Good morning,

I spent last weekend up in the mountains outside Los Angeles at an event called MaxFunCon. It is an annual get-together that’s sponsored by the Maximum Fun Podcast Network and it’s like a summer camp for adults, complete with an array of workshops offered on the second day. (I learned how to make four amazing pasta sauces in one of my workshops!)

The participants are some of the kindest, nicest people I have ever met. This was my fifth time at MaxFunCon and it’s one of my favorite weekends of the whole year!

But for some reason I woke up in an emotional funk on Sunday morning, grappling with some old gremlins.

Years ago, I first found my way to tapping because I was looking for help with my social anxiety. When I was around other people I felt like I was a burden to them, that I was wasting their time, and that they couldn't wait for me to leave.

And those were the exact feelings that showed up again on Sunday morning. I’ve been free from social anxiety for so long that it felt disorienting and uncomfortable to be thrown back into it.

Instead of sticking around for the closing lunch I just got in my car and drove away. After the 45-minute drive down the mountain my head was a little clearer, but the emotion was still there. So I pulled over and tapped and tapped.

Even after I returned home to NYC, some remnants of the emotion lingered in the back of my mind. This is an issue I thought I had overcome more than a decade ago...and it was back.

So I did more tapping!

This week I have for you a tap-along audio for when you feel like you are on the outside. This could be in a small way for those times when you just don't fit in, or in a big way where who you are feels completely out of step with everyone else all the time.

As well as the tap-along audio I have included a printable tapping script.

Listen and tap along right here: http://tappingqanda.com/317

Let me know how the tapping resonates with you,

Blessings,

Gene