🌿 Strength Beyond Pain is a course that addresses experiences such as low mood, depression, loss, and unprocessed anger. It aims to restore emotional balance by gently reconnecting these states with their felt opposites — such as safety, joy, generosity, nurturing, calm, and inner peace.
🌿 The course uses guided meditations grounded in affect balancing, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), and EFT tapping, supporting nervous-system regulation and emotional integration.
🌿 If you would like to work with EMDR-inspired techniques, such as Butterfly Tapping, please use the Emotional Processing Therapy Journal by Kasia Makuch-Cole, available on Amazon.
🌿 Strength Beyond Pain is a course that addresses experiences such as low mood, depression, loss, and unprocessed anger. It aims to restore emotional balance by gently reconnecting these states with their felt opposites — such as safety, joy, generosity, nurturing, calm, and inner peace.
🌿 The course uses guided meditations grounded in affect balancing, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), and EFT tapping, supporting nervous-system regulation and emotional integration.
🌿 If you would like to work with EMDR-inspired techniques, such as Butterfly Tapping, please use the Emotional Processing Therapy Journal by Kasia Makuch-Cole, available on Amazon.
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🌿 Strength Beyond Pain is a course that addresses experiences such as low mood, depression, loss, and unprocessed anger. It aims to restore emotional balance by gently reconnecting these states with their felt opposites — such as safety, joy, generosity, nurturing, calm, and inner peace.
🌿 The course uses guided meditations grounded in affect balancing, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), and EFT tapping, supporting nervous-system regulation and emotional integration.
🌿 If you would like to work with EMDR-inspired techniques, such as Butterfly Tapping, please use the Emotional Processing Therapy Journal by Kasia Makuch-Cole, available on Amazon.
🌿 Projection
Projection is when we unconsciously attribute our own difficult feelings, thoughts, or impulses to someone else. Instead of recognising “this is happening inside me”, the mind experiences it as coming from the outside. Projection can temporarily reduce anxiety but often distorts relationships and increases misunderstanding.
🌿 Introjection
Introjection is the unconscious process of taking in the attitudes, voices, or expectations of others and treating them as if they were one’s own. This often develops early in life, especially in close or dependent relationships. An inner critical voice, for example, may be an introjected parent or authority figure rather than a true reflection of the self.
🌿 Internalisation
Internalisation is a broader and more integrated process in which experiences of relationships, values, and emotional regulation become part of the internal world. When internalisation is healthy, it allows a person to self-soothe, hold multiple feelings, and relate to others with greater stability and choice rather than fear or compulsion.
🌿 Strength Beyond Pain is a course that addresses experiences such as low mood, depression, loss, and unprocessed anger. It aims to restore emotional balance by gently reconnecting these states with their felt opposites — such as safety, joy, generosity, nurturing, calm, and inner peace.
🌿 The course uses guided meditations grounded in affect balancing, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), and EFT tapping, supporting nervous-system regulation and emotional integration.
🌿 If you would like to work with EMDR-inspired techniques, such as Butterfly Tapping, please use the Emotional Processing Therapy Journal by Kasia Makuch-Cole, available on Amazon.
🌿 Strength Beyond Pain is a course that addresses experiences such as low mood, depression, loss, and unprocessed anger. It aims to restore emotional balance by gently reconnecting these states with their felt opposites — such as safety, joy, generosity, nurturing, calm, and inner peace.
🌿 The course uses guided meditations grounded in affect balancing, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), and EFT tapping, supporting nervous-system regulation and emotional integration.
🌿 If you would like to work with EMDR-inspired techniques, such as Butterfly Tapping, please use the Emotional Processing Therapy Journal by Kasia Makuch-Cole, available on Amazon.
🌿 Strength Beyond Pain is a course that addresses experiences such as low mood, depression, loss, and unprocessed anger. It aims to restore emotional balance by gently reconnecting these states with their felt opposites — such as safety, joy, generosity, nurturing, calm, and inner peace.
🌿 The course uses guided meditations grounded in affect balancing, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), and EFT tapping, supporting nervous-system regulation and emotional integration.
🌿 If you would like to work with EMDR-inspired techniques, such as Butterfly Tapping, please use the Emotional Processing Therapy Journal by Kasia Makuch-Cole, available on Amazon.
🌿 Strength Beyond Pain is a course that addresses experiences such as low mood, depression, loss, and unprocessed anger. It aims to restore emotional balance by gently reconnecting these states with their felt opposites — such as safety, joy, generosity, nurturing, calm, and inner peace.
🌿 The course uses guided meditations grounded in affect balancing, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), and EFT tapping, supporting nervous-system regulation and emotional integration.
🌿 If you would like to work with EMDR-inspired techniques, such as Butterfly Tapping, please use the Emotional Processing Therapy Journal by Kasia Makuch-Cole, available on Amazon.
🌿 Strength Beyond Pain is a course that addresses experiences such as low mood, depression, loss, and unprocessed anger. It aims to restore emotional balance by gently reconnecting these states with their felt opposites — such as safety, joy, generosity, nurturing, calm, and inner peace.
🌿 The course uses guided meditations grounded in affect balancing, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), and EFT tapping, supporting nervous-system regulation and emotional integration.
🌿 If you would like to work with EMDR-inspired techniques, such as Butterfly Tapping, please use the Emotional Processing Therapy Journal by Kasia Makuch-Cole, available on Amazon.
🌿 Strength Beyond Pain is a course that addresses experiences such as low mood, depression, loss, and unprocessed anger. It aims to restore emotional balance by gently reconnecting these states with their felt opposites — such as safety, joy, generosity, nurturing, calm, and inner peace.
🌿 The course uses guided meditations grounded in affect balancing, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), and EFT tapping, supporting nervous-system regulation and emotional integration.
🌿 If you would like to work with EMDR-inspired techniques, such as Butterfly Tapping, please use the Emotional Processing Therapy Journal by Kasia Makuch-Cole, available on Amazon.
🌿 Strength Beyond Pain is a course that addresses experiences such as low mood, depression, loss, and unprocessed anger. It aims to restore emotional balance by gently reconnecting these states with their felt opposites — such as safety, joy, generosity, nurturing, calm, and inner peace.
🌿 The course uses guided meditations grounded in affect balancing, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), and EFT tapping, supporting nervous-system regulation and emotional integration.
🌿 If you would like to work with EMDR-inspired techniques, such as Butterfly Tapping, please use the Emotional Processing Therapy Journal by Kasia Makuch-Cole, available on Amazon.
🌿 Strength Beyond Pain is a course that addresses experiences such as low mood, depression, loss, and unprocessed anger. It aims to restore emotional balance by gently reconnecting these states with their felt opposites — such as safety, joy, generosity, nurturing, calm, and inner peace.
🌿 The course uses guided meditations grounded in affect balancing, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), and EFT tapping, supporting nervous-system regulation and emotional integration.
🌿 If you would like to work with EMDR-inspired techniques, such as Butterfly Tapping, please use the Emotional Processing Therapy Journal by Kasia Makuch-Cole, available on Amazon.
🌿 Strength Beyond Pain is a course that addresses experiences such as low mood, depression, loss, and unprocessed anger. It aims to restore emotional balance by gently reconnecting these states with their felt opposites — such as safety, joy, generosity, nurturing, calm, and inner peace.
🌿 The course uses guided meditations grounded in affect balancing, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), and EFT tapping, supporting nervous-system regulation and emotional integration.
🌿 If you would like to work with EMDR-inspired techniques, such as Butterfly Tapping, please use the Emotional Processing Therapy Journal by Kasia Makuch-Cole, available on Amazon.
🌿 Strength Beyond Pain is a course that addresses experiences such as low mood, depression, loss, and unprocessed anger. It aims to restore emotional balance by gently reconnecting these states with their felt opposites — such as safety, joy, generosity, nurturing, calm, and inner peace.
🌿 The course uses guided meditations grounded in affect balancing, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), and EFT tapping, supporting nervous-system regulation and emotional integration.
🌿 If you would like to work with EMDR-inspired techniques, such as Butterfly Tapping, please use the Emotional Processing Therapy Journal by Kasia Makuch-Cole, available on Amazon.
🌿 Strength Beyond Pain is a course that addresses experiences such as low mood, depression, loss, and unprocessed anger. It aims to restore emotional balance by gently reconnecting these states with their felt opposites — such as safety, joy, generosity, nurturing, calm, and inner peace.
🌿 The course uses guided meditations grounded in affect balancing, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), and EFT tapping, supporting nervous-system regulation and emotional integration.
🌿 If you would like to work with EMDR-inspired techniques, such as Butterfly Tapping, please use the Emotional Processing Therapy Journal by Kasia Makuch-Cole, available on Amazon.
What Is Balance Psychotherapy?
Balance Psychotherapy is an integrative, trauma-informed approach developed by Kasia Makuch-Cole. It combines psychodynamic understanding, nervous system regulation, Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), bilateral EMDR-inspired tapping, mindfulness, and Gendlin’s Focusing. The method supports people in connecting with their inner world, recognising emotional patterns, and restoring balance between thoughts, feelings, and body sensations.
The core idea is simple: when we learn to regulate the nervous system and bring balance to difficult affect, emotional healing becomes possible. Balance Psychotherapy teaches clients how to work with emotions directly in the body, rather than only through thinking or analysis.
How to Balance Affect?
Balancing affect means bringing emotional intensity—whether too high or too low—back into a tolerable, steady state. In Balance Psychotherapy, this is done through:
Naming the Feeling
Gently acknowledge the emotion (“sadness,” “fear,” “anger,” “shame,” etc.) without judgement.
Locating the Sensation
Notice where the feeling shows up in the body—chest, stomach, throat, shoulders, etc.
Finding the Opposite Affect
Every overwhelming emotion has an opposite quality that can help regulate it.
Fear ↔ Safety
Shame ↔ Worthiness
Anger ↔ Softness or Calm
Emptiness ↔ Warmth or Connection
Bringing in the Opposite
Sense the opposite quality in the body through imagery, breath, or gentle attention. This helps shift the emotional state and widen the Window of Tolerance.
Using Tapping for Integration
Bilateral tapping (Butterfly Hug) calms hyperarousal.
Rhythmic single-point tapping grounds hypoarousal.
Tapping helps the brain process emotions safely and reduces overwhelm.
Letting the Body Respond
As the nervous system settles, the emotion becomes easier to hold, understand, and work through.
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Tapping on: I'm safe. I'm not broken. I am just in a need of care and rest.
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Music: #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/brock-hewitt-stories-in-sound/body
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This course, Strength Beyond Pain, uses EFT techniques. If you prefer to use an EMDR-based technique, please refer to the Emotional Regulation Therapy Journal by Kasia Makuch-Cole, available on Amazon.
In this course: Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)—also known as tapping—is a therapeutic method that combines elements of cognitive and exposure-based therapy with acupressure. It involves tapping on specific meridian points on the body while focusing on emotional issues. This process is believed to reduce emotional intensity, release stress, and support emotional healing.
EFT is based on the idea that unprocessed emotional experiences can create disruptions in the body’s energy system. Tapping on selected meridian points—usually on the face, hands, and upper body—while paying attention to a distressing thought, emotion, or memory can help reduce emotional discomfort and restore a sense of balance.
Common tapping points include:
Karate Chop Point: Side of the hand
Top of the Head: Crown area
Eyebrow: Inner edge of the eyebrow
Side of the Eye: On the bone at the outer corner
Under the Eye: On the bone beneath the eye
Under the Nose: Between nose and upper lip
Chin Point: Between lower lip and chin
Collarbone: Just below the collarbone
Under the Arm: A few inches below the armpit
Research on EFT has grown rapidly, with studies showing benefits for anxiety, depression, stress, and trauma-related symptoms.
Reduction in Anxiety and Depression:
Many studies report significant reductions in anxiety and depressive symptoms, sometimes after only a short series of sessions.
Physiological Changes:
EFT has been linked to decreases in cortisol, the body’s main stress hormone, suggesting a calming effect on the stress response.
Long-Term Benefits:
Some research indicates that improvements can be maintained for weeks or months after treatment.
Mechanism of Action:
While research continues, EFT is thought to help calm the amygdala (the brain’s fear centre), reduce emotional arousal, and promote a sense of safety in the nervous system.
EFT is increasingly used as a complementary tool in psychotherapy, coaching, and self-help, offering a gentle, accessible method for managing emotional distress.
(Research links available via EFT International.)
Emerging neuroscience research suggests that EFT may influence brain activity and neurochemical processes.
Brain Activity:
A 2012 study found reduced amygdala activation after EFT.
A 2013 study showed increased activity in the prefrontal cortex (involved in emotional regulation) along with reduced amygdala activity.
Neurochemistry:
Research suggests EFT may lower cortisol levels and, in some cases, increase serotonin, a neurotransmitter linked to mood and well-being.
Although not yet fully understood, researchers propose that EFT may help the brain and nervous system by:
Stimulating acupressure points, sending calming signals to areas involved in emotional processing.
Combining focused attention with rhythmic tapping, creating a relaxation response similar to meditation.
Recalling difficult memories while tapping, which may help reduce their emotional intensity over time.
In summary, EFT blends psychological and physical techniques to support emotional regulation. While more research is needed, current studies provide a strong foundation for its use in reducing stress, anxiety, and emotional discomfort. EFT is easy to learn, gentle to use, and can be a helpful tool alongside other therapeutic approaches.
🍃 www.balance-psychotherapy.org🍃 Emotional Regulation Therapy Journal - Balance & Clarity Series by Kasia Makuch-Cole also available on Amazon.
Navigating the Spectrum of Depression
Depression is a common mental health condition and a symptom rather than a single cause. It can arise from biological, genetic, psychological, and environmental factors. Depression exists on a spectrum. At one end are occasional low moods, which most people experience and which usually resolve naturally.
Reactive depression appears after difficult events such as loss, stress, or major life changes. More severe is Major Depressive Disorder, where symptoms like persistent low mood, loss of interest, exhaustion, or changes in sleep and appetite begin to interfere with daily life.
Biology plays a role. Genetics, brain chemistry, inflammation, and early childhood experiences can increase vulnerability. Lifestyle factors, including diet, may also influence mood. Some people report improvement on low-carb or ketogenic diets, which may affect brain energy, inflammation, and calming neurotransmitters, though results vary.
Common symptoms include sadness, loss of pleasure, fatigue, guilt, anxiety, sleep changes, appetite shifts, and difficulty concentrating. Suicidal thoughts require immediate support.
Depression is treatable. Effective approaches include combined talking therapies such as CBT, psychodynamic therapy, and interpersonal therapy with somatic therapies. Medication may help regulate mood. Exercise, regular sleep, a balanced diet, and mindfulness can also support recovery.
If you are struggling, reaching out for help is an important first step. You are not alone, and with the right support, depression can improve and a sense of balance can return.
DISCLAIMER:The information contained in this app is educational in nature and provided solely as general information. I understand that using this programme does not establish a client–psychotherapist relationship with Kasia Makuch-Cole. I understand that I will be introduced to a programme called Balance Psychotherapy. Various modalities may be introduced, including psychodynamic/psychoanalytic approaches, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), and Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR). I understand that these modalities are adapted according to the principles of Balance Psychotherapy.
Because this programme presents a new and evolving approach, and due to the experimental nature of the material (audio recordings), the full extent of its effectiveness, risks, and benefits is not yet known. I agree to assume full responsibility for any and all risks associated with using this programme and engaging with Balance Psychotherapy as a result of this content. I understand that my choice to use Balance Psychotherapy is entirely voluntary and not influenced by any external pressure. I also understand that, if I choose to engage with Balance Psychotherapy, emotional or physical sensations or unresolved memories may arise.
The information presented in this programme and on the associated website, including the introduction to Balance Psychotherapy, is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease or psychological disorder. The Balance Psychotherapy programme is not a substitute for medical or psychological treatment. Any stories or testimonials shared in this programme or on the website do not constitute a warranty, guarantee, or prediction regarding outcomes for any individual using Balance Psychotherapy.
While all material and external links are provided in good faith, the accuracy, validity, effectiveness, completeness, or usefulness of the information cannot be guaranteed. Kasia Makuch-Cole accepts no responsibility or liability whatsoever for the use or misuse of the information contained in this programme or on the website, including—but not limited to—Balance Psychotherapy demonstrations, training, and related activities. Users are strongly advised to seek professional advice where appropriate before making any health-related decisions.
Good Night with EFT Tapping
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