EFT Tapping for Postpartum Mental Health
TAPPING WITH POSTPARTUM MUMS: EFT Tapping sessions are a safe, gentle way to ease postpartum anxiety, pain, improve milk flow for breastfeeding, and even prevent postpartum depression. Targetted tapping on specific points with a certified EFT Practitioner guiding you on how to voice your real feelings helps to process and release them. In this article, you will find some of the key research papers on the effectiveness of EFT Tapping for postpartume mental health, as well as my own personal experience as a newly postpartum mum.
EFT Tapping for Postpartum Mental Health
While I’m just 2.5 months into my postpartum journey, I’ve lived the first three studies myself (no C-section or single mom life here, so the last two studies arn’t relevant to my situation). In my experience to date, targetted EFT Tapping sessions combined with reflexology/targetted massage sessions have eased my breastfeeding anxiety and kept postnatal blues away as major parts of my recovery. They also helped me cope better with the inevitable stressors and anxieties that come with taking care of a newborn baby’s needs while my body was recovering from childbirth.
Targeted EFT sessions with a trained EFT Tapping specialist work wonders for postpartum mental health. Solid research backs my experience up as EFT sessions are found, again and again, to be effective in supporting new mums and moms-to-be through tough times. In my case, I was able to work on my anxiety around breastfeeding and concerns with that while pregant in one of my online EFT sessions. As a result, I went into the postpartum period ligther and free from that anxiety related to breastfeeding. However, if this doesn’t come up as something to work on in your private sessions with your EFT Practitioner while pregnant, the research shows that it’s not to late to work on it after you give birth.
What also helped hugely was the fact that my husband who insisted on doing the night feeds shift in the first two months so that I could rest and recover. If I got up between midnight and 5am it was just to pump; he covered the more labour-intensive and time-consuming feeding, burping, and soothing to sleep part. I believe that extra bit of rest and sleep also contributed greatly to my recovery and postpartum depression prevention.
1. EFT Tapping For Breastfeeding & Postpartum Anxiety
Emotional Freedom Techniques and Oxytocin Stimulation Massages that Effectively Reduce Anxiety and Increase Smooth Breast Milk Production of Nursing Mothers
EFT sessions demonstrate meaningful support for breastfeeding mothers facing anxiety. In this study of 60 new mothers, participants in the EFT sessions group engaged in eight 30-minute sessions over four weeks, integrating tapping with oxytocin stimulation massages. Anxiety levels decreased substantially (Cohen’s d = 1.76), and smooth milk production enhanced significantly (Cohen’s d = 1.51). By promoting natural relaxation and oxytocin release, EFT sessions prove a reliable complement to lactation support.
Learn more: https://ejournal.lucp.net/index.php/mjn/article/view/2380
2. EFT Tapping For Postpartum Depression, Anxiety & STREss
Emotional Freedom Techniques for Postpartum Depression, Perceived Stress, and Anxiety
Group EFT sessions effectively counter postpartum emotional challenges. Forty mothers in four weeks of 90-minute EFT sessions saw depression decrease by 42% (p=0.003), stress by 38%, and anxiety by 45% (p<0.001), with gains persisting at three months. EFT sessions present a cost-effective group intervention.
Learn more: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38103574/
3. EFT Tapping For Preventing Postpartum Depression
The Effect of Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) on Postpartum Depression: A Randomized Controlled Trial
EFT sessions serve as a protective intervention for new mothers. Among 136 participants, eight 45-minute EFT sessions significantly lowered depression and anxiety (p<0.001) and strengthened coping (p<0.05), with benefits enduring three months. EFT sessions play a key role in prevention.
Learn more: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1550830723001180
4. EFT Tapping For Post C-Section Pain
Evaluating the impact of Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) on Post-Cesarean Section Pain Management: A Case Study at Jemursari Islamic Hospital, Surabaya
EFT sessions enhance recovery from cesarean sections. Ten women using daily 15-minute EFT sessions reduced pain from 5.2 to 2.1 in 48 hours (p<0.05) while on medications, facilitating improved mobility. EFT sessions’ adjunctive benefits are clear.
Learn more:
https://journal2.unusa.ac.id/index.php/nhc/article/download/5132/2482/29886
5. EFT Tapping For REducing Aggression in Single Mothers
The Effect of Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) Therapy on the Reduction of Aggression in Single Mothers
EFT sessions promote emotional balance for single mothers. Twenty women completed 12 EFT sessions, cutting aggression by 36% (p<0.01) and elevating parenting confidence. EFT sessions provide essential aid during demanding periods.
Learn more: https://eftinternational.org/scientific-articles/
About the EFT Tapping PRACTITIONER
Eleni Vardaki is certified and accredited in advanced therapeutic tapping protocols (Level 3 Advanced EFT Practitioner, EFT International). She offers EFT Tapping sessions for stress, anxiety, and coaching to help you achieve your health goals by replacing your unhealthy habits to healthier ones. As a member of EFT International, she commits to being held to high standards of ethical codes of conduct in her private practice. Her experience working with adults includes 1:1 tapping sessions for mothers seeking to safely process a traumatic birth experience.
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