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

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.

This book is what everyone else says...warm, inviting, like talking with a friend. Jessica Ortner has been there and done that and was able to get a smaller sized t-shirt from the journey. So she understands. In her book, Jessica addresses what extra weight is really about and gives the reader actionable (and easily doable) steps to effect healing within themselves and to make the shifts that they desire in their bodies, energy and lives. Tapping is easy. You can do it anyway and Jessica shows, in this book, how easy it is to make those changes that you have previously struggled with. While Jessica didn't 'invent' tapping, she brings the practice to readers in such a comfortable, safe way that they feel supported as they work through the book. But this book's story is much bigger than tapping or weight loss. It is about confidence. As a matter of transparency, I am the illustrator for this book. My first published illustrations. I am so excited and the reason that I was able to share my art with the world was because of this practice and the way Jessica teaches this process. She helps women to find their inner strength, to be willing to step up in life and say "I am enough". Upon reading this book and doing the tapping, the first thing that the reader will find is PEACE. Stress starts to melt away. For me, quickly. The anxiety lessens throughout the process of tapping. This feeling of calm is worth the price of the book, even if there weren't any other results. But there are many more. After years of trying to give up diet soda, I just stopped because of this process. I didn't try. I just didn't want it anymore! That was huge for me, as I knew I was poisoning myself with the chemicals in the drinks. In addition, I find that my whole attitude towards food has changed. It has matured. When I used to (yes USED TO) diet, I felt restricted, which I am not a big fan of, and that I was being punished by what I couldn't have. Now I understand that food isn't about just comfort or enjoyment, which was its function in my life before Jessica's work. Sure, it can be enjoyed and should be. Now I know that my body has its needs beyond my taste buds and that was a WOW moment for me. I intellectually knew that before but now I get it. I could say so much more about this book but will close with this. While the weight loss is great, the best thing readers will get from this book is what they will gain...a new level of peace and appreciation for who they are. That is a gift that we not only give to ourselves but to the world around us. Jessica is a great model of self acceptance not because she is perfect but because she is perfectly, beautifully human and so openly shares her experiences with the reader of this book. A life changing book.

I would recommend this book to any female out there. If you are happy with your weight or not, this book is about so much more. Written in an easy to follow and relatable style, it guides you through tapping and the science behind it and then walks you through how to use tapping for yourself in relation to multiple aspects to your emotions, stress, cravings, beliefs, past events, and more. Anything that could be holding you back, not just from getting to your ideal weight, but from fully living your life, can be helped with tapping. I suggest keeping a notebook with you as you read the book because things are going to come up, whether you have aha moments, whether you read something and it strikes a nerve or maybe you just resist the whole thing. Write it down! Those are all clues to help you use what this book teaches you. The same happens as you work with tapping. Jessica Ortner is very relatable and through her own story and stories of those she has worked with, she presents a new way to look at weight, at body confidence and at life. This book breaks it all down in a way that you can easily follow it at your own pace. If there is an area you need to work on more than others, you can take the time and work on it or you can always come back to it. This is not just a great book to read now but this is one to keep on your shelf to go back to anytime you start to feel like you aren't your best. This book can help you learn to truly like yourself and to let yourself shine. It goes through many layers of the emotions behind weight but also talks about exercise and food in a new way. It doesn't just say, eat this and don't eat that or do this workout at least 6 times per week. This is about creating a new lifestyle for yourself and a new way of looking at everything.

I thought the book hit bang on and was very good. I have still not started melting the pounds but feel happier and relieved after doing the exercises. I recommend this book very highly.

This is the book I have been waiting for to hit the market. The concept to love yourself as you are right now no matter what size you are resonates so deeply with me and I know if will for other people. Anyone who has been on and off the diet wheel will breath a sigh of relief that they don't have to count calories but they will learn how to count on themselves and this is empowering. The tapping is so simple and user friendly and Jessica is so down to earth and refreshingly honest with her journey that she speaks for so many of us. You will laugh and nod your head as you read other peoples stories. Tapping is for so many things other than just letting go of weight so this book is very special as you are given the tool to change your life. In the book Jessica has some tapping scripts to get you started so just sit back follow along and watch the magic happen.

Ich bin begeistert von der EFT Methode und von dem praxisbezogenen Buch. Bin am durcharbeiten der einzelnen Themenbereiche und optimistisch, dass mit dem Tapping zusammen einiges an meinen Essgewohnheiten ändern wird. Jedes Kapitel enthält 1-3 Tappings. Das Audiobuch ist ebenfalls empfehlenswert.

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