Tap, Taste, Heal: Use Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) to Eat Joyfully and Love Your Body

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A trained whole foods chef, food and body image coach, and certified Emotional Freedom Technique (Tapping) practitioner offers a step-by-step guide to using the simple yet powerful technique of Tapping to help you get off the diet rollercoaster, forgive yourself and your body, and truly heal your relationship with food so you can enjoy the nourishment that is your birthright. For many people who struggle with food, mindful eating alone is not the answer. By teaching the neurological repatterning tool of "Tapping," natural foods chef and mindful eating coach Marcella Friel will help you transform the stressful circumstances and mistaken beliefs that have spawned less-than-ideal eating behaviors to re-discover the nourishment that is your birthright so that food can find its rightful place in your life. Sometimes called "emotional acupressue," Tapping (also known as Emotional Freedom Techniques, or EFT) is an energy-healing based practice which uses gentle self-tapping on points of the body and statements similar to affirmations to short-circuit harmful patterns and imprinting. While Tapping can certainly help you lose weight, it will also help you to accept and honor your own body. Besides clear instructions on Tapping techniques that make it easy for you to begin practicing right away, Marcella explores the many other factors, from the multi-billion dollar diet industry to the way our industrialized food is produced to the emotional currents underlying trauma around food, that have caused so many people to need healing around eating and body image. Tap, Taste, Heal offers written tapping "scripts," links to online tapping script audios, and links to online tapping video demonstrations as well as cooking demonstrations for key healing foods. The author is certified in Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT); is a certified natural foods chef (Natural Gourmet Institute, NYC); and teaches online and at retreats. She has cooked at or directed the kitchens at Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia (director Pema Ch dr n), Shambhala Mountain Center in Red Feather Lakes, Colorado, and Spirit Rock Meditation Center.

Having cooked and taught in meditation retreat centers across North America, MARCELLA FRIEL now runs Tapping with Marcella, a food and body image coaching practice that helps health-conscious women love and forgive themselves, their food, and their figure. She is a graduate of the Natural Gourmet Institute in New York City, a certified EFT (Tapping) practioner, and a certified matrix reimprinting practitioner. A longtime student and teacher of Buddhist meditation, Friel combines laser-sharp insight, playful humor, and gentle inquisitiveness to help clients feel held, seen, and at ease as they release their negative core beliefs about themselves and their food. Friel teaches online courses and mindful eating retreats across the United States. Her writing has been featured in the Shambhala Times, Elephant Journal, and elsewhere.

"With great insight, kindness and humor, the wise Marcella Friel will show you how to lay your food and body-love struggles to rest." -Katherine Woodward Thomas, New York Times-bestselling author of Calling in "The One" and Conscious Uncoupling "If you have ever approached the dining table with fear, thought of hunger as an enemy, or chosen food for punishment or reward, this book will help you set all that aside, find a sense of ease and balance at the table, and take delight in food once again." -Susan Piver, author of The Four Noble Truths of Love "Marcella Friel offers a brilliant addition to the field of EFT with Tap, Taste, Heal. We have over a decade of research showing how EFT reduces anxiety around food, calms emotional eating and cravings, and results in weight loss; and this step-by-step guide will allow everyone to experience those benefits from home. This is a must-read." -Peta Stapleton, PhD, associate professor of psychology at Bond University, Australia, and author of The Science Behind Tapping "Many thanks to Marcella for her clarity, compassion, and depth as she takes readers on a comprehensive journey to heal the root causes of body shame and relentless dieting. Marcella supports readers to remove the should's and the shame and replace them with joy and love while living life to the fullest. Let the healing begin!" -Carol Look, founding EFT master and cocreator of the documentary film Tapping for Weight Loss "As someone who works in the alternative health-care field, I know how important self-care practices are in any healing endeavor. Marcella is a consummate teacher of such practices, and Tap, Taste, Heal is a great field guide for everyone seeking a self-loving alternative to restrictive dieting and punitive exercise." -Renee Russo, founder of the Breast Thermography Center of Sonoma County, California "I recently met a client of Marcella's who couldn't stop singing her praises. After reading this book, I see why. Marcella's insight and compassion go right to the heart of the issues that people face when struggling with food and body image, and the solutions she offers are life changing." -Karl Dawson, founding EFT master, creator of Matrix Reimprinting, and author of Matrix Reimprinting Using EFT "If you use the kitchen only to microwave your 'meals,' let Marcella's Tapping techniques and cooking tips help you learn how to give yourself and others the daily gift of home-cooked food. Marcella has captured so beautifully what it truly means to cook, and this book might well hold the secrets to healing ourselves and our loved ones through the art of home cooking." -Alma Schneider, founder of Take Back the Kitchen: Overcoming the Obstacles to Cooking "Our beloved natural-foods-chef instructor Marcella taught our students the essence of eating for health-consciously sourced whole foods, lovingly prepared, and eaten mindfully. I'm glad to see her blended wisdom reaching a wider audience with this book." -Ed Bauman, founder of Bauman College Holistic Nutrition and Culinary Arts "Marcella is really insightful and fun. And she really knows her EFT!" -Rob Nelson, founder of Tapping the Matrix Academy