Dr. Marie-Claire Moreau

Educator, Coach, Life Strategist

Tapping for COVID-19 virus fear & anxiety

As I write this, our world is in a state of emergency. As fears of COVID-19 (Coronavirus) are spreading around the globe, many of us are ramping up for the stress and uncertainty of the coming weeks and months. From preparing our cupboards to making alternative work/school arrangements, much of the world’s population is focusing on health, and how they or their loved ones might be affected by this rapidly spreading virus.

Events like these are ripe for fear and anxiety. For those who lean toward these emotions, they’ve probably already begun to manifest. For those traditionally unaffected by stress, these emotions may feel new or unfamiliar.

As a public service, I am recommending the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT, also called tapping) for dealing with anxiety and fear at this time. EFT is clinically proven, with efficacy shown in hundreds of published scientific studies across a broad range of physiological and psychological issues, including depression, weight loss, metabolic conditions, autoimmune conditions, post traumatic stresses and — yes – fear and anxiety.

So impressive are EFT research results, that tapping is being used all around the world by people from all walks of life, young and old, trained and untrained. As an EFT practitioner myself, I am seeing EFT performed at community meetings, in sports arenas, on television, in living rooms, in school buildings, in psychologists’ and medical doctors’ offices, and anywhere one can possible imagine. I am so impressed with the results, that I lead my coaching clients through EFT practices whenever I possibly can.

I am 100% sold.

Please understand that EFT is not a solution to the spreading virus itself, but a way to temper your reaction to knowing about it. By learning to calm your body and ease your stress around the fear, EFT can help your body move from the “fight or flight” mode to a more relaxed state. You’ll feel better. As a bonus, while I cannot claim curing or healing, science tells us that a body under stress will often have decreased immunity. So, you be the judge as to whether remaining more relaxed is worth it.

Should this concept seem unbelievable to you, or just plain wacky, please look to the research. As an example of EFT success, in a recent study (2019) involving 200+ subjects, people reported a decrease in anxiety of 40%, depression improved 35%, blood pressure and heart rate were reduced, and other positive effects were reported. These statistics are not uncommon and have been reported in dozens of studies at this time. I can corroborate this information through anecdotal evidence – including myself and those I work with – when using EFT for all kinds of issues.

It really works.

As a researcher and an academic, I am quite skeptical of holistic and alternative methods when I first hear of them. For me to recommend something as simple and elegant as tapping, please know that I have spent hundreds of hours in research and training, and I don’t make this recommendation lightly. I have personally used tapping for many years and have experienced much healing and symptom reduction after a short period of time. I observe an immediate change in those I teach EFT to, and can personally attest to how quickly it seems to impact people who try it.

Should you be unable to work with an EFT practitioner, please know you can use it safely and effectively ALL BY YOURSELF. That’s right — you don’t need to pay someone to guide you through an EFT (or tapping) session.

However, because results are usually amplified with the help someone more experienced, if you decide to work with a qualified tapping practitioner, you may wish to consider doing that, too. There are additional ways that experienced practitioners can get at troubling or hidden issues and questions, so it can be helpful to engage the help of someone familiar with additional ways to magnify its effectiveness.

I’ve written a lot about EFT on my web site, so you’ll find additional research and studies just by browsing my articles. But — I wanted to remind you that this technique is available to you RIGHT NOW if you need to address fears and anxiety around Coronavirus or anything you are dealing with at the moment.

Don’t wait. If you need this, please start right now:

Learn the basic tapping points in this video

Watch me demonstrate tapping, and see how it’s done

Honoring your emotions, and standing with you in healing,

As a coach, writer, recovered over-doer and busyness addict, I understand the challenges of creating a balanced, healthy lifestyle while the mind tries to sabotage your success. In my journey to vibrant health, I created a personalized health system of nutrition and supplementation, lifestyle changes, and I retrained my mind and the energy of my body. I view my success as the formula to my happy, healthy life. I now empower other women to create their own personalized formulas, including the tools and strategies just right for them! Amazing life shifts come from our relationships. I look forward to helping you, too!

Speak the words

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I don’t know about you, but Lucy was always one of my favorite Charlie Brown characters. In her own hilarious and cynical way, she shared deep truths and delivered psychiatric wisdom to anyone who’d listen. Some of my most favorite Lucy quotes from the series would have to be:

“I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong.”

“The only way to deal with people who talk too much is to let them know just how boring they really are.”

And, of course this one that everybody remembers, “You’re just too wishy-washy!”

I’ll never forget Lucy’s tip on solving problems which went something like, “The first step to solving a problem is by recognizing you have one.”

Turns out, she was actually almost right.

While it can be really hard to solve a problem if you don’t know you have one, the real key to problem resolution is facing the situation — not ignoring it or pushing it away.

That’s why I’m talking about speaking the words out loud today. Speaking isn’t just part of the healing process, it’s actually the most important part. And not just saying the words by themselves either. You have to do it while handling your emotions, too.

The talking is what makes all the difference.

You need to do it.

See, when confronting a situation, too many of us stay quiet, ignoring the feelings or trying to bury our reactions so they’re not visible any more. But, as Karol Truman’s extraordinary book and so many other healers have accurately observed, feelings buried alive will never die. Not without deliberately doing the work, that is. And that’s the part I really want you to understand.

Without speaking the words, you might never really come face to face with the issue. Without confronting it, you can’t resolve it. Which means you’ll continue experiencing it for the rest of your life.

When using any kind of healing method, whether it’s tapping or counseling or energy work or anything else, I believe it’s crucial to say the words out loud, even the difficult ones — in fact, especially the difficult ones. I know it seems awkward and doesn’t always feel good, but that’s exactly the point. Saying the words is critical to make the brain and body connection I’ve explained here so many times before.

If words are too painful to speak, it’s okay to say them internally at first. You can even visualize them (or the whole experience) in picture or movie form until you’re ready. But eventually, gradually, as the healing begins, start speaking your words out loud as you heal. That is when their impact finally dissolves and you’ll be free.

As a coach, writer, recovered over-doer and busyness addict, I understand the challenges of creating a balanced, healthy lifestyle while the mind tries to sabotage your success. In my journey to vibrant health, I created a personalized health system of nutrition and supplementation, lifestyle changes, and I retrained my mind and the energy of my body. I view my success as the formula to my happy, healthy life. I now empower other women to create their own personalized formulas, including the tools and strategies just right for them! Amazing life shifts come from our relationships. I look forward to helping you, too!

What’s the big deal with tapping?

If you’ve never heard of tapping before, it’s a gentle way to talk to the meridians of the body to help remove blockages, balance energy, and calm emotional responses to things that are troubling. You’ll find some great article links on the bottom of my Home Page, or just spend a little time on my Youtube Channel or elsewhere and learn a little more.

So, what’s the big deal with tapping anyway? Why exactly is it so popular, and why do I keep talking about it here so much?

The big deal is that it works. Having been around now a long time, there are now hundreds of studies demonstrating a statistical improvement in clients who tap versus those who don’t. This is huge because studies aren’t always available for natural and holistic methods, but there is plenty of research about tapping, so it really stands out.

If you’re thinking I might be crazy for promoting it so much, I want you to know I was very skeptical about tapping at first, too. As an academic and a researcher, I used to think it was crazy to assume that something so simple as tapping on the body could actually work (I also thought it looked a little nutty to be honest!). But, by training myself and reading the studies, and by applying tapping techniques to myself and other people, I have seen the results with my own eyes, and I have felt them within my own body.

And did I mention tapping is all-natural and no-cost? What has anybody got to lose (except maybe a problem or two)? It’s a very low risk option with a really good chance it’ll work.

I was recently inspired to do a video about receiving a medical diagnosis. That’s a topic that comes up a lot in life, plus I’ve worked with more than a couple of people this has happened to recently. To get a glimpse of the power of tapping, feel free to watch the video and try to imagine how it might work on people who’ve recently received some unpleasant news. Or, just use it to see what tapping is like, then try to apply it all by yourself to whatever situations you may be experiencing in your own life.

To your expansion and improvement,

As a coach, writer, recovered over-doer and busyness addict, I understand the challenges of creating a balanced, healthy lifestyle while the mind tries to sabotage your success. In my journey to vibrant health, I created a personalized health system of nutrition and supplementation, lifestyle changes, and I retrained my mind and the energy of my body. I view my success as the formula to my happy, healthy life. I now empower other women to create their own personalized formulas, including the tools and strategies just right for them! Amazing life shifts come from our relationships. I look forward to helping you, too!

My Happy Formula

If you’ve followed me a while, you know I love to share how to lead a happier, healthier life by calming emotional [stress] responses. The ideas and techniques I write about aren’t just practices I use with others — I use them myself!

Each of us has the potential to be affected negatively by things around us. The important thing to remember is that even if we cannot always avoid contact with stressors, we can still change the way we react. That’s where tapping shines as a solution for combating the negative effects of stress (mental, physical and emotional). In becoming aware, we begin to notice our own reactions. By checking reactions, we can extinguish their effects by tapping them away completely!

It took me years to understand the roots of certain things going on in my life, and a good bit of time to start feeling whole again. But once I did, I began applying EFT to everything I do. That’s why I say, “try it on everything”. You’d be surprised what a simple round of tapping can do!

I’m sharing a script today that I like to call “My Happy Solution” because it always sets me up for having an amazing day. It’s based on the idea of “priming”, and works by preemptively letting go of anything with the potential to rattle me throughout the day. While others prime themselves with vigorous exercise, affirmations, or even powerful stimulants like coffee or jumping in a freezing pool, I find that tapping is the perfect priming technique for me.

Use your own language to make this even more effective as you tap along:

Tapping for an Amazing Day

Karate Chop: Even though I have no idea what today is going to bring, I honor all the feelings I have about it, and I love and accept myself anyway. Even though this day could go in many different, unpredictable directions, and I won’t be able to control some of it, I’m up for most anything, and I love and accept myself anyway. Even though I may face things today that try to unbalanced, destabilize, confuse, frustrate or upset me, I’m really curious about how it will unfold, I’m ready to have an incredible day

Eye Brow: I’m letting go of any thoughts, fears, anticipation, worries, or other emotions that have the potential to get in the way of me and having an incredible day. It’s safe to let these go.

Side of the Eye: I’m letting go of any guilt, regret, shame, blame, anger, resentment, frustration, impatience, or other thoughts or feelings that stand in the way of me and having an amazing day. It’s safe to let these go.

Under the Eye: I’m letting go of any stress, any anxiety, any discomfort, any nervousness, any imbalances, and any other sensations keeping me from having an amazing day. It’s safe to let these go.

Under the Nose: I’m letting go of any physical sensations, pain, cramps, tingles, spasms, twinges, burning, dryness, fatigue, weakness, and any other physical reminders that might keep me from having an amazing day

Chin Point: I’m letting go of people, places, things, circumstances, situations, weather, emergencies, surprises, changes of plans, traffic, unexpected shifts and anything else standing between me and having an amazing day. It’s safe to let these go.

Collarbone: I’m letting go of guilt, regret, shame, blame, anger, resentment, frustration, impatience, aggravation, guilt, regret, shame, blame and any other thoughts or feelings that stand in the way of me and having an amazing day. It’s safe to let these go.

Under the Arm: I’m letting go of any stress, any anxiety, any discomfort, any nervousness, any imbalances, any anticipation, any worry, any fear, any emotional discomfort, any physical sensations, any severe reactions, any unplanned emergencies, and anything else keeping me from having an amazing day. It’s safe to let these go.

Top of the Head: Letting it go. Letting it all go. And so it is, and so it shall be.

I tend to repeat things while tapping, which is why you might notice some duplication in this particular script. Normally, I would continue with several more rounds until I feel grounded, eager and ready to start my day. I change my scripts all the time to suit whatever I may be processing at the time. You can do that, too.

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In wholeness,


As a coach, writer, recovered over-doer and busyness addict, I understand the challenges of creating a balanced, healthy lifestyle while the mind tries to sabotage your success. In my journey to vibrant health, I created a personalized health system of nutrition and supplementation, lifestyle changes, and I retrained my mind and the energy of my body. I view my success as the formula to my happy, healthy life. I now empower other women to create their own personalized formulas, including the tools and strategies just right for them! Amazing life shifts come from our relationships. I look forward to helping you, too!

Does fear keep you safe?

A common pattern among those who are very anxious or fearful is the limiting belief that those feelings have a useful purpose. Remembering that people only do things that serve them on some level, it’s easy to understand how beliefs – whether conscious or subconscious – will always stick around as long as they’re helpful in some way.

When looking at fear, the belief usually goes something like this, “If I don’t obsess over this thing forever, something terrible might happen to me”. Or, “I need to think about this thing all the time, or else something will go wrong.”

Generally speaking, fear beliefs stick around as long as the person believes that fear is somehow keeping them safe.

When tapping on fears (essentially beliefs, thoughts and emotions) we calm the body’s response to thinking about those things. We can also usually find where the beliefs are locked and disrupt then calm them in a way that they don’t affect us any more.

This begs the question of whether our newer, calmer selves will now become careless, recklessly moving about through life and putting ourselves in greater danger. (There’s a paradox there, too, if you think about it. The mind is fascinating, isn’t it?)

In the video, below, I address in detail the issue of fears versus recklessness. Feel free to comment if this has affected you personally and how you’ve been able to address it (if you have). And, as always, let me know if I can help.

Watch now:

To your calmer self,


As a coach, writer, recovered over-doer and busyness addict, I understand the challenges of creating a balanced, healthy lifestyle while the mind tries to sabotage your success. In my journey to vibrant health, I created a personalized health system of nutrition and supplementation, lifestyle changes, and I retrained my mind and the energy of my body. I view my success as the formula to my happy, healthy life. I now empower other women to create their own personalized formulas, including the tools and strategies just right for them! Amazing life shifts come from our relationships. I look forward to helping you, too!