Tapping with Marcella

There comes a moment in many women’s healing journeys when we realize:

We cannot spend the rest of our lives waiting for our mothers to become someone different.

That realization can feel heartbreaking.

And liberating.

My most personal essay, “The Day I Decided Never to See My Mother Again,” is about the complicated intersection of forgiveness, boundaries, grief, compassion, estrangement, and finally learning how to stop abandoning yourself in relationship to your mother.

If Mother’s Day feels emotionally complicated for you this year, I hope these words offer some comfort, companionship, and hope.

📝The day I decided never to see my mother again Reflections on the taboo of mother-daughter estrangement

After multiple miscarriages, Katy lost her daughter at 24 weeks.

What followed wasn’t a tidy healing story.

It was grief, rage, and a confrontation with everything she had carried for years—including her relationship with her own mother.

Today, she’s raising three children and building a school designed to help kids discover who they are and why they’re here.

This conversation will stay with you.

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If you’ve eaten the cookies, gained the weight, and now find yourself in a full-blown firestorm of self-blame… this is for you. 😫

Over the years, I’ve said the same thing to so many women sitting across from me in that exact place:

“There is nothing wrong with you. There’s nothing bad about you. There are only things in the way—and they can be moved.”

In honor of the 7th anniversary of Tap, Taste, Heal, I’m sharing a chapter on the F-word:

Forgiveness.

Not the “screw it, whatever” kind.

But the kind that looks shame straight in the eye and asks:

Can I love myself even with this?

This is exactly where EFT Tapping becomes such a powerful ally—because it helps you move forgiveness out of your head and into your body, where real release can happen.

If you’re in that place right now, come read and tap along with me.

📝 "Can I Love Myself Even with *This*?" When you forgive, you lose emotional and physical pounds

Are you longing to look in the mirror at your aging body and genuinely love what you see?

Then let's do this.

In today's podcast episode I guide you through EFT Tapping and contemplative journaling to help you gently rewire how you relate to the thoughts you’ve been carrying about yourself for years

If you’ve been feeling more critical, more tender, or more aware of time passing… this is for you.

🎙️ Love the older woman you see in the mirror Beyond “aging gracefully,” facing decline and death with an open heart

When we’re stressed or upset, our nervous system naturally tries to resist what’s happening. But the paradox is this: the more we resist reality, the more tension we create in the body.

And the more that tension causes us to reach for food and other substances to soothe ourselves.

Sounds like you?

Listen and tap along to gently unwind that resistance and help your body move from frenzy to emotional clarity.

🌅 Sacred Sunday Tapping: Acceptance is the answer "Nothing—absolutely nothing—happens in God's world by mistake"

If your heart is breaking for those who are suffering in war-torn countries, did you know that you can do surrogate tapping on their behalf?

You'll get benefit, too. Open and tap along.

🌅 Sacred Sunday Tapping: A prayer for peace in times of war For those in my audience in strife-torn countries ... this Tapping is for you

When was the last time you ignored a hunch? And what were the consequences?

In my latest post I explore the forces that silence inner guidance and entrain our nervous systems into compliance.

I then offer practical guidance on how to bring our intuitive listening back online—and why it matters now more than ever.

If this is your work right now, the full piece is live.

📝 Remembering the inner voice that knows The forces that seek to overwhelm and silence us also create profound spiritual strength—if we know how to work with them

Many women I work with describe brain fog as one of the most unsettling experiences of midlife.

Opening your browser and forgetting why ... losing words mid-sentence ... feeling your once-sharp mind fizz out ... and then hearing your doctor say, "That's just how it is now" can be downright terrifying.

In this episode of The Marcella Principle podcast, I speak with functional nutritionist Sarah Wayne about why brain fog happens, why it’s so often dismissed, and how it can be addressed through nervous system regulation, metabolic support, and deep inner listening.

It’s a grounded, compassionate exploration of what the body might be asking for during perimenopause.

If you’ve been struggling to think clearly and wondering what’s wrong with you, this episode offers a different frame.

🎙️Love the you who forgot what she meant to say Brain fog, perimenopause, and the path home to mental clarity with functional nutritionist Sarah Wayne

I just published a new essay on tending spiritual light in a darkening world, based on the teachings of 4th-century mystic St. Marcella of Rome.

It’s the first in a six-part series on The Marcella Principle, and it speaks to the deeper roots beneath food struggles, self-care, and resilience.

Sharing it here with love:

📝 Tending spiritual light in a darkening world A threefold path for times of collapse

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🎙️Create the life you want in the first hour of your day When it comes to new habits, well begun is half-done