Every client has their own story and sometimes there’s been a past trauma and sometimes not.  In hypnosis, we go back to scenes which reveal the root cause of the excess weight so we can understand what’s going on.

Kelly came to me, much larger than she wanted to be, with a reasonable diet other than a compulsion to binge on unhealthy snacks, particularly in the evenings. We went back to a scene where, as a child, Kelly saw her father having a heart attack and she had to call the ambulance.  She felt she had to be strong and hold in all her emotions. And she ate a pile of KitKats to make herself feel better.  She also recalled another upsetting incident, after which she went to her granny’s who made her feel safe and loved – while baking her cookies.  

We discovered that Kelly formed a belief at an early age that biscuits and chocolate will make you feel better.  She had mixed up the love and safety she felt from her wonderful granny with the act of eating cookies.  She’d also learned that, rather than expressing your emotions, you can eat them. Carrying these beliefs into adulthood, Kelly would binge on sweet stuff any time she felt a bit sad, bored or lonely.  

I used Rapid Transformational Therapy to disrupt these unhelpful subconscious beliefs and associations and to install empowering new beliefs.  This included the belief that it is safe and helpful to express your emotions and to reach out for support rather than for chocolate. 

Immediately after the session, Kelly’s eating habits changed, and ever since then she has been eating only healthy foods and effortlessly avoiding all junk (other than the odd bit of chocolate every now and then, out of conscious choice, not compulsion).  She’s now dropped 2 dress sizes, grown massively in self-confidence and is out dating again.