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Part I of the book, I’ll teach you the basics of tapping, showing you what it is and why it works. Then I’ll help launch you on your weight loss and body confidence journey by teaching you how to use this technique to move past the first obstacle many people face—panic. In Part II , I’ll walk you through the process of “peeling the onion,” looking at the deeper aspects of your weight and body confidence challenges. This will really help you release and clear old patterns and emotions that have interfered with weight loss in the past. And then in Part III , you’ll create a more empowering relationship with exercise as well as food, and learn how to implement self-care in your life.
    As you read this book and experience this process, I encourage you to do all of the exercises and use all of the tapping meditations. My tapping meditations, which you’ll find at the end of most chapters, are designed to help you incorporate what you learned in the chapter. It is crucial that you do the tapping. Without tapping, this process may show you why you’ve struggled with weight, but it won’t consistently deliver the long-term weight loss and body confidence that it does with tapping.
    I recommend that you read the book in its entirety once, and then return to the parts that resonate with you. My hope is that you’ll come back to this book whenever you need some support. Let it be your companion throughout your journey.
    I feel so incredibly honored to be sharing this process with you, and I hope that this is the beginning of your journey toward having a healthy body that you sincerely love and appreciate each and every day. More important, I hope that this is the start of your journey toward truly loving and accepting yourself as the incredible and amazing woman you are. From this point forward, may you see your true worth and value in this world.

Chapter 1
    How Tapping Helps You Lose Weight
    S tanding tall at six feet five, Dawson Church, Ph.D., is a hard man to miss.
    I had just walked into a conference in London where Dr. Church and I were both scheduled to speak on tapping. Happy to see him at the other end of the hall, I stood on my tippy toes to wave hello. (At five feet two, I’m rarely in his direct line of sight.)
    I’d had the pleasure of working with Dr. Church several times since we first met in 2007 while I was filming The Tapping Solution . I’d always appreciated his jovial nature—he has a laugh so jolly, it could make Santa Claus jealous—so I was excited when he excused himself from the crowd that had gathered around him and came rushing over.
    Right away I could tell he had something exciting to tell me. After some quick “how’s the family?” chitchat, Dr. Church explained that he’d just returned from a medical conference where he’d presented the test results of his latest study for the first time.
    He explained that the research had confirmed the science behind what I’d experienced myself and seen in thousands of others—that tapping is an incredibly effective way to decrease the negative impacts of stress on the body.
    Dr. Church’s research, which I’ll share in this chapter, and several other groundbreaking studies help explain why tapping helps us lose weight and keep it off without dieting, deprivation, or extreme exercise.

Tapping and Weight Loss
    Dr. Peta Stapleton is a clinical psychologist in Queensland, Australia, who has spent the past 20 years treating eating disorders in her patients and researching weight loss and specific eating behaviors. At the time of our interview, she had concluded the first (and most important) phase of her study on how tapping impacts food cravings and weight loss. The results were, and still are, incredibly exciting—proof of what I’ve seen repeatedly in my clients and students.
    In doing this study, Dr. Stapleton wanted to find out whether tapping affects weight loss and food cravings, and if so, how effective it is. Because of the