Rapid Tapping with Poppy Delbridge
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Hello Poppy! What star sign are you and do you believe in Astrology?
I’m a Libra and I believe in using a birth chart! I have used this astrological tool to help me in my business as well as life, so I encourage my clients to also see how this can give insight and they go to my own astrologer.
Tell us a little about you and your journey to the here and now.
Wow, big question. Starting from the now where I am a creative businesswoman running my own life and businesses, I would say that everything that’s happened has led me here. So I had my son at 21 in uni, won a creativity competition with The Guardian, got into TV and worked my way up the creative development and pitching /producing a world of Entertainment and Talent development. I then resigned from an Exec role in 2018 - probably against all odds actually - to go it alone as one of those entrepreneurs. I’ve committed myself to powerful mindset rewiring, energy psychology and manifestation strategies and find myself living the vision I created. Now I help mainly CEOs, new business owners and career women hit their highest goals and live their own true versions of success using my own tactics and my 15+ years in creative media.
You wear different hats as a mentor, founder and CEO, tell us a little of each role?
You only wear one hat..
Well, I don’t believe that we can wear different hats anymore.
There is no ‘home-life’ and ‘work-life’ it’s you, there is no separation in identity and often when we try to separate this it’s where the struggle lies because we never measure up to our internal rhetoric.
I prefer to see it as one big old hat that has different aspects depending on the weather. We are whole and so I bring different elements to my work - a media career, motherhood, running teams, developing people and ideas… all of it. Then depending on who I am working with and the groups I am coaching, I will show them different angles of the hat.
What is EFT aka Rapid Tapping and how did you get into it?
Tapping found me about ten years ago in the middle of my marriage breaking down, a bout of blindness and a very stressful position holding up a house alone with a busy job and sudden debt. I was crippled with overwhelming life pain and had to rebuild my life again after being married for 10 years to my teenage love who I discovered had been up to no good. I rebuilt my life into something totally new from scratch and since then, I’ve used tapping as part of my lifestyle. In recent years, after seeing such huge emotional shifts in my clients as an EFT Practitioner, I found I was using something else alongside it that was bringing incredible results, and I used it myself to create a multiple 6-figure launch in the pandemic.
I’ve called it Rapid Tapping, I’m a born-again Rapid Tapper and proud to develop this method for others to use too!
Rapid Tapping used for and is there anything it can’t help with?
It is the place where neuroscience and spirituality meet. It’s used mainly as an instant mood-changer and emotional tool, so when you’re feeling anxious, lonely, incapable, FOMO, even headaches, you use the process and it shifts you into a higher energetic frequency. There’s nothing it can’t help within my experience - and as it’s used in conjunction with EFT, which is recognised clinically and used with everyone from the US Military to CEO’s, I’m excited to see how it can help people in minutes to shift into new possibilities.
What are the benefits and how often and for how long do you need to practice it to be affective?
It’s a mood booster. Instant, actually. The point is, it’s accessible and very speedy because it’s a lifestyle choice, not a booked appointment. I do lots of free lives, one on a Monday 11:11am on our Instagram @rapidtapping and I have a Starter Kit with routines, scripts and ways to start taking tapping into your own hands.
That said, you can also do Deep Rapid Tapping, where we go 1:1 into past emotional blocks, trauma and memories.
Where are you based?
The cotswolds: I see clients at Soho Farmhouse or in London.
How have you adapted your therapy during lockdown?
I was tapping online, plus had much of my coaching online on Zoom years before the lockdown, as I work globally with clients and brands. I started my online business in 2018 and have digital courses so I was luckily a dab hand! I have been helping others transition to digital media, new platforms and develop an online presence a lot more.
What were you doing before?
Much the same! Just a lot more with events and retreats. And working with places like AllBright, Groucho Club I miss those!
What gets you up in the morning?
My puppy!
What’s next for Rapid Tapping?
Lots, it’s been placed in the 2021 Wellbeing Lists of a few publications (will send screenshots) recently so I’m ready to bring it to everyone who needs a little tap throughout this time! We kick off with the challenge on 29th Jan weekend where you can get an email and tap a day to use plus a takeover of my life on Instagram @rapidtapping to see how I use it, with a workshop and some exciting guests trying it out for self-love, money and insomnia!
Where do you get your inspiration from?
Oh, anywhere I can get it. Inspiration is available at all times, it’s just whether we are open to the possibility of receiving.
What is the House of Possibility?
That’s the mothership. It’s where you can go if you want to bring new opportunities into your life an become your most powerful self so you can change the world a little bit!
An object you would never part with
Not really, I realised stuff is just stuff a long time ago but I do like my Chanel and my stack of old journals. I’d grab those in a fire.
The biggest female influence in your life
My mum. She’s a warrior. She lost my dad when she was mid-forties and as he had cancer since he was 30, she ran the roost with very little to roost from. She’s also massively intelligent and reads a book a day on everything from physics to Plato.
In my suitcase I packed..
Loads of unnecessary underwear that cost me a small fortune.
Where would you like to go next?
ANYWHERE.
Favourite colour?
Red - powerful AF and the colour of my name.
Your favourite website
A recent “find” or brand
Late to the party but loving those massive Alessandra Rich earrings and dresses.
If you were to buy a magazine subscription which one would it be?
Harpers Bazaar - I kept every copy for 10 years and created all my vision boards from them.
In your fridge, you’ll always find
Cheese.
The beauty staple you’ll never without
Red lipstick.
Life after death?
We think we are having a spiritual experience but it’s the other way around. I am a soul, hanging out as a human.
Apart from Rapid Tapping, if you were to have an hour’s therapy what would it be and who would give it?
I have Sound therapy and somatic movement therapy. I recommend Nahid’s The Human Method for keeping my nervous system together.
Sound therapy, I am also a sonic healer with a crystal alchemy bowl and I am obsessed with frequency healing. It really works and I use it when tapping.
Your father passed on some great tips to you?
So many. One that has always paid dividends is to have faith. Faith is an unwavering belief. And so you either have faith in the nothingness of life or the possibilities of the Universe. It’s up to us to choose.