Deborah Donndelinger - Family Energetics

[Pat Robinson]

[Guest Blog Post from Deborah Donndelinger - Family Energetics.]

• What sort of work do you do in the health and wellness field?
  
  I help women, mostly mothers, improve their emotional health and wellness using energy tapping also known as EFT. This work helps people reduce their stress, reduce the emotional impact of past events on their current lives, and feel more free overall emotionally. And it has impacts on the physical levels as well. As we know, most physical issues originate on the mental and emotional planes.

• Can you give us some examples of this work and how it stand out from talk-therapy, meditation, journaling, etc?
  
  The most obvious benefit of EFT is how quickly it changes the stuck feelings and how quickly we can get to a more integrated place of being. For example, a client of mine has three children under the age of four. She has been very stressed at having to divide her time amongst her children. This shows up with her yelling at her oldest child. By herself, she knew it wasn't right but didn't know how to change this dynamic.
  
  Tapping, or EFT, is excellent at neutralizing negative emotions very quickly. I have the ability to be quite intuitive about others and I could "feel" the tension she felt about her children and the underlying grief. But she couldn't let that flow yet. So we talked about her guilt at having to divide her time and we tapped on it. In less than ten minutes, the guilt dissolved into grief. A few more rounds of tapping and the grief dissolved into the realization of how much she loves her children. So in less than an hour of work, she was able to dramatically transform the relationships with all of her children.
  
  I also work with women who've been sexually attacked. One woman was unable to walk outside at night after being attacked. After our session, her fear was cleared and she is now able to walk at night again. The relief from trauma is quite remarkable - EFT is used with veterans and other victims of PSTD with outstanding results.

• What circumstances led you to your current health and wellness mission?
  
  As a mother of three children myself, immersed in the attachment parenting philosophy, and also interested in spirituality, I was interested in the Law of Attraction. However I saw how emotional events were interfering with the application of LOA. I had been told about EFT and decided to experiment with a small group of LOA folks. I quickly  found out that I was very intuitive and able to help others with EFT. That led to working with more and more folks using EFT. I've since expanded my toolkit but that's a whole other post!
  
  

• How does your work address needs that you see in today's health care system?
  
  Our society is emotionally wounded, shut off, and limited. Small trauma after small trauma disconnects us from our heart and we end up in a reactive state. EFT directly addresses these stored traumas and stresses and frees us up to be make better decisions, live more authentically and peacefully, and be in better health.
  
  

• What do you wish more people knew about health?
  
  That mental, physical and emotional are all connected. That if we relieve ourselves of unneeded stress and emotional scars, we naturally come to a place of love and wholeness. That we have the power to change our lives with the right tools. That our choices matter.

Deborah H. Donndelinger
www.DeborahDonndelinger.com

Emotional energy worker, EFT practitioner, creator of Family Energetics,and unschooling mom of three