Dawson Church

Dawson Church, PhD, is an award-winning science writer, researcher, and teacher who has spent his career building bridges between rigorous science and the practices of healing and personal transformation. Educated at Baylor University and Holos University — where he earned his doctorate under the Harvard-trained neurosurgeon Norman Shealy — Church became fascinated by a question at the edge of conventional medicine: how far can the mind reach into the body? His answer took shape across a series of bestselling, award-winning books. The Genie in Your Genes broke new ground by showing how emotions influence gene expression; Mind to Matter gathered hundreds of studies on how the brain helps construct our reality; and Bliss Brain — written in the aftermath of a devastating wildfire that destroyed his home — revealed how meditation and flow states can rapidly rewire the brain for resilience and joy.At the heart of Church's practical work are two evidence-based methods: Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT, or "tapping") and EcoMeditation, his own approach that weaves together the best of EFT, HeartMath, neurofeedback, and mindfulness into a few simple steps. Rather than asking people to take healing on faith, he has conducted dozens of clinical trials, published in peer-reviewed journals, and edited the professional journal Energy Psychology — always seeking to measure and verify what actually works. Through EFT Universe, one of the most-visited alternative-health platforms on the web, he trains thousands of practitioners each year and makes these tools freely available to a global audience.Church's commitment to healing is perhaps most visible in his humanitarian work: through the Veterans Stress Solution he founded, he has helped provide free PTSD treatment to more than 22,000 veterans. Warm, hopeful, and endlessly curious, he offers a message grounded in both data and lived experience — that trauma can become a doorway to growth, that our brains are far more changeable than we imagined, and that with the right practices, just minutes a day, any of us can move from suffering toward a state of genuine bliss.