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How do you know that you’ve stumbled upon a revolutionary healing tool? When you can actually
reframe the loss of your first child as a blessing in disguise. Let me explain.

Thirteen years ago my husband and I had a stillborn baby girl after a very spiritually centered
pregnancy. The autopsy revealed no abnormalities and the cause was unknown. I sank into despair
when 6 months later I was diagnosed with Hasimoto’s Thyroiditis which is an autoimmune disease
essentially causing the thyroid to attack itself.

I tried every alternative method I could find including homeopathy, Chinese herbs and
acupuncture, iridology, nutritional supplements, macrobiotic diet, Ayurvedic medicine, etc. to heal
the condition. I desperately wanted to discontinue the synthetic hormone therapy that is the
standard protocol in this country. Nothing worked. My endocrinologist would always respond with
the same statement when asked about a cure, “Accept the fact that you will most likely have to take
this pill for the rest of your life.”

Years later, after giving birth to two beautiful healthy children, I became a postpartum doula. I
participated in several grief counseling training sessions where I “processed” the death of my first
baby in great depth. The comment I heard most often when I’d tell my story was, “You really seem
to have moved past this unfortunate loss”; I didn’t have any obviously lingering emotional
attachment to the event. I felt on many levels that this was quite true.

During a time of immense personal growth and asking for guidance from God, I found EFT.
Immediately recognizing that my loss was somehow trapped in my thyroid I felt in my bones that
this would be the modality to remove it. I began by tapping on all the negative feelings I had
around the death including some biggies like God abandoning me. I also discovered some guilt I had
as I ignored my intuition that things weren’t going right with the baby 2 days before her death even
though I had just been to a reassuring prenatal visit at the ob/gyn.

I went on to work on the thyroid itself with affirmations like “my thyroid is producing all the T-1, T-
2, T-3, T-4 it needs for prefect balance.” I diligently tapped on any of the tailenders such as the
doctors telling me that this condition is incurable. I also made sure to check for any symptoms of
hypothyroidism and tapped on those when they came up. One secondary benefit I found to be true
for me (but I suspect is around with most women with hypothyroidism) is that it's a great excuse for
being overweight.

I know that one of the criticisms of EFT is that it’s all about belief. Well I’m here to tell you that
after months of seeing my clients walk thru my EFT practice symptom-free after one or two sessions,
I couldn’t quite believe that this was really working on my own issue until I actually made myself
sick!

First came insomnia, then tinnitus, and finally the feeling of being on speed or too much caffeine. It
took me a few days to recognize something that had never happened to me. By continuing to take
the drugs I had made myself temporarily hyperthyroid. A quick visit to my very open-minded nurse
practitioner and she immediately started weaning my body off the drugs. I tell this story to my
clients as a cautionary tale on the importance of working closely with their doctors when tapping for
physical ailments. I have been medication free for 5 years.

I recognize now that I was destined to work within the birth community to change the status quo.
The U.S. has the highest incident of postpartum depression and I can’t tell you how discouraging
the numbers are for complete relief using traditional therapies. Every pregnant woman I have
helped with EFT in my practice has had great results on everything from breech presentations to
premature labor. My ultimate goal is to train midwives, doulas, labor/delivery hospital staff,
lactation consultants, and childbirth educators in EFT. I believe in the pioneering work of Dr.
Grantly Read who concluded that childbirth without fear will almost always bring about painless
labors.

My little angel set me on this karmic journey 16 years ago and gave me showered me with gifts that I
am still awakening to.

Alina Frank