How EFT can help with Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria
Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria (RSD) is a very real and debilitating side effect of ADHD. It can prevent us from living trusting and fulfilled lives, making us constantly question ourselves and the intentions of others around us, as well as leading to our low self-esteem and self-worth.
Almost everyone who believes they have ADHD also acknowledges that RSD plays a part in their lives too. Whether it manifests in your personal relationships, friendships, family connections, parenting or in your professional life, RSD can often feel unmanageable even with medication and traditional talk therapy, such as CBT.
Here’s how EFT can help…
It aids the release of negative emotions such as anxiety, stress, overwhelm or fear. I have seen time and time again how tapping can help reduce the intensity of beliefs, thoughts and emotions which hold us back and no longer serve us in life.
It cuts through the noise in our heads, allows for clarity and brings in positive perspective shifts and releases limiting self-beliefs and stories which have been part of our lives for a long time.
It releases these beliefs, which can be a game-changer when dealing with RSD. Tapping allows for us to separate ourselves from our thoughts and understand what is real and what is our extreme sensitivity or fear of rejection.
EFT helps us process our emotions calmly and offers us ‘bigger picture’ thinking consequently breaking down the RSD and empowering ourselves with more resilience and new thought patterns.
Clinical trials have shown that EFT actively lowers the cortisol in our bodies, calming our minds and stress response too. Similar to acupuncture, EFT uses the body’s energy meridian points, which are stimulated by tapping on them with your fingertips, which sends signals to the amygdala (the ‘fight or flight’ part of the brain) to calm down and relax. By talking through our thoughts at the same time, we’re able to recognise what needs healing, processing and releasing.
I can help you if you:
➡️ Wish you had had this diagnosis a long time ago and regret past behaviour or choices
➡️ Are now concerned about not being believed or perhaps dismissed by family and friends
➡️ Fear judgement and shame when you tell people about your diagnosis
➡️ Feel blame towards your parents for not picking it up when you were younger
➡️ Feel that you've been robbed of many years of your life
➡️ Are worried that family, partner or friends won't recognise your ADHD because you've spent a lifetime masking it
➡️ Harbour a sense of guilt, sadness and grief of the missed potential opportunities
➡️ Are overwhelmed about the next steps regarding medication, lifestyle or therapy choices
Through my unique way of using EFT while coaching, I want to help you feel more:
Courage to talk about your ADHD
Excitement to move forwards with new tools
Acceptance of your current situation
Inner-peace that there have been reasons for your life up until now
Self-compassion about the choices you've made
An opportunity for reflection and clarity about how the future could look
Commitment to better days ahead
Empowerment to utilise new information and resources
Relief that you understand yourself better
Validation that there is a reason why you think and behave as you do
Motivation to recognise the choices and support you have
I want to simply help you just be BE YOU just with a bit more ease, flow, grace and joy. That's it simply.
No fancy stuff, the session simply consists of tapping, breathing, releasing, creating, being curious and surrendering to our own stuff and making some more space to allow better things to come to light.