13: Healing Your Fertility with EFT Tapping: Calm Your Nervous System + Release Stress

Oct 7, 2025

Discover the transformative power of EFT, or Emotional Freedom Technique, often described as emotional acupuncture. Learn how tapping can calm your nervous system, reducing cortisol levels that hinder conception. Abby shares her personal journey with EFT, from initial skepticism to life-changing results. Listen as she provides practical tips for tackling fertility anxiety, sleep issues, and even chronic pain. Plus, find out how to measure your progress and adapt strategies for anxiety relief and emotional healing.

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INSIGHT

Nervous System Is The Fertility Gatekeeper

Tapping sends calm signals to the amygdala, lowering cortisol and shifting you into parasympathetic mode.
That nervous-system shift supports ovulation, cycle regularity, sleep, digestion, and fertility outcomes.

ANECDOTE

Personal Breakthrough With EFT

Abby discovered EFT in 2014 during a highly anxious season and tried it despite skepticism.
Halfway through her first session she felt her jaw unclench and slept better that night.

ANECDOTE

EFT Reduced Flight Anxiety

Abby used EFT before a long-haul flight and noticed cognitive fear without the usual bodily cortisol response.
The technique gave her a weird calm where the fear remained conceptually but the body's reaction was muted.

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Healing Your Fertility with EFT Tapping: Calm Your Nervous System + Release Stress

Hey beauty 💛

Today we’re diving into one of my ride-or-die tools for calm, clarity, and fertility flow: EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) — a.k.a. emotional acupuncture. It looks a little woo, feels a little weird at first… and it works. This is the tool that helped me through anxious seasons, postpartum chaos, and those fun moments when Jack’s melting down and I'm just in crazy overwhelm. If your nervous system has been living in Stress City, this one’s for you.

And here’s why this convo matters for you. If your body doesn’t feel safe, it won’t prioritise conception. Nervous system regulation is the foundation that makes your nutrition, supplements, cycle tracking, and even IVF actually land. EFT is one of the fastest ways I know to send your body the “you’re safe now” signal.

Inside this ep, we cover:

What EFT actually is and why I call it “emotional acupuncture”
The tapping points and a simple step-by-step so you can start today
How to use EFT for fertility anxiety, IVF stress, fear of miscarriage, cravings, pain and sleep
The before-and-after check-in that shows your progress in real time
Client stories, my first experience with tapping, and why I still work with an EFT practitioner for deeper layers

✨ Why this matters for fertility

When your nervous system is stuck in fight or flight, cortisol steals from your sex hormones and your body hits pause on reproduction. EFT calms the amygdala, lowers cortisol, and helps you shift into rest-digest-reproduce mode. Translation: better ovulation, steadier cycles, deeper sleep, happier digestion… and a body that feels safe to conceive.

Resources mentioned:

💛 Free Emotional Acupuncture Quick-Start Guide — tapping points, sample script, and my go-to phrases
https://abiwilde.myflodesk.com/eft

My resources + ways to connect:

🌿 Ultimate Preconception Checklist
👉 https://abiwilde.myflodesk.com/preconception-checklist
🤖 10 AI Tools to Support Your Hormones, Cycle & Sanity
👉 https://abiwilde.myflodesk.com/ftgqt3aylm
📲 Instagram: @abi.wilde
👉 https://www.instagram.com/abi.wilde

💛 If this episode gave you a little exhale, hit follow, leave a cheeky review, and pass it to a bestie who’s ready to regulate, soften, and call in her baby.

✨ Want to go deeper, mama? Slide into my DMs and we’ll line up a personalised EFT session that fits your schedule.

If you’re craving extra support, my Link in Bio is packed with goodies like my free Ultimate Preconception Checklist and 10 AI Tools to Support Your Hormones, Cycle & Sanity. You can even snag a free 30-minute call with me if you want to talk through your fertility journey and what’s next.

And if you want more, come hang out with me on the ‘Gram @abi.wilde — it’s where I share lots of free tips, tools, and fertility vibes to achieve whole-body healing.

Until next time, mama x