EFT for Women with Breast Cancer
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Bari Roberts - My journey using EFT with Myself and Clients
From the moment of diagnosis thru the entire treatment process women with breast cancer experience a dysregulating emotional rollercoaster, with high anxiety, fear, and deep grief.
EFT helps with the external stressors affecting patients include receiving the diagnosis, the medical interventions received, and the physical discomfort of various treatments and their side effects. Internally, for the patient, just thinking about a cancer diagnosis can trigger negative emotional stress and thus lower the immune response.
A woman’s stress response can be triggered by both the external and internal factors involved form the moment of finding out she has cancer.
When a woman is stressed, there is an increase the production of cortisol, the primary stress hormone. Chronic overstimulation of cortisol triggers the fight or flight sympathetic nervous system. Our adrenal glands increase production of cortisol and adrenaline and our endocrine system decreases the production of dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA). In addition, the stress hormones glucocorticoids can cause epigenetic changes in how genes function.
Stress raises catecholamine and suppressor T cell levels, which further suppresses the immune system. This suppression in turn raises the risk of viral infection. Stress affects both the mind and the body and can cause up to 70% of the blood to drains from the frontal lobes into the peripheral muscles, taking vital energy for healing away from the whole body and making clear thinking very difficult.
Drugs can be used to lower a woman’s physical discomfort, stress and anxiety, however not all drugs work for all women, and at times choose not to take drugs due to side effects, drugs can be expensive, as well as difficult to gain access to depending on a woman’s insurance plan.
In contrast, EFT is an easy to use and learn body-based tool that sends calming signals to the mind and body while releasing negative emotions. Once the negative emotions are released, patients and staff feel more peaceful, calm, and empowered to move ahead. During an EFT session the patient naturally experiences cognitive shifts which in turn support clear thinking allow for a positive reframing of the situation, it becomes easier for patients to make medical decisions, and to receive treatments with increased acceptance and peace.
EFT can also be used to help patients heal old traumas and feelings triggered by their current illness, reduce fear related to receiving a diagnosis, reduce chemo brain, reduce the fear of needles and medical treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation, as well as reduce the fear of death.
In a research article called Reexamining the effect of emotional freedom techniques on stress biochemistry: A randomized controlled trial published November 2020 by the National Library of Medicine, by Peta Stapleton, Gabrielle Crighton, Debbie Sabot, and Harley Marie O’Neilit stated that after one hour of group EFT Tapping cortisol (the stress hormone) decreased by 43.24%, whereas in the psychoeducation group cortisol levels decreased by 19.67%.
In numerous studies EFT has been proven to be effective at reducing physical pain. In 20219 Bach et al created a study that showed that EFT reduced of physical pain by 57%. EFT reduces stress, thus boosting the immune system’s ability to heal wounds.
In 2010 Church and Brooks created a study that reported that wounds heal up to 40% faster in the absence of stress. The Health Care Workers study documented that after an EFT session, there was an average of 68% pain reduction after one 30-minute EFT session. What remained was about 1/3 the pain.
Many find that EFT Tapping is the ideal self help tool, as well as one on one session tool (to be given by a Certified EFT Practitioner), for women with a diagnosis of breast cancer. It is beneficial at reducing the multiple emotional, physical, and psychological stressors that come with a breast cancer diagnosis.
Come and learn more about how EFT helped Bari Roberts, EFT Tapping Pracitioner, with her personal cancer journey, as well as how EFT sessions are helping Bari's clients who have had a diagnosis of breast cancer. See you there!
