Jun 3
This week, Tracy welcomes you to episode #123 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women where she is going to talk about ADHD, procrastination and tapping. Tapping combines Ancient Chinese acupressure and modern psychology. You tap specific meridian points on your body while focusing on negative emotions and/or physical sensations. Tapping can resolve stress, anxiety, phobias, emotional disorders, chronic pain and limiting beliefs and there’s science behind why it works.
Tracy shares the science behind tapping, how the VA uses tapping for veterans with PTSD, why body-based somatic therapies work better for trauma, what tapping can do for gene expression, how tapping can help reduce anxiety for ADHD women, how trauma encodes itself in the body, what EFT/tapping can do to the brain’s learning, how tapping calms the nervous system, the difference between tapping out and tapping in, how she uses tapping to start work that she doesn’t want to do and the tapping process and how to do it.
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"Tapping came about in the 1970s. And it's now called the Emotional Freedom Technique."
- Tracy Otsuka
"Now I know that there's nothing wrong with me, it's just my ADHD."
- Tracy Otsuka
"When we focus on our strengths, when we focus on how fun we are our creativity, our drivenness, life is just so much easier, because remember, positive emotion is so good for our ADHD brains."
- Tracy Otsuka
- Tracy shares updates on her family, including her daughter's job and education plans, and expresses gratitude for podcast reviews.
- Tracy explains how tapping (Emotional Freedom Technique) can help with ADHD symptoms by calming the nervous system and improving focus.
- Tracy shares the science backing tapping's effectiveness in reducing stress, cortisol levels, food cravings, emotional eating, physical pain, test anxiety, anxiety, sleep problems, and depression.
[12:26 - 26:46] EFT, Migraines, and Tapping
- Tracy discusses the effectiveness of EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) as a somatic therapy, citing scientific research that demonstrates its ability to reduce the stress hormone cortisol and change brain pathways.
- Tracy shares her personal experience with tapping, mentioning she used it to overcome procrastination and test anxiety.
- Tracy experienced personal relief from tapping, including reduced migraines, and believes it can help alleviate ADHD symptoms.
- Tracy struggles with procrastination and finds it hard to start or finish tasks, especially when it comes to crossing things off her to-do list.
- Tracy guides the listener through a tapping sequence to reduce distress related to procrastination, with the goal of rating their distress level at the end.
- Tracy shares her experience with ADHD and how it has helped her discover her strengths and create a happier life.
hwww.tracyotsuka.com/tapping/
bessel van der kolk
The effect of emotional freedom techniques on stress biochemistry: a randomized controlled trial
Psychological trauma symptom improvement in veterans using emotional freedom techniques: a randomized controlled trial
EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) and Resiliency in Veterans at Risk for PTSD: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Effect of the emotional freedom technique on perceived stress, quality of life, and cortisol salivary levels in tension-type headache sufferers: a randomized controlled trial
Emotional Freedom Techniques for Anxiety: A Systematic Review With Meta-analysis
The Effectiveness of Emotional Freedom Techniques for Optimal Test Performance
Reexamining the effect of emotional freedom techniques on stress biochemistry: A randomized controlled trial
Differential Gene Expression after Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) Treatment: A Novel Pilot Protocol for Salivary mRNA Assessment
www.energiepsy.com
World-first brain scan research shows 'tapping' effective in combating food cravings
The Future of Mental Wellness Has Arrived
