158: Using tapping to overcome weight loss struggles and finding balance with Brittany Watkins
The Fitnessista Podcast: Healthy In Real Life
Gina Harney
4.9 • 522 Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Hi friends! New podcast episode is live. Friendly disclaimer: we talk about binging and emotional eating in this episode. If you feel like this would be a triggering topic for you, please use your discretion. xo
Full transcript and show notes are here.
I'm so thrilled to have Brittany Watkins on the podcast today. She is AMAZING and has so much knowledge to share. I hope you love this episode! She's offering her 7-day challenge for free for listeners here.
Here's what we chat about:
Why You Self-Sabotage Your Weight Loss Efforts with Emotional Eating and Binge Eating
How tapping works and how it impacts your body and brain
The Difference Between Cravings and Emotional Eating
Subconscious Weight Loss Blockers
Why You Overeat or Overdrink at Parties
and so much more.
Here's more about Brittany and her background:
Brittany Watkins is a renowned speaker, author, and creator of The Echo Tapping Method™, a groundbreaking technique in Food Psychology. Recognized as a leading expert in Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT or Tapping), especially for weight loss and emotional eating, Brittany has built a remarkable career over the last 15 years. She has changed the lives of over 100,000 women by addressing their food cravings, emotional eating, and self-sabotage. She focuses on finding and fixing the root causes of these issues quickly. She developed The Echo Tapping Method™, an innovative approach that rapidly speeds up the healing process. This unique psychology biohacking modality has been shown to provide the benefits of ten years of therapy in just a few sessions. Brittany's core professional dedication has been to provide quick and lasting change. Brittany has also trained more than 400 medical professionals, therapists, and counselors in her method, who are helping thousands of patients every year. Her work has been recognized in major publications like Psychology Today, Shape, and Women's Health and Fitness Magazine. Plus, her techniques have reached over 10 million women worldwide via Facebook and YouTube, establishing her as a key figure in psychological healing for emotional eating.
Check out her Instagram here and her website here.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The Healthy and Real Life podcast episode number 158. |
| 0:04.7 | Welcome to the Healthy in Real Life podcast, bite-sized tips for healthy living that you can implement right now. |
| 0:12.1 | Join us weekly for interviews and real life advice for creating the happiest and healthiest version of yourself. |
| 0:19.2 | Here's your host, fitness expert, author, and mom of two, |
| 0:22.9 | Gina Harney. Hey everyone. Welcome back to the show. This is Gina, bestselling author, |
| 0:28.2 | Integrative Health Practitioner and founder of Fitnessista.com. I'm so excited that you're here today. |
| 0:34.0 | Thank you so much for tuning in. And I'm so pumped for today's episode. Today I'm chatting with |
| 0:38.6 | Brittany Watkins. She's the creator of the echo tapping method. And we're talking about how you can |
| 0:43.5 | use this for food psychology, such as weight loss resistance, binging, emotional eating. And it's just |
| 0:50.8 | a really fascinating conversation. I'm so excited to have her on the show today. |
| 0:56.0 | Before we dive in, I just wanted to give you a heads up because of the content of the show. |
| 0:59.6 | I don't recommend it for the kiddos. |
| 1:01.2 | I'm pretty sure none of my episodes are for the kids. |
| 1:04.2 | But maybe one that you want to put your headphones on while you're doing chores or listening |
| 1:08.6 | on a walk. |
| 1:09.7 | And also just because of the content, we're talking |
| 1:12.2 | about emotional eating, binging. So please keep in mind if that is a triggering topic for you, |
| 1:19.0 | might want to skip this one. And also, if you are struggling with these things, definitely seek out |
| 1:24.4 | the help that you deserve. You deserve to feel better. This can be an incredible |
| 1:28.9 | strategy, but it's really helpful to work with a therapist relating to these issues, talk to your |
| 1:34.3 | doctor, get the help that you deserve, and I'm sending you love and thinking about you on your |
| 1:39.5 | healing journey. So I just wanted to put that disclaimer at the beginning of today's episode. |
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