Immediately following my session with her, I noticed that MY deep body-level, crazy-making grief, exhaustion and sadness that had been there previously was no longer the same.

After we talked in detail about her feelings and body sensations while she was imagining being in the “showy position” as she called it, we started the tapping. Her level of discomfort was at a 9 on a scale of 0-10…

“I have found that when a negative body image is released, many women are able to approach weight loss from an entirely different perspective. Cravings, binges and emotional eating diminish and eating becomes more natural and has so much less judgement.”

“We were both smiling as we realized that she had already done all the work and I was just there to say, ‘you go, girl!’ The little bit of tapping we did was just to affirm her success…”

“Inspired by Gestalt Therapy and an article written by Ann Ross many years ago about our Inner Committee, I began a different approach: no affirmation, just conversation, choosing one ‘voice”’(point of view), letting it express itself freely, then switching to another while continuously tapping…”

“…the vicious cycle of dieting (and then of course binging that MUST come next after food restriction, that is the rule with brain chemistry and our physiology) often begins I think from a negative self image… Finding where that negative self image took root and releasing the emotional charge however is the key.”

“The negative emotions we spend time resisting tend to hang around in spite of our best efforts to get rid of them. The more we fight against them the stronger they get. As Carl Jung pointed out, ‘What we resist, persists.’ “

A long time ago I learned to be silent (or at least gracious!), in the face of insult or unfairness. Apparently this was thought to be good manners, and also had the added effect of not escalating an already unpleasant situation. In hindsight, it was not such a good lesson to learn…

“The middle section of the process was devoted to ‘seeing’ the change, conversations and exercises devoted to recognizing the many ways in the process was helping us be more abundant: not always through increased goods or income…”

“My concept was to use the EFT philosophy rather than Law of Attraction or prosperity-mindset tenets, to see what could happen when sustained group work focused not on materializing income or goods, but on removing the energetic blocks to living an abundant life however the individual defines it.”