Summary: <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>“You can’t hate yourself happy, and you can’t criticize yourself thin, and you can’t shame yourself healthy.</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;">That’s the strategy that so many women are using and it’s important to address the emotional side of weight loss and to take a different approach.” –Jessica Ortner</p> <p>Who am I to take care of myself when so many people depend on me? I hear this all the time. The fact is that self-care is not a reward. It is an essential ingredient to living, to surviving, to having a healthy life. “Tapping” is a technique I use myself of literally tapping with your fingers on acupressure points in order to relax your body and/or change your mindset. It is useful for alleviating cravings, stress, anxiety, and much more.</p> <p>Tapping expert Jessica Ortner stopped by the podcast to explain how tapping can help a woman understand the motivation behind certain behaviors and consciously reprogram her response. Listen as we discuss:</p> <ul> <li>The practice of tapping and how to begin</li> <li>The critical importance of self-care and pleasure</li> <li>Why we feel that we need to practice diet and deprivation</li> <li>The reason behind the clenching feeling in our stomach, back pain, or insomnia</li> </ul> <p><em>Please listen and learn to love yourself and your body through tapping.</em></p>
