September 2009 - Ingrid Dinter

When does a warrior deserve healing?

EFT4Vets stands for helping ALL Veterans and their families, regardless of a diagnosis or known, severe trauma. EFT is a coaching tool that can be easily learned by anybody, even children. If a soldier needs mental health services, EFT doesn’t have to be stopped, as it does not contradict the support someone might get from the VA. On the contrary, EFT can be self applied and Soldiers can help each other, as well as families work with it together.

The need for adrenaline

Many Soldiers feel that the life they are supposed to live when they come home feels rather irrelevant and boring. The decisions are banal, and the adrenaline that they are so used to, can’t be used in every day life. with EFT, we can safely tap and release the adrenaline to a normal and appropriate level.

Feeling "Boxed in"

In Theater, many soldiers experience a kind of adrenaline rush and freedom in a way that is rather impossible to have at home. After returning home, many soldiers report that they feel like everything here is in slow motion. There is no adrenaline rush, and the importance of many everyday decisions seems to be irrelevant, even ridiculous. With EFT, we can help relax and adjust in a surprising and appropriate way.

Relaxing or Healing?

The word “healing” does not go down great with some Veterans. It has a feeling of new age, woo woo, and is not acceptable. For the sake of rapport, I often start a conversation by replacing the word “healing” with “relaxing”.

Healing without Excuses

When working with unforgivable trauma and despair, I find it important to not offer excuses for what happened. In my experience, Veterans don’t want to hear that there is something good about a kid that died in a cross fire, about the accidental death of civilians, or anybody, for that matter. Instead, we use EFT to find peace with what happened. Having released the trauma and overwhelm allows the Veterans to take charge in a new and powerful way.

EFT – a true solution for war trauma

Statistics show that most Veterans ask their immediate private surrounding, their families and buddies, for help with their war trauma. But are those ley people prepared for this important taks?
EFT can be easily and effectively taught and applied, even by spouses with no background in mental health.

Organizations for Active Duty and Veteran Women

www.Packparachute.org (MST) Academy Women www.academywomen.org Air Force Women’s Officers Association www.afwoa.org All Navy Women’s National Alliance www.anwna.com Alliance for National Defense www.4militarywomen.org American Nurses’ Association (ANA) www.nursingworld.org/ Army Nurse Corps Assn www.e-anca.org Business and Professional Women/USA www.bpwusa.org CoastGuard/SPAR, Inc., www.uscg.mil/d17/cgcspar/ Military Women Veterans History userpages.aug.com/captbarb / National Association of Black Military Women www.nabmw.com National Association of…

Veterans can learn how to relax with EFT

Many Veterans prefer the word relaxation over the word healing. EFT is a powerful tool to help a Veteran relax about a traumatic event and regain sleep.

Tapping without the fear of judgment

As EFT practitioners, we don’t judge, we don’t condone, and we don’t excuse what happened in the past, we help HEAL what happened. All of us have a deeply ingrained fear of judgment of our actions. The fear of judgment is often greater than the fear of failure, and it stops us from moving forward…