S11 EP25: It’s Not About the Food. Here’s Why! With Marcella Friel
The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast
Constantly Varied Gear
4.9 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the podcast, Marcella Friel, an author, teacher, and food and forgiveness mentor, introduces listeners to EFT Tapping, a neurological repatterning tool. Marcella specializes in helping women heal the emotional roots of yo-yo dieting, binge eating, sugar addiction, and body shaming.
During the episode, Marcella and Rachael discuss the reasons why diets fail, the use of food as a tool for self-harm, and how to heal trauma by building healthy habits in a culture where unhealthy things are easily accessible. They also explore how to move from addictive behavior to appreciating your body and how to incorporate mindful eating into a busy schedule. This episode is for anyone who feels they have tried everything to improve their relationship with food and their body, but nothing seems to work.
Marcella’s links:
https://www.womenfoodandforgiveness.com/
(00:04:02) Marcella’s journey from corporate America to Buddhist monastery to NYC to Tapping!
(00:10:30) For everyone who thinks they’ve tried everything and nothing is working.
(00:13:44) Tapping as an Emotional Freedom Technique explained, and why it’s called a neurological re-patterning tool.
(00:20:36) The roadmap of your body and where to tap based on the kind of trauma you're trying to release.
(00:23:05) Why mindful eating alone is not the answer. And what is?
(00:31:23) How to utilize tapping as resistance training for your mind.
(00:40:20) How tapping can have miraculous results.
(00:51:27) Where to hear more from Marcella.
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| 0:00.0 | They've done the keto. They've done the intuitive eating. They've taken the mindful eating and meditation |
| 0:05.2 | courses. So what all those so-called failures have led to or what they do lead to is the recognition, |
| 0:12.3 | as one client put it to me, I need a sole solution to this problem. It's not the food. |
| 0:21.8 | Hey, everybody. We've had some of the food. Hey, everybody. |
| 0:23.0 | We've had some of the most incredible guests coming to you these past couple of months. |
| 0:28.6 | The amount of expertise and knowledge on these cutting edge topics is something we really hope |
| 0:36.2 | that you enjoy. |
| 0:40.5 | And if you do, it would make a huge difference to us if you could rate, review and subscribe the podcast. It helps us to get |
| 0:45.0 | more guests, better experts, and talk about all of the things that are really important to |
| 0:51.2 | you. So give us a love. Give us a lot of love. And don't forget to subscribe |
| 0:57.8 | so you get all our new episodes. Hello, everybody, and welcome back to the Thigh Thighs |
| 1:03.2 | Save Lives podcast. I'm Rachel and I have such a special guest for you today that is going to |
| 1:10.0 | open your mind to so many incredible |
| 1:12.6 | possibilities for both your spiritual and your physical well-being. I have Marcella Friel. |
| 1:20.8 | I'm sorry, you told me before, but I didn't do it right. For real. Marcella, for real, with us today. And she is our resident expert on |
| 1:33.1 | tapping. Welcome, Marcella. Hey, Rachel. Thank you so much for inviting me to this show. I'm so excited to |
| 1:39.7 | have this conversation. We're so excited to have you. I always say we, it's usually me and Kelsey. She's out |
| 1:45.5 | on maternity leave right now. She has a brand new, the most beautiful baby boy. And, um, but in the |
| 1:53.9 | meantime, I just speak in, in tones as if it was the two of us here. In my mind, it is. |
| 2:01.1 | Well, we say it's the two of us here. In my mind it is. Well, we can say it's the royal we. The cosmic we, we. |
| 2:07.5 | All of us, all of us, me and the listeners, all of the universe. We are all here to enjoy this |
| 2:15.6 | conversation with you today. |
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