The Blog of Dan

A quick update on a major change!

I didn’t expect to rebuild my life. Honestly, I didn’t expect to still  have one. The last few years dismantled me in ways I’m still finding language for. It wasn’t one crisis — it was a chain of them: selling the house, uprooting everything, caregiving around the clock, nearly losing my own life, and then losing my father. There were moments I felt like a ghost in my own story. Moments when everything familiar was stripped away. Moments when the next breath felt like the onl

I don’t talk about it much, but language has always been my first fascination. I’ve always loved language — not just the words themselves, but the way they move, the way they breathe, the way they land in the body long before the mind names them. For me, language was never just vocabulary or grammar. It was sound, rhythm, cadence… and sometimes even comfort. My first real doorway into this came through Spanish. I didn’t know it at the time — I was just a kid in junior high tr

How coming home helped me see the builders in my life—and the one in myself. I didn’t plan on writing this. It came while looking at the river one morning, remembering where I come from, and realizing something important about my family. As I took advantage of Thanksgiving to reflect on my life here and my family… something settled in me that I hadn’t named before. I come from a family of builders. Not just in the obvious ways — though, yes, the obvious ways are remarkable: h

(Or: Why Words Aren’t Always the Thing) When people hear co-dependent , they usually wrinkle their noses. It’s not exactly a...

There’s a quiet power in that word. For most of my life, “nope” was the prelude to guilt. If I said it at all, it was followed by...

(And What I Say Instead — and Why It Matters) There was a time I’d introduce myself like this: “I do EFT. You know… ‘Tapping.’” (Like...

There’s a clip of Pamela Anderson that lives rent-free in my heart. Not the younger one. Not the glossy one. Not the made-up one. The...

Letting the sun set on an old path — to make space for what’s truly mine. I recently deleted an old website I had created years ago — one...

Logosynthesis is a powerful way to release a 'huge' issue. When doing EFT sessions, a specific theme or issue is uncovered. Sometimes,...

Sometimes a client is just so elevated with intense emotion that we just need to do the soothing technique of havening, often without...

I plan on sharing the concepts of Clean Language with the EFT community. I've been using it in sessions for a few years and I always felt...

Well, being a caregiver certainly did not give me time to write a blog. It is now 6-9 months later and my caregiving duties have ended....

I've been a full-time caregiver for my dad for about 6.5 years. Tapping has been one of my most important ways to stay calm and centered,...

Worrying about a disease may not cause you to get it, but it can make you more susceptible to it. Worry, fear, anxiety, depression and...

How do I know if it's a habit or an addiction? Well, for one thing, just try to stop. You'll know. But here's the problem...in both...

What do you need writer's block for? Tap away the stress that is shutting your creativity down.

Update 1/13/2020. Still no ice cream!! Update 4/27/2025. Still no ice cream!! - just to clarify - I've had some ice cream. Sometimes I...

People may think there is absolutely no help for something like Lyme Disease. In my experience, there is plenty we can do. Jared came to...