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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Thank you Roger, Tapping has saved my life many times. My heart filled condolences for the Callahan family. ??
I honor you and am so deeply grateful for how your discovery has transformed my life. Hope to meet you in heaven! Betsy Kent
Heartfelt thanks to Mr Callahan for influencing and deeply enriching my spiritual life. God Bless.
Thank you, thank you, thank you! Thought field therapy really opened my mind to other options for a well rounded me! Dr. Callahan you will be dearly missed. Thank you sincerely for having the interest to stand when everyone else was sitting. God Bless
Your abundant Life brought light and lightness to so many of us because you cared to share. Thank you Roger
Thank you Roger for making all our lives easier, by giving us a powerful free tool to improve our own health and welbeing. Helping us move away from our relience on drugs. You have made my life better in so many ways.
May you rest in peace. Love Maureen x
so sorry for your loss. what a fabulous contribution to humanity made by this incredible man.
Wow, what a legacy, a legacy that has revolutionized the entire field of psychology,integrated personal growth, and energy healing. This single technique has unified our gifts, efforts and essence. Thank you Joanne and the Callahan family during this immense time of joy and sorrow.
God rest his soul RIP
What a great gift he has blessed us with.Thanks.
Prayers of peace and comfort to you and yours. May you experience sadness freedom knowing that people around the world benefit from the gift of your loved one.
Peace Always, Denise
To Roger Callahan’s family, I offer my deepest sympathy in your loss of a wonderful, caring, giving man. We are all forever grateful for his presence in our lives and the gifts that he has shared with us. Roger’s development of TFT is one of the most profound discoveries to positively impact the lives of an unlimited number of people. Roger’s legacy will live on forever and will continue to influence people seeking natural forms of curing themselves. Thank you for your work and your presence in the healing community.
Dear Callahan family,
When a man goes for good, it’s a loss.
When a man leaves such a great work behind him
it’s a blessing and a life challenge to continue
where he stopped. Thank you Roger, thank you Joanne,
thank you Nick and thank you Garry Craig.
A great loss, yet so much gained from Roger’s presence in this world. Blessings to the family…in love and light.
Thank you Roger for the wonderful TFT that you left for the entire world to benefit by. May your soul rest in peace, comfort and God’s blessings to your family.
So sorry to hear of your loss – and the loss to the rest of the world as well. I am relatively new to “tapping” and must say that it is a wonderful tool – thanks to the willingness of Roger to step out in a direction away from mainstream and to trust that inner wisdom. The world is a better place for his having been in it. Blessings to you all. Pat B in Montana
May he rest in peace! I will keep his family in my prayers….God bless…..Ani
To Roger family, I am grateful to him, I send my prayers to him and his family.
Love
Thanks for everything, you left us a lot, thanks nick
I am much happier because of your energetic works and discoveries
see you
From Spain.
Thank you Nick for offering this opportunity…Dear Joanne and family, I’m sure you know, but it’s worth repeating…The gift that Roger has offered to the world is without measure…thank you for your personal contibutions and in supporting Roger…As a volunteer with the veteran’s stress project, I can tell you first hand what a difference it is making in the lives of veterans…a heartfelt thank you doesn’t feel like near enough…may you all be blessed as you move forward…blessings, lil
my life has changed the last 3 months since I begun to practice EFT daily. My deepest condolences for the loss of a great man who was the inventor of TFT.
I am sorry for your loss. He was a great man and has helped countless people get over their fears and traumas. He will be dearly missed. May his work continue thriving through all of his students.
Thank you, Roger, for your wonderful contribution to the world!
Joanie
Colorado Springs
Roger is a man who will be long remembered for his contribution to the health and peace for humanity. I am trully thankful for his work, which has changed my life, and the lives of millions and millions. May he rest in peace.
It’s so sad to know that Roger has already left this world although, somehow, it’s comforting to think that with such invaluable contribution to humanity, he’s surely back into the arms of The Maker now, enjoying a most blissful, endless life.
From me and my family who, through EFT, have been liberated from sickness and pains… a million thanks to GOD and to His instruments, Roger and Joanne, Gary Craig, and Nick and Jessica Ortner, for having changed our life! Much kudos to all of you! Our blessings, prayers, and love go out to Roger’s bereaved family…
Thank you Nick for letting us know and sharing your precious work with the world. Thank you Roger and Gary for your amazing gifts. May Roger rest in peace and I wish all the best to his family. xxxx
R.I.P and God strengthen his family.
Tnankyou, I know your enormous contribution to energy psychology from my teacher Fred Gallo, Peter from Vienna, Austria
Roger Callahan,legendary healer, developer of energy therapies. Thank you forever. Appreciation to Nick Ortner and family for this forum.
To Roger’s much loved family:
Please know how much Roger’s work has transformed the lives of so many people across the world.
I am only new to all of this work, that Roger started. However, it’s getting me through a very difficult time in my life and I’m dealing with it. I give the credit to the work Roger started (as well as ongoing prayer).
With all my love and gratitude,
Rosanne Feneley
Dear Joanne – My heartfelt sympathy to you in this time of sadness.
I remember Roger well, listening to his presentation on tapping at Pacific College of Oriental Medicine when I was a student there many years ago. It made a deep impression.
Kind regards – Bonnie Alexander, L.Ac.
I am so sad for the passing of your husband. His efforts in divising the “Tapping” has helped many. My life is much more centered and heathly for this. Thank-you.
What a gift he has shared to the world! Please accept my condolences at this difficult time. I know you will cherish the precious memories you have shared together. May he rest in peace.
Mary, from NL, Canada
I am sorry to hear of the loss of a man who made such a worthwhile contribution to the world. May he rest in peace.
Mankind cannot thank you enough, Roger Callahan, for what you have brought to us. Thank you for your brilliance and willingness to go with your intuition and willingness to work beyond the limits of standard clinical psychology. I teach EFT workshops often, and always start with your story about Mary, and how you helped to heal her awful stomach pain and water phobia with a few meridian taps. I will continue to tell your story to my new students and continue the work. Love and Blessings to you and your during this difficult time. Laurel Lee, Author of Tapping into Love.
The World is a better place thanks to Dr. Callahan’s work!!!
Thanks!!!
Great loss for family , friends, and the rest of us who were introduced to TFT/EFT!!!
Through the work of Roger Callahan I met a wonderful healer who taught me EFT and so many other wonderful ways to improve my live and live in love, peace and joy. The work inspired by Roger has influenced so many positive actions to bless the world.
My condolences to Roger’s family and friends.
Such a loss ! But with his brilliant knowledge that serves the well being of mankind, his legacy will live on. He certainly was in a better place now.
I am sure his family members are very proud of him.
Best regards,
Eleanor
How lucky we are to live in the age where Roger’s work and insight could be shared with the likes of me with the press of a button! May comfort go to his family as we are reminded of a life ended that was meaningful to so many of us.
Thank you Roger for changing my life and the lives of countless others. Reading everybody’s comments is so moving to see the effects one man had on the world. I feel so inspired by his legacy. Sending all my love to him and his family. Thank you from the depth of my soul and bottom of my heart.
What a blessing Roger has been to the world! I’m so grateful to have learned his technique back in 1989 & use it still today. Wishing comfort & peace to his family & loved ones. Prayers for Roger on this current pathway.
Dr. Roger Callahan was my first introduction to ‘tapping,’ for emotional freedom, but it felt familiar and natural. I was used to using ‘Touch For Health,’ and in the Chiropractic office where I also worked as a medical intuitive, we used something called ‘therapy localization.’ But it was Dr. Roger who helped me to make the leap and have the courage to begin using it with routinely with my clients as early as 1995. Thank you Dr. Callahan!
Thanks to Roger for giving this wonderful Healing Therapy.My consolation.
My condolence and gratitude to the family, colleagues and friends of Roger Callahan for sharing with us and the world his gift and love. My deepest thanks and heartfelt prayers for the eternal peace of his soul.
Roger Callahan was definitely a pioneer in teaching people help themselves with this simple but mindset- shifting method. I guess some people were not ready in their mindset in the 1990s, maybe that’s why it had to be sort of reintroduced as EFT later.
Thank you so much Mr. Callahan. Thank you for helping me help others, too,
May him rest in peace, I send my condolences to his family.
Yasemin/ istanbul
Thanks Nick, for bringing the message of Dr. Callahan’s passing to our attention. His
revolutionary contribution to healing will be celebrated in years to come, as one of the greatest
Innovations thus far, for mind body connectivity. His work has generated real value to our lives; and for the mental and emotional revitalization of human self-expression.
Earl Spurlin
God Bless Roger Callahan. He is with the Creator now. Love and Blessing to his family. I will Tap On in his memory.
Sending all of you…
Peace and Love
((((((hugs)))))))
Celebrate
All the great times…
Love, beauty and tapping!!!!
God Bless you Roger and your family for stepping outside the box and enlightening us on other modalities of healing. I am forever grateful. Sending prayers and blessings to your family.
Whether TFT or EFT you truly made life so much happier, peaceful, worthwhile for many thousands of people. The legacy will live on. God bless.