A free, self-paced course with Rick Wilkes and Cathy Vartuli
Put Calm Confidence at Your Fingertips
Stress is hard on people. This course helps you notice how stress lands in your body, release what can move now, and build familiar pathways back toward grounding, relief, and resilient confidence.
Stress Relief Without the Shame
We are often told to avoid stress without being shown how, or taught that strong people should just suck it up. Those beliefs can make overwhelm feel like a personal failure. It isn’t. Stress is part of being human, and relief is a capacity we can practice.
Stress That Helps Us Grow
Some stress comes with stretching toward something meaningful: applying for a job, asking someone out, making art, or trying a new skill. With gentleness and support, that activation can build courage and resilience.
Stress That Wears Us Down
Other stress leaves us feeling less capable and less resourced. Job loss, a broken heart, conflict, disappointment, and accumulated daily hassles deserve care—not shame or another demand to simply toughen up.
Small Stresses Count
Missing keys, unfinished chores, time pressure, clutter, and tension with the people we love can accumulate. The primitive brain does not always distinguish a modern hassle from a threat to safety or belonging. Small, repeated distress can erode vitality—and stress can spread through a family, workplace, or room.
Relief spreads, too. When you ground, soften your breath, tap, and become more present, you change the emotional signal you bring into the shared space.
A Guided Path, With Room to Pause
Use the course in the way that supports you best. Begin with the core skills, then explore inner stress, everyday pressures, relationships, home, and parenting. Close by strengthening calm confidence and choosing the support you want next.
- Welcome: why relief matters, the skills we use, a guided meditation, and support.
- Inner Stresses: clarity, self-talk, resistance, feelings, disappointment, and doubt.
- Out In This World Stress: daily life, productivity, relationships, home, and parenting.
- What’s Next?: calm confidence and resources for continuing practice.
Start at the beginning when you can. Return directly to a specific lesson when a particular stress needs attention.
The Complete Stress Relief on Tap Course
Stress Relief on Tap — Welcome
Getting Started
Inner Stresses
Clarity, Inner Critic, Resistance, and Feelings
- 02-01 · What Do You Do When You're So Stressed You Can't Think Clearly?
- 02-02 · Messages You Tell Yourself
- 02-03 · Resistance to Have-to's and Should's
- 02-04 · How Can Being WITH Your Feelings Help?
Disappointment & Doubts
Out In This World Stress
It’s Life… and We Must Process It
Productivity Stress
- 03-03 · There's Not Enough Time! What Do I Do?
- 03-04 · What Do You Do When People Are Constantly Pulling at You?
Relationship Stress
- 03-05 · Do You Feel Guilty When You Say No to People?
- 03-06 · Tapping for Stress Due to Isolation and Loneliness
- 03-07 · Stressed Out Wondering If the Relationship Is Going to End?
- 03-08 · How Do You Deal with the Stress of Ulterior Motives?