Training Takes Time

Students who come to our training often find out that this training is not the quick fix. It takes around 8 weeks to get the training in before the student even gets into actually processing pain events. This can be tough since we are trained to instant results. We live in a society where there is overnight shipping, fast food, and many other means of providing needs instantly. However, not everything that is worth having is an over night or immediate process. Read more

The Advantages of Processing on Paper

All SFT students are asked to process their emotional pain events on paper.  All it takes in the beginning is one processed event per week to master the attitudes and skills involed.  However, sometimes students attempt to process without paper too soon.  Processing without paper before a solid foundation has been established is a great injustice for the student. Read more

Follow the Operating Manual

As I was growing up, my father may have thought I did not listen to what he had to say. However, I did learn many lessons from him as I grew up.  One of those lessons was to use things for what they were designed to do.  For example, I may use a socket wrench as a hammer or us the wrong shaped socket on a bolt.  Sure enough I would break or strip something causing us to go get a new part. 

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Why is Assertiveness Hard to Learn?

Of all the skills that are taught by SFT, assertiveness appears to the most difficult to learn.  Unlike conventional wisdom that thinks assertiveness is being blunt or aggressive, it actually is getting needs met without offending others. Sometimes a student comes into a session and expresses how he was assertive.  When he explains what they told the other person, it is not assertive at all.  In fact, it turns out to be very aggressive.  This is due to several factors: Read more

How to Sabotage your Recovery

There are many people every year who go throught some kind of recovery program to help them get off of an escape behavior.  Some are successful while other are not.  Here is a list of some habits a person can do to sobotage their recovery. Read more

Is there Hope for Depression?

When the topic of depression arises, different people will have different ideas and feelings about it.  There are some who see it as purely physically induced while others see it as caused by distorted thinking.  With so many ideas of what causes depression it makes a person wonder what the right answer is. Read more

Is Guilt Good or Bad?

            According to The Merriam-Webster dictionary, conscience is the consciousness of moral right and wrong of one’s own acts or motives.   We can see from Romans 2:14-16 that God has given mankind a conscience in which we, by nature, know between what is right and what is wrong. Read more

What is the focus of SFT training?

If a person were to ask someone about the training at SFT they may get several answers.  They may get answers that say the training is about depression.  Another person may say it is about stopping an addiction.  Read more