Yes, Thank You!

Yes, Thank You: Tapping into the Superpower of Gratitude, Carol Look, LCSW, DCH and Founding EFT Master.

I recently wrote a review for this latest book by Carol Look for the Energy Psychology world, and since reading it, I've been sharing my enthusiasm with it with my clients and encouraging them to get it to jump start their own profoundly self-empowering, self-healing tapping practice, I decided to share it here, as well.

When originally introduced to tapping all those years back, one of my very first awarenesses was just how empowering the practice can be. A method to release even deep emotional pain that doesn’t require waiting until the next time you are with your therapist to unload the next layer of pain to reveal itself; or say you don’t have a therapist for whatever reason and want an effective method to use yourself. I knew that this had the potential to heal the world.

Through more than 25 years of using tapping with thousands of clients and group participants, I have realized that it’s rare for someone without a background in trauma work to run with tapping as the healing tool it is. People need a map, a process; they  need to make sense of how to proceed.

Carol provides this in a clear and easy to navigate format. She makes sense of the pieces/parts of this healing practice and then adds the transformative element of gratitude. She is a clarifying guide for treating the 3 aspects of lingering traumatic effect:

·       emptying our containers of the pain still carried from the past,

·       reversing the beliefs that have damaged self-esteem and self-worth, and

·       releasing our stuckness in self-sabotaging behaviors.

·       The more we do this, the more room we make for gratitude…which adds a measure of magic into our lives, unlike what we have experienced before.

Even someone who is brand new to tapping, will find the book a trustworthy guide. I imagine her approach would go a long way to help someone release the guilt they feel about themselves and for being stuck in repetitive, unsatisfactory patterns. Releasing this guilt frees someone up to begin to fly! We are creating more space and more capacity to heal ourselves and begin experiencing more gratitude in life.

She then offers tapping protocols for each aspect limiting our potential for joy and healing. Examples include: arguments with loved ones, grief, fear, betrayal, low self-esteem, the fear of saying no, feeling not good enough/inadequate; the fear of success, of things being taken away, of shining and being seen, fear of threat, of failure, of making mistakes, of being criticized, etc. She also has a chapter with protocols for health challenges.

Stories of others’ transformations and success are shared. Examples of ways to incorporate gratitude are given. Finally, she completes the book with a 30-day gratitude challenge. Also, for those who want to go a little deeper into the healing work, she gives further access to some protocols for doing that, too. I highly encourage the reader to access and use these additional tools.

Carol has given us, our clients and the world, an accessible, hands-on guide to self-empowered healing and growth, that I know will become a beloved book for many, being the tool which helped many get unstuck and begin to shine in their lives in ways they may have never thought possible, while others will cherish it for its guidance in helping them to level up to a more expansive, ever-present, and magical experience in living.

Thank you, Carol!