Scott DeLuzio 00:00:00 Thanks for tuning into a Drive On Podcast where we’re focused on giving hope and strength to the entire military community, whether you’re a veteran active duty guard reserve or family member, this podcast we’ll share inspirational stories and resources that are useful to you. I’m your host, Scott DeLuzio. And now let’s get on with the show. Everybody will come back to the Drive On Podcast. Today, my guest is Lauren Fonvielle. Lauren is a military spouse and specializes in helping others alleviate their stress, anxiety, and trauma through a technique called emotional freedom technique. Welcome to the show, Lauren.
Lauren Fonvielle 00:00:41 I’m so excited to be here and talk with you.
Scott DeLuzio 00:00:43 Yeah, absolutely. So why don’t you tell us a little bit about yourself and a little bit about what you do?
Lauren Fonvielle 00:00:49 Sure. Yeah. So, like you said, I am a military spouse and I specialize in EFT. It’s also referred to as tapping. I have used it personally in my journey with anxiety and stress and it has been so helpful to me that I felt called to go on to get trained, to share it with others. And particularly sharing it with military folk is important to me as I am a Navy wife. And I know how stressful it can be. And I was actually introduced to EFT shortly before my, my husband’s most recent deployment. And, I am credited with helping me get through that tough time.
Scott DeLuzio 00:01:37 That’s really cool. I’m glad that, first of all, glad that you found this technique for yourself to kind of make the process a little bit easier for you and kind of alleviate your own anxiety. But could you tell us how you got into doing this and, and how you found out about it and, how you, how you discovered it kind of everything that was going on then?
Lauren Fonvielle 00:02:02 Yeah, so we found out that my husband was going to have to deploy. He’s in the reserves now. So it came as a little bit of a surprise. I wasn’t anticipating it. So it kind of came out of nowhere and the anxiety really set in because at the time I had two young kids and just the brain started circling and all the thoughts started going. And so for me, when I start to feel really anxious and overwhelmed, I typically will find myself in a yoga class and that’s exactly what happened. So I was in this yoga class and I happened to see a poster, a flyer for yoga teacher training. And that was my first step on this journey as I signed up for yoga teacher training. I don’t know what happened that day, but it was like calling this push that I had to do this.
Lauren Fonvielle 00:02:53 And it started the weekend after my husband left for deployment. I didn’t know how I was logistically going to make it happen, being that my family was far away, but I knew that I had to do it. So I signed up and through that process of being in the yoga studio and around other like-minded people that are talking about energy work, I was introduced to EFT. And, for those of you that are not familiar with what EFT is, it stands for emotional freedom technique and it really does help you do just that it helps you find freedom from your emotions. And when I describe it, I often talk about it like, or compare it to acupuncture because people are more familiar with acupuncture. So if you go to an acupuncturist and I’m going to take those little needles and they’re going to put them in at certain points around your body and with tapping, instead of putting little needle...
