I was saddened to learn last week that Roger Callahan, who discovered the tapping process and the breakthrough combination of physical tapping and modern psychology, passed away at the age of 88.
Roger, over thirty years ago, had the breakthrough session with his client Mary, who had a water phobia that cleared through tapping and he developed TFT (Thought Field Therapy).
You might remember the story in more detail from the first chapter of my book (if you don’t have my book and want to read that story in more detail you can read the first two chapters for free here: www.thetappingsolution.com/free-ts-ebook-thankyou.php)
Gary Craig, one of Roger’s students, modified his process and developed EFT, which is the form of tapping I was introduced to over a decade ago.
While I never had the opportunity to meet Roger, I’ve always been grateful for his incredible discovery and what it has done to change my life, the lives of those I love, and the world at large. I know that the amazing work I get to do today is due in large part to Roger’s brilliant work and insights and feel humbled to play my part in continuing this transformative work.
In honor of Roger and his legacy, my brother, sister, father and I (it’s a family business after all!) are making a $10,000 donation today to the TFT Foundation, which has similar aims to the Tapping Solution Foundation’s work, in spreading this powerful tool around the world.
Thank you Roger for your enormous contribution to my life and to the world.
Nick Ortner
P.S. – Here are two more pictures of Roger with his wife Joanne. If you’d like to leave some words for Roger’s family, leave your comments below:
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Thanks Nick for posting this about Roger! Thank you Roger for teaching my mentors , Gary Craig, Dr Larry Nimms and Dr. Danial Benor.
Sorry for your loss. Love and Light to your family and loved ones.
I echo the words of all, in particular Jose Gonzalez. Best wishes to Roger’s family.
I am so sorry for your loss. Mr Callahan touched many lives, and will continue to do so through TFT and its offsprings EFT, meridian tapping, BSFF and matrix reimprinting – to mention but a few energy psychology techniques that will continue to evolve and help at low or no cost.
I am so grateful that I in EFT found a way to keep pain under control. Through using it by proxi I have even been so lucky as to experience a soothing effect on several distressed animals. I consider myself very fortunate having EFT in my tool box for years to come.
Dear Roger and familly!
Thank you for the healing!
I think you will be wery busy in heaven!
Lots of love!
From Anna, Sweden!
Peace and Love be with you and your wonderful Family.
I am happy for you in your New Life.
Dolly
Buffalo Grove, IL
with sympathy to all Rogers family, we have lost a great visionary who impacted and eased the lives of many including my own. Hopefully Joanne and all the other practitioners around the world will continue with his great work.
Thank you Roger. You have served and contributed to mankind. Rest in Peace.
I was privileged to take Roger and Joanne’s advanced TFT training some years ago, and am so grateful for it. I am currently using it in my counseling work on military bases and it’s so helpful in relieving the various stresses associated with military life. Thank you so much, Roger and Joanne. I’m sure Roger is finding there is a special place in heaven prepared for him!
What a great gift Roger gave to the world, a truly wonderful man. I am sorry for you loss but remember his love lives on in your hearts. He is not gone, he has only changed his body, his Spirit and his is still with you.
God Bless You
Peace be with you
Jazel
So sorry for your loss. I hope that the work Roger dedicated his life too and has brought so much relief to the suffering of others brings you some small measure of comfort in your loss.
My sincere sympathy – Brenda
I would just like to say thank you for the efforts made in this remarkable modality for healing!!!! It is people like Roger who pave the way for others to be able to grow and heal. Many thanks and blessings of comfort to the family at this time.
How wonderful that he lived a life that left this world leaving behind something to change theives of so many for the better! My condolences to his wife and all who knew and will miss him. What a gift he gave and was!
Loving thoughts and condolences to Joanne and gratitude to Roger for all his wonderful work. Rest in Peace.
Roger, your energy and legacy lives on within the hearts of all practitioners using and promoting the wonderful technique from TFT to EFT, Pro EFT, Matrix and more. I feel blessed to have learned so much about healing through your work and those of your students. May we all tap in heaven when we meet again! May your family feel your love from above to help them through this time.
A huge thank you to Roger Callahan for his groundbreaking discovery and work in the preliminaries of tapping. A work that has helped soo many people around the globe to live a much better life and use their potential. May you rest in peace, Roger Callahan. Blessings to your family and much love.
Thanks for sharing this information. I have oftentimes thanked Roger Callahan, Gary Craig, Carol Look and Nick Ortner during my own tapping sessions for their continued contributions to the world at large and for my own personal benefits. RIP Roger, you will be deeply missed.
Sir, your Spirit will live on within us. Many blessings to your family.
Thank you for the contribution in the lives of many including mine. You were truly a gift of God to humanity. May your work inspire others!
Many thanks and appreciation for Roger Callahan’s pioneering work! Prayers to his family and friends in this mixed time of sadness and joyful memories.
Roger has served the world in a monumental unique way, I expect that the vast wave of gratitude from those of us who know that is speeding him on his way.
Thanks Nick. I did not know of or have heard of Roger (not being part of the ‘tapping community’. But thank you for your insightful article, and for the inspiration you provide in your generous donation from the heart to Roger’s foundation.
You’re inspirational. And even though I didn’t know of you thanks Roger for leaving your amazing Legacy for us all.
My sincere condolences to the family. It is hard to lose someone that you love and care for. I lost my mom a few moths ago and today it hurts even more than the dayshe went away. I will remember the family in my prayers. Thansk for developing a system that helps others. Please note that he did his job here on earth very well and we are fortunate to have had him here with us.
Thank you Roger Callahan for sharing your work. Blessings to his family.
So sorry for your loss. Tapping has helped me in so many ways. I am truly grateful for Roger Callahans wonderful cotribution to the world.
Dear Joanne and Family of Roger,
I want to send my appreciative thoughts to you all. When I first learned of EFT I also learned of Roger’s amazing work. I continue to share it with the many people with whom I have been honored to work with.
Roger’s work has been such a very important milestone in the exciting development of energy psychology and all of its benefits. I can only imagine that the love and support of his family contributed to the progress he made that has helped so many!
I wish you all well and hope that knowing there are so many people who remember and honor him for his contributions will be helpful as you grieve his loss in your lives.
With love and sympathy,
Marilyn Holschuh LCSW ACSW
Madison, Wisconsin
I attended a funeral this weekend for a wonderful young man, 30 years old who had died in a motorcycle accident. I had a 7 hour airplane adventure both ways, just to attend for 24 hours. Afterwards,I was tense, I get a headache about 2 times a year. I was on my way to the airport,and just started tapping at the top of my head, where it was hurting. In less than 15 minutes, the discomfort was gone, and not returned. Thank you very much for relieving my stress, by teaching me this technique. I have told others. thank you very much.
Dear Family of Roger Callahan,
My heart felt sympathy to you all for the loss of this dear man. He has impacted many of lives and although I was only introduced to tapping a couple of years ago, it has definitively changed my life in wonderful ways. I am sure we will continue to feel his support in our lives forever.
In gratitude,
Delores Campbell
TFT was my first introduction to tapping! Sometime later I came across the Tapping Solution and was totally turned on to EFT. I have since gone on to study EFT as a practitioner and it has become a big part of how I work in my Energy Healing business!
I am sorry to hear that Roger Callahan is no longer with us but I am eternally grateful for all of his persistence and research over the years deveoloping TFT!
Love and Blessings to his family xx
Thank you so much for such a wonderful, simple and effective technique that can be used by anyone, anywhere and anytime. The world needs people like this – Bless you and your family. Christine from Australia xxx
My heartfelt sympathy to Roger’s family and my deepest gratitude to Roger for his amazing contribution to the field of therapy. His insights and guidance have helped relieve the pain and promoted the healing of so many lives on.
Rest in Peace dear Roger.
Blessings of Peace
Eileen
god bless your family at this time and thank you for giving use the gift of tapping
May God bless your soul and spirit in Eternity Mr. Callahan! Thank you so much for the gift of TFT!
Dear Roger, you were a pioneer, and your discovery and research of TFT has enabled thousunds upon thousands of people around the world, to release the hidden blocks to their mental, enotional and physical well-being. Thank you for your gift to the world. You will be sadly missed, but your legend lives on. My condolences to your family.
Sorry to hear of Roger Callahan’s passing. I am so very greatful for what he brought to the world of recovery and healing. Lots of love and light to all her were close to him.
Roger played a pivotal role in my life as a teacher and mentor teaching me about all of his many discoveries and how to apply them to myself as well as my patients.
He changed my life dramatically and the lives of so many others here on planet earth.
I am forever indebted to his genius and his love for humanity.
His legacy lives on through all of us his students.
His beautiful wife Joanne was always a strong support for Roger and a helpful inspiration to me and my partner.
May he now be creating with the Angels and may Joanne find deep peace and satisfaction in knowing that so many of us loved him dearly…
Thank You… Roger
Daniel
Joanne, Michael and I are so sorry to hear of the passing of Roger. Our thoughts and prayers are with you. I remember the trip we enjoyed with you and Roger, and working together. As a Marriage and Family Therapist, I use EFT almost daily in my practice or with friends. I am forever grateful for Roger’s method that I used to reduce my anxiety before taking the orals to get licensed about 15 years ago.
May your memories of Roger bring you comfort and peace.
Phyllis and Michael Ginsberg
… And what a beautiful family you make! Lovely pictures; feelings of joy when I look at them. I find myself grinning; now.
Thank you, Roger and Joanne!
Thank you, Roger Callahan for transforming the lives of countless people via your mind-blowing discovery. I am truly grateful for this technique, as are all the people to whom I talk about it and who adopt it immediately. My regards to the family and blessings to you all at this time of need, yet rite of passage.
What a wonderful legacy tovar left to the world. May God love be with you all at this very sad time.
Roge; Thank you so much for what you have left behind for us.
Aloha and Mahalo Nui Loa to you Roger! When I first saw you on TV I thought it was a magic trick. Now I KNOW it absolutely IS magic! In 1986 I actually got to talk to you on the phone when I ordered The Callahan Techniques course on cassette tapes and the truth is that you are still with me EVERY SINGLE DAY!
Hardly a day passes that I don’t share the history of your gift to the World which I call “the Greatest Gift to the Planet!” The Joy that your TFT/EFT (and all of its offspring’s) has brought to my life is over flowing as I teach people of all ages and walks of life how to tap and remind them when they express their gratitude, “It’s Dr. Roger Callahan you need to thank, not me.” So thank you dear Roger and Joanne. Joanne and Family I hope reading and hearing the depth of Gratitude from those who knew Roger will bring you all comfort.
A Hui Hou Roger.
Thank you is not enough to say when someone has altered the course of your life. Soo many people have Roger to thank for his amazing discovery and life long work. How to let his family know the immeasureable gratitude that is directed to this man upon hearing of his passing. There is no way to know how much his life has changed the world and the future world to come. He has been a gift and a blessing to us all. His passing is an unspeakable loss …
Angie Burgess
Studio City, California
Sorry for your loss. Gratitude and thanks to a kind soul who has left a healing legacy for all to access. It helped me through some tough times. Love, Light and Peace to his family. xxxx
Much appreciation to Roger Callahan for his contribution to so many people, myself included. Thank you as well to his wife Joanne Callahan. Condolences to Joanne and the rest of the family. He and his work will be remembered by many.
So sad to hear of Roger’s passing, he has made such a big impact on the world. I would just like to say also a big thankyou to his Joanne who supported Roger throughout his work with TFT.
God bless.
Janet
To the Callahan family:Many are saddened by the passing of your beloved Roger. May you have comfort in knowing that he’s in perfect peace. His contribution to the world through the gift of Tapping has been a healing blessing. May his amazing legacy live on.
so sorry to hear of rogers passing my condolences to his wife
I am sorry to hear of this man’s death. His work has helped us who have used tapping. We lost someone special.
RIP. Your spirit lives on with all who continue your work. Much love and blessings to your family, may they be comforted by our prayers.