How to Split a Toaster: A Divorce Podcast About Saving Your Relationships

Dr. Katie Nall joins Seth and Pete to talk about a technique you can use to get rid of your WAFFLES – worry, anxiety, fear, frustration, lethargy, exhaustion, and stress. It’s called EFT, or Emotional Freedom Technique. Some know it as tapping. Some people might be skeptical, but if it works, it’s worth a try, right? We learn a bit about it and even give it a try this episode.

Show Notes

What to do when your Toaster’s feeding you waffles?
In this episode, Dr. Katie Nall, two-time TedX speaker, mathematician, and Accredited Master Trainer & Practitioner of the Emotional Freedom Technique, otherwise known as EFT, joins Seth and Pete to discuss a method that can help you while you’re going through your divorce learn to calm down and find your center again. The technique, also known as tapping, helps what Dr. Nall calls your ‘WAFFLES’ – worries, anxiety, fear, frustration, lethargy, exhaustion, and stress. Let’s face it – you’re likely going to experience ALL of these during your divorce. This technique can really help.

Plenty of people may be skeptical about it, but it’s worth a try, right? It costs nothing, you can do it by yourself all alone, and see if it helps. Both Pete and Seth try it during this episode and it helped them. So tune in to this episode to learn how to dissolve those WAFFLES and shed some of the emotional baggage you’re dragging behind you during your divorce.

More About Dr. Nall
Dr. Katie Nall not only has her Ph.D. in Mathematics Education, she also is a two-time TEDx speaker, a professional member of National Speakers Association, and an Accredited Master Trainer and Certified Practitioner in Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) with additional training in trauma, quantum, and picture EFT. Whether in person or online, Dr. Nall shows others how to dissolve their WAFFLES – worry, anxiety, fear, frustration, lethargy, exhaustion, and stress. A careless housekeeper and worse cook with no desire for rehabilitation she somehow is still married to the same person for over 49 years.

Links & Notes
  • (00:00) - Welcome to How to Split a Toaster
  • (00:26) - Meet Dr. Katie Nall
  • (01:24) - WAFFLES
  • (05:00) - EFT
  • (06:16) - Tapping Demonstration
  • (19:08) - To the Skeptics
  • (21:44) - Approaches to Mindfulness
  • (23:21) - Positive Side
  • (25:16) - Example
  • (26:40) - When to Employ
  • (27:21) - Technique
  • (28:40) - No Harm in Trying It
  • (30:28) - Math Student Example
  • (31:18) - When to Use It
  • (35:06) - Wrap Up

Creators & Guests

Host
Pete Wright
Podcaster and co-host, Pete Wright brings years of marriage and a spirit of curiosity to the divorce process. He's spent the last two decades interviewing experts and thinkers in emotional healing and brings that with him to the law, divorce, and saving relationships in the process.
Host
Seth R. Nelson
Seth Nelson is the founding attorney and managing partner at NLG Divorce & Family Law. He is a Tampa-based family lawyer known for devising creative solutions to difficult problems.
Producer
Andy Nelson
Hailing from nearly 25 years in the world of film, television, and commercial production, Andy has always had a passion for storytelling, no matter the size of the package.

What is How to Split a Toaster: A Divorce Podcast About Saving Your Relationships?

Seth Nelson is a Tampa based family lawyer known for devising creative solutions to difficult problems. In How to Split a Toaster, Nelson and co-host Pete Wright take on the challenge of divorce with a central objective — saving your most important relationships with your family, your former spouse, and yourself.