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How Tapping Helps Your Brain
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How Tapping Helps Your Brain

EFT/tapping (also called the Emotional Freedom Technique) is an evidence-based stress reduction modality that can be used for PTSD and trauma, phobias, uncomfortable emotions, processing breakups, relationships, grief, anxiety, depression, and anything else perceived as stressful.

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Don’t Bypass Negative Emotions - Learn EFT/Tapping
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Don’t Bypass Negative Emotions - Learn EFT/Tapping

The tapping technique allows us to process whatever we’re feeling, and then perhaps let it go or learn something from it.  When we don't process it, when we don't sit with it and deal with it, then our negative emotions can hang around all the time. That may lead to always feeling sad (or angry, or ashamed) and spending that emotional energy in ways that we could spend it otherwise (rest, connection, joy). 

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Muslims In The Media with Evelyn Alsultany

Muslims In The Media with Evelyn Alsultany

In this episode, Jill interviews Evelyn Alsultany, an associate professor in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity. They discuss the lived experiences of growing up as the child of an Iraqi-Muslim immigrant. Alsultany examines the troupes of “good” vs “bad” Muslims in the media, and how crisis diversity can be a detriment to wider DEI efforts.

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Emotional Labor and White Women

Emotional Labor and White Women

In this episode, Jill uses a recent social media post that she saw to highlight the dangers of white women using the term ‘emotional labor’ without acknowledging the broader context of the harm and danger that Black people face (historically and currently) as they undertake the emotional labor of educating white people about racism.

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