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Hey there. I'm doctor Jill Wiener.

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I'm here talking to you about the EFT tapping train the trainer program.

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And I get a lot of questions from people, like, how did you find out about tapping?

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What what's your journey with tapping? How did you get there?

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And so I'll just I'll share that with you,

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because

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people have started people are starting to hear more and more about it and and are curious as to how how to get involved.

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So I, started my my journey with any mind body tool started in 2011

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when I got extremely burnout as a hospitalist

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in Chicago,

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and I was never a spiritual person. I was very type a and,

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skeptical and anxious and

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monkey minded.

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I ended up finding a meditation practice that totally transformed my life, made my burnout go away, and I was practicing medicine quite happily.

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From then moving forward,

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eventually, I decided to become a meditation

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teacher in my tradition, which was a three month teacher training in India.

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And then when I came back from that, I decided I, you know, I had to take some time away from my job to move to India for a few months, and even though I never really intended to leave medicine,

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a series of decisions later I ended up deciding to move full time into teaching meditation and really working to help people, prevent people from getting to the lowest point that I had gotten to in 2011 when I first learned to meditate.

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Now I was sort of taught in in my meditation tradition, and I think I wanted to wanted to believe this, that

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if I meditate enough, I'm gonna be perfect and I'm solving all my problems.

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And there's absolutely not any one technique that is gonna solve

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any problem. There's no pill that's gonna do that. There's no,

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technique that's gonna do that. All of it works together, and we can all have many tools.

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And so I really believe that there's no quick fix.

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So while I was a meditation teacher and having all these really,

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you know,

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parts of my life that were so much better, I still have problems. I'm still a human being, and

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I met,

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the the first introduction I had to tapping actually was before I felt like I needed it, which was, when I was teaching my teaching my meditation course

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at a medical conference for women physicians in in Colorado,

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and I was teaching my course, and they also brought in some psychiatrists and a psychologist who used techniques like EFT tapping

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to work with VA patients dealing with their trauma.

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So that's how I first heard about it. It was a very clinical setting,

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and I thought it was interesting and I really wanted to learn more, but it just didn't really

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the time never felt right. And then I was going through a very difficult time myself

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in the 1738,

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and I met a woman who was a tapping practitioner,

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I did one session with her.

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And I'll just say that, like, you know, I was a meditation teacher, and I thought I should know everything.

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One session with her, and I felt more like myself than I had in months,

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and it was incredible. And so I ended up doing several tapping packages with her.

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Tapping is often done,

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for the deep personal work. It's done in in packages,

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generally over two to three months.

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And

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I made such profound changes in my life from it. It was absolutely amazing.

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And for I did this for about a year and a half with her without any thoughts of becoming a practitioner, and then I found out about a practitioner training and decided to do that and have done several more trainings since then.

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So so I experienced having myself as a as a human being,

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with with real issues and real problems before I became a practitioner, and I think that really informs

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the way I work with my

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clients.

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And and, you know, I got to experience the the expertise of my teacher,

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and that also informs,

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the way that I am that I work with my clients in in the group and one on one setting.

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So that's my that's my story with tapping, and and now I work

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with clients in the one on one setting. I do a lot of group sessions,

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have done especially during COVID,

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you know, I'll come to, like, a noon conference or something like that or or or do a talk on on tapping and and demonstrate it.

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I've also, before COVID, have have taught tapping at at various

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conferences as well.

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I've published an article on KevinMD about tapping, and I'm a founding board member of the Mindful Healthcare Collective and have been using tapping almost exclusively

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during COVID to help health care professionals,

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manage the stress that and trauma that's come along with COVID.

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So so it's been really, really powerful. Meditation will always be my first

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love that got me,

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into a different way of being in the world than I had previously been before,

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and tapping has

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just made all of that explode even more, expand my expand

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my toolkit and and ways that I can help myself

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through difficult situations. When you know how to tap, it's really, really easy.

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I can just tap on my own and and help myself, get through a lot of stuff.

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Now sometimes I still like to reach out to my tapping,

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practitioner

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because it's just sometimes nice to to put yourself in someone else's hands in terms of care.

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Now when I say hands, I don't mean that literally. You tap on your own body. No.

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You don't tap on the other person, but it's nice to be taken care of sometimes.

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So that's my story with tapping,

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and,

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I hope that answers all your questions.

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And if you have any other questions, you can email me info@jillweener.com,

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j I l l w e n e r. Thanks.