Greetings!  

It is wonderful for us when we learn of healers using energy methods that provide hope and promise in areas where the culture is failing. It is gratifying to host an enormously successful conference with world-renowned speakers. It is also very exciting to teach in foreign countries and be asked back.

We have been privileged to enjoy all three of these pleasures. With some of the more than 400 veterans signing up for the free program we offered on Veterans Day asking for next steps, we are pleased to be able to tell them about one of our sister organizations that is really coming through.

Video clips from our IGEEM Conference are now available, so we are able to give those of you who weren't there a glimpse into what so many of you enjoyed in person. And, we are preparing to return to Ireland and the UK for another exciting teaching tour.  Learn more about all this and more in this issue.

As Thanksgiving 2014 approaches, we are filled with gratitude for our lives and for the opportunity to at least believe we are making a difference. We wish each and every one of you a wonderful holiday.

Love,

Donna and David

Therapists Who Aren't Waiting for the Government to Help Veterans with PTSD

 

More than 400 veterans or their family members responded to our Veterans Day offer to download for free our 4-hour Energy Psychology video training program. The appreciative comments we have received were poignant and gratifying.

 

Warfare leaves psychic scars on everyone involved -- soldiers, their families, entire civilian populations. We are deeply committed to making the most powerful therapies in existence widely available. The fact that therapies that understand the energetic dimension of trauma are proving to be among the most effective is gratifying, but it also places a greater sense of responsibility on us. Having been repeatedly rebuffed, we are hopeful that the new administration in the V.A. will prove more open.

 

A group that has not waited for institutional support is the Veteran's Stress Project. They have rolled up their sleeves, gotten 300 therapists or life coaches who are trained in Energy Psychology (generally EFT) to join their efforts, and they have provided free or low-cost Energy Psychology treatments to more than 7,000 veterans. 

 

The Veteran's Stress Project:stressproject.org

While they cannot guarantee that every veteran who participates in their program will be helped, the most promising research on treating PTSD is based on tracking a sample of their participants. Of those, 86% went from above the PTSD cutoff on the military version of a standardized symptom inventory to below the cutoff after just six sessions. 

 

If you know a veteran who is struggling with PTSD, you might suggest that he or she watch the 10-minute video clip at EnergyPsychEd.com, which shows excerpts from the successful treatment undergone by four military veterans. If they want to learn more about the approach being demonstrated, the Veteran's Stress Project is a potent resource.

Donna, David, and Innersource staff members at IGEEM 2014

The International Gathering of Eden Energy Medicine (IGEEM) in San Diego this past September was by all measures a wonderful and even amazing happening. Each of our keynote speakers -- Jack Canfield, Jean Houston, Larry Dossey, Kulreet Chaudhary, and Seane Corn -- received a rousing, standing ovation. The 42 breakout sessions were, for the most part, given over-the-top evaluations, and the spirit of the event was inspiring, uplifting, and palpable.

An interesting side note was that most of the keynote speakers told us that they loved the way we introduced them, with two of them saying it was the best introduction they had ever received. For the fun of it, we are posting these five introductions. Introducing keynoters to a conference is always an interesting challenge for the organizers, and it gave Donna and David golden opportunities to tell the community why these are some of our favorite people. You can view the introductions by clicking here.

IGEEM also provided the occasion for the launch of Donna and David's new book, The Energies of Love. Several people who attended their two-hour introduction to basic concepts and techniques in the book said it was their favorite D & D presentation ever. We recently learned, by the way, that the book made it onto The New York Times "Relationships" best seller list.

We are sharing two three-minute segments from the IGEEM Energies of Love evening. In one, Donna talks about the early struggles in their relationship. It might be titled, "Thank God I didn't leave him when I should have." Click here to watch. In another segment, David ponders, "What was Jean Houston thinking when she called ours 'one of the most important books of our time'?" Click here to view David's comments. 

David opened IGEEM with a "state of the union" talk, first asking the audience to consider whether Eden Energy Medicine is an organization or a movement. After discussing the ways it is both, he provided a brief history of EEM's origins and proposed that "subtle energies" are the missing piece in the paradigm used by conventional medicine. He closed by describing three steps that he and Donna believe could cut health care costs in the U.S. down to one-quarter of what they are without fundamentally changing the system, which of course also needs transformation. We've excerpted some of his main points into this 15-minute video clip (click here).

David and Donna presenting in San Diego at IGEEM 2014

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