Practice Makes Peace
Evidence based practices to take back your mind, regulate your emotions, and live your magical life.
How Tapping on ‘Positive’ Emotions Can Block Your Business
What happens when you feel joy scrolling social media instead of marketing your business? What happens when you only feel good enough when someone praises you? Learn how to tap on the dopamine hits and habits that keep you blocked in your career using this EFT Tapping Script for Procrastination and Unsupportive Positive Emotions that lead to self sabotage.
Postpartum Depression and Anxiety: Not What You Think
Postpartum Depression and Anxiety might not be a chemical imbalance from sleep deprivation. Explore how Depression might be a Secondary emotion to repressed trauma, rage, guilt and sexual betrayal with Somatic EFT Tapping Expert Jackie Viramontez.
Anxiety Didn’t Start With You: Inherited Trauma
Can you inherit anxiety? Can you inherit depression? In this exericse for healing intergenerational trauma, you will identify your trauma patterns and take steps to break the cycle.
Surface Level vs. Root Level Emotions
How can you tell if you’re facing a Secondary Emotion?
Social Anxiety causes you to people please = Surface
Anger causes you to lash out = Surface
Insecurity causes you to judge others = Surface
Depression causes you to numb = Surface
Underneath these surface feelings are core emotions that, left unaddressed, will keep leading to reactive behavior and emotional rollercoasters 🎢.
A sure sign that you’ve uncovered a core emotion…
What If 80% of Anxiety is Hidden Codependency
Anxiety is a natural response to threat.
Codependency is when you overly rely on others to get your emotional needs met: The need to feel loved, valuable, good enough, or calm.
If the threat at the root of your anxiety is other people’s opnions, your anxiety might actually be codependency.
Read for the 3 statements to begin to reclaim your peace.
The Opposite of Codependent is NOT Independent
Codependence is defined as one person relying on another for their emotional or physical well-being. I was a professional eggshell-walker. Tiptoeing around busy streets, afraid of triggering my mom’s PTSD. Tiptoeing around my dad, afraid of triggering his terror.
EFT Tapping Points and Their Meaning
Chinese Medicine practitioners say that specific emotions get stored in specific organs:
Anger gets stored in the liver. Grief gets stored in the lungs. Worry gets stored in the stomach. In Emotional Freedom Technique (aka EFT Tapping), we tap pressure points that correlate with the major organs of the body, allowing stuck emotional energy to release. Check out this infographic.
PTSD Is Not Just For Veterans
Every moment we've ever lived is etched into our memory and nervous system. The moment is over, but the stress lives on in our body, our gut reactions, and our thoughts.
I've never been to war, but I mark 'YES' to 12 of the 17 qualifiers on the PTSD checklist. Most of my clients score positive on the PTSD checklist. They feel hypervigilant compared to friends. They feel alone even when they're in a group. They avoid social situations, activities, or relationships as a way to avoid pain. As my mentor used to say, "these are perfectly normal reactions to the abnormal life events we've experienced."
Releasing Empathic Anxiety: 4 Simple Strategies
Your anxiety might have less to do with your past than you think.
Empathic anxiety is when we are feeling someone else's feelings (often unconsciously) and internalizing them as our own. Empaths can feel the feelings of others, often internalizing them to the point that they can’t distinguish their own emotions from someone else’s emotion.
What is Mindfulness Meditation and How Does it Ease Anxiousness?
Mindfulness is observing the present moment.
Meditation means to train the mind.
Mindfulness meditation is the practice of training the mind to observe the present moment.
In this week's meditation (below), I focus on four tiers of mindfulness: 1. Observing the Breathe 2. Observing the Body 3. Observing the Thoughts 4. Observing the Emotions
