Hey, it's Antrice and welcome to another episode of The Savvy Painter Podcast.

Savvy Painter is the podcast for artists who want practical tactical tips to create a meaningful

art practice that is both fulfilling and supports you. Today I'm talking with Melanie Faye, a tapping

coach and artist who's been using EFT for over 15 years.

We're diving into what tapping actually is, how it works, and why it might be exactly what you

need if your own mind keeps working against you in your studio. Melanie's also my coach,

so this conversation gets pretty real about the internal blocks that

keep us from making the work we want to make and what we can actually do about it. Let's jump in.

Well, firstly, thank you so much for having me. I so appreciate getting to be here and talking

to your audience. So I'm Melanie

Faye, the tapping coach, and that's what we're going to be talking about today, this thing called

EFT tapping. But the reason I became a coach is and now offer this and teach people how to

tap and work with people with tapping is because of how much it

personally helped me. So I'm a tapping coach now. I'm a taper. I'm sort of, I like to say,

strangely obsessed with tapping because I am. But I'm also, I'm also an artist. And it's sort of

my foundation in being an artist, becoming an artist,

consistently nurturing my creative self that helped me come into contact with why I needed

something like tapping because for me that the journey of creative expression and allowing myself to do things like go to art school and paint and paint in different ways and show my work and do it even when no one was watching or caring, all of that butted me right up against with my shame, my sense of

worthlessness, my insecurity, my, my, my abandonment floating in existential space feelings.

And so the journey of the lot, I didn't realize I cared so much about art until I was 18,

but once I figured it were sort of an APR, so I was like 17, 18.

And so once I realized that it really, I really became aware of my insecurity and my vulnerability because before I was so good at performing and then now with art I was just expressing and that from myself and that was a really new kind of experience for me so what I mean is it was the rawness that came up in that sort of authentic connection with my art self that helped me realize how much support I needed.

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