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Discovery Session Section 1:  Subject history and presenting issue: Missy is the Deputy Director of the Biology Scholars program at UC Berkeley.  She has had this type of job for 17 years and feels that she is not compensated for her effort (ie she can just slide by and get paid the same or put in a ton of extra effort and get paid the same).  She says that the 9-5 lifestyle is not in her soul and would like to pursue something like government contracting that would give her more autonomy with her schedule, her workload, and her compensation.  She would like to transition out of her current career into a more lucrative option that gives her more freedom.  In her words:  ‘at some point I’m going to have to figure out a way to pursue what I want’. 

Presenting Issues: 

  • She feels a sense of fear and uncertainty which holds her back from action, she described it as a ‘freeze’
  • She knows she has specific skillsets yet she also knows she needs other ones to pursue something different
  • She realizes that what she has is good, and safe and predictable, and that moving away from this risks losing that 
  • She gets overwhelmed with the process and then starts to worry 
  • She feels like she is always thinking about this process, talking about this process, but not taking action 
  • She fears financial insecurity



She is not familiar with tapping but is very open to it.  I explained the process that we would use and she was very excited to start work on her issues. 

I have sent the consent form and will make sure that is received before our session on Friday (11/4).  We agreed that our first tapping session would be this week and that after that we would do one session per week

SMARTER GOAL which we collaborated on:  We agreed that a reduction by at least 50% in her fear and uncertainty around taking action would be an appropriate goal. 

Specific:  I think this is as specific as possible.Measurable: yesAttainable: yes for a few sessionsRelevant: yesTime Bound: yes

Steps toward goal:  Between now and Friday Missy is going to be aware of the times that she starts moving toward action but then holds back - she will write these down so that we can start there.  She says that she often takes a little bit of action and then pulls back - she described it like a little animal poking it’s head out of a hole and then disappearing. 

Exploring any past issues: When we work specifically on the fear of financial insecurity I believe that we will be exploring some of her childhood experiences and messaging. 

Other relevant things: 

Family support and personal resources: Missy lives on her own and feels very much responsible for herself (ie she says there is no safety net)  She also feels that she is in the stage of life where she needs to make a change (before another 17 years goes by) 

We ended the Discovery session with a brief recap of the goal, review of upcoming session date, and confirmed that we’re both looking forward to working together on this.  

Self-Evaluation of the Discovery SessionOverall I think the session went well and was a great way to start to build rapport.  I feel very optimistic about working with Missy and know that this will be helpful to her.  She is very positive and eager for change. 

Biggest question :  She mentioned fear, anxiety and uncertainty around all of these presenting issues.  I plan on asking which one of those emotions is the strongest so we will start there. I am open to using a past event or imagining a future event. 


Session 1 :  November 4, 2022 Jennie Warner 

We opened up the session talking about goals.  Based on your feedback from the discovery session I suggested that we not only set the goal of the reduction of fear/anxiety around moving forward but that we also pick a specific action that would be feel as though she is moving in the direction that she wants to go.  So, we modified the SMARTER GOAL to include that.

SMARTER GOAL which we collaborated on:  We agreed that a reduction by at least 50% in her fear and uncertainty around taking action would be an appropriate goal, AS WELL AS reaching out to the government contracting coaches to find out about next steps. 

As we talked about this goal it became clear that tapping on this as a future event was the best place to start.  She was able to describe a moment during the week when she started moving toward some action (starting to take a step to get more information)  but found herself talking herself out of it.  When I asked her whether the future event of reaching out to the coaches or the past event gave her more intensity she said it was definitely the idea of reaching out to the coaches - because she says that really means she would be taking action.  She rated her feelings of anxiety at a 9 and said she could feel it in her chest.  When we reviewed the wording of the setup phrase she said that she liked the words ‘I deeply and completely love and accept myself’.

Set up phrase:  Even though I feel this anxiety in my chest when I think about reaching out to the government contracting coaches I deeply and completely love and accept myself.

Reminder:  this anxiety in my chest

This was the first round of tapping that she had ever done.  After this round she said her anxiety was at an 8 and she said she thinks about 2 main things:  what they might say (ie rejection - you aren’t qualified enough) and not having enough clarity about what she has to offer.  I incorporated those words into the next round. 

Set up phrase:  Even though I feel this anxiety in my chest when I think about reaching out to the government contracting coaches, they might say that I’m not qualified, I don’t even know if I have enough clarity,  I deeply and completely love and accept myself.

Reminder:  this anxiety in my chest

After this round she said that she felt more ‘comfort’ - she said that saying the words out loud was comforting but she still felt anxiety at about an 8 when she thought about it. It seemed to me that she was becoming more comfortable with the process. We repeated that round again. 

Set up phrase:  Even though I feel this anxiety in my chest when I think about reaching out to the government contracting coaches, they might say that I’m not qualified, I don’t even know if I have enough clarity,  I deeply and completely love and accept myself.

Reminder:  this anxiety in my chest

She said that she was starting to feel like taking that step felt more do-able and a little less scary.  Her SUDS was about a 6 so I asked her to get more specific about reaching out (ie is it the phone call, the text, what they might say, the sound of someone’s voice etc etc)  She said it was their response that she had the most anxiety around - specifically around the rejection (ie what if she is not qualified enough, or what if she didn’t even have enough knowledge to have the conversation) 

Set up phrase:  Even though I feel this anxiety in my chest when I think about reaching out to the government contracting coaches, what if they say I’m not qualified, what if I don’t even know what to say,  I deeply and completely love and accept myself.

Reminder:  this anxiety in my chest

After this round she said again she felt more comfort.  SUDs at 5. She said that it ‘might not be the end of the world’ if she is rejected’ and she had a shift around the fact that if she reaches out to these coaches she is not necessarily committing to ANYTHING - she is just getting information.  I thought this was an important shift for her. She said she felt more encouraged about taking the step and being clear that she was just reaching out to get more information. Still… she focuses on what they might say and what she also might say (or not know how to say) - really focusing on the actual conversation, so we repeated the above round. 

Set up phrase:  Even though I feel this anxiety in my chest when I think about reaching out to the government contracting coaches, what if they say I’m not qualified, what if I don’t even know what to say,  I deeply and completely love and accept myself.

Reminder:  this anxiety in my chest After this round she said she felt happier.  SUDs at 3.  She said she could see the reality of changing her life and that it was all about re-mapping and re-planning.  I asked her what would happen if she did not take any steps in this direction and she said if she doesn’t she will be stuck.  When I asked her what would happen if she did take steps in this direction she said she would be ‘opened up to the possibility of developing the life she envisions’.

We were running out of time so we discussed the next steps, and although she couldn’t see herself actually making the contacts she said she would outline all of the steps to get there (this was her homework for the week).  

To end the session we did a round on the progress that she is making, the work she is doing, the feelings of encouragement she feels about moving forward and the fact that she is proud of herself.  She said she was pleasantly surprised about tapping :) and she is looking forward to our next session. 

Testing :  I used SUDs testing with her to get that feeling of anxiety from a 9 down to a 3.

Reflections on this session :   This was challenging for me on a couple of levels - it was hard for her to get more specific so I wonder what I could have done to narrow in a bit more.  I do think that our next session will be better because now she knows what to expect and she can see how this can help it.  It really helped to enhance the goals - ie add action as well as a reduction in the anxious feelings.   That was an important reminder for me.  Also I feel that I am much more cognizant of the homework piece.  Thank you for your feedback !

Session 2 :  November 13, 2022 Jennie Warner 

Missy said that on Sunday after our first session she felt encouraged and enthusiastic.  She recognized that she started procrastinating but then focused for an hour and started doing the work that we had discussed in our goal setting discussion (laying out the steps so that she could move forward in her exploration of this potential new career in government contracts).  She spend a lot of time clearing out her G-drive and making space for this work which she was happy about.  She also cleared out her phone and made a ‘watch later’ playlist for the series of videos that she knows she needs to watch in order to understand the scope of this work.  She said that during the week it was up and down for her and just in the discussion of that it was apparent that she was shifting into the aspect of how her current 9-5 job gets in the way. 

One day during the week she set aside an hour to devote to this job exploration and she said she was on cloud nine and felt so good and productive.  BUT, when she was unable to do this every day and to have this consistency during her week she said she was frustrated.  She mentioned that her anxiety about reaching out was not as intense as it was before (in her words she said it was not screaming at her) which also was a positive shift, but the bigger, more intense emotion was irritation/frustration/anger at her current situation at work. 

I asked her whether she could remember an event from the past week that made her frustrated and she wasn’t really able to come up with one so we picked a future event because she says she knows it will happen during the upcoming week.  It centered around her boss John who she says she really likes but who is piling the work up on her and her team.  

Highest intensity emotion is anger for her and the SUDs is 8.  She feels it in her chest.

Goal for the session :  reduction in anger around this issue by at least 50% and also to set up a manageable goal to move forward with her job exploration so that she can be ready to speak to the government contracts career coaches

Set up phrase:  Even though I feel angry when I think about seeing an email that my boss John agreed to yet another project, my work volume is so high, there is already mounting pressure, and I am in charge, I feel this in my chest .. and IDACLAAM

Reminder phrase:  This anger in my chest

She says that she feels better after the first round - she feels calmer but what came up for her was that she has to resolve this.  Her SUDs moved to a 7 so we repeated that round. 

Set up phrase:  Even though I feel angry when I think about seeing an email that my boss John agreeing to yet another project, my work volume is so high, there is already mounting pressure, and I am in charge, I feel this in my chest .. and IDACLAAM

Reminder phrase:  This anger in my chest

She said that after this round she felt more and more that she was calming down and letting go.  She realized that her frustration was running very deep.  Words that came up for her were ‘respect’ (around her own boundaries) and ‘exhausting’  SUDs came down to a 5. She said that John is an alternative thinker and is always coming up with plans that he expects her team to deliver without an understanding of how much work that is.  She got more specific with the future issue - she said that John had agreed to a 20 million capital campaign which would serve as a model for the whole campus.   Set up phrase:  Even though I feel angry when I think about John agreeing to this 20 million dollar capital campaign project, he doesn’t learn - I have talked to him about this before, he just expects us  to do everything and he keeps piling on the work, I feel this in my chest .. and IDACLAAM

Reminder phrase:  This anger in my chest

SUDs came down to a 4 and she said that one thing that came up was whether she needs to get her heart checked.  She also said that she felt her temper was getting shorter at work and she was acting in a way that she didn’t want to. When I asked her what was still left she came up with an event that happened last week - John had asked her to send him a reminder and she said that in her mind she said ‘can you just pick up a pencil and remind yourself?’ and she responded in a way that she was not proud of - she felt that people picked up on her tone and her mood.

Set up phrase:  Even though I feel this anger in my chest when I think about John asking me to send him reminders, I thought to myself ‘why don’t you just pick up a pencil and remind yourself’ and I spoke sharply in that meeting. and IDACLAAM

Reminder phrase:  This anger in my chest

After this round she said that what was coming up for her was ‘this is serious, this is important’ and that it was all connected to the words ‘too much’.  She said that it gave her the awareness that something has to change. She said she was ready to make a plan and that the message had to be that she didn’t care what the department chose to do but that it couldn’t do everything. She said that she felt like she was spread way too thin and that this is why she left her previous job.  Since she was still at a 4 on her SUDs we did one more round.  She said that she felt it in her heart more than her chest and came back to the point about perhaps needing to get her health checked and realizing that this stress is taking a toll on her physically and emotionally. 

Set up phrase:  Even though I feel this anger in my heart when I think about John asking me to send him reminders, I thought to myself ‘why don’t you just pick up a pencil and remind yourself’ and I spoke sharply in that meeting, I just feel like I am spread too thin…. and IDACLAAM

Reminder phrase:  This anger in my heart

After this round she said that she felt more calm.  She closed her eyes during this round and said that it helped her to go deeper within.  As with the last session she said that she felt better and more hopeful.

How the session ended:  We did a round on the great work that she is doing - recognizing there is more work to do and that her job is stressful.  Also that she will choose to prioritize her health, her wellness, and her sanity.  She acknowledged that doing this will bring her internal peace - and will give her time and space for herself. 

Testing :  I measured her SUDS after every round and at the end I asked her to imagine herself in that zoom meeting and she said she was able to think about that specific event with no emotional intensity.  I also asked her to imagine getting an email from John about some new project that he had agreed to and she said she felt neutral.  Ditto on emails around the 20 million $ capital campaign.   She was able to see these things with more calm and more distance. 

The goal of reducing anger around this issue was achieved and she set a goal for herself to spend 20 minutes a day on herself.   She also said that she felt that she would be better off doing this first thing in the morning as opposed to the middle of her day.  She had not done any tapping on herself so we also set the goal to look at the tapping points chart and tap when she feels any emotional intensity - particularly around John and his management style.  She was also going to have a meeting with her counterpart this week and she was going to discuss how to better manage up and how to set some better boundaries. 

Reflections on the session:  I was very conscious of keeping her specific and I thought it was a great session.  She has a lot of responsibility and a big job and it makes sense that she would be frustrated not having time to explore her next career possibility.  Looking forward to your feedback as always !!  Thank you 🙂

Session 3 :  November 20, 2022 Jennie Warner 

Missy said that her week was so much better.  She said that after our session she went for a walk and that she ‘released it and let go’.  She said it was very impactful that she realized how much her job was affecting her health and she felt very empowered that she would no longer give her job the ‘permission’ to affect her health.  She said the session felt very profound to her.  

Regarding her goals, she was able to do her 20 minutes per day for four days during the week.  She said that felt really good and she will continue incorporating it into her routine.  On the days that she did not do her 20 minutes she said it was more about her making a choice than the job getting in the way.  She said that something has shifted within her and she feels more calm about it all - she says she is looking forward to learning more from the websites and from all of the resources and that she no longer has that fear or uncertainty about taking the next steps. 

She did say that the emotional intensity comes up thinking now about changing her life (ie if she decides to jump into this new career)  She listed a bunch of things that she feels fearful or uncertain about including feeling isolated, not having resources/structure around her, not having a regular paycheck or safety net, actually giving her resignation, and wondering about finances. She said the most intense thing was not having a safety net so we made up a situation where she wakes up in the morning and sits at her computer having just quit her job.   She said her SUDS was @ a 6 and she felt fear in her chest. 

Set up phrase:  Even though I feel fear in my chest when I think about waking up in the morning and being my own boss, I see myself sitting at the computer saying ‘now what?’ and IDACLAAM

Reminder:  this fear in my chest

While we were tapping she said that half way through she realized what the root of the fear was and she said that it was her relationship with money.  She said she is starting to save up money informally as a security blanket but she knows that she has a scarcity mindset rather than an abundance mindset.  She recognizes that some of her issues come from her parents and her upbringing.  Her fear is around how much cushion she might need and around the thought of running out of money - she said she did not want to fall into the cycle of loans.  I asked her if this reminded her of anything and she said that it reminded her of her own student loans.  She said that she feels that she has had to make sacrifices because of the student loans.  When I asked her if she had more intensity thinking about taking out a loan in the future or thinking about her own student loan experience in the past she said it was more about her own actual experience with her loans. 

She said that she had to make a lot of sacrifices because of the loans - there have been a lot of things that she couldn’t do because of the payments so we tapped on that. She came up with a specific event that was related to this - when she had to move from a 2 bedroom to a 1 bedroom to renting a room to moving in with family.  The emotion she felt around this was ‘heaviness’ and she felt it in her chest.  SUDs @ 4,  She said that she felt that this is something good to acknowledge - that she has been carrying the heaviness around for a while. 

Set up statement:  Even though I feel this heaviness in my chest when I think about having to move out of my 2 bedroom apartment into renting a room … I didn’t have another option at the time .. I was making mega payments to pay down my student loan and IDACLAAM

Reminder phrase:  this heaviness in my chest

After this round she said it brought up another emotion and a more specific event (daisy chain).  She said she felt anger about that last living situation - she ended up having to go to mediation around this particular living situation and she had a difficult confrontation with the person she was renting from (Carmen).   Anger came up here w a SUDs of 8.  Again she felt it in her chest

Set up statement:  Even though I feel this anger in my chest when I think about confronting Carmen in the kitchen, I can see the look on her face and IDACLAAM

Reminder phrase:  this anger in my chest

After this round the SUDs came down to a 7 and she said she could picture the scene - she said what really bothered her was the deceit around it and the fact that she thought they were friends.  She said she was still focusing on the look on her face and her attitude. 

Set up statement:  Even though I feel this anger in my chest when I think about confronting Carmen in the kitchen, I can see the look on her face and I remember her attitude and IDACLAAM

Reminder phrase:  this anger in my chest

After this round what came up for Missy was that Carmen actually did have some problems and issues and that those issues were beyond Missy’s control.  She said she may not understand it but she does not want to spend any energy on it. Even though it felt pretty specific to me the SUDs was not moving that much - it was down to a 6 so we did another round. 

Set up statement:  Even though I feel this anger in my chest when I think about confronting Carmen in the kitchen, I can see the look on her face and I remember her attitude and IDACLAAM

Reminder phrase:  this anger in my chest

At this point she said that she was focusing on the tense conversation in the kitchen and she talked about how much the deceit bothered her.  She had presented her with a spreadsheet showing some data which showed that she was being scammed (paying too much). She felt at the time that at this point in the kitchen Carmen’s ‘mask came off’

Set up statement:  Even though I feel this anger in my chest when I think about confronting Carmen in the kitchen, I showed her the spreadsheet which proved she was deceiving me,  I can see the look on her face, I feel that her mask came off and I remember her attitude and IDACLAAM

Reminder phrase:  this anger in my chest

This round seemed to tap it all down - she said using the words ‘the mask came off’ really helped her.  She said she was able to let go of another layer of this difficult time and when I asked her about her emotion surrounding that event she said she felt neutral. 

She also said that this period of time represented great difficulty for her - she had left an abusive job situation, had experienced a painful breakup of a 9 year relationship, she hurt her back and she also experienced this difficulty with paying off her student loans.  We agreed that this  period of time represented a table top and that at some point we might want to re-visit all of the aspects of this time because she said she still feels that she is carrying some of it around (as evidenced by the daisy chain to Carmen).  I asked her to imagine that scene again in vivid detail and she said it felt neutral. 

I wanted to keep her on track with our goals so we looped back to what she initially said (she knows that the root of her fear is with her relationship to money).  We reviewed our initial goal for working together (reduction in fear and anxiety around taking the next steps toward the life she envisions) and agreed that we have met that goal - she is already taking action and making steps and doesn’t feel that anxiety or fear about doing the work and having the conversations with the consultants.  She feels more excitement than fear.  However, she feels that she would like to address her relationship toward money (which she said earlier in the session was the root of her fear).   I asked her how she felt about possibly having to get a loan to start her new business and she said she felt anxiety at a level 6.  

Set up statement:  Even though I feel this anxiety in my chest when I think about taking out a loan to start my business, IDACLAAM

Reminder phrase:  this anxiety in my chest

After this round, she said that she feels smarter now and more experienced. What also came to her was that she would need to have a coach or mentor to help her with the financial piece.  She also acknowledged it is the cost of doing business so those were all great shifts. Since she only moved to a 5 we did the round again

Set up statement:  Even though I feel this anxiety in my chest when I think about taking out a loan to start my business, IDACLAAM

Reminder phrase:  this anxiety in my chest

After this round she said that she can learn to think about this differently (ie a loan can be viewed as heavy and burdensome OR as an opportunity to build a business).  SUDs @3

We agreed to revise the overall goal for working together

SMARTER GOAL which we collaborated on: Changing her relationship with $ - moving from a scarcity to an abundance mindset

Specific:  Not specific enough yet (see homework below)Measurable: yesAttainable: yes Relevant: yesTime Bound: yes

Her homework for the week was to write down her issues with money (ie document when it comes up for her - how it affects her life - specific issues / memories around money) so that we can begin tapping on that at the beginning of the next session. 

Other homework:  continue her 20 minutes a day of watching the videos and updating her google doc which summarizes all of the information.  She is also going to use Friday ( a day off ) to focus on watching even more videos.  She has set a goal for herself to have watched all of the videos and update the google doc by the end of the year).  This is her way of organizing all of the different aspects of this job search and preparing her for reaching out to the appropriate consultant. 

How the session ended:  We did a round on the great work that she has been doing, the progress that she is making and the optimism around having a new and positive relationship and association with money. 

Testing:  I used SUDs testing with her on fear, heaviness, anger, and anxiety and made sure that we had tapped down all of the emotions to a 3 or below.  I went back to each of the emotions that we tapped on and had her visualize what was giving her intensity - and they were all neutral by the end of the session.   She was able to see herself starting a new job - waking up in the morning and being on her own.  She was also able to visualize the confrontation with Carmen and feel neutral.  She was also feeling much more calm about the possibility of taking out a loan to start her business.

REFLECTIONS:  OK this was one to learn from.  I think I did a good job keeping her specific but the daisy chain took a LOT of time and I’m not sure I should have gone there to the extent that I did.  It was fine but the session lasted longer than it should have (we were on zoom for 2+ hours).  Wondering what you would say about going down that rabbit hole.  Also, it is interesting to me that the financial piece bubbled up as the main issue.  I’m wondering if I could have uncovered that through a different approach during the discovery session?  And, are you OK with the changing of the goal ?  It makes sense to me and seems like a goal that will be measurable once we get into more specifics.  I know we are only supposed to do the 4 sessions but I think we may need at least one more to unpack this new goal .. 

THANK YOU!!

Session 4 :  November 27, 2022 Jennie Warner 

Missy reported that she is making ‘major progress’ toward her goal of watching the necessary videos and populating her google spreadsheet.  She used her weekend to watch over 6 hours of videos and has completed all of the videos for one coach and 75% of the videos for the other coach.  Based on that she feels that she has already made a decision about which coach to pursue as she thinks that one of them is a better fit for her in terms of mindset.  She says that she feels confident and ready to contact this coach in Jan 2023 (SMARTER GOAL 1 met) and that she doesn’t feel that sense of fear or uncertainty when she thinks about reaching out to this particular coach.

She also reported that she was continuing to do her 20 minutes per day (a goal that we had set previously) and that this has been really helpful to her. 

We talked about what she had said in the last session (fear related to money) and she reported that when she saw the price of a prequalification course for the coach she was interested in it made her feel panicked - the price is $997.  We set a goal for the session to reduce this sense of panic around this issue by at least 50%. 

She wasn’t sure about the emotion so we went with ‘panicked’ and she said she felt it in her shoulders and neck. SUDS @5

Set up phrase:  Even though I feel panic in my shoulders and neck when I think about seeing that $997 price for the prequalification course, but IDACLAAM

Reminder phrase:  This panic in my shoulders and neck

SUDs at 4. After this round she said it was probably a combination of panic and fear - she said it was more fear.  She said she could hear the phrase ‘It’s a lot of money’ and based on her upbringing she said that that phrase always meant ‘AVOID’.  I asked her if she could think of a specific example of that and she was not able to.  She also said that she felt that if she spends it she might have to live too tightly and experience the same sacrifices she has felt in the past due to her student loans. 

Set up phrase:  Even though I feel fear in my shoulders and neck when I think about seeing that $997 price for the prequalification course, ‘It’s a lot of money’, if I spend it it might mean I have to live tightly again, but IDACLAAM

Reminder phrase:  This panic in my shoulders and neck

After this round her SUDs went up to a 5 (Q:  is this because of the additional words in the set up do you think ?)  BUT she said that she felt that after this round it started to seem ridiculous (the fear).  She said she started to realize that maybe this is only the tip of the iceberg (ie maybe she would have to spend even more) and she compared it to a wild untamed animal that she has no control over.  I decided to use her wording in the next set up statement. 

Set up phrase:  Even though I feel fear in my shoulders and neck when I think about seeing that $997 price for the prequalification course, ‘It’s a lot of money’, if I spend it it might mean I have to live tightly again, it feels like a wild untamed animal that I have not control over,  but IDACLAAM

Reminder phrase:  This panic in my shoulders and neck

After this round her SUDs came down and she said she realizes she needs to start growing more.  She said she felt that there was a possibility of being comfortable with this and that she knows she needs to stop resisting it so much - she said she could hear herself saying ‘I don’t want to… I can’t… It’s too much’.   She said that she needs to be OK with the fact that the money is an open variable and that she is un-learning some of her messaging around money.  When I asked her to picture seeing that $997 price on the website she said she was so much more calm about it and that she knows it will be a good investment.  SUDs at 3

Having said that, she started talking about how in the past she has burned money on different ventures.  She has invested money into things that didn’t work out.  She gave a couple of examples - in the past she spent $3000 on a course that didn’t work out - she started doing some domain flipping which she has recently dissolved, and she acknowledged that she feels badly about that.  She said that all of these investments have started to add up and she doesn’t want to mess up again.  She wasn’t quite sure on the emotion around this so we just used ‘I feel bad’.  SUDs at 4 and she felt it in her chest. 

Set up phrase :  Even though I feel badly about dissolving my domain flipping business, and I can feel it in my chest, IDACLAAM

Reminder:  feeling badly in my chest

This seemed like a very productive round … she said that during the round it actually reinforced her decision to invest the $997 in the coaching.  She said that she realized she learned a lot from each investment, that she taught herself new skillsets,  and that her intentions were all genuine at the time.  She said that she felt proud of herself for what she is doing and also (importantly) recognized that investing this money now represents a very different approach - before she had just done these ventures on her own but now she is effectively hiring a coach to support her.  When I asked her about dissolving the domain flipping business she said that she felt neutral about it.

I went back and asked her again about seeing that $997 price and she said that she feels she moved from panicked to centered, controlled and rational.  She says she knows it’s a good move and a much more efficient use of time and money than her other investments.  She said ‘I feel good and confident about spending this money - it’s a chance to test this out’.  We also talked about how it is an investment in her - and she acknowledged that looking at it this way was helpful.

How the session ended:  We did a round on how much work she has done and how much progress has been made.  We included a statement on how she is choosing to invest and focus on herself.  Words to reinforce this were:  lighter, more calm, more certain, more focus on wellness and sanity.

Testing :  I used SUDs to measure her progress with each round and with each emotion - and most specifically in this session I checked in on how she felt about seeing that $997 price tag. It was interesting to me how the daisy chain impacted her feeling around the initial event (tapping on how she felt badly about investing the other money made a big difference when we looped back to how she felt about spending the $997).  It makes total sense but I found it very interesting. 

Reflections on the session/ case study:I was really pleased with this last session and feel really good about Missy’s progress.  I feel that we met the SMARTER goals that we set and I do believe that she will continue to move forward in her career exploration and that she is also much more aware about how her current job has been affecting her health.  She reiterated that this was a very important realization for her and that she has put some boundaries in place at work that have been really helpful.  She also said that she was amazed at how tapping has worked for her.  I do think she is very analytical and in her head a lot so it was challenging to get her SUDs to move by a lot - this was consistent over all the sessions - maybe some people are just this way despite getting really specific ? 

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