Use EFT tapping to deal with the stress of fireworks. Learn how to regulate the nervous system to deal better with the noises and lights and all that comes with it.
Designed by and for Autistic, AuDHD, and other neurodivergent humans, through a trauma-sensitive lens.
This is the recorded version of the live workshop in December of 2024. So it’s available to you now. This on-demand version includes the video recording, audio-only recording, full transcript with slides included, slides, and all workshop materials.
There are several holidays associated with fireworks, and while they can be pretty to watch, the loud and sudden sounds can be triggering for some people. And other people have difficulties with the bright lights, or other sensory issues, painful associations, or PTSD triggers.
This short workshop offers a way to deal with the fireworks by regulating your nervous system so that they either might not affect you quite as strongly, and/or you can deal
with them a little bit better, and/or be able to recover a little bit faster or easier.
The presenter is trauma informed and AuDHD, and specifically addresses the issues common to Autistics/AuDHD’s and other neurodivergent humans with sensory sensitivities that are different from the perceived norm.
In this 50 minute workshop, you’ll get:
This is the recorded version of the live workshop in December of 2024. So it’s available to you now. This on-demand version includes the video recording, audio-only recording, full transcript with slides included, slides, and all workshop materials.
Tapping (or EFT-Emotional Freedom Technique) is a scientifically sound mind-body technique. There have been a lot of studies done on tapping that shows it helps calm the nervous system and reduces the fight, flight, freeze, and fawn responses, while dealing with difficult emotions or negative, painful, or distressing thoughts, sensory triggers, or even PTSD triggers.
It does that by tapping on specific points on the body that have a calming effect on the
nervous system, while you’re simultaneously saying or thinking of things that would be difficult to think or feel under normal circumstances, and integrating into that affirming, self-compassionate statements.
That associates the ability to think and feel difficult things with a regulated nervous system. This process starts with acknowledging the discomfort and then offering yourself reassurance, while helping the nervous system stay regulated throughout, ultimately leading to a more positive and balanced emotional state and allowing us to grow our ability to deal with distress and stay functional, so that we can do something about the very real causes of distress.
I want to be realistic, so the honest answer is no. And I wouldn’t trust any short workshop that makes that promise.
There’s probably a long history of pain and stress and anxiety that has built up, and possibly some PTSD, that are all interrelated and reinforcing each other.
This one strategy isn’t going to solve all of that. But it can make a start. Or add on to what you’re already doing.
I’d like to offer a technique that can help regulate your nervous system through the stress, rather than gritting and bearing your teeth and complaining about the world, when fireworks are going on, and in the weeks leading up to it.
This gives you back some agency in being able to help yourself through a difficult situation, and over time can be a factor in making this part of your life genuinely better.
Is this the right time for you to get a handle on fireworks?
This is the recorded version of the live workshop in December of 2024. So it’s available to you now.
This gives you the freedom to:
• Follow along at your own pace.
• Rewind and re-watch as much as needed.
• Pause to take notes.
• Engage on your own schedule, as your energy allows.
• Not feel pressured to participate in a live meeting.
• Not need to take it all in at once, avoiding overwhelm.
• Reduce demand avoidance of learning on someone else’s schedule.
• Come back months later for a refresher.
This is the recorded version of the live workshop in December of 2024. So it’s available to you now.
This gives you the freedom to:
• Follow along at your own pace.
• Rewind and re-watch as much as needed.
• Pause to take notes.
• Engage on your own schedule, as your energy allows.
• Not feel pressured to participate in a live meeting.
• Not need to take it all in at once, avoiding overwhelm.
• Reduce demand avoidance of learning on someone else’s schedule.
• Come back months later for a refresher.
There are a variety of accommodations built into the course for various learning styles:
This is an inclusive, trauma-sensitive, and BS-free zone.*
ALL are welcome, including cis, trans, nonbinary, a-gender, gender expansive, and other LGBTQIA+ humans.
The language used throughout the course is intentionally gender inclusive.
*The presenter is trauma-informed and trauma-sensitive, but you are the best judge of what you can handle at the moment. Please take care of yourself.
You will have access for at least a full year (and longer if I renew my subscription to the course platform, which is likely).
I don’t want to promise “lifetime access”—(Whose lifetime, yours or mine? Or the lifetime of the website? All of which could be misleading.)—which is why I’m intentionally cautious about promising too much, but it is my intention to keep this available for the foreseeable future.
I want to be realistic, so the honest answer is no. And I wouldn’t trust any short workshop that makes that promise.
There’s probably a long history of pain and stress and anxiety that has built up, and possibly some PTSD, that are all interrelated and reinforcing each other.
This one strategy isn’t going to solve all of that. But it can make a start. Or add on to what you’re already doing.
I’d like to offer a technique that can help regulate your nervous system through the stress, rather than gritting and bearing your teeth and complaining about the world, when fireworks are going on, and in the weeks leading up to it.
This gives you back some agency in being able to help yourself through a difficult situation, and over time can be a factor in making this part of your life genuinely better.
Yes!
The framework and techniques I present aren’t exclusive to Autistic and neurodivergent brains, so if my approach resonates with you, and you’re fine spending time with Autistic adults, feel free to sign up, even if you’re not Autistic (or aren’t sure).
For example, this may also be a good fit for HSPs.
What could you do if the dread of fireworks didn’t get in the way of life for days or weeks leading up to the holiday itself?
