8 Questions to Create A Root Cause Roadmap
What pattern do you want to breakthrough more than anything?
“I’ve worked on this for years and nothing has worked.”
I get excited when a client tells me this.
If an issue is getting worse I get excited: It means the body is very motivated to finally heal.
The body is very wise:
• It can help us heal if we know how to work with it OR
• It can block us from healing if it thinks healing is dangerous on some level (healing = risk, rejection, loss, stretching of comfort zones etc)
After I emailed you last night I thought of an 8th question I forgot to add to the root cause list.
Grab your journal and with your non dominant hand tap as you write:
If you’re a practitioner, ask these questions on your intake form or first session. I’ll be teaching my Level 1/2/3 Students to do this in the 2024 Cohort and during the first ever low cost EFT clinic (starting this winter).
1. What triggers the pattern? Tap on the triggers.
2. What beliefs make it worse? Tap on the beliefs.
3. Who or what taught you each belief? Tap on the past memories.
4. What’s worse: The pattern or the way you beat up for still struggling with this pattern? Tap on the inner critic.
5. What would you do if you were free from it? Tap on the resistance to living as if you’re free now.
6. What loss might you face if you break free entirely? What relationships or comfort zones would change? Level 3 students can use Parts work and advanced Energy Psychology skills to work through this root cause.
7. NEW: What discomfort would you face (emotionally socially or physically) if you were free from this pattern? What support systems could you call on now to set yourself up for success? Tap on hesitation to taking action.
8. Who would be “off the hook” if you were free from their wounding? Tap and honor the pain. Tap to reconcile the fact that your freedom might be the retribution. This requires level 3 skills to be done thoroughly.
If you’ve been struggling with the same pattern for years, try applying these root cause questions.
If you have clients who’ve seen a dozen practitioners, apply these root cause questions. If they’ve already done traditional somatic experiencing and mindset work, but haven’t released the root trauma, you can be the guide!
These questions can lead you to the instigating trauma. With the right trauma informed practitioner you can release the imprint safely and thoroughly.
I’d have broken free much earlier if I had found somatic tools like EFT Tapping, combined with root cause thinking.
If you or your client is blocked, it’s because there is unprocessed pain in the past PAIRED with a part of you that thinks it’s unsafe or risky to revisit or release that pain.
Solution: Process the pain in a way that feels safe to the body (Level 1/2) AND ally with the younger or inherited part of self that doesn’t believe is safe YET (Level 3)
If a client has worked on it for years, they need a trained guide to honor the root in a safe and respectful way.
Let that guide be you.
If you want to get trained in root cause based EFT Tapping, Inner Child Work, and trauma informed somatic therapies, I am taking a small group through an intimate practitioner training.
We kickoff in 2 weeks.
Early bird live bonus tapping with me starts next weekend.
No prerequisites.
No license necessary.
Students who want access to all level 1/2/3 content have a fun discounted specialty option.
Disclaimer: Medication has a beautiful time and place. Thank you 21st century science!
We can work with modern medicine to support the brain as you look inward to the root cause of the physical and emotional pain.