(I am happy to share this with those of you who have tried EFT and have shown an interest in it. I as well as thousands of others, devoted to the blessing of EFT am so happy that Gary Craig has turned over the day to day operations of EFT to Dawson Church. So the web site is running, has the familiar structure and weekly news letter and is continuing to share contributors experiences with this practice which I found so very helpful in my own effort to learn EFT. It was like a weekly shot in the arm.
Gary had spent much time in working with our veterans in effort to help them in overcoming the trauma of PTSD I can think of no group of people more deserving of all the help that can be given than these men and women who have given so much for all of us. As this article indicates, Dawson is continuing with this important work.
Gary has made a documentary film which I understand will soon be available for viewing. Jan)
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| EFT Helps Veterans With PTSD: Four years ago, with tens of thousands of veterans arriving back from Iraq and Afghanistan with PTSD (posttraumatic stress disorder), members of the EFT community started the Iraq Vets Stress Project (www.StressProject.org). The Stress Project connects veterans with PTSD with a large international network of EFT practitioners, most of whom help the veterans without charge. Hundreds of veterans from these 2 wars, and Vietnam, have found help through the Stress Project. The program has produced two pilot studies and a full-fleged Randomized Controlled Trial, which found that 86% of veterans see dramatic reductions in their PTSD symptoms after EFT. Filmmaker Eric Huurre has produced a brilliant full-length documentary about the experiences of these veterans, including the group that was the subject of one of the pilot studies, called Operation Emotional Freedom. This movie is now available, and to order a copy, visit Eric’s web site, www.operation-emotionalfreedom.com. If you know of a veteran who needs help, please connect them to the resources on the www.StressProject.org web site, and if they want to join a new study and receive six free EFT sessions, they can phone Deb Tribbey at 707 237 6951, and she will connect them with a practitioner. |
Meeting with Loree Sutton, Commanding General, Defense Center of Excellence
 Recently I had the opportunity to meet with Loree Sutton, Commanding General, Defense Center of Excellence for PTSD/TBI. She was speaking at a TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) conference in San Francisco called The Brain at War, and I was one of the attendees. The conference brought together several hundred top researchers, academics, and military people. She was very warm and personable, though I don’t think she made the connection between me and the letters I’ve been writing to the Defense Center of Excellence describing our research into EFT and PTSD. I gave her a copy of the abstract of the Randomized Controlled Trial that’s currently in peer review at a top-tier journal. It shows that veteran PTSD and TBI symptoms reduce dramatically after EFT. Hopefully she’ll read it and take action.
The conference program was opened by Marine General Jim Lukeman, who passionately declared that the Marines are desperately in need of mental health solutions to flow from research into the field. As serendipity would have it, I then found him alone in the hall afterwards waiting for a TV interview, and had some time with him. I then passionately declared to him that we have the solution, and it’s EFT! He was very interested, and will look at the Stress Project web site as a resource for his marines. Dawson |
