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Ever wonder what's actually happening in your brain during an EFT session? Donald Hebb gave us the language for it back in 1949: neurons that fire together, wire together.

Here's how that plays out in tapping. A distressing memory and the calming input of acupressure stimulation co-activate at the same time. Across repeated rounds, the nervous system starts to encode that memory alongside a signal of safety rather than threat.

This is the mechanism the field calls memory reconsolidation. It's the same territory we map in Level 1-2 training, where we look at how traumatic events imprint on the brain and the physiological markers that peer-reviewed studies have linked to EFT outcomes.

"Fire together, wire together. Rewire with intention."

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The day before teaching EFT, the real preparation isn't about the curriculum, the protocol, or even the room setup. It's about the trainer's own nervous system.

Co-regulation begins the moment the facilitator walks in. Before a single word is spoken, before the first tap, learners are already attuning to the state of the person at the front of the room. Calm settles into calm. Activation ripples outward just as easily.

That's why so many experienced trainers describe a quiet ritual the day before: a longer tapping round, time outdoors, a slower pace, fewer commitments. Not as self-care in the abstract, but as part of the work itself. The field they bring into the room tomorrow is being shaped today.

It's a humbling reminder that in EFT training, who we are when we walk in matters as much as what we teach.

Congratulations to Bosh on achieving accreditation and certification status

I’m Janine Bosh, a certified EFT practitioner and the founder of Truly Hue in Perkasie, Pennsylvania. I support women who feel self-conscious about their appearance or body and uncomfortable being noticed. This might mean hiding in photos, avoiding attention at work, or holding back in social settings.

Through my work in color analysis, I’ve seen how empowering it can be when a woman begins to see herself differently. EFT is a natural extension of that work, offering space to explore the self-critical thoughts, feelings, and beliefs that can make being seen feel uncomfortable.

My approach is warm and collaborative, guided by each woman’s experiences, goals, and pace. Together, we work toward greater self-acceptance and confidence, so she can feel more comfortable expressing herself and participating more fully in the moments that matter to her. I offer individual EFT sessions online through Truly Hue.

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The weight you carry doesn't have to stay 🤍

Some emotional material doesn't respond to more willpower. It responds to a different kind of touch.

Accumulated burden, past adversity, trauma, and the limiting beliefs that grow out of them tend to live in the body as much as the mind. Pushing harder rarely moves them. Often it sets them deeper.

EFT works the other direction. Gentle stimulation of acupressure points, while attending to the difficult material, signals safety to the parasympathetic nervous system. The charge around a memory or belief begins to settle rather than escalate. Not forcing. Not fighting. Simply releasing.

That is the heart of the practitioner path: helping people set down what they have been carrying, through an evidence-based, somatically grounded protocol.

Craig Weiner (1961-2026)

In Memoriam

It is with deep sadness that we share the news of the sudden and unexpected passing of Craig Weiner. He was a respected colleague, volunteer trustee of EFT International, Master Trainer of Trainers, Doctor of Chiropractic and valued friend. He passed away at the end of September.

Craig was a true champion of EFT in the global community, well-known for his advocacy of the modality. He joined EFTi in 2016, and a couple of years later volunteered on our Research Committee, drawing on his passion for clear and effective communication about the growing scientific base for the modality.

From 2022, he took on a leadership role by stepping up as Chair of the Board of Trustees. He helped the charity evolve into one with stronger governance and a clearer purpose. Along with his colleagues, he was keen to ensure that EFTi progressed through the work of a collective of leaders. As a result he gave space for a variety of views to be heard and included at both Board and committee level, creating a culture of collaboration and openness. He was committed to creating meaningful benefits for our members so as to ensure more of the public could be served through skilful and ethical EFT of a professional standard.

Craig brought a playful demeanour to match his high work-ethic, and his empathy and kind intent were always woven into communications. Alongside his cherished wife and partner, Alina Frank, Craig taught EFT and Matrix Reimprinting to many students and practitioners worldwide and produced the film The Science of Tapping. We extend our kindest sympathies to his loved ones during this difficult time.

Thank you to those who have reached out to us already with your remembrance of Craig. We are greatly touched by your words.

We know that on reading this email many of you will feel the loss personally as you were touched by his caring and passion for sharing knowledge. We invite you to share your reflections on the reflections page we’ve created to remember him by.

Sincerely,

Sejual, Em and Ralph on the Board of Trustees

Reflection Page:
https://eftinternational.org/in-memoriam-dr-craig-weiner/

The books that shaped how we teach EFT.

These four sit on our desks, not our shelves. Each one maps to a theoretical pillar the EFT methodology draws from, and each gave us language for what tapping actually does in the body.

The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk. The case for trauma stored somatically, and why working through the body produces relief that insight alone cannot reach.

The Polyvagal Theory by Stephen Porges. The framework behind why EFT calms the parasympathetic nervous system before any cognitive shift takes place.

The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge. Neuroplasticity made accessible. The brain rewires through repeated somatic experience, not understanding.

Molecules of Emotion by Candace Pert. The biochemistry of the mind-body connection that underwrites the energetic-emotional model practitioners work with every session.

What we read shapes how we practice. ✨

Three Questions Before We Accept a Certification Mentee

The first question isn't about EFT experience. It's about the unresolved material a candidate is still carrying, their nervous system regulation under acute client distress, and their relationship with outcome attachment.

Skill can be trained. Readiness to hold space cannot be faked.

Inside the free 30-minute consultation, we assess what most intake processes miss: practitioner self-activation, somatic capacity, and the candidate's working relationship with uncertainty. These are the most common precursors to burnout and scope-of-practice drift.

The right intake questions protect the client before the training ever begins.

Coaches. Nurses. Teachers. Career changers with no clinical background at all.

These are the people filling our EFT Level 1-2 cohorts. And many of them almost didn't reach out, because they believed a myth that quietly costs our field its most motivated practitioners.

The myth sounds like this: mind-body modalities like EFT are only safe in the hands of licensed clinicians. Anyone else risks doing harm.

Here's what that gets wrong. EFT was designed from the beginning to be accessible to everyone, including as a self-regulation tool you use on yourself. Accessibility isn't a loophole. It's a founding principle.

Professional training doesn't hand someone a clinical scope they were never meant to hold. It gives them a clearly defined one. From day one, our curriculum covers scope of practice, informed consent, the EFT ethics code, and referral protocols, so practitioners know exactly what they're working with and when to refer out.

A coach trained in EFT isn't pretending to be a therapist. They're a coach with a powerful, evidence-based self-regulation tool and a clear professional boundary around how they use it.

If you've been quietly disqualifying yourself from this work because you don't have letters after your name, please reconsider. The training was built for you. The ethics were built around you. And the clients who need this approach are waiting.

Tapping belongs to everyone. Practising it professionally belongs to those willing to train well. 💛

"My anxiety." "My relationship stress." "My confidence issues."

These are the openings that quietly sink EFT sessions. Not for lack of tapping, but because the issue was never specific enough to actually move.

Think of a global issue as a tangled thread. "Stress at work" holds hundreds of individual moments, sensations, and beliefs woven together. Tap on the whole tangle and clients often feel lighter, calmer, more hopeful. Then Monday arrives, the same trigger fires, and the pattern returns intact.

Specificity is where lasting change actually begins. One precise memory. The Tuesday meeting in 2019. The exact moment your client's shoulders rose. The single sentence a parent said in 1997. That is the entry point where aspects shift, SUDS drops hold, and memory reconsolidation has something concrete to work with.

A few questions we train practitioners to ask:

>> When did you first feel this exact sensation in your body?
>> If this feeling had a scene attached, what would it be?
>> When else did you feel a similar feeling?

Global issues tell you what your client is carrying. Specific events tell you where to tap. The work gets quieter, slower, more precise. And the results finally stay 💡

"We need to slow down here" is one of the most clinically skilled sentences an EFT practitioner can say.

But it rarely feels that way in the room. ✨

The research consistently shows meaningful change in 4-10 sessions, and that statistic can quietly become a stopwatch in a new practitioner's head. If the client isn't shifting by session three, something must be wrong. If we're still circling one memory, we must be missing the "real" issue.

None of that is true. Specificity, chasing the pain, and shifting aspects all depend on a practitioner's willingness to stay with one thread. Pace is not a sign of progress. Precision is.

Language we want our trainees to feel permitted to use:

>> "We need to stay with this one memory a little longer."
>> "I want to slow down before we move to the next aspect."
>> "This feels important. I don't want to rush past it."
>> "I went too fast in that session, and I want to revisit it."

That last one is the hardest. Naming it to a supervisor, to a peer, to yourself, is part of the work. 💛

Going slower is not falling behind. It's how the deeper material has room to surface, and how memory reconsolidation actually gets a chance to occur.

You are allowed to take the time the client's nervous system is asking for.