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In today’s interview, Dani talks with EFT practitioner, and drug and alcohol counselor Mikki Proffit. Mikki shares candidly about how her own adverse childhood experiences have lead her to an incredible niche profession. 

Through Mikki’s in-depth knowledge around trauma and the way’s in which trauma stores in the body, she has found a way to help people heal and return to themselves by using her innate gifts of connecting the mind and body through EFT, personal training, and drug and alcohol counseling.

This is a loaded episode with so many helpful tools and nuggets for you to take away and is perfect for anyone struggling with addiction, knows someone who is struggling, or for anyone looking to gain greater empathy. Mikki has a profound way of reminding us all that our mess is indeed our message and it must be shared with the world.Without further ado, let’s move onto the show!

Show Quote: “Trauma is really the gateway drug to all other drugs, and trauma wins ever time”

We also discussed: 

• Being the oldest of three sisters 
• Growing up in a home of tremendous dysfunction + lack of affection 
• How Mikki found empowerment through running 
• Growing up in an alcoholic home 
• Being an adult child of an alcoholic 
• How she traveled to Africa with 5 high school girls who were struggling with addiction
• EFT tapping + trauma 
• Physiological stress responses 
• How EFT can recalibrate the brain by slowing it down 
• How we store all of our traumatic experiences within our subconscious 
• How our stories can become addictive 
• The expansion + contraction of the healing process 
• Working with families in recovery Addiction as a family disease 
• Mikki’s estranged relationship with her daughter who struggles with addiction 
• Intergenerational healing + intergenerational EFT 
• Mikki reconnecting with her guitar after a 9 year sabbatical 
• Using music as prayer 
• Where “disease” comes from 
• How to gain more empathy for the addicts in your life in a way that is not enabling or unhealthy How boundaries are self-love

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