Sarah Chana Radcliffe, M.Ed., C.Psych.Assoc. is a registered Psychological Associate in Ontario, Canada. Over the past 30 years, she has counseled thousands of parents, couples and individuals in her full-time private practice in Toronto, Canada. She practices Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples, Process Experiential Psychotherapy, Energy Psychology, EMDR and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for parents. She is the author of Raise Your Kids without Raising Your Voice. She conducts parenting classes, keynote lectures and workshops locally and internationally. Her articles and comments appear in numerous print and on-line journals including The New York Times, The Toronto Sun, and The National Post, She can be found on YouTube answering parenting queries and on iTunes with her own bi-weekly parenting podcast. Sarah Chana has been a guest on radio and television shows in the United States and Canada. Her web site http://www.parenting-advice.net offers education and practical advice to the international community on all aspects of parenting. She was also interviewed on Shrink Rap Radio #148 as well as on my Wise Counsel Podcast.
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I think Dr. Dave is correct that Sarah is too great a confound to overcome when measuring the validity of some of the treatment methods she utilizes. Sarah is so darn likable you start feeling better the moment she opens her mouth. Oh and until just now I didn’t realize she’s cute too, I would marry her if she were available and I have sworn off marriage. You can bring Sarah back as much as you like and I’ll be there to listen. Great show great fun!
While I appreciate hearing about different views, I think these treatments deserve a bit more of a critical eye. Has anyone even bothered testing these things in a scientific manner?
Ben I actually forgot to address this question on the interview and I’m glad you asked it! While we’re waiting for research on these healing modalities, I like to think of these interventions more the way we think of food. Let’s say someone has a headache. You offer them some tea and ask them if their headache feels any better. If they say it does, then you’ve helped them heal their pain. If they said it doesn’t, then you didn’t hurt them but you didn’t help them either. For now, the client him or herself judges the effectiveness of these new-fangled interventions (although there is research being conducted on Energy Psychology techniques). I’d trust you to know if you feel better or not. A client only has to try an Energy Psychology technique for a few minutes to see if it is effective for them and a couple of weeks, for Bach Flower treatment. They can try holosync for as little or as long as they want to (remember, it’s free for a year!). There’s no big risk. If placebo is at play, that’s fine with me because placebo can play a major role in healing serious disease.
Drugs aren’t for me. I really hope these treatments work, because I really need help with my depression.
Thank you, Dave, for what seems like your most inspiring episode ever.
Dave and Sarah, I’m giving the holosync cd’s a try. I’d be happy to give you and your listeners honest feedback about my results, if any. Wish me success, I need all the help I can get.
Thanks again for inspiring episode.
-Ken
That’s great Ken! Can you contact me through my site at http://www.parenting-advice.net (just write to me in the “ask SarahChana” box). I’d love to be in touch with you about this and I may have another suggestion for you as well.
While I found this interview very interesting, I have a hard time believing that tapping or Bach flowers could really help someone who’s in the grips of a major depression or who has a serious anxiety disorder based on long-standing internal conflicts.
If someone has internal conflicts raging within them, causing acute symptoms, how would these energy therapies help to bring these conflicts into consciousness so they can be addressed?
I’m not saying these therapies have no worth, but I’m skeptical that they can work miracles or “change genes.”
I’ve listened to two of your podcasts with Sarah–she IS exceedingly likable. I too am looking to try holosync. Sarah, can we use it at bedtime if we fall asleep to it?
Thanks Dave, you are really doing a terrific service with this podcast!
One more question, Sarah. I went looking for holosync and found all of the competitors also. Are they all the same? Would you recommend any of the others?
Thanks Sarah!
I’d like to respond first to Russ’s skeptism: the best way to learn about the power of tapping or Bach Flowers is to try them on yourself and/or your clients. Rationality and logic don’t help here - you need first hand experience! Of course, you can also talk to the many therapists who use energy psychology and see what they say about its effectiveness. None of us “believed in it” until we saw the results for ourselves.
In answer to your questions Laura, some people find they can use holosync before going to bed. Others find they just fall asleep at that time due to natural fatigue and some people complain that it opens their psyche a bit too wide and they are bothered by an overactive dream state. In fact, that was my personal experience and so I switched to getting up an hour earlier every day and that has worked really well for me and for so many others. As for the competitor products - I tried a few myself and found holosync to be the best. But more importantly, holosync does not just send out a CD and leave you to it. It is a highly responsible program that is designed to really guide a person on their evolutionary path. Centerpointe maintains a twelve hour hotline for users to provide support and guidance on their journey. Many users never have had therapy or any other deep exploratory process and they, especially, need to be able to speak to a live guide. Centerpoint also provides intensive support via letters and emails for the first six months of the program and they give you excellent explanatory resources, CD packages and all kinds of useful aids to ensure that you will move along correctly. I don\’t know of any other competitor who does anything other than provide the product itself. If you do decide to try holosync, let me know! Sarah Chana