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

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 Marcellas who couldnt stop singing her praises. After reading this book, I see why. Marcellas 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: Rewrite Your Past, Transform Your Future

If you use the kitchen only to microwave your meals, let Marcellas 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 healthconsciously sourced whole foods, lovingly prepared, and eaten mindfully. Im 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

For the first time in my life, I am living free from cravings. This opens up to me a world of choice and fullness that Ive never experienced before working with Marcella. Marcella has a surprising ability to pinpoint and help you release exactly whats keeping you stuck. I can now take the energy I used to spend fixing my eating and put it toward things in my life that truly matter to me. I am forever grateful.

Meredith V., San Carlos, California

Marcellas work is not for the faint of heart. Learning to love myself unconditionally has been gut-wrenchingly hard and beautiful and has required me to dig deep into the most tender parts of my soul. I wanted weight loss, this happened but not by counting calories and cutting carbs. It happened because I healed myself from traumas that have been plaguing me for many years. Marcella breathed life back into my soul. I am a work in progress, and I have such immense gratitude for this life-altering journey.

Pamela H., Cascade, Colorado

Working with Marcella was one of the best decisions I've ever made. It was time to face an area of my life that I'd felt beaten by. With Marcellas guidance I have faced the emotional issues behind the weight and feel like Im actually getting somewhere. Im losing weight sustainably, Im coming into right relationship with my body, I feel lighter emotionally and physically, and Im more confident in my own skin. Marcellas compassionate, loving, wise approach has been a godsend to me. I'm finally getting started on the healing Ive desired for years.

Lola F., London, UK

I am so grateful for the series of events that brought me to Marcella. I have embraced many lessons in my work with her, all of which have enhanced my mental, emotional, and physical health, but there have been bigger and deeper lessons along the way. Some required a great deal of self-honesty, soul-searching, and internal struggle. But I wouldnt trade any of these moments if I had them to do over. With guidance and support from Marcella, I have been given the greatest gift of all: I have learned to truly love myself exactly as I am. Oh, and yes, Im losing weight!

Connie W., North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

"We all have a purpose of why we are here on this planet at this time. Some of us know what that calling is and some of us don't. Even after knowing what our purpose is, not everyone is brave enough to walk on the path or gets the opportunity to do so. Marcella is one of those beings who not only has embraced her purpose but is helping others find theirs. I wasn't sure what to expect when I started working with Marcella, but my life has changed for better. She has helped me embrace myself just the way I am. No judgment, only love and support. Yes, Ive lost weight, but thats just the beginning of my journey. This has been a life-changing positive experience."

Falguni K., Portland, Oregon

Copyright 2019 by Marcella Friel. All rights reserved. No portion of this book, except for brief review, may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any meanselectronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwisewithout the written permission of the publisher. For information contact North Atlantic Books.

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Tap, Taste, Heal: Use Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) to Eat Joyfully and Love Your Body is sponsored and published by the Society for the Study of Native Arts and Sciences (dba North Atlantic Books), an educational nonprofit based in Berkeley, California, that collaborates with partners to develop cross-cultural perspectives, nurture holistic views of art, science, the humanities, and healing, and seed personal and global transformation by publishing work on the relationship of body, spirit, and nature.

Chapter 8 was previously published in an article in Elephant Journal, Stop Eating Concepts and Start Eating Food. Chapter 9 was originally published in the Tapping Solution Blog, Breakfast: The Key to a Happy Life.

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MEDICAL DISCLAIMER: The following information is intended for general information purposes only. Individuals should always see their health care provider before administering any suggestions made in this book. Any application of the material set forth in the following pages is at the readers discretion and is his or her sole responsibility.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Friel, Marcella, 1962 author.
Title: Tap, taste, heal : use emotional freedom techniques (EFT) to eat
joyfully and love your body / Marcella Friel.
Description: Berkeley, California : North Atlantic Books, [2019]
Identifiers: LCCN 2018048510 | ISBN 9781623173098 (paperback)
Subjects: LCSH: Emotional Freedom Techniques. | Weight lossPsychological
aspects. | Mind and body therapies. | BISAC: HEALTH & FITNESS / Weight
Loss. | BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Healing / Energy (Chi Kung, Reiki,