POPULARITY
In this episode of the podcast, Marcella Friel, an author, teacher, and food and forgiveness mentor, introduces listeners to EFT Tapping, a neurological repatterning tool. Marcella specializes in helping women heal the emotional roots of yo-yo dieting, binge eating, sugar addiction, and body shaming.During the episode, Marcella and Rachael discuss the reasons why diets fail, the use of food as a tool for self-harm, and how to heal trauma by building healthy habits in a culture where unhealthy things are easily accessible. They also explore how to move from addictive behavior to appreciating your body and how to incorporate mindful eating into a busy schedule. This episode is for anyone who feels they have tried everything to improve their relationship with food and their body, but nothing seems to work.Marcella's links:https://www.womenfoodandforgiveness.com/(00:04:02) Marcella's journey from corporate America to Buddhist monastery to NYC to Tapping!(00:10:30) For everyone who thinks they've tried everything and nothing is working. (00:13:44) Tapping as an Emotional Freedom Technique explained, and why it's called a neurological re-patterning tool. (00:20:36) The roadmap of your body and where to tap based on the kind of trauma you're trying to release.(00:23:05) Why mindful eating alone is not the answer. And what is?(00:31:23) How to utilize tapping as resistance training for your mind.(00:40:20) How tapping can have miraculous results.(00:51:27) Where to hear more from Marcella.Want to leave the TTSL Podcast a voicemail? We love your questions and adore hearing from you. https://www.speakpipe.com/TheThickThighsSaveLivesPodcastThe CVG Nation app, for iPhoneThe CVG Nation app, for AndroidOur Fitness FB Group.Thick Thighs Save Lives Workout ProgramsConstantly Varied Gear's Workout LeggingsThe 2025 CVG Movement Calendar
In this day and age, keeping our balance in maintaining a healthy body weight almost seems like every women's struggle which also affects varying aspects of our life including how we see ourselves and our worth. Has it ever crossed your mind if there are ways other than fad diets to help you sustain your body weight balance? So how about EFT tapping? Have you heard about its wonders? Oh yes, today is the day we're going to know more about this method combined with mindful eating to calm our food cravings and let us reach our ultimate health goal. We are going to have an enlightening chat with a mindful eating coach, Marcella Friel. She is also the founder of the Woman, Food, and Forgiveness Academy where she teaches women to love the woman they see in the mirror. For all you women out there who have given up your hopes in pacifying the emotional aspects of food cravings, let Marcella take your hand and walk you into her “I Wonder If…” story of discovering the power of the EFT tapping technique to help women heal traumas that have caused them to soothe themselves with food. So let's go ahead and listen to this episode now! 01:18 Marcella's I wonder if moment during 2013 … 02:31 The day she discovered the power of EFT tapping 03:20 A certified practitioner in 2014 and started helping lots of women with various eating disorders 06:04 Teaching women how to love their bodies? How? 06:45 Here's how tapping works ß 08:57 What is emotional eating? 10:20 Honoring our feelings first helps in the process 11:48 How do people's core beliefs wreak havoc on their physical, mental, and emotional health? 12:27 These are the questions you need to ask yourself first
MARCELLA FRIEL is a food and forgiveness mentor who uses the tool of EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) to help health-conscious women love and forgive themselves, their food, and their figure. RESOURCES Visit Marcella’s website at https://www.marcellafriel.com Visit https://www.womenfoodandforgiveness.com to explore her online courses and use the code HEATHER100 to get a free course of your choosing! Thanks for joining us on the Think Yourself Healthy Podcast! Don’t forget to leave a review and make sure you share that you’re listening to this episode on the gram and tag myself @heatherderanja and @thinkyourselfhealthy_ so we can share! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/heather-deranja/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/heather-deranja/support
Today’s guest, Marcella Friel, brings us the wonderful world of tapping (Emotional Freedom Technique, or EFT). Marcella is a food and forgiveness mentor for health conscious women, and one of her specialities is using tapping to heal. In this episode, Marcella does a round of tapping with me that you can follow along with if you’d like to give it a try! Tapping can be so helpful! Personally, I’ve been using an app called The Tapping Solution recently, and it’s been a really excellent way to wind down and connect with myself. In the upcoming months you’ll be hearing from LOTS of guests, as I’ll be taking a bit of a maternity leave. There will still be a new episode every Thursday, just fewer solo-casts until after the baby is born. Food & Forgiveness Mentor Marcella considers herself a food and forgiveness mentor for health conscious women. Her main tool? Tapping! This is also sometimes referred to as EFT or the Emotional Freedom Techniques. She has a book, two bestselling courses on The Daily Om, and an online mentorship academy all centered around healing our relationships with our bodies, food, and emotions. Marcella shares that she grew up with an immigrant background, and never remember dieting as a young woman. The older women in her family didn’t read fashion magazines or take part in “diet culture”, so she didn’t have much awareness or interest in that area. Later, Marcella attended culinary school and continued to grow her interest in the healing properties of food. As she continued learning, she decided to combine tapping with her therapeutic food work. As she started hearing her client’s stories, she recognized the power of using food to cope with emotional pain and trauma. Even though she hadn’t experienced dieting, Marcella had dealt with her own trauma and pain. Now, she’s that food and dieting are not the answer to emotional pain and healing. Tapping to Heal I shared with Marcella that I found tapping after I had already healed my relationships with food. Even though it wasn’t part of my early intuitive eating journey, I definitely see how it could play a powerful, helpful role! She shares that the idea of emotional freedom found in tapping isn’t about freeing ourselves from all negative feeling. Instead, it’s about keeping emotions from becoming trapped inside. Too often, we hold onto heavy negative emotions, rather than allowing them to leave our bodies. This impacts the limbic system within our brains. Practicing EFT allows us to use tapping to release them. As we call forward a difficult or stressful experience or feeling, we use our fingertips to tap against our skin, often on the head and face area. The tapping is used to down regulate our limbic system, and allows us to release. Marcella shares that she used tapping to release shame and negativity around comments her sister had made about her body as a child. Even though they may have seemed like silly, childish things, some of those comments had stuck! EFT helped her release them, as well as the body shame she had held as a result. Who Do You Think You Are? When she started her career, Marcella kept feeling doubt around her ability. The words, “Who do you think you are?” kept ringing through her head. Marcella worked with a tapping practitioner to revisit early memories that had created the belief that she had to be alone to ever succeed. With tapping, she was able to choose a new belief that was empowering and positive. By engaging in the emotional healing process herself, she was better equipped to work with others who desired the same freedom. Another way to use tapping? To deal with the present! Recently, Marcella realized that the fires and environmental tragedy on the west coast had really been impacting her. Recognizing the amount of grief and pain she held, she used tapping to access and release it. Tapping is part of soul healing. It’s a chance to really transform at the deepest levels, and it is a powerful way to work through body shame, emotional eating (allowing yourself to feel instead of consume!), and disconnection with self. If you’re thinking your problem is “sugar addiction“….think again! As you resolve the emotional issues, you’ll find your own, organic relationship with any food or substance that has felt problematic in your life Archetypes of Feminine Power Marcella shares that, with her clients, she uses the seasons to work with various female archetypes. This includes the Maiden, Mother, Queen, and Crone, and can encompass many ways of feeling and being. Throughout this rich cycle, client work includes tapping, reflection, wholistic nutrition, Ayurveda work, and more. I love holistic approaches, because they show how many elements are included in our relationship with food! From relationships with power, to how we were mothered….food begins to connect to so many things in our lives. Tapping to heal is powerful because it allows you to enter into this relationship in a new way, and finally release things that have been pain points. Marcella notes that this is one more reason why dieting just doesn’t work. When you don’t deal with the emotional elements of food, restriction and binging won’t serve you in the long run. Instead, you hold things together as long as you can, and then everything falls apart. This is painful, and creates more shame and guilt, which usually kicks off another dieting cycle. A Tapping Demonstration Let’s try it out! We’re going to be using the phrase “I don’t like the way my body looks.” as a starting point. You can be even more specific if you have a body part you’re specifically struggling with. For tapping to heal, here is a basic framework to get set up: Identify the issue you want to tap on. Ask yourself what emotions come up around that issue: shame, disgust, overwhelm, panic, etc. Gauge how distressed you feel about the thought/issue, using a 1-10 scale. Create your set up statement by tapping the fleshy, outer part of one hand with the fingers of your other hand. Move through the rest of the tapping points with a variety of statements and questions. In our session, the statement we used to start with was: Even though I feel __________ when I __________ I deeply love and accept myself anyways. If you listen in, you’ll hear how we move through different tapping locations and statements in our session. Tapping can feel really strange, because you use a lot of seemingly negative statements. However, speaking true things out loud (even if they are hard) while engaging in tapping can be a powerful form of release and freedom! Honor & Acknowledge Once you’ve honored and acknowledged a possible hard truth….you can start to question it. What if that “terrible” idea really isn’t true at all? And what if you can actually choose a new belief? Starting with a hard truth that feels really, really REAL and true is powerful, especially if you’ve gotten used to the overly positive self-help world that seems to always be pushing us towards positivity. The relief of feeling hard things, and even saying hard things out loud, is incredible. If you haven’t tried tapping before, you might find it a useful healing modality! (And if you don’t connect with it, that’s okay too!) And if you do give it a try….I’d LOVE to hear about it. Send me an email or a DM and let me know how it goes!
Welcome back to the podcast! Today’s guest is Marcella Friel! She is a mindful eating mentor and natural foods chef who helps health-conscious women love and forgive themselves, their food, and their figure. Marcella leads online and in-person workshops on mindful eating and works privately with clients from around the world. She is the author of “Tap, Taste, Heal.” In This Episode, We Will Discuss: How tapping can minimize cravings How food cravings link to fight or flight response Spiritual and self-forgiveness And more! Enjoy! Check out her website here: https://www.marcellafriel.com/ CLEAN YOUR HANDS With This INCREDIBLE Non-Toxic Hand Soap: http://click.mygreenfills.com/aff_c?offer_id=36&aff_id=2703 Check out the FASTING RESET SUMMIT HERE: https://fastingresetsummit.com/ Listen to the new audiobook as a podcast HERE: https://chantelrayway.com/purchase-audio-book/ Purchase on Amazon Here: https://www.amazon.com/shop/intermittentfastingthechantelrayway Free Video Preview: https://chantelrayway.com/top-12-thin-eater-tips-free-video/ Check out these things I LOVE: https://chantelrayway.com/things-i-love-2/ Strengthen your immune system with Vitamin C: https://chantelrayway.com/vitaminc/ Protein Powder: https://store.chantelrayway.com/products/complete-protein-shake-vanilla & https://store.chantelrayway.com/products/complete-protein-shake-chocolate Enjoy refreshing, all-natural wine: https://chantelrayway.com/wine/ Enjoy a FREE smoothie recipe book: https://chantelrayway.com/freerecipe/ Re-energize with nutritious algae Energybits: https://chantelrayway.com/energybits Castor Oil: https://chantelrayway.com/castoroil Even more: https://chantelrayway.com/things-i-love-2/ Get the audiobook & e-book bundle of Chantel's 2nd edition to Waist Away The Chantel Ray Way at a REDUCED price HERE! Connect with us on Social Media: YouTube Channel Link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCteFjiVaY6n0SOAixcyZbWA Like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TheChantelRayWay Things we love: https://chantelrayway.com/things-i-love-2/ Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheChantelRayWay This podcast is a SIMPRONTO MEDIA production. ***As always, this podcast is not designed to diagnose, treat, prevent or cure any condition and is for information purposes only. Please consult with your healthcare professional before making any changes to your current lifestyle.***
5 Days of Journaling on Inspired Potential begins September 9, 2019! Reignite your daily practice of connecting with your inner voice this fall! Sign up for this free challenge at www.kellycovert.com/journal. Here are some of the big topics we talked about… Marcella’s book Tap, Taste, Heal: Use Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) to Eat Joyfully and Love Your Body The links between food and spirituality, and our bodies and Mother Earth Tapping: a tool to start new food practices and get around subconscious obstacles The secret weapon of sabotage - a whole chapter in Marcella’s book! When we’re transforming, our souls might want to revert back to a more familiar identity Looking at the subconscious identities we get from our “tribe” - tap to clear that “subconscious underbrush” and develop the strength to be more authentically visible Clearing your shadow sides - tapping helps the brain to let go of negative beliefs A heart-centered 30-second practice to connect you into your inner voice In Marcella’s Voice “The food that we eat becomes who we are. I believe it also becomes our consciousness. When we take food as a spiritual practice, we’re likely to make wiser, more discerning choices.” “We are the earth. There is no nature outside of ourselves.” “To whatever extent we can, get off that wheel (of stress, inflammation, being too busy)!” “Tapping is one of the great tools of being able to really resolve conflicting emotions.” “Sabotage entails the feeling of intentionally thwarting your own progress. Everything’s good and out of nowhere there’s a twist in your behavior where something boomerangs.” “When embarking on transformation, we hit a setpoint where behavior, lifestyle, and manifestation go beyond that identity. Part of us wants safety, love, protection. That identity, no matter how painful, is still familiar. Part of our soul that says, no, we’re not going any further.” “Perfectionism is really the evil twin of shame. Both have their roots in ‘not good enough.’” “For so many of us, not good enough was how we got by. There might have been a hidden blessing. Once we get this, it becomes so much easier to let go of the part that we don’t need.” Connect with Marcella WebsiteTap, Taste, HealFacebook Instagram
“You’ll have to work twice as hard to get there.” Do you struggle with dieting and your relationship with food? What is a “set point”? How can we use EFT to tap into the deep-set roots of our issues in order to heal, forgive, and overcome past traumas? Answers to these questions and more in this Coach Chat segment with Coach Colette and Marcella Friel, food and forgiveness mentor and author of Tap Taste Heal: Use Emotional Freedom Techniques to Eat Joyfully and Love Your Body, as they discuss the relationship between food and wellness, and how we can use Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) to heal past traumas. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/coach-colette/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/coach-colette/support
"You haven't failed- your diets have failed you". So much yes. I am thrilled to share this interview with Marcella Friel with you. Marcella Friel is the founder of Tapping with Marcella, a food and body image coaching practice that helps health-conscious people love and forgive themselves, their food and their figure. Marcella is a graduate of the Natural Gourmet Institute in New York City, a certified EFT Tapping practitioner and a certified matrix reimprinting practitioner. A longtime student and teacher of Buddhist meditation, Marcella 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 the foods they eat. In this interview with Marchella, you'll discover:The first step to changing your eating habits Why we have so many struggles with food in our culture (and it's not your fault!) Three steps to overcoming a dieting cycle and to have a more peaceful relationship with food How tapping can dramatically transform your habits and your relationship with food
Welcome to Thyroid Refresh TV! In this episode, we speak with Marcella Friel, a mindful eating mentor who helps health-conscious women love and forgive themselves, their food, and their figure. Marcella is a trained whole-foods chef, body image mentor, longtime Buddhist teacher and author. She is also a certified ‘Tapping’ instructor who, through her coaching practice, has helped countless people heal their relationship with food. Also known as Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), Tapping is an energy-healing practice in which pressure is self-applied to points on the head, face and body in tandem with vocalized, affirmational statements that, together, short circuit harmful thought patterns.
© 2020-2025 Ivy Podcast Discovery LLC
