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Unlock Emotional Freedom With EFT Tapping
What if a few minutes of guided EFT tapping could lower your anxiety, quiet your inner critic, and help you face what really hurts without feeling overwhelmed? That’s the promise — and the science — behind Emotional Freedom Techniques, and it’s the heart of our conversation with EFT Tapping Coach and SOAR with Tapping founder, Amy Vincze.
We start by demystifying how EFT works: tapping on specific acupressure points while naming what you actually feel, which sends a powerful “de-escalate” signal to the amygdala. The research is compelling — faster cortisol drops, improvements in anxiety and depression, and standout PTSD results — yet the practice stays simple enough to try today.
We map the terrain of trauma — “Big T” events like assault or combat versus “little t” patterns like chronic criticism or neglect — and explain why finite shocks can clear quickly, while complex trauma requires patience and sequencing. You’ll learn when to choose a coach (for trauma timelines and sensitive pacing) and when an app is perfect (daily relief, structured guidance, and momentum between sessions). Amy walks through SOAR with Tapping’s onboarding, step-by-step rounds with visual cues, strategy videos for themes like depression, sleep, and cravings, and privacy choices that keep optional journals on your device. We also spotlight free EFT sessions for veterans through the
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SPEAKER_00:You give it a try. There have been over 300 uh peer-reviewed studies done that all show the effectiveness of this really powerful tool. And the numbers are off the charts about how effective it is. It might feel uncomfortable because it is going to encourage you to engage with uncomfortable emotions. But that is the magic of it because it will lead you through the other to the other side of that and get you to a place of feeling much better.
SPEAKER_01:Amid escalating mental health challenges, EFT tapping emerges as a potent self-help tool, blending acupressure and affirmations to ease anxiety and pain. Amy Vinza, shaped by her own emotional struggles, founded the SOAR with Tapping app to make this technique accessible to anyone with over 160 sessions, progress tracking, and user testimonials like this app has made my everyday life easier. It empowers app users to address root issues. Experts affirm its benefits with studies showing significant reductions and post-traumatic stress, anxiety, and depression symptoms. Vinza's journey inspires proving EFT has transformative potential for all. And today we'll learn about EFT tapping with expert EFT tapping coach Amy Vinza. Hi friends, welcome to the New Normal Big Life Podcast. We bring you natural news and stories about nature that we hope will inspire you to get outside an adventure, along with a step-by-step plan to help you practice what you've learned and create your own new normal and live the biggest life you can dream. I'm your host, Antonet Lee, the Wellness Warrior. Let's dive into today's transformational topic with Amy Vinza. In a world besieged by relentless stress and emotional turmoil, I imagine a simple technique that empowers individuals to reclaim their inner peace through mere fingertip pressure on the body. Emotional freedom techniques, or EFT, commonly known as tapping, emerges ancient acupressure principles with modern psychological insights to alleviate anxiety, depression, chronic pain, and more. This method involves gently tapping on specific meridian points while vocalizing affirmations, effectively disrupting negative thought patterns and restoring energetic balance. Research underscores its efficacy. A systematic review of clinical studies reveals that EFT significantly reduces symptoms of psychological distress with participants experiencing lasting improvements after just a few sessions. Dr. Melissa Young, a functional medicine specialist with Cleveland Clinic, affirms we see the most evidence for its capacity for lowering anxiety. Highlighting its comparability to cognitive behavioral therapy and managing depressive symptoms. Veterans grappling with post-traumatic stress have found peace with EFT, with one study noting that 80% no longer met post-traumatic stress disorder criteria after treatment. At the forefront of this transformative practice stands Amy Vinza, founder of the Soar with Tapping App. Amy Vinza has been a dedicated professional in the health and wellness industry for over 20 years. As a certified massage therapist, nutritional therapist, colon hydrotherapist, reiki master, and tapping coach, she brings a wealth of expertise to her work. Since earning her certification as a tapping coach 16 years ago, Amy's witnessed profound transformations both in her own life and in the lives of her clients. She has even used tapping to heal herself from painful chronic medical conditions. As the founder of the Sorward Tapping App, Amy's on a mission to make the life-changing benefits of tapping accessible to people everywhere. She firmly believes that tapping is one of the most powerful and transformative healing tools available today. Amy, welcome to New Normal Big Life.
SPEAKER_00:Thank you for having me. I'm excited to be here.
SPEAKER_01:I'm excited about this topic because I have some experience with EFT tapping. So can you describe your personal journey with EFT tapping, including what the pivotal moment was that led you from emotional struggles to becoming a certified coach?
SPEAKER_00:I'd love to. I think it's important for me to say that I've always been curious about human behavior, always kind of comparing my behavior to that of somebody else and wondering why we have different responses to different situations. And I've been a seeker in that regard, like always wanting to be better, always wanting to try harder, that sort of thing. And I think that got that journey elevated when I was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 31. And with no history of breast cancer in my family, it was really just came out of left field and was not something I was expecting. And, you know, after the initial fears and treatment and surgery and stuff like that, I really got curious. I really looked at it like, okay, I'm biologically the same mostly as this person standing next to me. What is it about me that made me get breast cancer and not this person over here? And so I really started going down the path of nutrition and even spirituality. And I sought out Tony Robbins at the time. I so I went to his events and a friend introduced me to tapping at the event. And I quickly recognized it as a really powerful tool. I'm sure like you did, because you've had experience with it as well. So, but I had used it over the years with kind of limited success. Like I sometimes it would fall really flat, and other times I would experience some really profound changes with it, and I didn't understand what the difference was. So about seven years ago, I had been certified for probably 16, 17 years now. But seven years ago, I was in kind of another crisis moment in my life where I, you know how it goes with when everything is just crumbling and changing around you. I my body was in pain a lot of the time. I was having anxiety attacks. I was depressed and I was about to lose my job. Like everything was just, I was in an unhappy state in a lot of places in my life. And I started turning to tapping, but I did it a little differently this time because normally I would focus on the symptoms I was experiencing, whether it was procrastination or anxiety, and it would help in the moment, but nothing changed long term with it. And so I started asking myself the questions that were helping me to get to what was underneath procrastination. Like, why exactly was I procrastinating? What would be so horrible if I achieved this goal that I say that I want, but but it's I'm like stopped dead in my tracks and I'm paralyzed about moving forward with something. And then it occurred to me that I was afraid of failure. And then I thought, okay, well, what's so bad about failure? Like all the experts and really successful people out there say that you have to fail a lot in order to truly succeed. So I'm like, okay, so what would happen if I really failed something? And then the answer came that, well, it would confirm my my greatest fears about myself, that I was there was something wrong with me, and that I was unworthy and deserving of having success or even, you know, anything good in my life, abundance of any kind. And then I asked myself, well, why do I feel that way? And I got to the answer, which was my dad left when I was four. And that was the question that I kept asking myself over and over again after he left was, what's wrong with me? What's wrong with because I, as kids, we normally just point the finger at ourselves and assume that it's our fault if something around us has happened, and which is exactly what I did. But I lived the rest of my life with looking through the world with that lens. So when I started applying tapping to those root causes, to the trauma of my dad leaving and to all the limiting beliefs and fears that were created out of that trauma, then I experienced really profound results, really, really huge stuff. It was like all of a sudden I could see that the sky was blue. And it was at that moment that I recognized tapping for the truly powerful tool that it is, and everything changed. I quit my job. I was going to lose it anyway, but started my own business with tapping and then built the app so that I could bring it to as many as wide of an audience as possible.
SPEAKER_01:Wow, that is an incredible personal journey into tapping. And your clinical experience as an EFT coach, what are some common challenges that your clients face? And how do you tailor sessions to address their root causes effectively?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, that's a great question. And I think that the thing that I see most often, it's not exactly the type of trauma that people experience, because I mean, there are categories of trauma that a lot of people go through. But the most common response that people don't often recognize as a trauma response is anxiety and overwhelm. Because what happens in our body is that, you know, our subconscious mind is constantly scanning the horizon for threats. And it's not doing it from a rational place, it's doing it from a really irrational, almost childlike place, because that's typically where we experience our trauma. And so anything that resembles the potential of experiencing the pain that they had with their trauma again, even in the most remote way, will cause people to slip into an anxious state. Their amygdala gets triggered, they go into fight or flight mode, and cortisol is rushed throughout our body. And then, and nobody, like 99% of the time, nobody understands why or how they were triggered. They're just in this anxious state and they don't know what to do with it. And we've got a lot of tools and people out there helping people to manage the symptoms of anxiety, which EFT is a great tool for doing that, because it tells the amygdala over and over again in our brain de-escalate, de-escalate, de-escalate. It's okay to feel safe and calm about this. There is no immediate threat. And it's okay to relax in this moment. And when it's doing that, it is reducing cortisol in our bodies 43% faster than if we had done nothing else. It's lowering heart rate, it is lowering blood pressure, it is increasing immune response and increasing happiness levels. So there's a lot going on when we just start tapping on our acupressure points and talking about what it is we're experiencing.
SPEAKER_01:And who typically benefits from EFT tapping? And are there specific demographics or conditions where it's most profound in the results?
SPEAKER_00:I would say it's highly individualized, and I'll give a couple of examples of why that is so. For example, like somebody that experienced what I'll refer to as a big T trauma, a wartime event, a big car accident, a major illness in their body, physical or sexual assault, something along those lines, I would consider a big T trauma. And typically those events, the number of times that people have experienced those events are pretty small. And so working through those events with tapping, with hopefully a very skilled professional, because we don't want to re-traumatize somebody and we take it extremely slow and be very sensitive about how we move forward with it. Those can clear and neutralize really quickly because it didn't happen a lot of times. And because people don't typically develop limiting beliefs around it, it didn't, and if it didn't go on for like an extended period of time, like decades or even longer, like it's really easy to release those things. Like in the matter of two to three sessions, like a sexual assault can be completely neutralized. I mean, which is remarkable, something that people get really affected by at a such a deep level, it's remarkable that it can have that quick of an effect on somebody.
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SPEAKER_00:But complex trauma, littlet trauma, which is thing, something like having an angry parent. And so you always feel like you're walking on eggshells and trying to avoid them getting angry and having, you know, some physical or even just emotional outburst. Or it could be if you were ignored by your parents. Maybe it's something as simple as they had to work two to three jobs in order to make sure that everybody had a roof over their heads and food on the table, but you as a child felt ignored and it went on for a long period of time. That's more of a complex trauma, which had which can create a lot of fears and a lot of limiting beliefs about who you are, which is much, much harder to really neutralize all of the effects of that. And it will take an extended period of time, but it will depend on how often you utilize tapping in order to achieve those results. So if you're you're working with a professional or even tapping on it like once every other week, it's going to take a long period of time. But if you were working on it, giving it like two hours a day for a week, you can move through it like that. So there's that aspect. So it really depends on what it is you want to work through. And then there is the type of person that is doing the tapping. If you have a lot of self-awareness and are able to verbalize your feelings and understand like what sadness feels like in your body and what anger feels like in your body, and be able to verbalize and express how that feels, then you're going to achieve faster results. If you have a little bit of a harder time with that, it's just gonna, it's like a muscle that needs to be exercised and strengthened. And over time, you will get to the point where you can not only recognize what you're feeling, but verbalize it and release it really quickly. So, yeah, there's there's a few items that come into play with it, but I have worked with children like five years old and have she's released something really quickly. I've worked with teenagers and they release very quickly because they don't have an extended history of struggles in a certain area, typically, and adults take a little bit longer, but again, it depends on the person and what they're working on.
SPEAKER_01:So you've talked about working with an EFT tapping coach, and I know that we're gonna talk about an app in just a moment, but how will a potential client make the decision between working with an app and working with a coach? How do you make that decision for yourself?
SPEAKER_00:Very, very good question. If somebody has trauma that they need to work through, I would always recommend working with a EFT professional because while, like I said, there are different categories of traumas, each person's trauma and eat the effect that the trauma had on each person is so individualized. But there is a really distinct timeline of a trauma where multiple points along that timeline, there are going to be moments where there are feelings of shame, regret, guilt, uh, or f and or fear, all of the above sometimes, and they all need to be neutralized in order for the whole event to be neutralized. And so it takes somebody, it takes somebody working with a coach to be able to recognize when those moments are, because we if I was trying to work through my own trauma by myself, I have too many judgments and criticisms about how I responded to be able to be non-judgmental about those moments enough to recognize that that's something I need to tap on. So an outside person can have a really clear perspective on where the trigger points are and what needs to be worked through. The app is a really great support tool for everything that comes afterwards. So all of the fears that developed from trauma, all the limiting beliefs about maybe I'm stupid, or maybe I'm lazy, or you know, anything along those lines, or symptoms like I can't sleep at night, or I've got this anxiety, or I'm feeling depression, or or I'm have massive cravings for food or alcohol or something along those lines. Those are everything that comes after trauma, and those are all symptoms of trauma. So start always start with the trauma itself. And because it's like it's like putting water on the coals of a fire. Because if you're just working up at the top of the flames, it's not going to put that out, you know, from the base, from the root. You have to pour water over the coals first, and then you can deal with all of the other things that are still simmering with fire.
SPEAKER_01:So suppose a client wants to work with an EFT tapping coach, but their insurance provider won't their insurance carrier won't cover it, and they don't have the means to work with a coach out of pocket. However, let's suppose their insurance carrier says, Well, I I am covering your therapist sessions. Could a person maybe who wants to work with a soar with tapping app, which we'll talk about in a moment? Could they bring the app to their therapist or social worker and say, I'd like to incorporate this technique on this app in our sessions? Would someone be open to that?
SPEAKER_00:I I do believe they would. And I think a lot more therapists are adopting this tool in their practice because it is so effective. But I do want to point out, you mentioned that you have a lot of veterans that are part of your listenership. And I do want to point out that there is a program, especially for veterans, where they can receive free EFT tapping sessions. And there have been some amazing results and studies done on how effective EFT is, particularly for veterans that have experienced PTSD andor resulting depression or anxiety or insomnia afterwards. There are really great results regarding that. And I just want to quickly, if I can, give you the name of that program so your listeners can hear it. It's called the Veteran Stress Project, and they offer free EFT coaching sessions for veterans and their families, which can be provided in person or via Zoom or something along those lines. And how would a veteran access this program? I would just search it on Google and find out, get a web page and contact them directly.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, I meant would they need a consult from their primary care physician?
SPEAKER_00:Is it all Oh, I I don't know. That's a good question. They might have to have a di a diagnosis of PTSD in order to get the free sessions, but I have I have not done enough research to be able to answer that accurately. So if you're if you are just below that but are still having symptoms, I would definitely reach out and see if they have a program that might be able to kind of catch you in there.
SPEAKER_01:I'll give some spend some time doing some research, and then if I find out anything, it'll be in the show notes. Okay, great. What can or how can someone wanting to use SOAR with tapping get your app?
SPEAKER_00:Well, you can search for it on the Android or Google Play Stores, just search for Sore with Tapping, or you and Apple users, they can go to my website, go to soarwithtapping.com forward slash podcast dash special, and there they can find a code to input into the app once they download it to get 50% off of their first annual subscription.
SPEAKER_01:Wow, that's an incredible savings.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, yeah. I love that. I just my biggest passion and a mission in life is to give people access to this tool. Hopefully, it's at a at an affordable price for most people, and there are different payment plans that you can choose from. But mostly I just want to give people the the opportunity to be able to heal themselves. I mean, nobody should have to suffer when this kind of stuff is available, you know.
SPEAKER_01:So Amy, what's setup like with the app? Some people are technology averse, you know, they they don't want to have yet another app that they have to learn. Tell us what the setup will be like.
SPEAKER_00:So there is an onboarding process that will ask you, you know, what is your experience level with tapping? And based on that experience level, it'll give you hopefully the corresponding amount of information to make it easy for you to get started. And then we'll take you through a tapping round right away. And what that means is that you'll choose from a list of things that you can work on and you can say, I wanna, I wanna work on feeling calm in this moment. So we'll take you through a very quick 10-minute tapping round. There's an avatar that will show you by with pointing dots where you need to be tapping on your body, and it will prompt you with exactly what to say. So you're just going to repeat everything the recording says and tap where the recording says to tap and where the picture is showing you to tap, and you just repeat everything that the recording says. Beforehand, you're going to give yourself a rating. Say, how anxious am I feeling on a scale from zero to 10? And you say, Maybe I'm at a six or whatever. So you record that, then you do the tapping round, and then you record where you are afterwards, and that's it. That is it's a very, very simple approach, but there's a lot of magic that happens in there.
SPEAKER_01:So I love this so much because when I was first introduced to tapping, it was through little cards that showed me where to tap. But also the therapist that I was working with would give me verbal instructions. And as someone with a brain injury, I would always think, oh, I'm taking enough notes. And then I'd get home and there were gaps in my notes, and I wasn't quite sure if I was doing it right. And so it took a while to kind of get going with it. And I love how the SOR with tapping app just makes it so seamless and so effortless because it shows you step by step. I love that so much.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, yeah. We tried to do it on a lot of different levels. So there's a visual cue and there's verbal cues to tell you where you need to tap. But there's also what I want to point out, there's a lot of videos on the app that will tell you and give you instructions for how to work through bigger topics like depression. Because while there's a hundred and over 170 tapping scripts and meditations available on the app, if somebody walks into that situation with depression on their mind, they're not going to have any idea about where to start. And so there are a lot of videos that tell you how to approach things like anxiety or depression or procrastination or addiction, weight loss, you know, anything along those lines. Wow, those are some big ones. That's amazing. Because it's hard to figure out where to go with things like that. And there is a definite order, like you, like we talked about earlier. Let's work on those foundational fears that were created out of trauma first, because then it's going to make everything else you work on afterwards that much more effective and successful.
SPEAKER_01:Well, I know that there are some end-user specific pieces of data that someone might enter, like their emotional insights or progress metrics. How is that protected, handled, where how is it stored? And tell us a little bit about privacy. It doesn't seem like you collect anything really from the app user, but it just solidify what it is that you're collecting, how it's handled, and what they can expect.
SPEAKER_00:Okay. Yes. We don't keep anything, we don't capture any data other than your email address. The one thing that we do kind of keep track of is the amount of time that you've been on the app, how many numbers you have gone down on the scale when you go through a tapping round, and basically how many tapping rounds you've done. We and we only do that so that you have a gauge and can and can see how much time you've invested and how much progress you've actually made. Because it's really hard to quantify the emotional journey. And we need to find ways to celebrate these things. Otherwise, we get in our own way and that critical voice comes in and tells us that we're not enough again. So we need to look be able to look back and see, oh, I have made some progress in this area. But other than that, we don't capture a thing. There are journaling functions on there, but we're not tracking that. We're not, you know, keeping. It in any way, shape, or form. It is strictly for you, and you know, we're not going to use it ever.
SPEAKER_01:So it sounds like anything that the app user would might enter into the app for their own notes or kept and stored on their own phone and nothing is being sent to a server somewhere. That's correct.
SPEAKER_00:That's correct. Yes.
SPEAKER_01:What else do you want listeners to know? I will of course drop all the links to how to get the app and the discounts in the show description. But is there anything else you want us to leave us with? And before you go, I'd also like to know how could someone who wanted to work with you directly on a one-on-one basis with or without the app, how could they connect with you?
SPEAKER_00:Absolutely. And I do have some spots available for individual clients. They can always email me, Amy at soarwithtapping.com. But I think the one thing that I want to just encourage people to do is to just try it. To be honest, it looks silly when you first get started. It feels silly. It feels like, how could this possibly be the powerful tool that people are talking about? And the truth is you have to experience it in order to be able to judge whether or not it is a good tool for you. And it's not for everybody. But I just encourage you to give it a try. There have been over 300 uh peer-reviewed studies done that all show the effectiveness of this really powerful tool. And the numbers are off the charts about how effective it is. And so I just encourage people to suspend judgment, give it a try. It might feel uncomfortable because it is going to encourage you to engage with uncomfortable emotions. But that is the magic of it because it will lead you through the other to the other side of that and get you to a place of feeling much better rather than just slapping on kind of a cursory type of happy thought on on top of bad feelings. It will actually move you through the bad feelings and get you to the other side, feeling so much relief.
SPEAKER_01:And that's where the healing is. Thank you so much, Amy, for joining us. This has been very insightful.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, I'm so happy I was able to do this with you. Thank you for having me.
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