When Your Emotions Are Running the Show, You’re Not: Ros Barber on EFT and Taking Back Control

Five years of weekly talk therapy in Harley Street couldn’t reach what one hour of tapping did.In this episode, Hannah is joined by Ros Barber — academic, award-winning writer, and EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) practitioner — to talk about the modality Hannah credits with shifting things in her that years of conventional therapy couldn’t touch. This conversation is personal. Ros was Hannah’s practitioner before she was her podcast guest, and that history shapes one of the most open and useful episodes on healing work yet.They explore what EFT actually is, why a sceptical scientist became one of its most thoughtful practitioners, and how a simple physical technique can reach the places where understanding alone runs out of road.About Ros BarberRos Barber is an EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) practitioner, academic, and award-winning writer. With a background in biochemistry and biology — and both parents physicists — she came to EFT as a sceptic in 2007, at a time when her life was at its most pressured: four young children, a husband seriously unwell with chronic fatigue, a PhD in progress, and her own mood slipping into depression. Within months of tapping daily, the people around her had noticed she’d become calmer, less reactive, and harder to trigger. She trained as a practitioner soon after and has spent nearly two decades helping clients clear emotional charge that talk therapy alone often can’t shift.Episode Chapters00:00  Introduction to EFT and Personal Transformation05:45  The Impact of EFT on Family Dynamics11:21  Understanding EFT: The Basics16:54  The Power of Self-Acceptance in EFT22:31  The Emotional Charge and Triggers27:22  Skepticism and the Science Behind EFT33:28  The Role of the Nervous System in EFT41:50  Empowerment Through Self-Help Techniques47:00  Shifting Identity and Emotional AwarenessI Am Pausing with Hannah Godfrey is a podcast featuring real conversations about the science of rest, the cost of burnout, and the truth about sustainable success.Connect & Follow•     Follow Ros Barber on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ros-barber/•     Read Ros’s Substack: https://rozbarber.substack.com/•     Visit Ros’s website: https://rosbarber.com/•     Follow Hannah Godfrey on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannahgodfrey/•     Follow I Am Pausing on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/i-am-pausing/•     Visit https://iampausing.com•     Subscribe to the I Am Pausing podcast wherever you listen