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If you are interested in helping Veterans and their families heal, you will have made the experience that the military community in general is not exactly open and excited about healing offers. Most Veterans acknowledge the work and express gratitude, but are far from asking for help for themselves.

This is hard to understand for those who want to help, and rather disheartening and frustrating.

Many give up, leave their good intentions out there but withdraw from actively reaching out.

If we want to make a difference on a larger scale, we need to understand that the toughest thing for helping Veterans heal is NOT to release the trauma, but to find ways to help them TRUST us!

Having a tool that works as well as EFT doesn’t mean that Vets are interested in connecting with us. There is a LOT more understanding about Military mindset and many insights are necessary to prove ourselves worthy and trustworthy.

If we don’t understand this, we will not succeed in making a difference to many, but only connect with a few. Read the rest of this entry »

EFT help for PTSD. Self help for PTSD.

Hello to all who read this testimonial concerning my recovery from a massive Panic Attack using EFT.

I received complete recovery for that particular event through Tapping.

A short history of me: Basically I was a driver on convoys in Croatia and Bosnia in early 90′s before the Dayton Agreement.

Our rules of engagement were simple:  If anyone fires at you, #1 don’t fire back, #2 if someone from our contingent is killed or wounded severely, put the person in back of the truck and keep going, do not fire back. #3 in dark humour amongst ourselves was quake like a sitting duck. We had 90 bullets, trust me they counted them all at the end of tours. If one of us from the United Nations Protection Force fired his/her rifle and hit a belligerent, they would be sent back to Canada to PROVE their innocence.

Any how that was my ride over there and needless to say I came back fucked up. It took 6 years for the PTSD, Combat Stress etc… to go full throttle on my brain, body and soul, the latter being the worst in my opinion. More than fifteen years has past and I am still fucked up, but not nearly as bad. Read the rest of this entry »

The world of a veteran with PTSD is very different than that of a civilian. Most troops don’t go online to browse the alternative healing sites when they realize that they are having trouble when they come home. They would feel rather ridiculous to do this, and were trained in the believe that they have to toughen it out, to suck it up and to get over their trauma alone. Asking for help is almost impossible for many, and they don’t even return phone calls if they are called by someone who cares. At the same time, it often seems to be more acceptable for the military to see their traumatized veterans self medicate with alcohol and drugs, than to give them access to information that can help them heal and be strong again.

If the military doesn’t support community resources in getting the word out, then the community’s abilities are limited.

I hope that someday, the decision makers have the courage to see beyond their fears and learn to understand in a new way who is friend and who is enemy.

Many people want to help right now – I hope and dream that they will soon be heard and supported in doing so.

Given that of the 300.000 returning troops that have or are expected to develop PTSD (Rand Study), only 50% reach out to the VA, and only 25% receive at least minimally adequate help, it seems clear that we need to think outside of the box when it comes to offering help and support that is acceptable for soldiers and their families.

According to the RAND Study, 39% of the returning troops feel that their immediate family and friends are more helpful than a mental health professional. Why are these numbers, these facts ignored?

If we truly want to help our Veterans heal, we have to support those who have contact, who support them right now.

Families and friends can talk to a veteran in a very different, caring and compassionate way, much better than a mental health professional who has a very limited amount of time to adjust the drug cocktail that someone might receive. It is the time and caring that many Veterans need.

Due to its simplicity and effectiveness, EFT is the perfect tool to help Veterans and their families cope with the stress of deployment. It is so easy to learn that even children can offer to tap with their mom or dad, and can remind them to do EFT when they get upset.

However, when we don’t have an open door to share with the soldiers and their families about this technique and how to apply it, as well as the resources that are available to them to get started, there is not much we can do to help.

If you receive the www.eftuniverse.com newsletter, you have already heard about the meeting with a  Colonel from Walter Reed last week, as well as the round table at the committee for veterans affairs on July 21st.

I was honored to attend the meeting, and to share about the work with Veterans and EFT.

As a result of the meeting, Walter Reed is now open to duplicate our stressproject.org study with their own personnel.

Please read the full report of David Feinstein of the second visit to congress, the meeting and the roundtable hearing, which was attended by Dawson Church and David Feinstein, PhD and others.
For Report of First Visit See http://www.eftuniverse.com/images/pdf_files/eft-1st-visit-congress.pdf