Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume 3, Issue 11, 1 May 2019 | Page 37

some time I managed to get the email address for the main author of the
article: Professor of psychology and trauma expert for 25 years, Dr. Carl
Johnson from Virginia in the US. I wrote what became the email that
changed my life; a bold email. Six months later we went to Rwanda
together. During the three journeys we did together he was teaching me all
what he knew about trauma and how to use Tapping with a traumatised
person. Without his willingness to mentor me this work with TTT would
never have happened.
2. How your experience of Journalism has helped you into being a
healer.
I have always loved to listen to people´s stories and learn from their
experiences. I love meeting people and finding new friends. That is why I
became a journalist and as a therapist and trainer I have the same urge.
For me there are no client – everybody is a potential friend and a co-living
human being. In Kinyarwanda , the language of Rwanda where I started my
Trauma Tapping work there are specifically two words that I love:
Turikumwe and Ikirezi.
Turikumwe means “We are in this world together” and
Ikirzi means in a poetic way ”“Finding the diamond within somebody”
These are my leading words in my life and my work. That we share this
world and that we can help each other to find the unique strength within.
And for me I bring
that in to my
mission
of
spreading Tapping.
3. How do you see
TTT as a tool of
healing?
TTT is a simple and
efficient technique
for balancing the
nervous system, we
call it Emotional