Mamahood After Trauma | Trauma Informed Parenting, Emotional Regulation for Moms · Emily Cleghorn| Trauma Informed Trigger Recovery Coach for Moms

From Overwhelm to Empowerment: How Tapping Can Change Your Life

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Emily Cleghorn shares how this podcast helps trauma-surviving mamas heal while navigating parenting.

This episode of Mamahood After Trauma explores how Emotional Freedom Techniques, or tapping, can help mothers manage emotional overwhelm. Host Emily interviews guest Amy, a mother and tapping practitioner who shares her personal journey with trauma. Amy's background includes experiencing parental alcoholism and abandonment, which informs her approach to healing. Amy explains that tapping involves physically tapping on acupressure points while voicing specific thoughts or feelings. She describes using this technique to process her father's alcoholism and his departure from her childhood. Amy states that tapping helped her release stored emotional energy and reduce her anxiety responses. She details applying tapping to motherhood challenges, such as managing triggers during parenting moments. Amy claims the method can lower cortisol levels and calm the nervous system quickly. She shares an example of using a tapping sequence to handle feelings of frustration with her daughter. Amy emphasizes that tapping allows for acknowledging difficult emotions without becoming overwhelmed by them. She argues this practice empowers mothers by giving them a tangible self-regulation tool. The most surprising insight is that tapping can be done discreetly in everyday situations, like during a stressful school drop-off. Amy suggests even a short, one-minute tapping round can create a noticeable shift in emotional state. She presents tapping as a way to break cycles of reactive parenting rooted in personal trauma. A memorable moment is her description of feeling a physical release of tension after tapping on grief related to her father. The tone is conversational, supportive, and educational, with a focus on sharing practical tools. The style is interview-based, blending personal narrative with instructional elements. This episode would appeal to mothers interested in somatic or alternative therapies for emotional regulation and trauma recovery. Listeners seeking strictly clinical or evidence-based parenting advice might find other episodes more suitable.

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