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What if the key to overcoming burnout was right at your fingertips? Join us on Ready Set Reiki as we uncover the remarkable healing journey of Tracy, a holistic energy practitioner and lawyer, who transformed her life using Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT). Raised in a high-pressure religious environment, Tracy Inscore's childhood stress manifested into professional burnout. Her story of shifting from a successful legal career to a path of healing offers valuable insights and reassurance for high-stress professionals seeking change.
Discover the empowering nature of EFT, a self-healing tool that taps into innate abilities we all possess. Tracy shares personal stories of overcoming fears, disappointment, and the need to please others, emphasizing the importance of finding a trusted practitioner. For those curious about transitioning from conventional careers to more spiritual work, Tracy advocates for maintaining an open and non-judgmental mindset as a catalyst for personal growth and effective client support.
This episode is packed with insights on the mind-body connection, the influence of the subconscious, and the integration of EFT with Neuro-Linguistic Programming. Tracy highlights EFT's roots in traditional Chinese medicine and its potential to clear emotional and physical blockages. We also guide listeners through a three-step process to address career burnout, offering resources like free consultations and e-workbooks to help listeners realign their lives. Tune in as we explore these transformative concepts and the power of self-healing techniques to create a fulfilling and balanced life.
Tracy M. Inscore, Esq.
Attorney Burnout Specialist
Tap Out Burnout
Tracy Inscore has practiced land use and environmental law in California for the past
16 years. In addition to still practicing law part-time at one of the fastest-growing
large law firms in the U.S., she is also a holistic energy practitioner specializing in
burnout prevention and recovery for fellow lawyers, as well as providing support for
law students and recent law school graduates.
Having personally experienced burnout firsthand (and after many unsuccessful attempts to “fix” it), Tracy
found that Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), more commonly known as “tapping”, was the missing
link in her own recovery. By working with the body’s meridian system, EFT helps to restore the mind-body
connection and has been clinically proven effective in treating issues such as anxiety and post-traumatic
stress disorder. As a certified EFT practitioner, Tracy’s unique approach to burnout prevention and recovery
emphasizes nervous system regulation and the power of the subconscious mind, thereby empowering her
clients to address the true root causes of burnout.
As one of the few certified EFT tapping practitioners who is also a practicing attorney, she is able to relate
to her clients with empathy and a keen understanding of the real-life issues they face. This allows her to
bring holistic wellness to the legal industry in a practical and grounded way—and to put this powerful
somatic technique into the hands of those who need it most.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is Ready Set Reiki, a podcast about Reiki and
all energy work, from thecurious beginner to the seasoned
master teacher, welcoming allsystems, all lineages and all
levels.
Reiki is a journey and not adestination, and on this Ready
Set Reiki journey, I refer tomyself as a guide.
So I'm Tracy Seawright and thisis Ready Set Reiki.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Hello, beautiful listeners, welcome.
This is Ready Set Reiki, andwhat a glorious day it is,
because my amazing guest has, inmy opinion, one of the best
names ever.
Of course, her name is Tracy inscore, so let me introduce her.
I mean us Tracy's need to staytogether and, especially, it's
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spelled, in my opinion, theright way right Now.
She has practiced land use andenvironmental law in California
for the past 16 years, inaddition to still practicing law
part time at one of the fastestgrowing large law firms in the
United States large law firms inthe United States.
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She is also a holistic energypractitioner specializing in
burnout prevention to recoverfor fellow lawyers, as well as
providing support for lawstudents and recent law school
graduates.
Having personally experiencedburnout firsthand and many
unsuccessful attempts to fix it,tracy found that emotional
freedom technique, or EFT, morecommonly known as tapping, was
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the missing link in her ownrecovery.
By working with the body'smeridian system, eft helps to
restore the mind-body connectionand has been clinically proven
to be effective in treatingissues such as anxiety,
post-traumatic stress disorder.
Now she is a certified EFTpractitioner.
She has a unique approach to aburnout prevention and recovery.
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It emphasizes on the nervoussystem regulation and the power
of the subconscious mind,therefore empowering her clients
to address the true root causeof burnout.
As one of the very fewcertified EFT tapping
practitioners who also practiceslaw, she is also able to relate
to her clients with empathy anda keen understanding of real
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life issues they face.
Welcome, tracy, to Ready SetReiki.
Thank you, tracy, for having meWonderful, so let's begin our
journey together.
So tell us a little bit aboutyourself.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Okay, so I was born in the early 1980s in Southern
California, so I'm a solidlyelderly, elder millennial, and I
grew up as an only child in avery seemingly normal family.
My dad had a landscapingbusiness and my mom was a
stay-at-home mom until myparents divorced when I was 13.
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But what a lot of people didn'trealize was that we were part
of a high-control religiousgroup, really a doomsday cult,
until I was about 10 years old,and this church dictated a lot
of aspects of our everyday life.
One aspect of that was theyreally promoted physical
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discipline of kids, at one pointeven providing wooden paddles
at the church services to takeyour kid in the back and paddle
them if they were misbehaving.
Now, for my dad, because of hisown unresolved trauma, which I
now understand, he was arageaholic, so this was not a
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good combination because itreally became a channel for his
anger and it was actuallysanctioned and encouraged by the
church.
So you know now, back then alot of people spanked their kids
.
So I didn't know that this,this degree, wasn't normal until
much later in life.
But in general, you know, homewas a stressful place to be
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because I never knew what moodmy dad would be in.
There was this constant tensionand just walking on eggshells
and I see I mentioned thisbecause of the nervous system
work that I do with my clientsevery day.
I can see now how this reallyset the stage for me being in
just this chronic state of fightor flight before I even knew
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what that was.
And so school and academicsreally became my safe place and
a way to have control over mylife, because when I was
excelling and getting awards andgetting good grades, it meant
no one was mad at me, I couldbuy some approval right for a
short time and so, getting thatreinforcement with praise and
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rewards, my entire sense of selfworth and value really became
tied to performing and achieving.
I got my first after-school jobwhen I was 14.
I tested out of high schoolwhen I was 15 and started
college early while workingfull-time, and so after college,
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law school just seemed like thenatural next step and the next
hard thing I could do tocontinue to prove my worth and
value.
So I graduated in the top 20%of my law school class.
I had this great six-figure joboffer right out of school, and
yet I knew deep down thatsomething didn't feel right.
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But because I had trained mywhole life to stuff down my
emotions, disassociate, justkeep pressing on.
That's what I did and I was thestereotypical type, a
perfectionist, overachiever,very in my masculine energy,
until about five years intopractice, when it finally all
caught up with me and Iexperienced a major burnout and
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a really dark night of the soul,spiritual tipping point, and at
the time I blamed the job.
But what I know now is it wasthe energy that I brought not
just into my career buteverything I did.
So fast forward 11 years.
As you said, I do stillpractice part time, but now the
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great joy of my life is sharingthis, this healing work, with
other lawyers, other high stressprofessionals struggling with
burnout.
Because I lived it.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Yeah, yeah, burnout is for real and, as you were
talking, it made me remember,you know, my childhood.
So I went to elementary schoolin the latter 70s and there was
still that fear that you'regoing to go to the principal's
office, right, to getdisciplined, and that fear
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around that like, oh, I'm goingto get a spanking if I don't
behave.
And then you had the religioustrauma as well and I recall, you
know in church that you had tobe a certain way, or do this, or
you're going to go to hell,you're not going to go into
heaven.
So you had this fear of, oh, Ibetter walk the line here, or
you know, I'm not going to go toheaven and meet Jesus, right,
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yeah, so just all of this, likein a very young mind, you know,
like five years old, six yearsold, seven years old, where all
this development is happening isall around fear based, right
and even, like you know, and itwas that generation, like having
a grandfather that just lookedat you the wrong way and it's
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like you know you don't want toget in trouble.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Yeah, and it was so normal for so many people that
we fall in that comparison trap,like I had really good parents.
Despite all of that, I had anoverall good childhood, very
loving parents.
They just imperfect people,like all of us, and we don't
want to compare and say, well,my trauma wasn't anything
compared to this person, so Ihave no right to be upset.
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It's about how it affects you,you know right, right, right
right.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
But all of those are part of what makes you today, so
that you go out and you helpother people that you are of
service.
So we are here talking umholistic energy, eft.
So when did EFT come into yourlife?
Is it something that you foundor did it find you?
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Yeah, it found me.
It tried to find me and I waslike no, go away.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
You're running.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
So I only tried it for the first time about three
years ago, even though I heardabout it way before that.
I admit I was very skeptical.
It sounded too good to be true.
Tried so many differentmodalities in addition to
traditional talk therapy andprescription medication for
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depression and anxiety, andalthough each thing I tried
helped to some degree anddefinitely played a role in my
healing, I was a littlediscouraged that I hadn't found
the thing to finally get me overthat last hurdle of just still
feeling really depleted, stillbeing very dysregulated when it
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came to stress, feeling unableto manage my emotions, even
though I was doing much better.
So I forget now what I was evenupset about at the time.
But I was watching YouTubevideos on my couch and I came
across the tapping solution,which is a great resource.
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I'm not affiliated with them inany way, but you know,
definitely check out tappingsolution and Nick Ortner, one of
the founders, was doing a videowhere he was walking you
through the tapping sequence toclear negative emotion around,
what was, whatever was botheringyou.
So I did it, I followed alongand at one point he says Okay,
check in with that emotion.
Where is it?
Has it gone higher or lower onthis zero to 10 scale and I'm
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just tapping and I'm like it'sgone, Like what the heck Like?
Yes, I can still remember whatit was, but I no longer feel
that physical activation or thatlike emotional charge to it.
It's like I can just calmlyobserve it and be neutral.
And something really clickedfor me that what I had been
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missing all these years was thesomatic piece.
I had been so in my head tryingto rationalize and force up
here these changes in my brainand completely neglecting the
connection with my body.
So I continued tapping on myown, very quickly realized I
need to share this with as manypeople as possible and I had a
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unique ability to bring this tothe legal profession, you know,
with that credibility of beingan attorney who knows firsthand
what it's like.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
So beautiful, beautiful.
So in Reiki, there's a lot ofmisconceptions because it's
energy work, and I say that youknow EFT is very similar to
Reiki.
You know it's the touch right,it's moving energy.
So, as you're out doing thisand working with others,
especially in the legal fieldhere very serious, right Facts,
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right Statistics, things rightyou know you're, you know,
fighting for your clients andcases and you have some of these
challenging cases ahead.
What are you finding themisconceptions that people are
coming to you with regardingthis?
Speaker 3 (11:12):
So it's not so much a misconception, but I'd say that
it's still just not very widelyknown about.
It is slowly becoming moremainstream, but even though it's
based in the principles ofacupuncture, which have been
around for 1000s of years, thespecific tapping sequence was
only introduced, like in theearly 1990s, by the creator, a
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man named Gary Craig, so it'sstill somewhat new.
The cool thing is that GaryCraig, rather than trying to
claim ownership of thistechnique to profit from it, he
gifted it to the world, whichmeans that this technique is
available to everyone.
No one owns it, and so,although there are definitely
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benefits to working with thepractitioner, this is intended
as a self-healing technique thatyou can do anytime, anywhere,
without needing to make anappointment or like rely on
anyone else.
And so you know, just like you,tracy, I also consider myself a
guide, and rather than ateacher, rather than a healer,
because I'm teaching thistechnique to my clients so they
can do it themselves.
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I'm just guiding them to awakenthe healer that exists within
all of us.
And so another question I'llget a lot is whether, as a
practitioner, I'm physicallytapping on you as the client,
and the answer is no, you'retapping on yourself as I guide
you through each point, whichmeans the sessions can be done
online via zoom from anywhere inthe world and you're completely
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in charge of your ownexperience, which is great for
people who might not becomfortable with physical touch.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Right, I know, I found it.
I stumbled on it in gosh.
It was like probably 2003.
There was a gentleman that Ithink it was a little video he
put up and I was doing it thenas part of it and I keep coming
back to it from time to time.
But it's a wonderful modality,especially those like Reiki.
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You know you can do it onyourself, but if you're going to
a practitioner and they'rehovering, that may not feel
comfortable for some, if theyhave that post-traumatic stress
or they've had some type oftrauma where they're not
comfortable in that situation of, you know, laying down on a
table or sitting down on a chair, that you're taking control
over that, you know, and sayingaffirmations.
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So it's just a wonderfulpositive thing to to bring to
someone to learn.
It's a wonderful skill.
So you're out, helping others,being of service.
But what has been a challengeor struggle you have faced in
your own healing journey?
Speaker 3 (13:50):
There's so many but, but probably being stubborn and
getting in my own way, refusingto try things out of fear mostly
fear of disappointment and notbeing willing to release,
control and surrender.
I'd say that's one aspect.
And then the other isovercoming my people-pleasing
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tendencies that I relied on mywhole life to feel safe and then
essentially having todeconstruct this life that I
created from a place ofmisalignment.
So I was very hesitant to blowup this life that looked perfect
on paper and offered so muchsecurity, not just career wise
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but but also in my relationships, which involved getting a
divorce, a second divorce, um,and ending a marriage that
wasn't bad but where there wasjust a lot missing, and
realizing that it doesn't haveto make sense to anyone else.
You know, all that matters ishow my life feels to me, because
I'm the one having to live it.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Beautiful and of course, you have the EFT to help
you with those right Exactly.
So it can be anything thatyou're working on correct.
So say like you know, you needmore courage.
You can tap for courage, right,you can tap for the people
pleasing stress, so you don'thave to always use it when it's
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the stress and you know, evenusing it every day.
You know, with Reiki we say tryto do it every day.
You know, just for today, anduse these principles of it so
that way, when these big thingscome up, the big waves there,
you're ready and you can bringthat tool and skill into action.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
So, when it is time for you to get an energetic
tune-up, what qualities do youlook for in either an EFT
practitioner or a holisticenergy practitioner?
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Oh, and I do.
I trade sessions with awonderful fellow practitioner
every week, in addition totapping on my own.
I would say the most importantthing is to find someone who
specializes in the area you'rewanting to work on or who has a
similar lived experience.
The most important thing,though, I think, is just feeling
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very comfortable with thatperson, to be completely honest
and to be able to share anythingthat might come up for you,
because you're going to be verysurprised what emotions and
memories start coming up asyou're sending those signals of
safety through your body.
So sometimes the issue you showup to work on isn't what even
ends up coming out in thesession.
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But overall, yeah, just lookfor someone you feel really
comfortable with.
That might mean trying a coupledifferent practitioners.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Beautiful, beautiful.
So what advice would you giveto someone who's listening to
this right now and they're inthe corporate world, or they're
an attorney, or they're inmedicine, whatever they're doing
and they feel the calling to dothis, what advice would you
give someone who wants to enterthis spiritual work?
Enter, you know this, tappingEFT, yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
And you know, I think the advice is the same, whether
you're looking to just do thisfor your own benefit or whether
you want to help others as apractitioner and I.
And that is to stay in a placeof curiosity.
If we think of the vibrationalscale, um, I think curiosity
usually isn't listed on there,but it is a great place to be
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because it's pretty neutral.
Yeah, it's kind of just in themiddle and it allows us to be
open to different possibilities.
So, instead of you know, don'tlook at yourself as someone who
needs to be fixed or seek tobanish or disown these
undesirable parts of you, theseundesirable parts of you.
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You know instead when we canstay in a place of non judgment
and just gently go huh, look atthat like I wonder what that's
all about, I wonder where thatcame from, I wonder what that's
trying to show me.
And you know, likewise, from apractitioner standpoint, to not
to resist the urge to jump inand fix and want to achieve a
certain result for your own ego.
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You want to allow the client totake ownership of their own
experience.
That was a challenge for me inthe beginning because, as a
lawyer, I'm used to being inproblem-solving mode Right, and
here's what you need to do, orhere's the end goal.
I had to become a betterlistener so that, in turn, I
could teach my clients how tolisten to themselves.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Yeah, yeah, that's also with a teacher to my
backgrounds, elementaryeducation to like not get in
there.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
And as an empath, too right, all this, all this
happening, all this going on,and as an intuitive when you're
like All this happening, allthis going on, and as an
intuitive when you're like, oh,I know exactly what is going on,
isn't it?
We got it all going on.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
You got to let them bring that information up, even
though you're already keptpicking up on it.
So what?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
books do you recommend?
So, if you want to learn moreabout EFT and have some
guidebooks for doing EFT on yourown, I really like Margaret
Lynch Rainier.
So there's, she has two reallypopular books.
One is called unblocked and oneis tapping into wealth Great,
great EFT teacher.
And then just for generalpersonal development, I really
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like Frances Scovel Shin.
I was introduced to her worklast year and also the teachings
of Abraham Hicks and NevilleGoddard, which kind of built on
that, just in terms of the powerof our minds and our ability to
create our own reality.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Beautiful, beautiful.
So what other services ormodalities do you offer?
Do you offer sessions,one-on-one?
Are you doing classes,trainings?
Speaker 3 (19:45):
I mostly do one-on-one sessions.
Tapping in a group setting canalso be very effective.
It's just a very differentexperience because you're all
holding space for each other.
Usually I'll do group eventsfocused on a particular theme.
One of them was like overcomingfinancial blocks, for example,
because we all have areas inthat you know that we can work
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on there.
So I do occasionally offergroup events online.
You can subscribe to be on mymailing list through my website
to find out about those.
But my main modality is EFT.
I'm also certified inneuro-linguistic programming,
nlp, so I will sometimes infuseelements of NLP into my sessions
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.
But I find EFT to be just sodang effective that probably 80
to 90% of the one-on-onesessions we're actively tapping
Sure.
Sure, that's your calling.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Yeah.
So where can somebody find youonline in person?
What if they're listening tothis and they're like, yes, she
is it, she is my guide.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
So my website is tapoutburnoutcom.
That's all one word, and I'malso on LinkedIn as Tracy in
score and tap out burnout onInstagram.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Beautiful.
Well, that ends the first partof our journey and I'm going to
guide you right on to the nextpart.
These are questions from socialmedia.
So here we go.
Number one we talking about EFTtapping, and how does it work.
Can you kind of help us give usan example of like, maybe a
tiny little session?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Sure.
So EFT, or tapping, as the nameimplies, involves light
fingertip tapping on certainmeridian points on the head and
upper torso in a specificsequence, while we focus on an
emotion or a memory or a problem.
So it is based in traditionalChinese medicine and that that
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core premise that everything isenergy, that all negative
emotion is caused by energyblockages within the body.
So we're vibrational beings.
Every emotion, every experiencecarries a certain vibration or
frequency.
We're like little sponges, andso our body is like this living,
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breathing record of everythingwe've ever experienced, and
sometimes just like a vinylrecord gets scratched and won't
play properly anymore.
Our emotional experiences cando the same thing within our
body and we find ourselves beingtriggered by things, feeling
that emotional charge, having aphysical, physical reaction when
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we think about a past event,and so the meridian system is
like an energetic highwayrunning through the body.
I live kind of near LA, so I'mjust thinking like LA traffic.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
I live kind of near LA.
So I'm just thinking like LAtraffic.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Yes, I've driven in LA, and so tapping allows us to
restore the proper flow of ourlife force, energy, of our chi,
through those meridians.
So there's 12 main meridians,each one corresponds to a
specific part of the body, andwhen there's any sort of
blockage, that's when physicalailments and illnesses and the
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emotional issues start to happen.
The idea is there's always aroot, underlying emotional cause
to anything that's showing upfor you physically as well.
Acupuncture, traditionalChinese medicine, was way ahead
of its time in identifying themeridian system, which kind of
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represents the framework of thenervous system as we know it in
modern Western medicine.
So most of us are familiar withthe meridians because of
acupuncture which, as you know,involves placing needles at
certain points to get that stuckenergy flowing properly again.
So fortunately, with EFT we'veidentified certain points on the
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head, the upper torso, that areespecially useful for dealing
with emotions and found thatwith just applying light
pressure or tapping on thesepoints in a specific sequence,
we can essentially get the sameresult as acupuncture, but
without needles.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Beautiful and those that are just joining.
What does EFT mean?
What is the?
That's the short version of it.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Oh yes, it stands for emotional freedom techniques.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Beautiful.
So the way that I learned ityears and years ago was just
tapping and saying you know, Iam financially free and I would
do different affirmations foreach tapping.
I also do yoga, yin yin yoga,and it brings in traditional
Chinese medicine as well.
It can have an option withfocusing on the readings as well
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.
So doing tapping things likethat, we bring that in as well
with that.
So very good, very good.
Number two what is theimportance of the subconscious
mind to the nervous?
Speaker 3 (24:53):
system.
Okay, yeah, so I'm going tonerd out this.
I love this stuff.
So we kind of have tounderstand the nervous system,
which is, in a nutshell, ourbody's command center, our brain
, spinal cord neurons.
They're sending messages allover the body that control
literally every function.
And so we have the autonomicnervous system that regulates,
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like heart rate, blood pressure,breathing, digestion.
That has two parts thesympathetic system controls our
fight or flight response.
Parasympathetic regulates ourrest and digest functions.
Ideally, we would be in thatrest and digest state most of
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the time, unless there was aliteral threat to our survival.
Sadly, we have not evolved toknow the difference between
being chased by a tiger andgetting a stressful email at
work.
So what happens?
We spend most of our time infight or flight and that becomes
our regular state of being.
What happens when we're infight or flight is that the
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amygdala in our brain becomesoverstimulated and it causes the
blood flow to leave ourprefrontal cortex, which is the
part of our brain that doescreative problem solving, which
is unfortunate because times ofstress are when we most need
that part of our brain.
But it just checks out and goesoffline and then we revert to
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our more primal responses.
Our body produces adrenalineand cortisol as part of our
survival instinct.
But in the case of burnout,this can actually become a
chronic state where we'reconstantly pumping out these
chemicals because our bodyliterally thinks it's under
attack.
So then we have a subconsciousmind literally thinks it's under
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attack.
So then we have a subconsciousmind which is like a huge memory
bank, contains all the storedinformation that of everything
you've ever experienced and it'salways working in the
background.
You're not necessarily aware ofit.
It's like software or appthat's just running in the
background.
And around 90% of our brainactivity is subconscious rather
than conscious.
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It's not only recordingeverything that happens to you,
but it's impacting your currentemotions and behavior and
choices.
So, in terms of thecommunications between our brain
and our body, about 80% isgoing from our body to our brain
.
Only about 20% goes from ourbrain to our body.
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But what do most of us do?
We put a tremendous amount ofeffort and trying to address the
20%.
What's going on in our brain?
And what I'm suggesting is, yes, we can't ignore that component
, it's important.
But if instead we focus on thebody where that 80% lives, you
will see a change in thefraction of the time and with
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far less effort.
So the nervous system and thesubconscious mind work together
because our subconscious isconstantly taking direction from
the nervous system, the body,as far as what feels safe.
Number one goal of oursubconscious mind is to keep us
safe.
So it will let us know.
It will let our nervous systemknow when something is perceived
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as a threat so that we can havethe correct response.
But, as we said, some of uswalk around in that constant
state of stress when there's nophysical danger, which means
that even good things can becomescary because they're simply
unfamiliar.
Right Things like getting araise, being in a healthy
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relationship, working less,feeling relaxed, it can actually
feel uncomfortable because yoursubconscious says feel
uncomfortable because yoursubconscious says, well, this is
new, this is different.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
What is this?
Right?
Right, I was watching someone'sreel and she put in there that
her nervous system doesn't knowthe difference that she's being
chased by a bear when she'sactually like watching her
daughter in a competition.
It was that same level ofstress.
And after my sister passed, Ifelt like I was in this constant
state of stress because we hadanother family member pass and
then my dad got sick.
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Like we had like four deaths inlike a chunk of time.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
And.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
I remember one time, I think, I dropped my phone, it
accidentally called my daughterand then you know how you're
like, oh no, no, she's working.
And then you push it to stop.
It accidentally called mydaughter and then you know how
you're like, oh no, no, she'sworking.
And then you push it to stopand then it rings again, and so
it had been like two or threetimes and she calls me back and
she said who died?
And that makes you realize, ohmy goodness, we've all been
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living in this state of thishigh anxiety.
That's the first thing, notthat I'm calling to say hello
and how your day is itautomatically to who died.
And I felt like, oh my goodness, we need to all come down a
little bit here.
But we were realizing that'show we were surviving because we
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had one bad thing.
You know this was all throughCOVID as well.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
So we had.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
COVID thrown on there and all these deaths, and I'm
like now, what kind of thingattitude?
Yeah, but you know things likeEFT, reiki.
These are tools that you canuse.
So you know, when I'm out andI'm feeling overwhelmed and
stressed, I can go.
I'm going to go sit in my car,I'm going to tap right.
I'm going to go into thebathroom, do a little tapping,
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do a little Reiki to kind ofhelp you ride that wave, to get
calm.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Yeah, because you know, knowing something and
feeling it are two verydifferent things and, as someone
who's in my head a lot and verylike you know, like
intellectual, you know we canconsciously get over something
that was upsetting to us,whether that's grief or trauma
or betrayal or shame.
But if our body never got themessage that it's safe, then
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that emotional charge is goingto be reactivated.
Like you said, every time yourphone rings, every time that
person's name shows up on yourphone screen, you're like that
clinch in your chest, like thatvisceral physical reaction.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Right right.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Our third question, which is about your specialty
burnout.
What are the three stepprocesses for overcoming burnout
?
I know many people are dealingwith this.
You know, as a attorney, I'm ateacher, we're in the industry
here of service.
This is something when we getour cup completely emptied out,
right.
So what are some?
What are some techniques here?
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Yeah.
So the first is to take theedge off and get out of crisis
mode, because it's verydifficult, if not impossible, to
problem solve and see bigpicture patterns, to do deeper
work when we're in survival modeor when we're in a state of
fight or flight.
So this might take place at thebeginning of each session,
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where we're bringing the clientdown to just a more manageable
level so that they can think andbe more contemplative.
Sometimes we might have entiresessions dedicated to bringing
that anxiety and stress leveldown, just so you can think
clearly.
And then step two is torecognize the deeper root cause
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issues that led to the externalissue, such as burnout, in the
first place.
So the single most importantthing I've learned about career
burnout is that it is neverreally about the job or the
career.
It is a symptom of much deeperissues that were probably going
on within you well before youstepped foot in that job.
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So that means that changingjobs or even changing industries
might give some temporaryrelief, might give some
temporary relief, but thatpattern of burnout will find a
way to keep showing up in otherareas of your life or in a new
job until you truly get to thoseroot causes.
So some example of some ofthose that we might work on in
step two would be maybe you'reliving outside of your true
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purpose or out of alignment withyour core values and priorities
, because it can be exhaustingto be out of alignment with your
core values and priorities,because it can be exhausting to
be out of alignment with yourtrue purpose and your authentic
self takes a lot of energy tofake it and pretend to be
someone you're not.
That step two is where we'llwork on the childhood, family
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dynamics, past trauma, thatnervous system dysregulation
that comes up, specific to amemory or a past event,
subconscious blocks, fears,limiting beliefs, especially
around money, or a belief thatwe have to struggle and
sacrifice in order to be worthy,that it's not allowed to be
(33:30):
easy, and, just like societalprogramming in general, this
hustle culture, boss, babe,nonsense that we should all be
stressed and over caffeinated.
So then we get to step three,which is in once these deeper
issues have been addressed,we've cleared out a lot, or most
of the unwanted or undesiredenergy and emotions, is when we
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can start creating what we dowant, and so that might mean
getting more comfortable withthe idea of making a career
change, releasing any fears orlimiting beliefs around money,
self-worth, maybe settingboundaries and, of course, more
fun things like manifestationand visualization, while we're
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tapping to kind of anchor inthat feeling of safety in the
body relative to those desiresthat can actually feel unsafe at
first because they'reunfamiliar.
So step step three is reallyall about getting more
comfortable with feeling reallygood as your new normal, as your
new set point Right.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Right, I like that you have steps to it, right,
instead of like all in one, andthat gives that person okay,
this is a process, this is ajourney, right?
So we're not going to reallyfocus on the destination right
now.
We're focusing on the journey.
We'll take it step by step attheir comfort level.
So that's really wonderful.
Well, that was our lastquestion and, as we've been
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talking, is there something youmay have forgotten?
Is there something that youwant to share with the listeners
?
The floor is yours.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Oh sure, so I offer some free resources.
On my website.
I have a 30 minute burnoutconsultation.
I would love to chat with youand see if we're a good fit to
work together and you can justshare whatever issues you might
be experiencing.
So you can book that through mywebsite.
And I also have a freee-workbook, and the e-workbook
(35:26):
is really based on step three ofthis process.
You might be thinking, well, Ican't go out of order, but
actually I find that someclients it will give them that
motivation to see, okay, thiskind of blueprint of their life
and where they've been and wherethey want to go, and so that
addresses your life purpose,your mission, your values and
(35:49):
your priorities, to help youeven just identify what those
are.
I was in my late thirtiesbefore I realized I had never
really sat down with thosethings for myself, so this is
just a guide to help you do that.
So that's available for free aswell.
And I think, tracy, I sharedwith you a link for your
listeners to have a specialdiscounted rate for a one-on-one
(36:11):
session with me as wellBeautiful.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
And what was the website?
Again for our listeners, that'stapoutburnoutcom.
Love the name.
I love it Beautiful.
Well, thank you, Tracy, fortaking time out of your very
busy schedule to come along thisjourney with me.
I really do appreciate it.
Thank you, Tracy, I appreciateyou and it's always wonderful to
meet again.
(36:35):
Another Tracy to connect.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
All right, Thank you, my wonderful listeners.
I'm Tracy Seawright.
If you are interested in yourquestion being featured on the
podcast, reach outwwwreadysetreikicom.
Here we go and that's Ready,SetReikicom.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
Here we go, and that's Ready Set Reiki.
This is Ready Set Reiki, a podcast about Reiki and
all energy work, from thecurious beginner to the seasoned
master teacher, welcoming allsystems, all lineages and all
levels.
Reiki is a journey and not adestination, and on this Ready
Set Reiki journey, I refer tomyself as a guide.
So I'm Tracy Seawright and thisis Ready Set Reiki.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Hello, beautiful listeners, welcome.
This is Ready Set Reiki, andwhat a glorious day it is,
because my amazing guest has, inmy opinion, one of the best
names ever.
Of course, her name is Tracy inscore, so let me introduce her.
I mean us Tracy's need to staytogether and, especially, it's
(00:43):
spelled, in my opinion, theright way right Now.
She has practiced land use andenvironmental law in California
for the past 16 years, inaddition to still practicing law
part time at one of the fastestgrowing large law firms in the
United States large law firms inthe United States.
(01:07):
She is also a holistic energypractitioner specializing in
burnout prevention to recoverfor fellow lawyers, as well as
providing support for lawstudents and recent law school
graduates.
Having personally experiencedburnout firsthand and many
unsuccessful attempts to fix it,tracy found that emotional
freedom technique, or EFT, morecommonly known as tapping, was
(01:29):
the missing link in her ownrecovery.
By working with the body'smeridian system, eft helps to
restore the mind-body connectionand has been clinically proven
to be effective in treatingissues such as anxiety,
post-traumatic stress disorder.
Now she is a certified EFTpractitioner.
She has a unique approach to aburnout prevention and recovery.
(01:52):
It emphasizes on the nervoussystem regulation and the power
of the subconscious mind,therefore empowering her clients
to address the true root causeof burnout.
As one of the very fewcertified EFT tapping
practitioners who also practiceslaw, she is also able to relate
to her clients with empathy anda keen understanding of real
(02:15):
life issues they face.
Welcome, tracy, to Ready SetReiki.
Thank you, tracy, for having meWonderful, so let's begin our
journey together.
So tell us a little bit aboutyourself.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Okay, so I was born in the early 1980s in Southern
California, so I'm a solidlyelderly, elder millennial, and I
grew up as an only child in avery seemingly normal family.
My dad had a landscapingbusiness and my mom was a
stay-at-home mom until myparents divorced when I was 13.
(02:48):
But what a lot of people didn'trealize was that we were part
of a high-control religiousgroup, really a doomsday cult,
until I was about 10 years old,and this church dictated a lot
of aspects of our everyday life.
One aspect of that was theyreally promoted physical
(03:10):
discipline of kids, at one pointeven providing wooden paddles
at the church services to takeyour kid in the back and paddle
them if they were misbehaving.
Now, for my dad, because of hisown unresolved trauma, which I
now understand, he was arageaholic, so this was not a
(03:30):
good combination because itreally became a channel for his
anger and it was actuallysanctioned and encouraged by the
church.
So you know now, back then alot of people spanked their kids
.
So I didn't know that this,this degree, wasn't normal until
much later in life.
But in general, you know, homewas a stressful place to be
(03:53):
because I never knew what moodmy dad would be in.
There was this constant tensionand just walking on eggshells
and I see I mentioned thisbecause of the nervous system
work that I do with my clientsevery day.
I can see now how this reallyset the stage for me being in
just this chronic state of fightor flight before I even knew
(04:15):
what that was.
And so school and academicsreally became my safe place and
a way to have control over mylife, because when I was
excelling and getting awards andgetting good grades, it meant
no one was mad at me, I couldbuy some approval right for a
short time and so, getting thatreinforcement with praise and
(04:39):
rewards, my entire sense of selfworth and value really became
tied to performing and achieving.
I got my first after-school jobwhen I was 14.
I tested out of high schoolwhen I was 15 and started
college early while workingfull-time, and so after college,
(04:59):
law school just seemed like thenatural next step and the next
hard thing I could do tocontinue to prove my worth and
value.
So I graduated in the top 20%of my law school class.
I had this great six-figure joboffer right out of school, and
yet I knew deep down thatsomething didn't feel right.
(05:21):
But because I had trained mywhole life to stuff down my
emotions, disassociate, justkeep pressing on.
That's what I did and I was thestereotypical type, a
perfectionist, overachiever,very in my masculine energy,
until about five years intopractice, when it finally all
caught up with me and Iexperienced a major burnout and
(05:44):
a really dark night of the soul,spiritual tipping point, and at
the time I blamed the job.
But what I know now is it wasthe energy that I brought not
just into my career buteverything I did.
So fast forward 11 years.
As you said, I do stillpractice part time, but now the
(06:04):
great joy of my life is sharingthis, this healing work, with
other lawyers, other high stressprofessionals struggling with
burnout.
Because I lived it.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Yeah, yeah, burnout is for real and, as you were
talking, it made me remember,you know, my childhood.
So I went to elementary schoolin the latter 70s and there was
still that fear that you'regoing to go to the principal's
office, right, to getdisciplined, and that fear
(06:34):
around that like, oh, I'm goingto get a spanking if I don't
behave.
And then you had the religioustrauma as well and I recall, you
know in church that you had tobe a certain way, or do this, or
you're going to go to hell,you're not going to go into
heaven.
So you had this fear of, oh, Ibetter walk the line here, or
you know, I'm not going to go toheaven and meet Jesus, right,
(06:56):
yeah, so just all of this, likein a very young mind, you know,
like five years old, six yearsold, seven years old, where all
this development is happening isall around fear based, right
and even, like you know, and itwas that generation, like having
a grandfather that just lookedat you the wrong way and it's
(07:17):
like you know you don't want toget in trouble.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Yeah, and it was so normal for so many people that
we fall in that comparison trap,like I had really good parents.
Despite all of that, I had anoverall good childhood, very
loving parents.
They just imperfect people,like all of us, and we don't
want to compare and say, well,my trauma wasn't anything
compared to this person, so Ihave no right to be upset.
(07:43):
It's about how it affects you,you know right, right, right
right.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
But all of those are part of what makes you today, so
that you go out and you helpother people that you are of
service.
So we are here talking umholistic energy, eft.
So when did EFT come into yourlife?
Is it something that you foundor did it find you?
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Yeah, it found me.
It tried to find me and I waslike no, go away.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
You're running.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
So I only tried it for the first time about three
years ago, even though I heardabout it way before that.
I admit I was very skeptical.
It sounded too good to be true.
Tried so many differentmodalities in addition to
traditional talk therapy andprescription medication for
(08:34):
depression and anxiety, andalthough each thing I tried
helped to some degree anddefinitely played a role in my
healing, I was a littlediscouraged that I hadn't found
the thing to finally get me overthat last hurdle of just still
feeling really depleted, stillbeing very dysregulated when it
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came to stress, feeling unableto manage my emotions, even
though I was doing much better.
So I forget now what I was evenupset about at the time.
But I was watching YouTubevideos on my couch and I came
across the tapping solution,which is a great resource.
(09:17):
I'm not affiliated with them inany way, but you know,
definitely check out tappingsolution and Nick Ortner, one of
the founders, was doing a videowhere he was walking you
through the tapping sequence toclear negative emotion around,
what was, whatever was botheringyou.
So I did it, I followed alongand at one point he says Okay,
check in with that emotion.
Where is it?
Has it gone higher or lower onthis zero to 10 scale and I'm
(09:40):
just tapping and I'm like it'sgone, Like what the heck Like?
Yes, I can still remember whatit was, but I no longer feel
that physical activation or thatlike emotional charge to it.
It's like I can just calmlyobserve it and be neutral.
And something really clickedfor me that what I had been
(10:02):
missing all these years was thesomatic piece.
I had been so in my head tryingto rationalize and force up
here these changes in my brainand completely neglecting the
connection with my body.
So I continued tapping on myown, very quickly realized I
need to share this with as manypeople as possible and I had a
(10:24):
unique ability to bring this tothe legal profession, you know,
with that credibility of beingan attorney who knows firsthand
what it's like.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
So beautiful, beautiful.
So in Reiki, there's a lot ofmisconceptions because it's
energy work, and I say that youknow EFT is very similar to
Reiki.
You know it's the touch right,it's moving energy.
So, as you're out doing thisand working with others,
especially in the legal fieldhere very serious, right Facts,
(10:56):
right Statistics, things rightyou know you're, you know,
fighting for your clients andcases and you have some of these
challenging cases ahead.
What are you finding themisconceptions that people are
coming to you with regardingthis?
Speaker 3 (11:12):
So it's not so much a misconception, but I'd say that
it's still just not very widelyknown about.
It is slowly becoming moremainstream, but even though it's
based in the principles ofacupuncture, which have been
around for 1000s of years, thespecific tapping sequence was
only introduced, like in theearly 1990s, by the creator, a
(11:36):
man named Gary Craig, so it'sstill somewhat new.
The cool thing is that GaryCraig, rather than trying to
claim ownership of thistechnique to profit from it, he
gifted it to the world, whichmeans that this technique is
available to everyone.
No one owns it, and so,although there are definitely
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benefits to working with thepractitioner, this is intended
as a self-healing technique thatyou can do anytime, anywhere,
without needing to make anappointment or like rely on
anyone else.
And so you know, just like you,tracy, I also consider myself a
guide, and rather than ateacher, rather than a healer,
because I'm teaching thistechnique to my clients so they
can do it themselves.
(12:20):
I'm just guiding them to awakenthe healer that exists within
all of us.
And so another question I'llget a lot is whether, as a
practitioner, I'm physicallytapping on you as the client,
and the answer is no, you'retapping on yourself as I guide
you through each point, whichmeans the sessions can be done
online via zoom from anywhere inthe world and you're completely
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in charge of your ownexperience, which is great for
people who might not becomfortable with physical touch.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Right, I know, I found it.
I stumbled on it in gosh.
It was like probably 2003.
There was a gentleman that Ithink it was a little video he
put up and I was doing it thenas part of it and I keep coming
back to it from time to time.
But it's a wonderful modality,especially those like Reiki.
(13:12):
You know you can do it onyourself, but if you're going to
a practitioner and they'rehovering, that may not feel
comfortable for some, if theyhave that post-traumatic stress
or they've had some type oftrauma where they're not
comfortable in that situation of, you know, laying down on a
table or sitting down on a chair, that you're taking control
over that, you know, and sayingaffirmations.
(13:35):
So it's just a wonderfulpositive thing to to bring to
someone to learn.
It's a wonderful skill.
So you're out, helping others,being of service.
But what has been a challengeor struggle you have faced in
your own healing journey?
Speaker 3 (13:50):
There's so many but, but probably being stubborn and
getting in my own way, refusingto try things out of fear mostly
fear of disappointment and notbeing willing to release,
control and surrender.
I'd say that's one aspect.
And then the other isovercoming my people-pleasing
(14:11):
tendencies that I relied on mywhole life to feel safe and then
essentially having todeconstruct this life that I
created from a place ofmisalignment.
So I was very hesitant to blowup this life that looked perfect
on paper and offered so muchsecurity, not just career wise
(14:32):
but but also in my relationships, which involved getting a
divorce, a second divorce, um,and ending a marriage that
wasn't bad but where there wasjust a lot missing, and
realizing that it doesn't haveto make sense to anyone else.
You know, all that matters ishow my life feels to me, because
I'm the one having to live it.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Beautiful and of course, you have the EFT to help
you with those right Exactly.
So it can be anything thatyou're working on correct.
So say like you know, you needmore courage.
You can tap for courage, right,you can tap for the people
pleasing stress, so you don'thave to always use it when it's
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the stress and you know, evenusing it every day.
You know, with Reiki we say tryto do it every day.
You know, just for today, anduse these principles of it so
that way, when these big thingscome up, the big waves there,
you're ready and you can bringthat tool and skill into action.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
So, when it is time for you to get an energetic
tune-up, what qualities do youlook for in either an EFT
practitioner or a holisticenergy practitioner?
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Oh, and I do.
I trade sessions with awonderful fellow practitioner
every week, in addition totapping on my own.
I would say the most importantthing is to find someone who
specializes in the area you'rewanting to work on or who has a
similar lived experience.
The most important thing,though, I think, is just feeling
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very comfortable with thatperson, to be completely honest
and to be able to share anythingthat might come up for you,
because you're going to be verysurprised what emotions and
memories start coming up asyou're sending those signals of
safety through your body.
So sometimes the issue you showup to work on isn't what even
ends up coming out in thesession.
(16:27):
But overall, yeah, just lookfor someone you feel really
comfortable with.
That might mean trying a coupledifferent practitioners.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Beautiful, beautiful.
So what advice would you giveto someone who's listening to
this right now and they're inthe corporate world, or they're
an attorney, or they're inmedicine, whatever they're doing
and they feel the calling to dothis, what advice would you
give someone who wants to enterthis spiritual work?
Enter, you know this, tappingEFT, yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
And you know, I think the advice is the same, whether
you're looking to just do thisfor your own benefit or whether
you want to help others as apractitioner and I.
And that is to stay in a placeof curiosity.
If we think of the vibrationalscale, um, I think curiosity
usually isn't listed on there,but it is a great place to be
(17:19):
because it's pretty neutral.
Yeah, it's kind of just in themiddle and it allows us to be
open to different possibilities.
So, instead of you know, don'tlook at yourself as someone who
needs to be fixed or seek tobanish or disown these
undesirable parts of you, theseundesirable parts of you.
(17:42):
You know instead when we canstay in a place of non judgment
and just gently go huh, look atthat like I wonder what that's
all about, I wonder where thatcame from, I wonder what that's
trying to show me.
And you know, likewise, from apractitioner standpoint, to not
to resist the urge to jump inand fix and want to achieve a
certain result for your own ego.
(18:03):
You want to allow the client totake ownership of their own
experience.
That was a challenge for me inthe beginning because, as a
lawyer, I'm used to being inproblem-solving mode Right, and
here's what you need to do, orhere's the end goal.
I had to become a betterlistener so that, in turn, I
could teach my clients how tolisten to themselves.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Yeah, yeah, that's also with a teacher to my
backgrounds, elementaryeducation to like not get in
there.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
And as an empath, too right, all this, all this
happening, all this going on,and as an intuitive when you're
like All this happening, allthis going on, and as an
intuitive when you're like, oh,I know exactly what is going on,
isn't it?
We got it all going on.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
You got to let them bring that information up, even
though you're already keptpicking up on it.
So what?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
books do you recommend?
So, if you want to learn moreabout EFT and have some
guidebooks for doing EFT on yourown, I really like Margaret
Lynch Rainier.
So there's, she has two reallypopular books.
One is called unblocked and oneis tapping into wealth Great,
great EFT teacher.
And then just for generalpersonal development, I really
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like Frances Scovel Shin.
I was introduced to her worklast year and also the teachings
of Abraham Hicks and NevilleGoddard, which kind of built on
that, just in terms of the powerof our minds and our ability to
create our own reality.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Beautiful, beautiful.
So what other services ormodalities do you offer?
Do you offer sessions,one-on-one?
Are you doing classes,trainings?
Speaker 3 (19:45):
I mostly do one-on-one sessions.
Tapping in a group setting canalso be very effective.
It's just a very differentexperience because you're all
holding space for each other.
Usually I'll do group eventsfocused on a particular theme.
One of them was like overcomingfinancial blocks, for example,
because we all have areas inthat you know that we can work
(20:09):
on there.
So I do occasionally offergroup events online.
You can subscribe to be on mymailing list through my website
to find out about those.
But my main modality is EFT.
I'm also certified inneuro-linguistic programming,
nlp, so I will sometimes infuseelements of NLP into my sessions
(20:31):
.
But I find EFT to be just sodang effective that probably 80
to 90% of the one-on-onesessions we're actively tapping
Sure.
Sure, that's your calling.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Yeah.
So where can somebody find youonline in person?
What if they're listening tothis and they're like, yes, she
is it, she is my guide.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
So my website is tapoutburnoutcom.
That's all one word, and I'malso on LinkedIn as Tracy in
score and tap out burnout onInstagram.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Beautiful.
Well, that ends the first partof our journey and I'm going to
guide you right on to the nextpart.
These are questions from socialmedia.
So here we go.
Number one we talking about EFTtapping, and how does it work.
Can you kind of help us give usan example of like, maybe a
tiny little session?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Sure.
So EFT, or tapping, as the nameimplies, involves light
fingertip tapping on certainmeridian points on the head and
upper torso in a specificsequence, while we focus on an
emotion or a memory or a problem.
So it is based in traditionalChinese medicine and that that
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core premise that everything isenergy, that all negative
emotion is caused by energyblockages within the body.
So we're vibrational beings.
Every emotion, every experiencecarries a certain vibration or
frequency.
We're like little sponges, andso our body is like this living,
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breathing record of everythingwe've ever experienced, and
sometimes just like a vinylrecord gets scratched and won't
play properly anymore.
Our emotional experiences cando the same thing within our
body and we find ourselves beingtriggered by things, feeling
that emotional charge, having aphysical, physical reaction when
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we think about a past event,and so the meridian system is
like an energetic highwayrunning through the body.
I live kind of near LA, so I'mjust thinking like LA traffic.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
I live kind of near LA.
So I'm just thinking like LAtraffic.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Yes, I've driven in LA, and so tapping allows us to
restore the proper flow of ourlife force, energy, of our chi,
through those meridians.
So there's 12 main meridians,each one corresponds to a
specific part of the body, andwhen there's any sort of
blockage, that's when physicalailments and illnesses and the
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emotional issues start to happen.
The idea is there's always aroot, underlying emotional cause
to anything that's showing upfor you physically as well.
Acupuncture, traditionalChinese medicine, was way ahead
of its time in identifying themeridian system, which kind of
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represents the framework of thenervous system as we know it in
modern Western medicine.
So most of us are familiar withthe meridians because of
acupuncture which, as you know,involves placing needles at
certain points to get that stuckenergy flowing properly again.
So fortunately, with EFT we'veidentified certain points on the
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head, the upper torso, that areespecially useful for dealing
with emotions and found thatwith just applying light
pressure or tapping on thesepoints in a specific sequence,
we can essentially get the sameresult as acupuncture, but
without needles.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Beautiful and those that are just joining.
What does EFT mean?
What is the?
That's the short version of it.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Oh yes, it stands for emotional freedom techniques.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Beautiful.
So the way that I learned ityears and years ago was just
tapping and saying you know, Iam financially free and I would
do different affirmations foreach tapping.
I also do yoga, yin yin yoga,and it brings in traditional
Chinese medicine as well.
It can have an option withfocusing on the readings as well
(24:42):
.
So doing tapping things likethat, we bring that in as well
with that.
So very good, very good.
Number two what is theimportance of the subconscious
mind to the nervous?
Speaker 3 (24:53):
system.
Okay, yeah, so I'm going tonerd out this.
I love this stuff.
So we kind of have tounderstand the nervous system,
which is, in a nutshell, ourbody's command center, our brain
, spinal cord neurons.
They're sending messages allover the body that control
literally every function.
And so we have the autonomicnervous system that regulates,
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like heart rate, blood pressure,breathing, digestion.
That has two parts thesympathetic system controls our
fight or flight response.
Parasympathetic regulates ourrest and digest functions.
Ideally, we would be in thatrest and digest state most of
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the time, unless there was aliteral threat to our survival.
Sadly, we have not evolved toknow the difference between
being chased by a tiger andgetting a stressful email at
work.
So what happens?
We spend most of our time infight or flight and that becomes
our regular state of being.
What happens when we're infight or flight is that the
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amygdala in our brain becomesoverstimulated and it causes the
blood flow to leave ourprefrontal cortex, which is the
part of our brain that doescreative problem solving, which
is unfortunate because times ofstress are when we most need
that part of our brain.
But it just checks out and goesoffline and then we revert to
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our more primal responses.
Our body produces adrenalineand cortisol as part of our
survival instinct.
But in the case of burnout,this can actually become a
chronic state where we'reconstantly pumping out these
chemicals because our bodyliterally thinks it's under
attack.
So then we have a subconsciousmind literally thinks it's under
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attack.
So then we have a subconsciousmind which is like a huge memory
bank, contains all the storedinformation that of everything
you've ever experienced and it'salways working in the
background.
You're not necessarily aware ofit.
It's like software or appthat's just running in the
background.
And around 90% of our brainactivity is subconscious rather
than conscious.
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It's not only recordingeverything that happens to you,
but it's impacting your currentemotions and behavior and
choices.
So, in terms of thecommunications between our brain
and our body, about 80% isgoing from our body to our brain
.
Only about 20% goes from ourbrain to our body.
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But what do most of us do?
We put a tremendous amount ofeffort and trying to address the
20%.
What's going on in our brain?
And what I'm suggesting is, yes, we can't ignore that component
, it's important.
But if instead we focus on thebody where that 80% lives, you
will see a change in thefraction of the time and with
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far less effort.
So the nervous system and thesubconscious mind work together
because our subconscious isconstantly taking direction from
the nervous system, the body,as far as what feels safe.
Number one goal of oursubconscious mind is to keep us
safe.
So it will let us know.
It will let our nervous systemknow when something is perceived
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as a threat so that we can havethe correct response.
But, as we said, some of uswalk around in that constant
state of stress when there's nophysical danger, which means
that even good things can becomescary because they're simply
unfamiliar.
Right Things like getting araise, being in a healthy
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relationship, working less,feeling relaxed, it can actually
feel uncomfortable because yoursubconscious says feel
uncomfortable because yoursubconscious says, well, this is
new, this is different.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
What is this?
Right?
Right, I was watching someone'sreel and she put in there that
her nervous system doesn't knowthe difference that she's being
chased by a bear when she'sactually like watching her
daughter in a competition.
It was that same level ofstress.
And after my sister passed, Ifelt like I was in this constant
state of stress because we hadanother family member pass and
then my dad got sick.
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Like we had like four deaths inlike a chunk of time.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
And.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
I remember one time, I think, I dropped my phone, it
accidentally called my daughterand then you know how you're
like, oh no, no, she's working.
And then you push it to stop.
It accidentally called mydaughter and then you know how
you're like, oh no, no, she'sworking.
And then you push it to stopand then it rings again, and so
it had been like two or threetimes and she calls me back and
she said who died?
And that makes you realize, ohmy goodness, we've all been
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living in this state of thishigh anxiety.
That's the first thing, notthat I'm calling to say hello
and how your day is itautomatically to who died.
And I felt like, oh my goodness, we need to all come down a
little bit here.
But we were realizing that'show we were surviving because we
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had one bad thing.
You know this was all throughCOVID as well.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
So we had.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
COVID thrown on there and all these deaths, and I'm
like now, what kind of thingattitude?
Yeah, but you know things likeEFT, reiki.
These are tools that you canuse.
So you know, when I'm out andI'm feeling overwhelmed and
stressed, I can go.
I'm going to go sit in my car,I'm going to tap right.
I'm going to go into thebathroom, do a little tapping,
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do a little Reiki to kind ofhelp you ride that wave, to get
calm.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Yeah, because you know, knowing something and
feeling it are two verydifferent things and, as someone
who's in my head a lot and verylike you know, like
intellectual, you know we canconsciously get over something
that was upsetting to us,whether that's grief or trauma
or betrayal or shame.
But if our body never got themessage that it's safe, then
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that emotional charge is goingto be reactivated.
Like you said, every time yourphone rings, every time that
person's name shows up on yourphone screen, you're like that
clinch in your chest, like thatvisceral physical reaction.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Right right.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Our third question, which is about your specialty
burnout.
What are the three stepprocesses for overcoming burnout
?
I know many people are dealingwith this.
You know, as a attorney, I'm ateacher, we're in the industry
here of service.
This is something when we getour cup completely emptied out,
right.
So what are some?
What are some techniques here?
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Yeah.
So the first is to take theedge off and get out of crisis
mode, because it's verydifficult, if not impossible, to
problem solve and see bigpicture patterns, to do deeper
work when we're in survival modeor when we're in a state of
fight or flight.
So this might take place at thebeginning of each session,
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where we're bringing the clientdown to just a more manageable
level so that they can think andbe more contemplative.
Sometimes we might have entiresessions dedicated to bringing
that anxiety and stress leveldown, just so you can think
clearly.
And then step two is torecognize the deeper root cause
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issues that led to the externalissue, such as burnout, in the
first place.
So the single most importantthing I've learned about career
burnout is that it is neverreally about the job or the
career.
It is a symptom of much deeperissues that were probably going
on within you well before youstepped foot in that job.
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So that means that changingjobs or even changing industries
might give some temporaryrelief, might give some
temporary relief, but thatpattern of burnout will find a
way to keep showing up in otherareas of your life or in a new
job until you truly get to thoseroot causes.
So some example of some ofthose that we might work on in
step two would be maybe you'reliving outside of your true
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purpose or out of alignment withyour core values and priorities
, because it can be exhaustingto be out of alignment with your
core values and priorities,because it can be exhausting to
be out of alignment with yourtrue purpose and your authentic
self takes a lot of energy tofake it and pretend to be
someone you're not.
That step two is where we'llwork on the childhood, family
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dynamics, past trauma, thatnervous system dysregulation
that comes up, specific to amemory or a past event,
subconscious blocks, fears,limiting beliefs, especially
around money, or a belief thatwe have to struggle and
sacrifice in order to be worthy,that it's not allowed to be
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easy, and, just like societalprogramming in general, this
hustle culture, boss, babe,nonsense that we should all be
stressed and over caffeinated.
So then we get to step three,which is in once these deeper
issues have been addressed,we've cleared out a lot, or most
of the unwanted or undesiredenergy and emotions, is when we
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can start creating what we dowant, and so that might mean
getting more comfortable withthe idea of making a career
change, releasing any fears orlimiting beliefs around money,
self-worth, maybe settingboundaries and, of course, more
fun things like manifestationand visualization, while we're
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tapping to kind of anchor inthat feeling of safety in the
body relative to those desiresthat can actually feel unsafe at
first because they'reunfamiliar.
So step step three is reallyall about getting more
comfortable with feeling reallygood as your new normal, as your
new set point Right.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Right, I like that you have steps to it, right,
instead of like all in one, andthat gives that person okay,
this is a process, this is ajourney, right?
So we're not going to reallyfocus on the destination right
now.
We're focusing on the journey.
We'll take it step by step attheir comfort level.
So that's really wonderful.
Well, that was our lastquestion and, as we've been
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talking, is there something youmay have forgotten?
Is there something that youwant to share with the listeners
?
The floor is yours.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Oh sure, so I offer some free resources.
On my website.
I have a 30 minute burnoutconsultation.
I would love to chat with youand see if we're a good fit to
work together and you can justshare whatever issues you might
be experiencing.
So you can book that through mywebsite.
And I also have a freee-workbook, and the e-workbook
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is really based on step three ofthis process.
You might be thinking, well, Ican't go out of order, but
actually I find that someclients it will give them that
motivation to see, okay, thiskind of blueprint of their life
and where they've been and wherethey want to go, and so that
addresses your life purpose,your mission, your values and
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your priorities, to help youeven just identify what those
are.
I was in my late thirtiesbefore I realized I had never
really sat down with thosethings for myself, so this is
just a guide to help you do that.
So that's available for free aswell.
And I think, tracy, I sharedwith you a link for your
listeners to have a specialdiscounted rate for a one-on-one
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session with me as wellBeautiful.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
And what was the website?
Again for our listeners, that'stapoutburnoutcom.
Love the name.
I love it Beautiful.
Well, thank you, Tracy, fortaking time out of your very
busy schedule to come along thisjourney with me.
I really do appreciate it.
Thank you, Tracy, I appreciateyou and it's always wonderful to
meet again.
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Another Tracy to connect.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
All right, Thank you, my wonderful listeners.
I'm Tracy Seawright.
If you are interested in yourquestion being featured on the
podcast, reach outwwwreadysetreikicom.
Here we go and that's Ready,SetReikicom.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
Here we go, and that's Ready Set Reiki.
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