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Practical EFT for the moments tapping gets hard.
Tapping Q & A treats EFT as a practical habit, not a vague wellness idea. Gene Monterastelli answers everyday tapping problems with patient explanations, guided rounds, and small frameworks for fear, sadness, regret, resistance, and decision-making.
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Tapping Q & A is a focused, practice-minded EFT show about getting more consistent, specific, and compassionate with tapping. Its center of gravity is the everyday obstacle, not the dramatic breakthrough. Gene Monterastelli spends a lot of time with the questions that appear after someone has already learned the basics: why tapping did not work, how long to stay with an issue, why sadness can show up after relief, and how to begin when overwhelm makes words disappear. The show is calm. It is also precise. Episodes often open with a clean problem statement, then move into a usable framework that makes the next round of tapping feel less mysterious. Fear becomes a question of magnitude and probability. A hard decision becomes a pro-and-con exercise followed by tapping through the emotions around both bad options. A failed tapping session becomes several places to look instead of proof that the method is broken. Regret over not tapping enough becomes another tappable story rather than another reason to quit. That pattern gives the show its quiet usefulness. It repeatedly turns self-blame into material for practice. The tone is reassuring without pretending discomfort is simple. Sadness, grief, pain, fear, frustration, disappointment, and avoidance are treated as information from protective parts of the self. From there, the show moves toward scripts, phrases, and rounds that listeners can try immediately. The pacing is measured enough for people learning the practice, but the subject matter often serves people who have been tapping for years and want to make the tool more reliable. Habit formation is a major thread. Several episodes return to the problem of remembering to tap when tired, sick, emotionally flooded, or disappointed by past inconsistency. The advice stays grounded: imagine the hard moment in advance, start with wordless tapping if necessary, become only as specific as the nervous system can manage, and let small improvements count. Tapping Q & A stands out because it spends less time selling EFT and more time troubleshooting the human reasons a helpful practice gets abandoned. It is a steady companion for people who want tapping to become something they actually use, not merely something they believe in.
Made for: For people interested in EFT who want calm, concrete help using tapping during fear, sadness, pain, overwhelm, regret, and difficult choices. It also suits experienced tappers trying to build a steadier habit.
What sets it apart: The show focuses on troubleshooting the practice itself: what to say, when to stop, how to restart, and how to tap when nothing seems to move. Its strength is turning emotional resistance into simple, repeatable steps.
EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) Tapping is a powerful tool for reducing pain, physical trauma, and eliminating limiting beliefs. Each week tapping expert, Gene Monterastelli, and his amazing guests answer the most common (and uncommon) questions on how to get the most out of EFT. If you want to maximize your success with tapping, this is an indispensable resource. The host of the Tapping Q & A Podcast, Gene Monterastelli, works one-on-one with small business owners and entrepreneurs to help them eliminate self-sabotage so that they can take the actions they need to take to be successful, starting with the most important tasks first. Past guests of the show have included Mary Ayers, Dr. Pe…
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Gene Montristelli makes tapping concrete by turning shame, comparison and automatic habits into specific questions and repeatable exercises.
Gene Montristelli turns tapping into a practical way of examining the emotional machinery behind everyday choices. Episodes move from a specific difficulty, such as shame after an apparent setback or discomfort with someone else's progress, toward a guided process of naming…
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A patient reset for anyone who keeps turning a missed tapping round into a larger story.
Gene Montristelli turns episode 700 into a careful look at a familiar snag: once someone skips a tapping practice, that missed round can start to feel like failure. He does not hurry past the disappointment.
A practical tapping framework for noticing the emotional pull behind everyday distraction.
Gene Montristelli takes a counterintuitive route through unhealthy choices, using tapping to deliberately move toward a behavior and then notice the emotional need that makes it appealing.
Comparison is turned into a simple tapping practice that opens room for motion.
Gene Montristelli treats other people's tapping success as a force that can make forward motion feel harder, then uses Roger Bannister and John Landry to suggest that one breakthrough can widen what seems possible.
A grounded reflection on why a harder new layer can feel like failure after real progress.
Gene Montristelli opens on a client-session turn that many listeners will recognize: after months of work and real movement, one visualization leaves the client feeling as if nothing has changed. The episode gently challenges that feeling of being sent back to the start.
A grounded take on fear that separates danger from likelihood.
Gene Montristelli treats fear as something to examine rather than obey, and that is the piece's strongest move. He keeps drawing a clean line between how large a threat feels and how likely it actually is.
A candid, grounded conversation about recovery, emotional armor, and growing into compassion.
Recovery comes through as a slow softening of old defenses. Kerry Rhodes, who works in Chesterfield County Jail and helps run HARP, speaks about growing into compassion, feeling more connected to people, and recognizing a gentler side of herself while still honoring the armor…
Jonquilyn Hill chases one listener question per episode to the experts who can answer it.
Hard conversations, patiently held, with room to laugh.
Fearne Cotton interviews guests like Boy George and Bryony Gordon about mental health and identity.
Dr. Joy Harden Bradford pairs therapy insight with Black TV recaps, maternal health, and history.
Host Gene Monterastelli presents a conversation recorded during the 24 Hours of Tapping fundraiser with Kerri Rhodes, who runs the HARP program in Chesterfield County Jail.
Gene Monterastelli challenges common oversimplifications about fear and introduces a two-part framework based on magnitude and probability.
This episode features an interview with Sarah Tobin about her new book 'Tapping Into You', exploring how tapping can help people reconnect with their authentic selves for healing and personal growth.
Gene Montrostelli links background anxiety around the 25th anniversary of 9/11 to past events stirring up emotions.
Gene Montrose-Delling explains why tapping can clarify exhaustion without replacing food, rest, or a rescheduled day.
Gene Montristelli says tapping aims to 'make something better,' without requiring perfect clarity before starting.
Gene Montristelli opens episode 700, recorded live on tape from Williamsburg in Brooklyn.
This episode explores how to determine when to stop using tapping (EFT) on an issue by discussing SUDS levels and practical guidelines for emotional healing.
This episode explores how to reframe fear through two specific lenses to transform it into a proportionate and well-informed response that helps overcome internal resistance and create an authentic life.
This episode provides a six-step process to address situations where tapping (EFT) doesn't seem to work, explaining possible outcomes and offering practical guidance.
This episode explores strategies for making difficult decisions when both options have significant downsides, drawing from personal experience and categorizing decision types.
Tapping Q&A host Gene Montristelli explains why he sometimes taps before consciously choosing unhealthy behaviors such as eating six Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, staying up late, or watching 45 minutes of YouTube.
This episode explores why people resist taking important healthy actions, the psychological and emotional barriers involved, and offers methods to overcome this resistance.
Gene Montristelli opens live to tape from Williamsburg in Brooklyn.
This episode guides listeners through tapping exercises to release the past year, center themselves in the present, and prepare for the new year ahead.
Gene Montristelli’s episode 671 of Tapping Q&A addresses the shame and disappointment of feeling that months of healing work have brought someone back to the beginning.
Gene Montristelli introduces an interview with Sarah Tobin about her new book 'Tapping Into You', exploring how tapping (EFT) can help people reconnect with their authentic selves beyond specific issues.
This episode explores how to be genuinely helpful to others without taking on their emotional burdens in ways that harm yourself or them.