Discover WISH™ Tapping: emotional connection for families
Unlock a calmer, more connected family life with WISH™ Tapping. This simple routine helps children and adults regulate emotions together, fostering resilience and strengthening bonds. Learn how WISH™ can transform your daily interactions.
What is WISH™ Tapping and how does it help?
WISH™ Tapping is a simple co-regulation routine designed for children and the adults who care for them. It helps families slow down, connect, and practice healthy emotional regulation together. By combining gentle EFT tapping, calming breathing, simple affirmations, and bedtime connection, WISH™ creates a predictable routine that supports nervous system regulation.
Instead of trying to "fix" children’s emotions, WISH™ teaches them to notice feelings, express them safely, and return to a calmer state with the support of a trusted adult. Children learn regulation through relationships, and as adults practice WISH™ alongside a child, they also strengthen their own regulation skills. These daily moments build emotional awareness, resilience, confidence, and connection. Start your journey with the WISH™ Bedtime Routine book, then deepen your practice with the WISH™ Tapping Training.
Who benefits most from WISH™ Tapping?
WISH™ Tapping is ideal for parents, grandparents, caregivers, educators, therapists, and helping professionals seeking simple, practical ways to support children’s emotional well-being. It is especially beneficial for children experiencing bedtime worries, big emotions, trouble winding down, separation anxiety, overwhelm, frustration, fears, or difficulty settling to sleep. WISH™ also supports children who thrive with a predictable, calming bedtime routine that strengthens connection with a trusted adult.
Adults using WISH™ often want to feel more confident responding to children’s emotions without needing to “fix” every feeling. They are looking for gentle, evidence-informed tools that encourage co-regulation, emotional awareness, resilience, and healthy nervous system development through consistent daily routines. WISH™ helps families transform bedtime into a meaningful moment of connection while equipping children with lifelong skills for recognizing and calming emotions.
What makes our WISH™ Tapping approach unique?
Our WISH™ Tapping approach goes beyond teaching a calming technique; it helps adults and children build a meaningful daily connection. Instead of trying to stop or fix emotions, WISH™ encourages children to notice their feelings, express them safely, and practice returning to a calmer state with the support of a trusted adult. WISH™ combines gentle EFT tapping, breathing, affirmations, gratitude, and bedtime connection into one simple routine that’s easy to repeat night after night.
It emphasizes co-regulation because children learn emotional regulation through relationships. As adults practice WISH™ with a child, they strengthen their own regulation skills too. Created by Root Cause Therapy Practitioner and EFT Advocate Christa Bates, WISH™ is designed to make evidence-informed nervous system support simple, approachable, and practical for everyday family life.
Experience the positive impact of WISH™ Tapping
Families who consistently practice WISH™ often describe bedtime becoming calmer, more connected, and less stressful. Children begin developing a simple routine for recognizing their feelings, calming their bodies, and talking about their emotions with a trusted adult. Adults frequently report feeling more confident responding to big emotions because they have a practical routine they can use together with their child instead of feeling pressured to immediately solve every problem. Over time, these shared moments help strengthen trust, emotional awareness, resilience, and healthy communication.
Beyond bedtime, many families find themselves using WISH™ before school, medical appointments, performances, travel, or other stressful situations, giving children a familiar routine they can carry into everyday life. Discover how WISH™ Tapping can bring more peace and connection to your family.