There are two aspects of TAE and personal growth. TAE steps can be used to enhance the Focusing process and TAE can be used to work on a personal problem.

"To begin a TAE procedure one needs to have – right there —a deep, bodily, palpable sense of something in one‘s field of knowledge . . . A felt sense for TAE comes only in midst of the personal“, and yet it is different from all the personal“ concerns everyone‘s body is always carrying." (Gendlin, Folio 2000-2004, p.11).

Gendlin makes a distinction between a TAE felt sense and personal concerns. In my experience, in a  TAE process the TAE felt sense and the personal concerns are very often linked. So TAE can address both the bodily expert knowing AND the personal problem.

• TAE processes about career change resulted mostly in working on personal problems.
• In TAE courses participants mostly chose personal problems to work on.
• The "Giving Language to Stress" phone course shows impressively how TAE can be tailored and applied for overcoming personal problems. A quote of one of the participants brings it to a point:

“I was able to really get to the crux of some major issues of my whole life. And it helped me through a medical crisis during the five-week course. It was a wonderful addition for me to use with regular focusing and I definitely want to continue to study TAE I now have more tools to work with living.”

 You find more about TAE and personal growth here.