EFT4Vets

For most Veterans, working with a non-military coach, even talking with a non-veteran is very difficult. In my experience, most Veterans only trust veterans, and only share what they have been through, with a hand selected number of people.

In my experience, it helps when a practitioner starts the conversation with the question: “What do you need to know about me?”

The word “healing” does not go down great with some Veterans. It has a feeling of new age, woo woo, and is not acceptable. For the sake of rapport, I often start a conversation by replacing the word “healing” with “relaxing”.

The number of people who have reported symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of being directly exposed to the World Trade Center attacks has increased over time, according to a new study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association , based on a survey of 50,000 people conducted five to six years after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Even though military combat is a different experience from one-time disasters, “Our findings are very consistent with combat veterans,” says Dr. Thorpe. Stress symptoms may increase over time because repercussions from the original event — such as job loss or health problems — may add to the strain, she said.

Many Veterans prefer the word relaxation over the word healing. EFT is a powerful tool to help a Veteran relax about a traumatic event and regain sleep.

As EFT practitioners, we don’t judge, we don’t condone, and we don’t excuse what happened in the past, we help HEAL what happened. All of us have a deeply engrained fear of judgment of our actions. The fear of judgment is often greater than the fear of  failure, and it stops us from moving forward [...]