More About My Story

Thank you for being curious and taking the time to read more of my story. Please read it from the perspective of how it could apply to you or someone you know. Please share because we all deserve to live a life we love!

I want you to know that you don't have to settle. If things aren’t working out the way you want, you're not feeling fulfilled, or on purpose, it's not your fault, and there isn't anything wrong with you. The problem is that there's a disconnect between your wants and your subconscious beliefs about yourself. Tapping can fix that disconnect because it helps you to recognize and reprogram those nonsupporting beliefs. We are meant to reach our full potential, to experience more, just like a tree wants to grow to its fullest height and fullness. It's natural!

I discovered EFT tapping out of desperation. I was thirty pounds overweight, depressed, and constantly getting sick. Managing my energy was like a military operation, and I could barely work part-time. I finally got in to see a medical specialist, and after four months of tests, he called me into his office. He said I was one of the four people he'd seen that he didn't know what was wrong with and that "nothing more could be done."

Initially, I was devastated and felt utterly hopeless, but after a couple of months of wallowing, I got angry, and I wasn't willing to accept his prognosis. I have a combination of A-type and creative personality, and my stubborn A-side side kicked into gear. I decided to graph my life because I thought if I could figure out when everything went wrong, I could figure out what went wrong.

I broke my life into three general categories- health, finance and relationships. The relationship line didn't look too bad, but the health and finances lines looked like roller coasters, with one particularly low spot.

It was when one of my twin girls had a terrible horseback riding accident that I witnessed. She's all good now and still riding, but when she was fifteen, the horse she was riding reared, fell back onto her and then rolled off. I thought she had died when I saw her not moving in the arena sand. Her pelvis was broken on both sides, and she had ruptured her bladder. She was in a wheelchair for two months and on crutches for another month after that.

When I looked at that low spot on the graph, I asked myself how I would describe that event. Traumatic was the word that instantly came. When I typed it into the google search bar, PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) popped up immediately. I took the questionnaires, and they confirmed that I had PTSD.

The next obvious question was, how do you cure it? Most of the initial responses said that it wasn't curable. Except when I dug deeper, EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) or tapping came up as it's more commonly known. And some studies showed that it was exceptional at healing trauma.

So I bought all the books, read case studies and started tapping, but I didn't want anyone to know because I didn't believe it would work. It seemed too unusual and simple, and I had tried so many different things for decades to sort out health and finances that I didn't want anyone to know if I failed again.

To my disbelief, after a month, I started to get quiet in my head, which I hadn't realized just how noisy it had been. After three months, I was feeling energetic, hopeful and had lost all the excess weight.

I needed to understand physiologically how these profound results were possible. So I spent the next two months putting the puzzle pieces together. Once I understood I wanted to help others, I got my accredited advanced certification and my certificate in matrix reimprinting, an advanced form of tapping.

As a compassionate empath, I began to understand that I had had multiple PTSD events and that these events created limiting subconscious beliefs that were holding me back from living a life I love. My daughter’s accident became my ‘gift in sandpaper.’

Many people have experienced trauma that, by design, creates limiting subconscious beliefs and don’t realize it because they need to understand trauma from a different perspective. Yes, death, rape, natural disasters, etc., are easily categorized as traumatic. But for something to be traumatic, all you need are three ingredients; feeling of powerlessness/helplessness, feeling alone/isolated, and shock (which can be acute or chronic).

When you think about these three ingredients from the perspective of your seven-year-old, you can see how subconscious limiting beliefs about yourself and the world can quickly get set up. Especially if you are heart-centered, and highly sensitive, all of this is significantly amplified.

These beliefs can hold you back from experiencing abundance in every area of your life and definitely from expressing your whole self. I know I had no idea of all the crap I had in the way! I didn’t believe it would ever be possible for me to feel happy, free and fulfilled, but it was, and it's possible for you too!

Again, thank you for taking the time to read.

XO Sherry