Do fireworks spike your anxiety? 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 holidays?
I mean, what if you weren’t bracing yourself for the next sudden bang? What if you could actually go outside, or relax during New Year’s Eve, the Fourth of July, Bonfire Night, Diwali? And what if you weren’t spending weeks beforehand filled with anxiety about what you’ll be subjected to by other people celebrating? And how long it’ll take you to recuperate?
THE PROBLEM
Hi, I’m Heather of Autism Chrysalis, and here’s the thing. While fireworks can be pretty to watch, the loud and sudden sounds can be triggering. Especially when you’re Autistic or AuDHD or have sensory sensitivities.
Maybe it’s the sounds that get you. Maybe it’s the bright lights. Maybe it’s the unpredictability—not knowing when the next boom is coming. Or maybe you have painful associations or PTSD triggers wrapped up in all of it.
The usual advice? “Wear earplugs.” “Stay inside.” “Try to ignore it.” “It’s no big deal, you’re blowing it out of proportion, just enjoy yourself.” Which doesn’t actually help your nervous system deal with what’s happening. At best, that’s just… coping. Gritting your teeth through the fireworks, and feeling wrung out afterwards for days.
But there are techniques that can actually help regulate your nervous system through the stress. Are you interested?
THE WORKSHOP
That’s why I created the Tapping for Fireworks Workshop. This is a 50-minute recorded workshop, available to you right now, on demand.
In it, I’m teaching how to use tapping—also called the Emotional Freedom Technique—to deal with the stress of fireworks. It’s a way to regulate your nervous system so that fireworks might not affect you quite as strongly, and you can deal with them a little bit better, and you’ll be able to recover faster and easier.
If you haven’t tried tapping before, it’s is a scientifically sound mind-body technique. Studies show that it helps calm the nervous system and reduces fight, flight, and freeze responses, while dealing with difficult emotions, painful thoughts, sensory triggers, or even PTSD triggers.
It works by guiding you to use your own fingertips to tap gently on specific points on your body—usually the head, face, and upper torso, or on your hands as an alternative—on points that have a calming effect on the nervous system. And while you’re tapping, you’re simultaneously saying things that would be difficult under normal circumstances, like talking about the effects of fireworks, as well as affirming, self-compassionate statements.
This associates the ability to think and feel difficult things with a regulated nervous system. You start by acknowledging the discomfort and then offering yourself reassurance, while teaching the nervous system how to stay regulated throughout.
You don’t need to have any prior experience with this; I’ll walk you through the whole thing, step by step.
WHAT’S IN THE WORKSHOP?
So what will you actually get from this workshop?
**One:** You’ll learn the basics of EFT tapping and how it works to calm your nervous system—with an Autistic-friendly explanation of why it works.
**Two:** You’ll get a guided tapping session specifically designed for fireworks anxiety, tailored for the Autistic and sensory-sensitive person’s experience. We’ll tap to reduce the impact of the sounds, the lights, the unpredictability, and all that comes with it—through a trauma-sensitive lens.
**Three:** You’ll learn how to adapt tapping for your own needs. Because your triggers might be different from someone else’s.
**And four:** You’ll have a tool you can use not just for fireworks, but for other sensory overwhelm and anxiety triggers in your life.
THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
Now, I want to be honest with you.
Will this workshop completely eliminate your fireworks anxiety? 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. This one strategy isn’t going to solve all of that. That’s not realistic.
But it can make a real difference.
What I’m offering is a technique that can help regulate your nervous system through the stress. That gives you back some agency. And over time, this can be a factor in making this part of your life genuinely better.
IMPORTANT DETAILS
Here’s the details:
This is the recorded version of a live workshop I gave in December of 2024, so you get the video recording, an audio-only version, a complete transcript with slides included, the slides separately, the tapping script to refer to later, and all workshop materials.
Because it’s recorded, you have the freedom to follow along at your own pace. Rewind and rewatch as much as needed. Engage on your own schedule, as your energy allows. With no pressure to show up at a give time or participate in a live meeting. And you can use the guided tapping sequence as often as needed throughout the holiday season, or come back months later before the next fireworks holiday.
This is an inclusive, trauma-sensitive, and BS-free zone.
And while this is designed by and for Autistic and neurospicy humans, if my approach resonates with you—maybe you’re a highly sensitive person, or are sensory defensive—you’re welcome here too.
INVITATION
So, here’s my invitation.
If you’re tired of dreading fireworks, if you want a technique that can actually help regulate your nervous system instead of just white-knuckling your way through it, this workshop might be what you need.
For more info, or to sign up, go to www.AutismChrysalis.com/fireworks.
Because you deserve to have tools that work for your nervous system. And it is okay to get help with sensory overwhelm. And it is possible to make this part of your life better.
If that sounds like what you’re looking for, I’d love to share this technique with you. And if it makes things even a little better, then you’ll have it available to you, forever.
Wishing you a neurowonderful day.
Use EFT tapping to deal with the stress of fireworks. Learn how to regulate the nervous system to deal better with the noises, lights, unpredictability, 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 works by guiding you to use your own fingertips to tap gently on specific points on your body—usually the head, face, and upper torso, or on your hands as an alternative—on points that have a calming effect on the nervous system. And while you’re tapping, you’re simultaneously saying things that would be difficult under normal circumstances, like talking about the effects of fireworks, as well as affirming, self-compassionate statements.
You don’t need to have any prior experience with this; I’ll walk you through the whole thing, step by step.
What this does is it 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 teaching the nervous system how to stay regulated throughout.
Ultimately this leads to a more positive and balanced emotional state and allows us to grow our ability to deal with distress and stay functional, so that we have more capacity to 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.
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 works by guiding you to use your own fingertips to tap gently on specific points on your body—usually the head, face, and upper torso, or on your hands as an alternative—on points that have a calming effect on the nervous system. And while you’re tapping, you’re simultaneously saying things that would be difficult under normal circumstances, like talking about the effects of fireworks, as well as affirming, self-compassionate statements.
You don’t need to have any prior experience with this; I’ll walk you through the whole thing, step by step.
What this does is it 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 teaching the nervous system how to stay regulated throughout.
Ultimately this leads to a more positive and balanced emotional state and allows us to grow our ability to deal with distress and stay functional, so that we have more capacity to do something about the very real causes of distress.
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?
