My Story ...
I live in Onerahi, on the harbour in Whangarei … a beautiful spot within 15-30 minutes to bush, hiking tracks and coastline, in the North of New Zealand. I have enjoyed over 30 years teaching in primary schools, in mainstream and in special education. Along the way, I developed a strong belief in the need to help children and young people to value themselves and each other, to discov
er and accept their own way of being, continually growing towards their highest potential, with confidence and resilience. In 2012, I found a way to recover from 14 years of chronic stress, fatigue and illness, with visualisation and self-coaching. This led me to explore other techniques and I eventually discovered EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques), an Energy Psychology therapy, otherwise known as Tapping or EFT Tapping. I was drawn to the way EFT teaches us to accept, understand and process feelings and thoughts, something I had not experienced growing up. EFT helped me to start developing emotional wellbeing and learn to be myself, with more self-acceptance, confidence and resilience. I am now entering my retirement years, and so apart from the clients I’m currently working with, I’m no longer seeing clients for personal sessions or courses. I am in the process of writing a comprehensive manual to teach adults and children to use EFT to manage stress, and grow self-worth, confidence and resilience. My hope is that my manual will help people to develop the freedom to be themselves, to grow towards their highest potential, and to welcome positive change in any area of their lives. Part of this process involves deciding what content will be in the manual and what will be on Facebook and on my website, www.robynshepherd.co.nz
I will have my manual available to purchase in the next few months. It will include links to my two children’s songs and several videos to demonstrate the use of EFT Tapping. I thank you for your patience while I reconstruct my website and my page, and write my manual.
