EFT Tapping for Beer Cravings and Wine Cravings
DID YOU KNOW? Therapeutic EFT Tapping sessions can help you with your beer cravings or wine cravings. Severity of cravings can range from simply craving a cold beer every so often when you watch a football game out of habit to craving a beer or glass of wine after work…that then turns into two drinks…and then three drinks…and then you loose count of how much you have drunk. Therapeutic tapping sessions for cravings involves using your fingertips to tap on specific meridian points on of the upper body while concentrating on a particular craving or emotion. An EFT Practitioner can help you regulate your nervous system and work on reducing your alcohol craving triggers such as emotional triggers like anxiety, somatic triggers such as pain sensations, or daily stressors.
EFT TApping for Beer Cravings And Wine cravings
EFT Tapping helps release negative emotions arising from daily distressing occurrences that can trigger an alcohol craving. By tapping on meridian points while focusing on your craving, we work to lessen the intensity of the craving so that resisting having another beer or another glass of wine causes you less stress.
We can also address the underlying emotional triggers that cause you to turn to beer in times of overwhelming stress, which can have a more lasting effect that you just trying to think your way out of resisting having another beer or glass or wine with willpower alone.
MY APPROACH
An EFT Practitioner, I use EFT Tapping to help clients gain insights into what triggers their drinking habits. My services help you explore memories, associations, or beliefs that may be blocking your ability to change your old drinking habit.
My approach involves mapping out the somatic, cognitive, and emotional components of your stress response related to letting go of a drinking habit. We work together on identifying and clearing old blocking beliefs at their root, often tracing back to core memories from the time when you formed the belief.
Understandably, it’s quite common for inner conflicts to arise in EFT sessions for beer or wine cravings, as one part of you may want to hold onto the old belief that is holding your drinking habit in place while another part wants to be free. In this case, I typically ask if you to check whether the parts of you that are in conflict would be open to me guiding them through tapping exercises that address these conflicting parts.
These IFS-informed advanced EFT techniques can lead to a Cognitive Reframe where the client’s mind reconsiders how they think about the situation independently. To get an idea of what this type of therapeutic EFT can look like in a real telehealth session for drinking habits, click here.
But arn't tapping videos enough?
I think that EFT meditations and apps are a great starting point, but you may eventually hit a plateau of how far you can go with just self-help resources.
Therapeutic EFT sessions offer various benefits:
- Personalized Approach: An EFT Practitioner can provide a tailored approach that addresses your specific triggers, beliefs, and emotional blocks related to your drinking habits.
- Deeper Exploration: A practitioner can guide you in digging deeper into the emotions behind your cravings, asking targeted questions to uncover the root causes.
- Expert Guidance: An experienced practitioner can identify and address any underlying emotional blocks that may be contributing to your cravings, which you are unable to see on your own due to personal blind spots.
- Cognitive Reframing: A practitioner can facilitate cognitive reframes, helping you change your thoughts and beliefs about your drinking habits.
- Support and Accountability: Working with a practitioner provides support and accountability, increasing your chances of successfully changing your drinking habits.
A complementary therapy for addiction recovery
If your alcohol problem is in addiction/alcohol dependancy range, can be EFT Tapping sessions can complement going to support groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous and working with a licensed trauma-trained addiction recovery specialist. In such cases, EFT sessions do not consitute a replacement for working with addiction recovery specialists.
ABOUT Eleni Vardaki
Eleni Vardaki offers EFT Practitioner services to help you gain insights into your drinking habit triggers and identify memories, associations, or beliefs that may be blocking your ability to change your drinking habits. Her fees are €70 for a one-hour session, with a 4-session saver option available. Telehealth sessions available in English, French, and Greek.
