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Relational Neuroscience And Self-Compassion With Sarah Peyton

Relational Neuroscience And Self-Compassion With Sarah Peyton

In this episode, Jill interviews Sarah Peyton, a neuroscience educator whose book, The Antiracist Heart: A Self-Compassion and Activism Handbook, has recently been released. They discuss the importance of grounded care and acknowledgment of everyone's experience, combined with a fierce invitation to participate and change.

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What Are The Basics Of EFT/Tapping?
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What Are The Basics Of EFT/Tapping?

Tapping is an evidence-based stress reduction technique that can also help with trauma. We tap on different parts of our face and our chest that correspond to some of the areas used in acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine- where they would put needles- but instead of using needles, we use acupressure or tapping. As we're tapping and saying the thing out loud that's distressing us, it sends calming signals to the stress center of our brain, and it allows our brain to rewire the way it processes things that were previously stressful. 

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How Tapping Helps Your Brain
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How Tapping Helps Your Brain

EFT/tapping (also called the Emotional Freedom Technique) is an evidence-based stress reduction modality that can be used for PTSD and trauma, phobias, uncomfortable emotions, processing breakups, relationships, grief, anxiety, depression, and anything else perceived as stressful.

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Don’t Bypass Negative Emotions - Learn EFT/Tapping
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Don’t Bypass Negative Emotions - Learn EFT/Tapping

The tapping technique allows us to process whatever we’re feeling, and then perhaps let it go or learn something from it.  When we don't process it, when we don't sit with it and deal with it, then our negative emotions can hang around all the time. That may lead to always feeling sad (or angry, or ashamed) and spending that emotional energy in ways that we could spend it otherwise (rest, connection, joy). 

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