I thought I had killed my own father!

Since the beginning of June, there has been a lot going on in my world that has set off triggers.

These triggers range from things relating to Puss’ final few days with us, to as far back to my childhood when my father went out to get me fish and chips one night, age 14yrs, and didn’t come back for 3 days, involving police, family, family friends and so on.

I have found myself waking pretty early morning sometimes 3am, 4am or 6ish-am with lot of emotion bubbling under the surface.

Being a therapist, the way I see it is ‘better out than in’. We already know there is a strong mind-body connection and that what we suppress can manifest physically. That is definitely something I have encountered, as I am sure you will have too. Sometimes even the subtlest tension in the body can be suppressed emotions, things left unsaid,etc!

So, I tapped. I used the Emotional Freedom Technique, and some EDMR on myself, tapping the various meridian points to help released the trapped emotions, until I felt them release. The more we feel and release, the more we heal.

So many amazing insights have come from it too. A sense of powerlessness with Puss and the feeling of her being treated like she didn’t matter, around some organisations that were involved in her final few days. I will be taking action on that but also I have to deal with my own triggers.

Often pets are an extension of our own inner child, so I know from tapping there was a few beliefs to work with somatically that relate to me and my own life experiences.

When my dad went missing, as that 14yr old I thought I had killed my own father, pushed him over the edge for asking for that dinnertime treat. I never realised that till I tapped. There was a lot of sobbing, the recognition, the realisation, and the compassion I gave to that part of me, and that indeed it was not my fault at all.

So,yes, when I say ‘feel to heal’, it ain’t always easy, I grant you!

But I walk my talk, and I do feel lighter for working through those emotions and beliefs (the latter often shifting and changing when we tap the emotions out, because everything is energy, including thoughts!

So, do you feel emotionally stuck? Have been emotionally triggered?

Please try and learn some emotional release techniques, like EFT or TFT.

Or if you are up for it, then why not come and have a session with me?

I can help you work through those emotions and help you release from the body, at a cellular level. I also work with Parts Therapy, where we work specifically with the ‘parts’ of you involved in the situation and they can be wonderfully freeing sessions with emotional release and a feeling of being more ‘whole’ at the end – in fact that word ‘whole’ is the most vocalised word used at the end of my sessions when I check how my client is feeling.