The Tapping Solution for Weight Loss & Body Confidence: A Woman's Guide to Stressing Less, Weighing Less, and Loving More

I really followed the plan for a good while until I was almost done with the book. I did the exercises in the right order. Some of them hit home for me and helped me to release some old and negative energy. Others, not so much. But that's okay. I used to go on YouTube and look at a lot of Brad Yates' videos. Some of them didn't hit home for me but when they did, oh boy! I have cried tears that I didn't even know I had bottled up inside and I have released old energy that I didn't even know was trapped in me using using tapping techniques. Using other people's scripts have even helped me to create some new scripts of my own. In fact, one of my fondest memories related to EFT is when I first started using EFT and I was having difficulty with a boss who seemed bent on victimizing me and putting me in my place/dulling my shine. I now see that I never could have attracted myself into a situation like that if I hadn't seen myself as so worthless and undeserving of good. I expected to suffer and I got plenty of it. But I used a tapping script around a very painful time that I was having with my boss and his boss, a woman that I came to regard as very hard spirited, entitled and unkind. They were coming down really hard on me and dumping a lot of work on me and I was so terrified and so afraid and so sad and so heartbroken. I felt so victimized because I knew that I was a great employee. I worked as a software technical writer and my work was so good that I was touted as having turned around documentation at my company. When there was downsizing at my company and most of the writers on my team either left or were let go and not rehired, a group of programmers even stood up for me because they didn't want to see the quality of the documentation that I was producing go down. They begged the executive team to get me some help. They didn't. But it is unheard of for programmers to stand up for a technical writer like that. So I knew that I was a good employee but I wasn't so good at managing my personal life and attracting myself into situations where I was being respected and valued. I had a great writing style and was gifted at writing for both technical and non-technical audiences. I was beyond dedicated. I would stay in that place writing until 9 p.m. at night almost every night. Plus I was a team lead, getting team lead pay but had the responsibilities of a documentation manager. I managed three teams in three states and wrote full-time myself and handled everything from their reviews, their timesheets, project management you name it. I lived like a total victim! I was begging for approval! I had no personal life! But at the time , I couldn't see it and couldn't figure out why this abuse was happening to somebody like me who devoted my whole life to this company. So I started tapping about something fairly benign -a pending meeting that I had with my boss and his boss that had me worried. These bozos actually wanted me to start producing reports to show how my team and I spent our time when I was working like a fool, was the only writer left standing for my product line, was ridiculously understaffed and couldn't have worked harder if I had moved into the place, when my productivity was at an all-time high, and when I was straining myself to the point of sickness to do the job of two or three people ! All of a sudden these tears related to beliefs that I had adopted about myself in childhood came flooding up and out of me. I cried so hard that I was literally shaking. I've never cried that hard before in my life except when my father died. Right after I released all that pain, those folks didn't change but I did. They got off my back because I carried a different energy. It wasn't a mean or defensive energy but something had changed in me. And some of the additional workload that they had planned to dump on me never happened. For some reason, every time they got ready to try, there was something that came up to delay it. I can't explain it but something shifted and it felt spiritual in nature. Then shortly after that, I found a new job and walked out on my own terms.Back to the review. So I thought this was a good one to add to my arsenal. Maybe I didn't find it as poignant and is impactful as I had hoped. Maybe my hopes were just a little bit too high or maybe I've just gotten to a point where I find my own scripts to be more useful. But that doesn't mean that it's a bad book. I'm glad that I got it and I love that this author put her whole heart into it. I think it would be really profound for somebody new to tapping. I respect her work and this is definitely a keeper!

I have read and applied this books concepts. No matter what the outcome of a diet or fitness routine has, changing your concept of how you view and honor your body and yourself is a game changer. Body positivity at any size is so much healthier than treating your body with negativity. I have recommended this book to family, friends and clients.

I am so excited about this book! I feel, at last, there are not only answers, but solutions to the lifelong questions so many of us have faced with our weight and the negative image we hold of ourselves as a result of our weight. Jessica Ortner has written a book that not only speaks to the emotional and historical roots of our struggles with “weight loss and body confidence”, but provides us with a pathway out of the shame and guilt so many of us feel in the face of all our past failures. I, for one, have started every new year for as long as I can remember with the pledge that this would be the year I'd get control over my weight. Almost more than any other, the issue of weight and how I feel about myself as a result of my weight has consumed me for the better part of my adult life. I feel I’m something of an expert on what doesn't work, and I know I am not alone in this.Then, along came Jessica Ortner. Looking at a picture of Jessica today, it's difficult to imagine how she could possibly understand the weight loss journey I've been on, the mountains, the valleys, the emotional pain. Yet, this book resonated with me immediately at a very deep level. Jessica says that we have been approaching the problem from the wrong direction. We believe that before we can even think about being happy, or successful, we must lose the weight. Jessica sees that if we learn to treat ourselves with compassion, if we find the beauty that is at our core, if we become happy and accepting of who we are…in this very moment… the weight will begin to fall off as a natural side effect of that happiness and peace of mind. Why does Jessica believe this? She believes it because she has lived it, and she, along with thousands of her clients, provides living, breathing evidence of its truth.Jessica’s voice comes right off the page…comforting, understanding and non-judgmental. She has such compassion for what we have been through and what we are going through. And yet, she comes at us with an honesty that is what we so need. She creates a safe space in which we can hear the tough stuff, yet feel cared for at the same time. Her goal is to teach us how to provide ourselves with extreme self-care and freedom from judgment. How can we do that, you ask, when we can’t even look at ourselves in a mirror? This, my friend, is the best part!Throughout her book, Jessica leads us on a journey to discover those things that are at the core of our weight loss and body confidence issues. She teaches us how we can use an amazing tool, tapping, to easily and quickly identify and process the things from our past and the limiting beliefs we hold about ourselves that keep us stuck and prevent us from moving forward. Tapping can reach those places where our pain, our loneliness, our feelings of inadequacy, are held at a subconscious level. If you are familiar with tapping, you'll be happy to know that Jessica provides guidance on what ideas to tap on as you work to release the "pain beneath the weight". If you are unfamiliar with tapping, you are about to make an amazing discovery. A new door is about to open for you. I think there is a part of each of us that knows the weight we carry is not about the food. There is a whole lot more going on than the idea that "I just like to eat!" We have been using food as a way to comfort ourselves for years, but that comes at a huge cost to our health and our self esteem. This book is about to radically change the way we look at this whole complex issue. How lucky for you that you have found it.

I bought this book a ping time ago, and haven’t had the time to pick it up. Two weeks ago I picked it up and started tapping, and wow I have lost 8lb !!!!I am a comfort eater and tend to snack in the evening. My addiction was crisps, so I bought my favourite to test myself. I have not snacked or eaten crisps in two weeks. I don’t even think about it anymore. In fact I see food in a whole new way. This book has really transformed my life, I don’t quite understand it all yet but I’m learning everyday and transforming my life. Love it ! ❤️

I found this book extremely helpful. It's not full of jargon so it's very easy to read and work through the tapping sequences. Jennifer helps you understand what is behind your eating pattern. I feel this book has helped me immensely. Especially the bonus tapping sequences for being overwhelmed before you even start your day and also one for the end of the day. I have even started to lose weight because I am less stressed and Jennifer's tapping sequences got me out of a vicious circle thoughts and eating pattern. Would I recommend yes I certainly would and have already to friends. This book works if you are willing to work on the tapping routines.

A really interesting programme, and one I really enjoyed not just reading but actually following through to the very end. Jessia has a lovely, conversational and chatty way of writing which makes this a pleasure to read. The additional web resources and downloads make it a really comprehensive guide, and one I will definitely be recommending to my clients.

This book looks really good. I’ve glanced at it only but it looks so easy to understand and is explained very clearly.

An amazing book! This is so intuitive and hits too the core of why we lose confidence and gain weight! Jessica is very compassionate but gives very precise instructions re tapping and how the individual can create their own path of healing!