amazed by what we were doing stayed until we were done as she ‘absolutely had know what we were doing’. The client left elated. He referred to the previous distress he had experienced with the following: ‘I got nothing, it’s boring to even think about it.’ This is the impact EFT tapping has. It can change the course of someone’s life.”
–Wayne Tuttle, Founder, The Tapping Hotline
Wayne’s work with three individuals showcases the possibilities of recovery from emotional distress and trauma with EFT tapping.
Two of them were suicidal when they came to Wayne for help. Wayne found out one had planned on killing himself the next day. The other one told him, "I'm going to kill myself, this is it, it's over. There's nothing I can do."
In both cases, after tapping for 10 minutes, the emotional distress was gone. They no longer felt tied to or triggered by the traumatic experience that had been causing them pain.
The third individual had cried herself to dehydration every year around the anniversary of a dear friend’s death. This had been a pattern for 10 years. Wayne tapped with her over the course of the two weeks before the anniversary when the distress had started triggering. She called him the day after the anniversary of the death and said, "I forgot about it." The hold that the trauma had on her was gone.