Coaching practices for Eft Tapping What it is How to Do it and What the Evidence Shows as a Parent

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• There’s a big thing coming up
• The distress is here right now and I’m restless with it
• The thing I’d be working on is so heavy that every time I get near it on my own I end up more shaken than when I started, and I’m starting to sense this is too big to be doing alone without someone to hold the edges.
• One part of this calmed down and I thought I was through it, but then a different angle of the same thing flared right back up
• When I explain my work it’s all so obvious in my own head that I’m genuinely baffled when people look lost

Practices that may help

1. EFT Tapping: What It Is, How to Do It, and What the Evidence Shows
   Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), developed by Gary Craig, combines tapping specific body points (derived from acupuncture meridians) while making verbal statements about a distressing experience. Multiple randomized trials report reductions in anxiety, PTSD symptoms, and cortisol, but study quality is variable and the control conditions rarely isolate the tapping component. The evidence suggests EFT produces real effects; whether the acupoints are the mechanism or whether the benefits come from the exposure, distraction, or somatic-attention components is genuinely unresolved.
2. Apply EFT to specific performance anxiety triggers
   EFT has the strongest self-guided evidence for test anxiety, public speaking, and sports performance stress.
   EFT Tapping: What It Is, How to Do It, and What the Evidence Shows
3. Run the tapping sequence from eyebrow to underarm
   Tap each of the nine points in sequence while repeating a reminder phrase about the specific problem.
   EFT Tapping: What It Is, How to Do It, and What the Evidence Shows
4. Know when EFT is not enough — and what to do
   Self-guided EFT is suitable for manageable anxiety and mild distress; clinical presentations belong with a trained EFT or trauma practitioner.
   EFT Tapping: What It Is, How to Do It, and What the Evidence Shows
5. Work on specific aspects, not global emotions
   When EFT stalls, you have probably hit a different aspect of the problem — target it specifically.
   EFT Tapping: What It Is, How to Do It, and What the Evidence Shows
6. Triple P Parenting (Matthew Sanders)
   Triple P — Positive Parenting Program — is a multilevel evidence-based parenting support system developed by Matthew Sanders at the University of Queensland. It teaches positive relationship skills, proactive management strategies, and calm responses to misbehavior. Multiple meta-analyses and RCTs support its effectiveness for reducing child behavior problems and parent stress, making it one of the most rigorously evaluated parenting programs in the world.
7. Take the tap test before you present
   Literally tap out a melody and notice how obvious it is to you — but invisible to listeners.
   The Curse of Knowledge: Why Experts Struggle to Teach
8. Use logical consequences that fit the behavior
   A consequence that is directly connected to the behavior teaches cause and effect instead of just imposing discomfort.
   Triple P Parenting (Matthew Sanders)
9. Follow the child’s lead completely during special time
   Let the child decide what you do, how long you stay, and when you move on.
   Special Time (Lawrence Cohen — Playful Parenting)
10. Say yes to bids for connection before enforcing limits
    A child’s capacity to accept limits depends on how connected they feel to the person setting them.
    Authoritative Parenting (Diana Baumrind)

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