Testimonials

“Dear Paula,
A miracle occurred this morning! I was nervous, but when I sang my solo I did NOT get the racing heart which destroys the breathing! It was an awesome miracle! And I had the song memorized, and was able to actually look around the sanctuary at people! … I am in awe… I am still amazed. I can’t tell you the last time I have sung when my heart did not race out of control. I actually felt a freedom when I sang – to actually sing – to get into the song – to become one with the music. Thank you so much Paula!…

I have had five EFT sessions with you, Paula, and I must say that when I first started back in the spring of this year, I was skeptical. I have had performance anxiety, and hence trouble with breath support, my entire singing life and the idea that some emotional freedom therapy might help me sounded a bit crazy. But at the advice of a friend, I tried it, and I can’t say enough about how much I have been helped.

After two sessions with you, I was scheduled to perform a vocal solo. I was still nervous the morning of my gig, but the techniques I applied that morning, and up to the moment I started singing, really worked! I actually had breath control!!! I was able to look at the audience and remember the song I had memorized! I was able to connect, which is meaningful to me and, I believe, to the audience.
EFT hasn’t just been about solving my stage fright, but as it turns out, I believe stage fright is just the symptom of deeper issues. I feel you have helped me get to those deeper issues of insecurity, believing I’m less than and issues from childhood and adolescence that end up becoming the platform upon which we build our self identity. I think EFT has enabled me to connect with, and release over time, the issues and feelings associated with past experiences that somehow get entwined in our “emotional DNA”.
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I am so grateful that you are on this journey with me, not controlling it, but professionally and compassionately assisting while I get in touch with and am able to release pent up emotions and feelings. For those of you out there seeking relief on any stage fright and/or emotional issues, please try this technique. It really works!!”

Liz Barefoot

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“My entire life I have always been a shy and anxious person…When I started taking piano lessons from Paula Bobb when I was nine years old I would cry in almost every lesson and my mom had to come in with me. New situations were that nerve-wracking to me. I would get horrible butterflies from fear before every lesson… and I refused to do a recital…

So Mrs. Bobb and I went to work with EFT. I would cry,tap, and talk about my fears, then cry and tap some more. I began to feel calmer and that I could actually do this…When the recital came around I remember sitting and feeling my heart beat so furiously that I could feel it on the back of my seat. But I kept tapping like I’d been taught. When I went up for my turn though nervous,I felt a strange calm wash over me. My hands shook but I played and made it through the whole piece. I was so happy afterwards that it barely mattered that I had made mistakes. I never would’ve been able to do that without her help and the EFT…”
Rebecca Mugnolo

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“In music school, I developed debilitating stage fright borne of intense self-doubt as to my pianistic abilities. My fear wasn’t limited to the idea that something terrible might happen during a performance. Rather, I felt certain that the inadequacies of my playing would be glaringly revealed such that I would be thought a fool for presuming to perform at all.
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In order to remedy my weaknesses as a pianist and musician and become the confident performer I’d like to be, I began studying with Paula. From the start, my lessons were productive and fulfilling. I was learning to attend to the sound, to employ varying types of touch, to produce a more beautiful tone, to sustain long phrases, to be more expressive.
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Arriving at each lesson, however, I would find myself enveloped–involuntarily and seemingly unavoidably–in a feeling of dread accompanied by a physical sensation akin to that which, I imagine, would be produced by an internal straight-jacket. Some combination of my perseverance and Paula’s patience, kindness, and consummate skill would get me past this state into one in which I could receive her guidance and direction, and I would leave my lesson hopeful and euphoric, only to return the following week again accompanied by my companions dread and constriction.
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Then one day at the start of my lesson, Paula asked me how I was feeling. “Full of dread, as usual,” I said. “Would you like to try tapping?,” she asked. “YES!” And so for my whole lesson, we tapped. I spoke about a time when I was 10 and my 5th-grade teacher shamed and humiliated me in front of the whole class because I couldn’t play a particular song by ear. Paula guided me, intuitively suggesting words and sentences for me to say, directing me to tap various points on my face, head, and body in sequence, and periodically checking in with me to see how I was feeling. At one point, I said I felt better but with some residue. So we went further. And then the magic happened! There was no more negative emotion associated with that experience.
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As I told Paula, I had been aware of EFT prior to this and had even tried it on my own in connection with another problem, following directions contained on a website and in a book. Despite my efforts, however, I experienced no noticeable change. The contrast between my previous experience and the success of the EFT application with Paula made me wonder if perhaps, like so many other things, EFT is more effective when used with a skilled and experienced practitioner, particularly a practitioner like Paula who employs EFT with ease and confidence.
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In the days following that lesson with Paula, I felt lighter, freer. In a rehearsal with others, I felt solid, grounded, confident. In my practicing, my thinking was more lively. And at the beginning of my next lesson, the following week, I felt no dread or constriction. My playing was, dare I say it, more musical!”   Helvi McClelland

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I came to the first (group EFT) class hoping to find a way to be a more confident performer, to get rid of the nervousness that has hindered my playing. After only 4 group sessions, I was able to relax more and was able to perform a piece for the class with confidence. I was surprised that the tapping could give such fast results!
Neil

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I signed up (group EFT) because of my difficulty in playing in front of people. In previous performances, I couldn’t calm my nervous system down and I couldn’t stop the negative self talk while I was playing. My work with you went more directly to the louder issues in my life, and that was very helpful. It helped me release some deep seated pain that I had not yet given voice to. I get how the anxiety stems from a deeper source, and in me from perfectionism and from parental issues. At the final class, I actually enjoyed sitting down and playing that magnificent piano!
Margery PG

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I am writing to express how grateful I am for the EFT session I had with you a few months ago. My life has changed in profound ways because of it… Now, I am enjoying playing the piano
for the first time in my life!   Thea

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Before I worked with Paula, I felt anxious most of the time. I was feeling stuck with where I was going with piano and how slowly my hands were healing after years of repetitive motion work caught up with me.  I felt weighed down, as if I was just slogging along. I wanted to be lighter, be happier and get back to enjoying playing the piano.

I was no stranger to EFT but didn’t realize just how powerful it could be.  Paula created a supportive partnership with me so that I felt safe, even when a benign memory turned out to be quite charged.   And at the end of every session, she made sure I was in a good place to go about whatever was next.  As a result of our sessions, I am much calmer!  I feel lighter.  When something comes up that would have made me anxious before, now mindfulness and curiosity kick in.  I am still surprised at how much negative energy I carried about seemingly benign events in the past. Being able to release that energy has helped me feel freer to explore new ideas including that change doesn’t have to be hard.

Beverly

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Dear Paula,
Thank you again for today’s session. I was really surprised by just how much it helped. As you know, I was a bit of a skeptic beforehand, and I’ve never responded at all to things like hypnosis, so I was really unsure as to whether EFT was going to work for me – but it really did.

It was a very different experience from what I expected, too – much more complex, kind of exploratory, gradually addressing each issue as it came up, and gradually uncovering things I didn’t even know were there, till we got to the root of it. And when we did, it was amazing how the emotions that had been causing me problems just seemed to melt away. I felt a great sense of release.

I still feel very relaxed now, which is a very rare thing for me!

And I want to thank you not just for what you did, but how you did it: relaxed, down to earth, and with a great sense of humor that really helped me feel safe and relaxed. You always heard exactly what I was saying, and you have a real gift for spotting the heart of the matter.

Many thanks,
Kate

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To say that Paula has helped me would not even begin to describe the scope of our work together. In a very short time, issues that I had been carrying for years that were getting in the way of my happiness, success, and well-being were transformed. I had no idea that anything could work so fast. Paula is truly a gifted healer and a master at EFT. Just a few sessions with Paula did more for me than years of therapy. Cathy Wilke, www.freedomandfulfillment.net

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Hi Paula,
Thank you again for the amazing EFT session. A lot has changed since that day, if you can believe it. I began our session numb to any other emotion besides anger. I struggled to feel peace, and was saddened by the constant rage I felt within my heart. Our session together facilitated an immediate release of this anger and allowed me to cultivate feelings of safety and comfort that had previously eluded me. You intuitively guided me through this process, allowing me to address the root cause of this anger. I am now able to feel peace. Thank you for this gift.

Nanette Nuvolone

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The way I felt during and after the EFT session that evening was a mixture of calmness, of being centered, and of feeling whole and utterly okay. I was also so relaxed and tired that I felt like a limp noodle. I attribute the last feeling to letting go of the anxiety that is so often with me and the obscene drain on my energy that the anxiety causes. The sudden absence of this anxiety left me limp, but I slept extremely well that night and woke up refreshed and energized the next morning. I can only imagine the power of EFT sessions over an extended period long enough for beliefs held over a lifetime to change the neural pathways to new, positive, and life-affirming thoughts, beliefs, and actions. Paula’s session was nothing short of amazing. Thank you for this gift, Paula.

–Jeanne

As an EFT practitioner for many years I was not expecting electric results after one session with Paula. What a surprise. The issue I had dealing with a monopolize-every-moment brother-in-law became a non-issue the very next day even though we were car-bound on the way to a funeral for hours and hours. I am so grateful. Paula’s remarkable intuition guides the session, and I believe that is made easy by the way she engenders trust right from the start. I felt completely at ease going wherever she suggested, and by the end of the session I found myself in new emotional clothing. Ask my wife about the results! SHE was thrilled too.

Dave Bryant, PhD, CHt, EFT-ADV

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Being taken through the EFT with Paula was very interesting – I’m familiar with the technique having watched some videos about it, and I have experimented a little myself, but I’ve never found I got a great deal from it. So I was interested to be on the receiving end of a session with an expert… And expert Paula proved to be.

What I found interesting was how she seemed to intuitively ‘tune in’ to what I was experiencing and thinking with regard to my pessimism. I gave a description of it before the session, but Paula seemed able to find a selection of words and phrases that fitted with the experience I was having. That gave the experience a vividness that was quite striking, and I certainly found that the strong feeling I started with dissipated, and changed form, very effectively.

James Thirtle, BSc, DCH, www.insightclinicalhypnosis.com

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“I wanted to let you know I’m taking some great leaps…I’m sure the tapping helped release a lot of my fears of success and now I’m really jamming along. So thank you for your help and I look forward to more success along the way!”
Jennifer