Living Life on Your Terms
Are you living a life without passion? Are you living a life controlled by others? Would you like to be guided by the stories of others who have re-created their lives to live on their own terms? If so, then the new book Life on Your Terms is something you should definitely consider.
This book is in pre-order this month, and you can receive bonuses for buying before July 31st.
Did I mention that I am one of the featured 40 solo-preneurs interviewed in the new book? You can learn more about my story and how I re-created my life. Here is what the publicity is saying:
“From chucking it all and backpacking around the world, to not being afraid to die; from never tasting a meal in the same way, to conquering cycles of mental illness; from starting over, to base jumping off the top rung of the corporate ladder into the realm of personal freedom…These are just a few of the stories from the exceptional group of entrepreneurs and visionaries who generously share their secrets for personal liberation in this book.
Life On Your Terms means learning to be your best self, giving back to your community, allowing for divine love, and following your dreams toward your personal and entrepreneurial destiny.
This collection of more than forty personal interviews turns over the stones of accepted wisdom to reveal the tremendous power of the entrepreneurial perspective. With commentary and insights by Shann Vander Leek—an inspirational leader who, after eighteen years of serving the television broadcast model of Corporate America, reinvented herself as the founder of True Balance Life Coaching—Life On Your Terms is a valuable resource for any entrepreneur, and reminds us that the power to define success and personal freedom lies within ourselves.”
So, if you are ready for personal transformation, for inspiration, for re-kindling your passion, for re-discovering your authentic self, and for living life on your terms, then you may pre-purchase your book by going here.
N- EFT & Energy Therapy TAPshops: Regular or Lite
July is an exciting month. I am revamping several aspects of my life, my business, my website, and the N- EFT & Energy Therapy TAPshops!
Some of you already know that I offer a weekly group coaching program now entitled: N- EFT & Energy Therapy TAPshops. This is half way through its second year, and based on positive feedback from participants, I have made some changes.
Firstly, some of you might recognize that the name of the program has changed a bit. I am now formally claiming the principal modality that I share as an energy psychologist. It is called: Neuro – Emotional Freedom Technique or N- EFT because it is a blend of two potent techniques that I utilize with my clients.
Anyone who has worked with me before realizes that I usually teach my clients to use classical Emotional Freedom Technique or EFT. I am certifed by Gary Craig and highly endorse his process. You may learn more by going here.
When I am facilitating a session with a client I often incorporate applied kinesiology as well as Neuro Emotional Technique or NET, which is a very powerful modality that requires application by a facilitator. You may learn more about this technique here.
During each call I provide a universal emotional issue, share information about an advanced way to address clearing the issue, and then we tap. I provide the set-up statements and provide enough time for the muted participants to respond exactly or with their own wording to pinpoint their specific aspect of this issue.
July’s monthly focus is on clearing blockages to receiving abundance. In our first live call we tapped out issues that were inherited in DNA, energetics taken on while in the womb, pre-verbal perceptions that created an aspect of the inner critical voice, and life aspects as well as traumas up to age 5.
The second call of the month focused on clearing emotional issues taken on from age 5 up to 15. This includes family relationships, home life dynamics, teachers, peers, other traumas and challenges of growing up.
We still have two weeks left to go and during the live call on July 20th we will focus on clearing issues from age 13 to 20. These are formative years when we all experience deep emotions and often our perceptions are somewhat clouded with teenaged hormones, peer pressure, growing pains, general insecurities and fears. This will be an important session – one not to be missed!
And the fourth session of July will focus on clearing issues that block the flow of abundance into your life based on age 20 and above. This will include our working years, child-bearing years, marriage or not issues, among others.
The Regular TAPshop program offers four calls per month, with live calls on the first and third Tuesdays of each month and recorded calls on the second and fourth weeks of each month. All calls are provided to participants via recording after the call, with notes about the session.
If this month’s sessions sound of interest to you, then you can sign up now to join us for the July 20th LIVE (third) call of this month and receive recordings from the first two July sessions with your Regular program registration.
And, if four calls per month are a bit much for your schedule or your budget, then there is a TAPshop Lite program too. This program offers you two live calls per month on the first and third Tuesdays, and you receive recordings of each call with notes.
There is also a bonus incentive to receive a private one-on-one coaching session using N- EFT, with me , Dr. Anne Merkel, if you register for three months of the Regular TAPshop program or six months of the Lite TAPshop program.
To learn more or register you can visit our Tapshops Page.
Eating Disorders and Coaching?
So often coaches take on issues that may well be outside of the coaching area unless the coach has specialized tools. Anorexia, Bulimia, Binge Eating are serious life-threatening conditions that are usually beyond the scope of regular coaching.
It has been my experience as an energy psychologist and coach that eating disorders stem from deep subconscious issues that may be based on DNA patterning, in-womb energetics picked up through the mother, pre-verbal infant perception-based inner beliefs, as well as conscious life experiences. Often the person finds that their eating habits are the only thing that they can control in life, so they manipulate that arena. This is more than basic coaching can usually handle.
In the cases where an eating disorder comes from boredom, confusion, scope-creep, shifting priorities, lack of focus, then a coach can be very beneficial and usually the eating order can be cleared up as the client begins to reclaim focus and direction with the coach’s help.
When a person presents to a coach or therapist with an intention to let go of an eating disorder this may or may not be something that is actually possible without first clearing out some of the subconscious energetics. In some cases the person sets an intention and then with help from the right practitioner/support person, it is achieved.
In many other cases the person’s subconscious has set up a threshold of success that their will alone will never be able to penetrate. Even though this person may REALLY wish to change the behavior, there is deep inner belief that it is unsafe to be healthy, that they do not deserve to be healthy, that something bad will happen if they get healthy, that they will lose control if they get healthy, that God doesn’t want them to be healthy, etc. I’ve encountered all of these, and none were consciously realized by the person with the eating disorder.
As an energy psychologist I support people to clear the underlying emotional issues that are carried in their electro-magnetic fields and that create their underlying values, beliefs, and habits throughout life. Until these emotionally-based charges are cleared from the electro-magnetic physiology, the habit or issue cannot be totally cleared. Once the energetic charge is cleared – then it is gone and the person is then free to change his or her life.
So, if you are a coach and would like to know more, I would enjoy talking with you about this. Also, on my website are some recordings (FREE) that share some of the energy-clearing techniques that I use, and there is a special coach-training section too.
I often partner with coaches to support their clients – helping to clear the underlying issues and then returning the client to their coach to continue with regular coaching maintenance. Also, some of you may have used one of the coach training manuals that I co-wrote with several big-named master coaches for their coach training institutes.
I love to support coaching so that everybody wins!!
Protecting Your Subconscious Mind
Whenever you think a thought, encounter an idea, react to outside stimulation, your subconscious mind says “Yes!”, and jots that down to your experience. If you watch a scary movie, read a tear-jerker book, empathize with a loved one, your inner mind claims that as your own experience and places your reaction into your inner emotional archives. If you have ever experienced trauma, then your subconscious attempts to hide that away so that it ceases to hurt, and at the same time it creates a protection mechanism within your inner beliefs that will keep you from ever coming close to re-experiencing that pain again.
Let me explain this in another way. When you were born you created a body based on the DNA of your parents. Included in and around that body is an electro-magnetic field that resonates with the coding of the DNA you have inherited. You constantly add your own experiences to this electro-magnetic field, and as you do, your vibrational frequency shifts. Based on physics and the laws of resonance, when one thing vibrates at a certain frequency it automatically attracts other things vibrating at the same frequency.
We pick up frequencies from others. (Have you ever entered a room where someone is in a horrible mood? How did that affect your mood?)
And, we attract others who show up with the same frequencies as our own. (Do you ever feel that those closest to you are “mirrors” of you?)
We also attract cycles of events. (I have cleared clients who have had multiple car accidents, who keep attracting the same kind of abusive relationships, who have lost multiple jobs, etc.)
So, here are some basic tips to remember…
- Every time you say something your subconscious mind says, “Yes!”
- Every time you react to something that you see, hear, touch, feel, your subconscious registers it, stores it, and believes it to be a true experience for you – even if you were merely an observer.
- Every time you experience an emotional reaction you store it in your body, in your electro-magnetic field, and ultimately in your DNA. If all of your experiences can be passed to your offspring in the genetics that they inherit from you, imagine what you have inherited from your own ancestors.
- Although you have inherited, experienced, reacted to many stimuli, you DO have a choice now to feed your subconscious only the information and experiences that vibrate at the frequency that you choose.
- Treat your subconscious as your most precious belonging, and you will be rewarded in every aspect of your life!
Walking My Talk!
Just as I have expectations that my clients will take care of themselves between our sessions using the tools with which I have taught them to support themselves, it is of paramount importance that I also take care of myself using specific energy psychology tools too.
As I begin each session I guide my client to become centered, connect our energies, set the intention of creating an energetic mastermind, and set my own intention to be “the clearest channel that I can be to support the highest priority issues” of my client, and to “follow guidance to utilize the most appropriate tools to best support the clearing of priority issues – for the highest good of all concerned”.
There is no way that I can serve as a “clear channel” unless I clear my own issues whenever they arise and continue to hone my energy psychology tools so that I can be the best me possible when I serve my clients.
Love Our Nation & Our Planet!
Tomorrow is Independence Day in the USA. As a little girl I remember the parades we would have every year on this day – led by my grandfather, and followed by all of us, dressed in red, white, & blue, and waving little flags. It was always a fun & very patriotic occasion, as my family truly loves our country.
Working for many years in international relations and communication, I realize that each nation has its blessings as well as its weaknesses. Each country on earth shares space on a delicate planet that we must remember to respect. So, on this weekend to celebrate in the USA, I urge us ALL to take note of all that we have to be grateful for – wherever we live, and identify how we can make this next year one of taking more conscious care of our beautiful planet.
Consciousness and sustainability must begin at home… and then it filters out through our country and then into the rest of the world. So, will you join me in thanking our planet for her great abundance and patience with us as we learn to better support her? Have a fun weekend, and enjoy mindfulness while you are at it! 
Return to Your Authentic Self!
Each evening I am blessed with a gorgeous sunset from my cabin on a mountain ridge in north Georgia. I look toward the west and can see the sun set behind the Cohutta Wilderness every night. My blog banner is a photo of such a sunset… with a few color shifts to keep my green branding.
Here is a real photo with true colors. It is authentic and I love the natural beauty. As humans we are born with an authentic beauty that is often stressed out of us by life. After events start happening and patterns start to develop, then our authenticity begins to disappear behind a mask of protection. The subconscious, limbic mind goes into protection mode to shield us from hurt, and our colors begin to fade or change. Soon the weaknesses and old hurts that we have inherited in our DNA start to appear and attract cycles of negative occurrences into our lives. Before long we are hunting for someone to help clear the pain.
That is where energy psychology tools come in. You can only do so much with your conscious mind and will. If your life isn’t as you would like it to be, then there is something inside providing self-sabotage. The good news is that there are meridian based energy therapy tools now available that you can learn to use to clear out the underlying causes of all negative cycles, self-sabotage, and debilitating beliefs. Yes, there IS hope!
So, if you desire to return to your authentic, clear, wonderful self, aligned with all of the opportunities of the Universe, then you may be a candidate for using energy psychology tools like Neuro Emotional Technique or Emotional Freedoom Technique or many others. My own version of NET + EFT is called N- EFT/ Neuro- Emotional Freedom Technique, and it is very potent. I love the authentic selves who reappear after just a few clearing sessions!
So, I urge you to search for that wonderful, authentic self who is hiding somewhere inside of you. And, if you need assistance in helping it to reappear, then feel free to contact me!
Doing the Work… Creating Miracles!
I am so grateful to have manifested wonderful clients who are willing to create the miracles in their lives!
As an energy psychologist and successful life coach I am a guide and facilitator. I share meridian based energy therapy tools including N- EFT, and wave my magic wand so that the alchemical process may begin. I hold my clients in a sacred chalice energetically and check in with them regularly. They must do the daily work, and they do!
One client was in a state of trauma when she came to me for a single session. In just that one session we cleared co-dependence, fear of being out of control, deep insecurities, and the causes of her bulimia of years before. She has created a positive daily habit of conscious meridian tapping with EFT since our session and sends me weekly reports on her progress. She is making remarkable leaps forward in her life and getting to be a skilled EFT tapper!
Another client came to me for just six sessions to clear money issues, several serious physical complaints, and his seeming lack of positive movement in his life. After we cleared several layers of childhood abuse the contracts started rolling in and one physical issue cleared up. After several more sessions he had set up vision boards around his office, daily tapping protocols, and was re-listening to the tapping tapes from our sessions. He definitely was doing the work, and at the end of three months another major physical ailment cleared up to the point where the pain is controllable and sometimes gone completely, which many practitioners said would never happen. He definitely has done the work to create the miracles in his life, and he continues to do this daily!
Another client was so weak with auto-immune toxicity when we first met that she was barely able to walk from her bed to her kitchen in her little apartment. In three months she now is out facilitating meetings, walking in the park, driving to destinations hours away, attending festive gatherings, and being less susceptible to toxins in the environment. She is re-claiming her body after a toxic event thirteen years ago, and reclaiming her life for the first time in 60+ years. We cleared many levels of abuse and self-criticism before she could allow herself to start to re-claim her health. She is doing her work and will soon be living a totally different life from anything she might have ever imagined!
I love these people and their strong intention and drive to get better! Sometimes the inner work is almost harder than the outer work, however with the meridian based energy therapy tools that I use and teach to my clients the pain is merely an energetic charge that is easily cleared, and the N- EFT tools can be used for the rest of their lives. This work is so fulfilling! I love seeing my clients’ successes and sharing in the joy of their new lives!
Hooray for conscious transformation!
Job Search Woes can be easily cleared with EFT!
In 1985 I trained as a career consultant with Bernard Haldane, one of the top gurus in the world in this field. His work inspired his protege’, Richard Bolles, to write the all-time best-seller What Color is Your Parachute?
In the past when I did lots of career counseling, executive marketing consulting, and outplacement counseling, I did not know about meridian tapping tools such as EFT. Now I can share these energy therapy tools with others to help them clear their job search woes. These blocks, doubts, fears will continue to hold them back from getting the job of their desires – until the inner resistance is cleared.
Tonight I am giving all job searchers and career counselors a gift of a very affordable tele-seminar focused on teaching EFT and clearing issues such as:
- negative feelings about: a past job, past employer, how you left your last job, etc.
- anxiety about what will or might be asked of you in your job including: certain tasks, responsibilities, technical requirements, new skills that must be learned, etc.
- loss felt as a result of no longer: working in your past job, earning as much money, working with old friends & colleagues, enjoying a status position, receiving the same benefits as before, etc.
- confusion due to: lack of clarity about what you want, emotional charge around being out of work, frustration of looking for a new job, etc.
As a continuation of an earlier Job School series that I offered through CoachWorld, I am offering this tele-seminar tonight – Wednesday, June 30, at 7:30 p.m. ET/ 4:30 PT, and I am only charging $25 for the class. Your benefits will include:
- instruction in and use of EFT,
- discussion of various job-search issues that are able to be easily cleared,
- an actual tapping session that will clear your issues,
- a recording of the session that can be used over and over again to clear related issues.
- I will also provide follow-up e-mail support to all participants.
I believe that every career counselor should have this tool to break down your client’s inner resistance to using the “nuts & bolts” of job hunting that you will be sharing. Without de-charging the inner resistance and blockages even the best career campaign may easily fall apart.
To register or refer a client, just go to: http://is.gd/d8elR, and you can easily sign up. The tele-class bridgeline with passcode will be sent directly by e-mail to each participant. I look forward to having you join us tonight at 7:30 Eastern!
Are You Utilizing Your Own Wealth?
What would happen if you had a billion dollars and yet you forgot that you had it in your account and never used it? You constantly felt poor, in survival mode, a victim of circumstances, and projected neediness and lack all around you.
This is a good analogy for a person who knows how to use energy therapy/psychology tapping tools and yet never uses them.
When an ache or pain comes up, do you tap? Even if it doesn’t work, do you at least try?
When you feel any uncomfortable emotion, do you tap? In this case tapping might be the most powerful thing that you can do!
And, do you let your newness at tapping or insecurities about what to say hold you back from even trying? If so, then tap on that insecurity in yourself. It doesn’t really matter what you say… just talk to your subconscious mind and tell it what you choose to let go of and what you would like to feel in its place. While you are tapping allow yourself to be in the FEELing of the emotion. The rest just happens as you tap.
So, if you are not utilizing your tapping every time you feel uncomfortable in any area of your life, then you are sitting on a billion dollars in your bank account… and you are still feeling poor.
If this is you and you need help, then seek it! I am available and so are so many other expert tappers, facilitators, and teachers of tapping.
From now on in my blog and soon to appear on my website you will hear about my own personalized technique which I call NEFT: Neuro Emotional Freedom Technique – taken from my two primary modalities: NET/Neuro Emotional Technique and EFT/ Emotional Freedom Technique. My approach incorporates classic EFT and adds more specificity per tapping point via NET. In one round I usually can clear what it usually takes several rounds of traditional EFT or NET to clear. That is why I have a high success rate with my clients and they shift so quickly. Stay tuned to learn more…