We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Stacey Vornbrock. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Stacey below.
Alright, Stacey thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Let’s start with the story of your mission. What should we know?
I am extremely passionate about helping people get results and empowering my clients. In 1999 I found Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) and it changed my life personally. After I experimented on myself using EFT, I started using it with all my clients with wonderful results. I had been wanting to start my own practice but couldn’t decide on what to specialize in with EFT and my years of experience as a therapist. Gary Craig, the man who developed EFT, was asking practitioners “who’s going to take EFT to athletes?” Even though I’m the least athletic person you could ever hope to meet, I realized I’m the perfect person to work with them because I have a similar mindset…I am very driven and tough mentally. I wanted to start with elite and high level amateurs because of their mindset and work ethic and I did! My goal is to help them release blocks to their performance on the physiological and subconscious levels so they can perform at their highest possible level. But my overall larger goal or mission is to empower them with the tools and mindset that will change their life forever moving forward. One day they’ll stop competing, but what I teach them and the tools I give them for their performance can be used in any part of their life, for the rest of their life.
Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers
I’ve been a therapist for decades, and until I started my practice working with athletes in 2003, I worked in clinics and agencies seeing a variety of clients with a variety of issues. I was trained in Solution Focused Therapy, which focuses on people’s strengths and resources. I currently use a three-prong approach with my clients. The first prong is using EFT to release unprocessed emotions, events, performances, blocks, injury recovery (current and past), increase range of motion, make mechanical changes quickly, and reach highest performance potential. The second prong is aligning subconscious mind with conscious mind goals. Our subconscious is 95% of who we are and is simply a dutiful servant. It has been imprinted with beliefs that may or may not be serving us. To get desired results, it is essential to have subconscious fully aligned with our conscious mind goals. That’s most likely why it feels like we’re hitting a brick wall when we can’t accomplish or manifest something we truly desire, it’s a subconscious imprint that’s not serving us. There is a technique I use that easily and quickly creates subconscious alignment so the brick wall or blocks are removed. The final prong is a program I’ve developed to teach my clients the roles of the conscious and subconscious minds, and the correct tasks to give their conscious mind so they are manifesting more of what they want and accessing the higher aspects of consciousness.
Any stories or insights that might help us understand how you’ve built such a strong reputation?
I work mostly with male athletes, using techniques that are completely foreign and woo woo to them. Most of them are very skeptical when they start working with me and I absolutely love that! I say “you just stay skeptical and let me know when that changes.” My biggest skeptics become my biggest advocates because these techniques work and I don’t have to convince them of anything…they experience it for themselves. I am also upfront with every athlete and tell them “I’m the least athletic person possible and I really don’t know anything about your sport.” They all laugh and seem to love that. I’m not a fan, I don’t have any expectations of them as an athlete, I usually have no clue who they are (unless they are very famous), and I think it’s a relief to them, they can just be themselves. I’m free to ask the dumbest questions about their sport, but as a result, I get information and an insight into the issue for them that I wouldn’t get if I presumed I knew what they were talking about. For example in baseball “I got jammed up at the plate” is a global expression, but I’ve learned the experience of that is completely different for each player. I wouldn’t have known that if I assumed I knew what “jammed up at the plate” meant. I can now technically explain what that means, but I always ask what that means to them and what is their experience of that. I think my honesty and genuineness with athletes has helped build my reputation with them. And I just adore working with them!
Are there any books, videos, essays or other resources that have significantly impacted your management and entrepreneurial thinking and philosophy?
I’m a huge fan of Bob Proctor or any of the older masters such as Dr. Joseph Murphy, Napoleon Hill, Wallace Wattles, etc. Sadly Bob Proctor passed away last year, but he lives on on YouTube and I highly recommend his videos and books. While I was building my practice, I listened to him nonstop, saturating my conscious mind with the correct tasks to stay focused on what I was creating. I also love Dr. Joe Dispenza, especially his book, “You Are the Placebo”. He’s another one who has many videos on YouTube. I’d recommend Dr. Bruce Lipton’s book, “The Biology of Belief” and Dr. Candace Pert’s book, “Molecules of Emotion”. The movie “What the Bleep Do We Know” was instrumental in changing how I view and talk about how Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) works on the cellular level.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://breakthroughperformance.net
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/staceyvornbrock/
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@StaceyVornbrock