Tapping with Marcella

After experiencing a devastating loss at age four, Dr. Rani Thanacoody spent decades living with emotional pain she couldn't fully understand.

Along the way she encountered abuse, chronic pain, emotional shutdown, and patterns that kept her disconnected from her own joy.

What moved me most about Dr. Rani's story is how she found healing by listening to her pain rather than running from it.

This is a powerful conversation about what happens when we meet our wounds with the love they deserve.

If you've ever felt stuck in a pattern you couldn't explain, you'll gain insight into what you need for your own healing.

🎙️ Press play and listen:

"I'm so glad you left me" Dr. Rani Thanacoody shares her deeply moving story of profound loss and abuse that led her to a joy she never thought was possible

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