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Episode 9

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29th Jun 2020

009: Self-Care Through The Emotional Freedom Technique with Lauren Bell

Have you ever felt stressed or anxious in a certain situation and needed a way to lessen and release the pain? The Emotional Freedom Technique or EFT Tapping is an alternative therapy to relieve stress and anxiety. This technique involves light taps in certain points on your body, particularly on the head, face, and arms while focusing on the issue you want to treat. The tapping of different body parts accompanied by positive mantras helps balance your energy and reduce physical or emotional pain. In this episode, Lauren shares a great technique for self-care which helps you calm down so that you can think and act more clearly. Through this simple exercise, you give yourself permission to take care of yourself.  Remember that you need to fill up your cup so you can give from the overflow.  TOPICS WE DISCUSSED INCLUDE: Emotional freedom technique (EFT): Mind-body technique (4:59) The benefits of EFT (10:43) EFT for Self-Care (13:13) Step 1: Tune in to your body (13:57) Tune in to your over-giving self (17:15) We often don’t feel our feelings (17:35) Step 2: Determine on a scale from 1 to 10 how strong you feel your negative emotions (19:42) Step 3: Tapping on the parts of the body while repeating your mantra (20:23) Step 4: Continue the tapping until the stress level goes down (21:11) Tapping points on your body (21:20) Stating our negative emotions is part of the release (22:51) Reframing your thoughts (23:35) Tapping scripts you can use (26:50) CONNECT WITH LAUREN BELL Lauren Bell Coaching Connect with Lauren on Facebook Connect with Lauren on LinkedIn CONNECT WITH ELAINA MULLERY HappyNurse.com.au Connect with me on Instagram and Facebook Connect with me on LinkedIn Subscribe to my Youtube channel
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The Happy Nurse
Winner — APAC Insider Australian Enterprise Awards 2024 | Most Empowering Self Care Provider for Nurses. Burnout, compassion fatigue, and stress are rising in healthcare. This podcast exists to change that — one practical, honest conversation at a time.
Nurses are the backbone of the health system — always there to care for a stranger as if they were one of their own, forsaking precious moments with their own families to ensure others' loved ones are in good hands.
Compassion fatigue, stress, and burnout are rising across healthcare. Self care has never been more important — or more overlooked.
Elaina Mullery McDonald RN has 25 years of clinical nursing experience, a Postgraduate Certificate in Psychology, and a Master of Business Psychology in progress. She is a certified NLP Practitioner, hypnotherapist, and mindfulness practitioner — and the founder and host of The Happy Nurse podcast. Having experienced burnout firsthand, she is passionate about equipping nurses with practical, evidence-informed strategies to protect their wellbeing and sustain the career they worked so hard for.

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Elaina Mullery


Elaina Mullery RN has spent 25 years working across some of nursing's most demanding clinical environments — orthopaedic trauma, operating theatre, endoscopy, recovery, and day surgery. She knows firsthand what it feels like to run on empty, and it's that lived experience of burnout that drives everything she does.
Elaina holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Psychology and is completing a Master of Business Psychology at Edith Cowan University. She is a certified NLP Practitioner, hypnotherapist, and mindfulness practitioner, and has developed the 3R Framework — an original evidence-based methodology for building sustainable human performance at individual, team, and organisational level.
Through The Happy Nurse podcast, her online courses, and her white paper No Margin for Error, Elaina is on a mission to change the way healthcare treats its most valuable resource — the people who show up every day to care for others.