Mindful Eating Mentor for Health-Conscious Women
 
 

author | chef | healer | transformational mentor

Meet Marcella

I help health-conscious women like you heal the traumas that cause you to soothe yourself with food.

In 2018, I founded the Women, Food & Forgiveness Academy, an online transformational mentorship program to help women cultivate unconditional self-love as the path to health-supportive food choices and long-term sustainable body-weight balance.

I’m the author of Tap, Taste, Heal: Use Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) to Eat Joyfully and Love Your Body, which EFT researcher Peta Stapleton called “a must-read.”

Over 70,000 students have benefited from my online courses, "Lose Emotional & Physical Weight with Tapping" and “21 Tapping Meditations for Emotional Eating and Beyond,” both of which are top-40 bestsellers on DailyOM.

I’m a certified EFT Tapping and Matrix Reimprinting practitioner through Tapping the Matrix Academy in Santa Rosa, California.

 
 
 
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 kudos, praises, accolades

 
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“Intuitive and wise, Marcella sees from her third eye. She can move mountains in assisting women on their Heroine’s Journey.”

—Emma D.

“Marcella is intuitive, wise, and passionate about empowering women to find their inner peace and strength.”

—Brenda M.

“Marcella is an incredible mentor who ignites transformation in her students. It is evident she wants to help others live their best life.”

—Camille G.

“Marcella shows her excitement when guiding people through messy stuff with humor and laughter while acknowledging concern. She’s confident we can all get healthier.”

—Leslie I.

“Marcella possesses a powerful light and a way of sharing it that makes me feel both lifted and at peace.”

—Charmaine B.

 
 
 

In 1994, I discovered an escape clause in the rat-race contract and left corporate America to cook for cloistered meditators at Gampo Abbey Buddhist monastery in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, under the guidance of Pema Chödrön.

When a monk remarked that I had found my “right livelihood” in cooking, I pursued a culinary arts path that led me to certify as a natural foods chef at the Natural Gourmet Institute in New York City, under the direction of the late Annemarie Colbin.

I cooked and taught at meditation retreat centers across North America, including Shambhala Mountain Center, Spirit Rock Meditation Center, and elsewhere.

I taught healing culinary arts at Bauman College in Northern California from 2005 to 2013.

 
 

 the deeper story:

Even though I was absolutely in love with working as a chef and culinary arts instructor, the time came around 2013 when I needed a depth charge. I had been working with a Tapping practitioner for a few years by this time and thought, Okay, I’m going to become a practitioner myself and help people figure out what to eat.

I had no idea what I was getting myself into.

When one of my early clients said to me, “Some women use razor blades; I use food,” I was completely stopped in my tracks.

On the one hand, as one of those rare women who’s never dieted a day in my life, I had no idea what she was talking about.

On the other hand, as a woman who has survived multiple complex trauma, I knew exactly what she was talking about.

I began to draw fearlessly on my deepest knowing—from my decades of 12-step recovery and Buddhist meditation practice, along with my Tapping training—to dive headlong into the root traumas that were causing my clients to use food to soothe themselves.

 

"The results were—and are—nothing
short of miraculous."

 
 
 
 

the journey

“Where I once believed that the traumas of my early life defined and condemned me, I now bless and thank them for the gifts they continue to give. Among those gifts is the ever-present reminder to love myself unconditionally while being of
service to others."

–marcella