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Tap, Taste, Heal: Use Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) to Eat Joyfully and Love Your Body
A trained chef and body image coach reveals how EFT Tapping can help you get off the diet roller coaster, cultivate self-love, and heal your relationship with food
For many who struggle with food, mindful eating alone is not the answer. In Tap, Taste, Heal , natural foods chef and mindful eating mentor Marcella Friel teaches you the neurological repatterning tool of Tapping (also known as Emotional Freedom Techniques or EFT) to help you resolve the traumas that have caused you to reach for those foods you hate to love to eat.
Sometimes called “emotional acupressure”, Tapping is an energy-healing based practice which uses gentle self-tapping on points of the body and affirmation-like statements to short-circuit harmful patterns and imprinting. To help you along your journey, 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.
Let Friel’s step-by-step guide take you deeper than weight loss—and help you accept, honor, and nourish your entire being, whatever the number on the scale.
For many who struggle with food, mindful eating alone is not the answer. In Tap, Taste, Heal , natural foods chef and mindful eating mentor Marcella Friel teaches you the neurological repatterning tool of Tapping (also known as Emotional Freedom Techniques or EFT) to help you resolve the traumas that have caused you to reach for those foods you hate to love to eat.
Sometimes called “emotional acupressure”, Tapping is an energy-healing based practice which uses gentle self-tapping on points of the body and affirmation-like statements to short-circuit harmful patterns and imprinting. To help you along your journey, 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.
Let Friel’s step-by-step guide take you deeper than weight loss—and help you accept, honor, and nourish your entire being, whatever the number on the scale.
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240 pages, Paperback
Published April 16, 2019
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January 30, 2021
Bullet Review:
Received from Amazon Vine.
ANY book that cites the quack “health guru” Jon Gabriel is NOT qualified to be rated higher than 2 stars.
Minus some fluffy bits about loving yourself and your emotional history affecting current eating behaviors, the book is light on science and heavy on woo woo. Statements are made willy nilly (menstruation synchronization is touted as a Real Thing), and often a claim is made with no citation referenced; the Bibliography is a joke. This is science like wearing a shirt saying “Don’t trust atoms; they make up everything” makes you a research Chemist.
Most of the book’s page count is bloated with a bunch of “Tapping” exercises that remind me of the time I went to a church service where they spoke in tongues and laid hands on you. Maybe it works for some people, but I am not trying out this for myself.
The narrator is a particularly grating woman who vacillates between “Healthy at every size is totes legit” and “you’ll lose the weight once you eat right and lose the emotional baggage”. And her gaining a whopping 10 pounds after a bad relationship makes her somehow relatable to me, a woman who has spent 90% of her adult life 100 pounds overweight??? LOL, try again!
Not recommended.
Full Review:
UPDATED: Revising to use Lindo Bacon's correct name; my intention is NEVER to dead-name anyone.
I have been overweight or obese most of my adult life, unfortunately. I've struggled to get to a healthy weight and try to maintain that; as I type, I am on my last weight loss journey. The last time I have to lose all this weight and get a healthy body.
So that's why I picked up this book; I thought that this might have some good tips for me, to get over my emotional issues involving food and move towards healing. I didn't think I'd be bombarded with bad science, old wives' tales, food myths and woo woo.
This book is so frustrating, because it tries to pander to both the Health at Every Size camp, headed by Dr. Lindo Bacon, as well as telling you you need to lose weight to be healthy. It's an extremely strange dichotomy and one that isn't pulled off at all. I suppose you could make the case that both would work; Health at Every Size purports that if you are taking care of your body the way it wants, then it will naturally be healthy - and the size that you are may or may not align to conventional wisdom.
I don't really want to spend too much time arguing this one minor point, but I will say my own opinion on the matter borrows from both ideals. I don't believe the BMI necessarily matches ideal health for everyone, but I also feel like there are weights that are just plain unhealthy period. And I also believe that there are foods we eat today (Doritos and Oreos and McDonald's) that are honestly just unhealthy and need to be excluded from any regular diet.
Besides the weird advice that "You don't need to lose weight - you can be healthy at any size" and "Once you are emotional healthy, you will lose weight", there were way more problems. The science in this book is laughable; Marcella promotes many myths or unsubstantiated claims (such as menstruation synchronization) with little to no citation or references. The Bibliography at the book is absolutely laughable in its sketchiness; I think I had better Bibliographies and citations as a college grad than were in this book.
And the most cringe-worthy of the existent citations were ones for Jon Gabriel, self-professed health quack - I mean - guru, ex-stock broker. His book was loaded with schlock about dead and living foods and how buying his CDs would help you lose weight - of course, spending your hard earned cash on something he's selling! I cannot take a health book seriously that promotes such a person as Jon Gabriel - the type of huckster who is lying to your face while stealing your money.
When the author wasn't trying to use "science" to back up her wild claims, she spent loads of pages on the tapping technique. Perhaps this does work for some people - the internet seems mixed on whether it helps or not, not dissimilar from Cognitive Behavior Therapy - but the entire time I read about this, I kept thinking of my time going to a Vineyard Church. The songs were beautiful - and then the church broke out into groups of people babbling "in tongues", rolling around on the floor, and laying hands on other people. As a woman raised Lutheran, I was just frozen in place, eyes wide and rolling in my face, looking around desperately for an exit. (Needless to say, I never returned to the church.) I ended up skipping most of the tapping sessions.
The other irritating part was the author herself. The way she wrote was a combination of "I totally understand where you are coming from, girl!" and "Look at how amazing my life and eating is!" This woman like gained 20 pounds after a bad relationship with a boyfriend - whoop dee doo, I've been 100+ pounds overweight most of my life! While I get that emotional eating and the like affects us all and is painful, your brief bout with being a little pudgy doesn't compare to my entire life of being on the outside of the rest of the world. As for how amazing the way you eat is? Great, I'm glad you learned how to eat wonderfully - stop rubbing it in.
So why 2 stars and not 1? Well, in between all that above, there actually was some good stuff about emotions, your background and eating to return to those old feelings. I had a particularly heavy hitting moment of inspiration when reading about the "Guiding Stars" - foods that you eat to return you to happy memories in the past. I never even realized I was doing this, but when I thought back to these certain foods, I was reminded of memories with my dad, who was often deployed when I was a child.
On the whole, I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone. The science is horrible; it cites people like Jon Gabriel as experts on the subject (and he's not); it relies on woo woo and debunked myths. There ARE good portions of the book, but honestly, it's not worth wading through the fluff to get to it.
Received from Amazon Vine.
ANY book that cites the quack “health guru” Jon Gabriel is NOT qualified to be rated higher than 2 stars.
Minus some fluffy bits about loving yourself and your emotional history affecting current eating behaviors, the book is light on science and heavy on woo woo. Statements are made willy nilly (menstruation synchronization is touted as a Real Thing), and often a claim is made with no citation referenced; the Bibliography is a joke. This is science like wearing a shirt saying “Don’t trust atoms; they make up everything” makes you a research Chemist.
Most of the book’s page count is bloated with a bunch of “Tapping” exercises that remind me of the time I went to a church service where they spoke in tongues and laid hands on you. Maybe it works for some people, but I am not trying out this for myself.
The narrator is a particularly grating woman who vacillates between “Healthy at every size is totes legit” and “you’ll lose the weight once you eat right and lose the emotional baggage”. And her gaining a whopping 10 pounds after a bad relationship makes her somehow relatable to me, a woman who has spent 90% of her adult life 100 pounds overweight??? LOL, try again!
Not recommended.
Full Review:
UPDATED: Revising to use Lindo Bacon's correct name; my intention is NEVER to dead-name anyone.
I have been overweight or obese most of my adult life, unfortunately. I've struggled to get to a healthy weight and try to maintain that; as I type, I am on my last weight loss journey. The last time I have to lose all this weight and get a healthy body.
So that's why I picked up this book; I thought that this might have some good tips for me, to get over my emotional issues involving food and move towards healing. I didn't think I'd be bombarded with bad science, old wives' tales, food myths and woo woo.
This book is so frustrating, because it tries to pander to both the Health at Every Size camp, headed by Dr. Lindo Bacon, as well as telling you you need to lose weight to be healthy. It's an extremely strange dichotomy and one that isn't pulled off at all. I suppose you could make the case that both would work; Health at Every Size purports that if you are taking care of your body the way it wants, then it will naturally be healthy - and the size that you are may or may not align to conventional wisdom.
I don't really want to spend too much time arguing this one minor point, but I will say my own opinion on the matter borrows from both ideals. I don't believe the BMI necessarily matches ideal health for everyone, but I also feel like there are weights that are just plain unhealthy period. And I also believe that there are foods we eat today (Doritos and Oreos and McDonald's) that are honestly just unhealthy and need to be excluded from any regular diet.
Besides the weird advice that "You don't need to lose weight - you can be healthy at any size" and "Once you are emotional healthy, you will lose weight", there were way more problems. The science in this book is laughable; Marcella promotes many myths or unsubstantiated claims (such as menstruation synchronization) with little to no citation or references. The Bibliography at the book is absolutely laughable in its sketchiness; I think I had better Bibliographies and citations as a college grad than were in this book.
And the most cringe-worthy of the existent citations were ones for Jon Gabriel, self-professed health quack - I mean - guru, ex-stock broker. His book was loaded with schlock about dead and living foods and how buying his CDs would help you lose weight - of course, spending your hard earned cash on something he's selling! I cannot take a health book seriously that promotes such a person as Jon Gabriel - the type of huckster who is lying to your face while stealing your money.
When the author wasn't trying to use "science" to back up her wild claims, she spent loads of pages on the tapping technique. Perhaps this does work for some people - the internet seems mixed on whether it helps or not, not dissimilar from Cognitive Behavior Therapy - but the entire time I read about this, I kept thinking of my time going to a Vineyard Church. The songs were beautiful - and then the church broke out into groups of people babbling "in tongues", rolling around on the floor, and laying hands on other people. As a woman raised Lutheran, I was just frozen in place, eyes wide and rolling in my face, looking around desperately for an exit. (Needless to say, I never returned to the church.) I ended up skipping most of the tapping sessions.
The other irritating part was the author herself. The way she wrote was a combination of "I totally understand where you are coming from, girl!" and "Look at how amazing my life and eating is!" This woman like gained 20 pounds after a bad relationship with a boyfriend - whoop dee doo, I've been 100+ pounds overweight most of my life! While I get that emotional eating and the like affects us all and is painful, your brief bout with being a little pudgy doesn't compare to my entire life of being on the outside of the rest of the world. As for how amazing the way you eat is? Great, I'm glad you learned how to eat wonderfully - stop rubbing it in.
So why 2 stars and not 1? Well, in between all that above, there actually was some good stuff about emotions, your background and eating to return to those old feelings. I had a particularly heavy hitting moment of inspiration when reading about the "Guiding Stars" - foods that you eat to return you to happy memories in the past. I never even realized I was doing this, but when I thought back to these certain foods, I was reminded of memories with my dad, who was often deployed when I was a child.
On the whole, I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone. The science is horrible; it cites people like Jon Gabriel as experts on the subject (and he's not); it relies on woo woo and debunked myths. There ARE good portions of the book, but honestly, it's not worth wading through the fluff to get to it.
April 20, 2019
The most important relationship we have is with ourselves. This book explains a range of topics to provide the reader with an awareness and an understanding on several areas that impact how we relate to ourselves; the nature of our internal belief systems, behaviors, combined with teaching skills to clearing our stored up emotions (tapping), to industrialized food systems in the west, the impact of media and others. Many effective guides and tools are offered for helping the reader navigate through a journey of self awareness, forgiveness and toward self love. I have worked personally with the author and can attest that her innate wisdom, kind manner and mentorship has truly enabled me to transform my perceptions and understanding of the interconnectedness of all these topics. Highly recommend her work.
June 20, 2019
This is a supportive, beautifully written book that gifts us with numerous ways to be kinder and gentler with ourselves. It includes a superb introduction to tapping, and invites the reader to understand in a deeper way how their relationship with food evolved. When we have a grasp and explore the many cultural and personal reasons we have arrived at this moment, we can change the very course of our journey and truly learn to love and nourish our body. Bravo to Marcella Friel for exploring so many ways we can move from fear to freedom.
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