Overview
In this episode, I sit down with Maria Yakimchuk, a certified transformational EFT coach and practicing therapist who specializes in helping mothers heal childhood trauma, break dysfunctional family patterns, and move through the shame, guilt, rage, and depression that so often surface in the postpartum period. Maria’s story is one of the most honest accounts of postpartum depression, birth trauma, and maternal rage on the show, and her experience discovering EFT tapping after six years of struggling through two pregnancies and two very different postpartum experiences is both compelling and deeply practical.
You’ll Learn
- What EFT or tapping actually is, how it works by sending electromagnetic charges through acupressure points directly on the nervous system to shift from sympathetic fight-or-flight into parasympathetic rest and digest, and why it can be applied to anyone from infants to the elderly and even animals
- Why depression and anxiety are never the root cause of anything but are symptoms of underlying trauma, nervous system dysregulation, or even generational patterns passed down epigenetically through DNA methylation
- How birth, even a positive birth, is always a trauma to the nervous system that activates unresolved material from earlier in life, and why postpartum depression, anxiety, OCD, PTSD, and explosive anger in mothers are often expressions of that activation rather than standalone conditions
- Maria’s personal experience of prenatal depression that went undiagnosed for six years across two pregnancies and two very different postpartum periods, including the shock C-section, the bonding failure from heavy anesthesia, the breastfeeding anxiety, the development of PMDD, the shift from episodic to chronic migraines, and how EFT resolved all of it including her PMDD within a year
- Why supplements and functional medicine interventions often do not produce results until the nervous system has been sufficiently regulated first, and how Maria found that EFT made all of her other interventions suddenly start working
- How shame underlies most human suffering in a way that guilt does not, why being told to be ashamed of yourself in childhood creates the foundation for later self-sabotage, immobilization, and rage spirals, and how tapping sessions can clear decades of this within a single hour of tears and words
- Why EFT is not supported by Wikipedia or WebMD primarily because there is little financial incentive to fund the research needed to prove it rather than because it doesn’t work, and how it compares to functional medicine in terms of how the mainstream views emerging healing modalities
- A simple starting point anyone can try at home including tapping the karate chop point on the fleshy side of the hand while simply saying the name of what you are feeling, and why the absence of an immediate response is not a sign it isn’t working but a sign of how disconnected the body has become
Resources
Connect with Maria Yakimchuk:
Website- / parentonboardcoaching
Radical Self Care for Moms Course- https://mariayakimchuk.podia.com/radi…
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