| Sara was really tired. I could hear it in her voice. She | | | | Sara's sister. She was worried that her sister, who she |
| the last couple of weeks really tuckered her out. She | | | | said was irrational, was going to freak out while taking |
| had taken a 12 hour train ride to visit her mother and | | | | care of her mother. |
| sister for a week. On her return trip, the train was an | | | | I asked Sara to give a number to the intensity level of |
| hour late, and arrived after midnight. Her son picked her | | | | her worrying about her mother's care. When she said |
| up. he was excited to see her and talked until 2:30 am, | | | | it was 9.5, I knew that worrying was taking a lot of |
| which was well past her bedtime. Then, her three | | | | Sara's energy, and could very well be making her tired. |
| month old grandson woke her up at 5 am. When she | | | | We did a few rounds focusing on how much she was |
| returned home, a five hour drive, she had classes to | | | | worrying about her mother, which brought her SUD |
| teach and presentations to make. Sara felt as though | | | | level to a 2, and couple more rounds brought it to a |
| she didn't have enough time to do everything that | | | | zero. As a consequence, her tiredness went from a |
| needed to be done, and that she was working her | | | | 5.5 to a 2 and then to zero. |
| fingers to the bone. | | | | Sara really liked the idea that she could put her worry |
| We did several rounds of EFT on how tired Sara was, | | | | on a shelf, and could still get to it anytime that she |
| and her intensity level only went from a 7 to a 5.5. My | | | | wanted it. After doing our EFT session she said that |
| intuition told me to ask more about her visit to her | | | | she still felt tired, but that it was a normal, healthy, tired |
| invalid mother, and I found that underneath her | | | | feeling and that she had let go of her weariness. |
| tiredness was worry. Sara was deeply concerned | | | | I saw Sara the next day, and she looked refreshed... |
| about the care that her mother was getting from | | | | |