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In this episode, Nikki interviews Marilu Wren about the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), also known as tapping. How it can help with chronic pains, stress, anxiety, and even limiting beliefs and money blocks. 

Marilu Wren, a Mum of four from the south of England, is an Advanced EFT Practitioner and Kinesiologist, alongside her passion for Energy Medicine she refers to herself as an Energy Coach. Using her training, skillset and lived experience of the last two difficult decades, she has a passion for helping her clients & their loved ones to overcome adversity & challenging circumstances. To help them release shock & trauma from their body and restore emotional balance through her energy coaching, whilst also resourcing them for resilience moving forward. She finds EFT Tapping a powerful asset in her work, this evidence-based therapy helps to calm the Amygdala, reset the nervous systems and hardwire the brain to deal better with adversity whilst her beloved meditation has been shown to improve the emotional resilience of the brain.

Nikki and Marilu discuss

• What Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) tapping is
• The tapping location, at the ends of certain meridian lines
• Using EFT to help with chronic conditions such as pain, cancer, MS, along with mental health such as stress, anxiety, and depression, along with fears, PTSD and more. 
• It can also help with entrepreneurs with mindset, money, limiting beliefs, procrastination, and overwhelm as a few examples. 
• Stress, and how it impacts many parts of your life
• How to talk through the subject while tapping
  • First round is the negative thoughts
  • Second round - tease out the possibility of what could happen
  • Third round - positive, confident, and safe wording
• Marilu goes through a couple of rounds as an example that you can do with us
• The different points
  • Side of the hand under the small finger
  • Top of the head
  • Occipital bone middle of the eyebrows
  • Beside the eye
  • Under the eye 
  • Under the nose
  • Chin
  • Under the clavicle
  • Under the arm where the bra strap is
  • Inner wrist
  • Each of the nail beds
• Some studies regarding EFT
• Using it with children
• The importance of grounding

Some studies that Marilu mentioned in the webinar:

Research study in EFT for general anxiety disorder:
https://trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13063-018-2892-0

Study comparing EFT vs CBT and how many sessions are required:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4898279/#:~:text=The%20results%20indicated%20that%20the,sessions%20for%20the%20CBT%20program.

Research study for EFT vs Psychotherapy

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Show music: Happy Dreams - By David Fesliyan