Feeling good about your body is important, but many women have negative relationships with their bodies. We live in a world where the media constantly raise 'the standard' of what we should look like and bombard us with images of 'ideals' daily. We believe 'comparison shopping' is the fastest route to hell!

If you are an overeater, unhealthy eater, unmotivated to exercise, have an eating disorder or a body image issue, the key to freedom is to change your relationship with food... and we can help you do this using a combination of our successful techniques such as hypnotherapy for confidence.

If you have an eating disorder and are ready to be free.... Then we are here to help and support you on your journey to freedom, binge eating disorders, bulimia and anorexia are behavioural disorders with an emotional cause, we believe that as we are changing all the time no behaviour is 'fixed', therefore there is the potential to change.

Binge Eating Disorder (BED)

The stronger form of emotional eating is called Binge Eating Disorder. The affected woman eats rapidly large amounts of food when not physically hungry. Sometimes this is a specific kind of food, that is the trigger food such as sugar or bread. Very often it is just any food, which is available. This often goes hand in hand with hiding the behaviour, feeling embarrassed and guilty about how you are eating.

Bulimia

Women who struggle with bulimia 'binge eat' then purge themselves by vomiting, fasting, 'necking' laxatives and extreme exercising to counteract the effects of overeating binges.

Purging compensates for the excessive intake of food and to prevent weight gain. The bulimic person initially stays within the healthy weight range. The behavior is usually accompanied by distress, guilt and extremely low self-image and esteem. The behaviour is often kept secret from close friends, family or partners, which makes the affected people feel even more lonely and isolated.

There are different levels of bulimia, but there are usually very strong emotional issues underneath which we look to resolve, but sometimes the behaviour is almost automatic and it happens after every meal, and sometimes it is only from time to time, even only once a forthright, used as a coping mechanism for some form of stress or emotional distress.

Anorexia Nervosa

Anorexia is an eating disorder where people starve themselves. It usually has an emotional background, but it's more serious than other eating disorders and can be fatal. We use a combination of Hypnoanalysis, hypnotic suggestion and EFT when treating anorexia because it helps to shift the mind and to change beliefs in a very gentle way. This condition usualy requires specialist medical treatment. Consequently we treat it only when the client stays under correct medical supervision.

From our experience we know the best way to enable clients to let go of eating disorders is to address the underlying emotional cause which leads to eating disorders. Once the underlying feelings are solved, the awareness techniques may be used to understand the eating behaviour and the triggering pattern.

Then we help you to find and implement new ways to deal with the triggering situations and emotions. The client learns the healthy eating habits, and you are not obsessed by food and weight any more. The emotional eating is usually accompanied by depression and low confidence, and we also work to address and help you resolve these.

Once the underlying feelings are solved, the awareness techniques may be used to understand the eating behaviour and the triggering pattern. Then we help you to find and implement new ways to deal with the triggering situations and emotions. The client learns the healthy eating habits, and you are not obsessed by food and weight any more. The emotional eating is usually accompanied by depression and low confidence, and we also work to help you address and resolve these issues.

If you are comfort eating or are indulging in emotional eating...

Then you've come to the right place. We believe that there isn't a single woman in Britain that doesn't know that eating less and exercising more are the answer to weight loss. So why is it still such a struggle? Well we believe that weight loss is a complex issue and for many women food is their 'drug of choice', i.e. you are overeating to calm down some other feelings, usually caused by some earlier experiences. The messages you were given in childhood around food are extremely important, being told to 'finish everything on your plate', or 'you need to eat a lot because you are growing' lodge in your subconscious mind and continue playing out long after they are helpful. Perhaps you had a mother that continually dieted or a family member that made unhelpful comments about your weight. The underlying feelings are rarely recognised. They are experienced as an illogical and unconscious urge to eat, even when not hungry. Sometimes the urge to eat is accompanied by a feeling of emptiness. Sometimes it just feels like hunger. The emotional eating is usually strengthened by stress or boredom.

Interestingly, emotional eating may be triggered both by some negative feelings, like stress, anxiety, critical remarks, feeling of failure etc. But it can also be triggered by positive feelings too; achievement, falling in love, excitement. It can be used both as comfort and reward, it can also be triggered by boredom, so food is used to access some temporary good feelings when there are no feelings available.

Emotional eating becomes habit or addiction and affected women feel out of control. Women often feel great distress over these behaviours and about their weight. Yet, they can't seem to stop what they're doing. They have distorted attitudes about eating, shape, and weight. Very often emotional eating comes in pair with yo-yo dieting, and with each cycle it becomes worse.

If it hasn't changed on its own by now, it's unlikely to do and it's time to do something about it. Weight loss therapy could be the answer you're looking for. We believe that however compulsive and unhealthy your relationship with food is right now, we can help you to overcome this by looking at the 'full picture' with our weight loss therapy, enabling you to make significant changes to permanently heal your relationship with food.

If you procrastinate and avoid exercise...

Then we need to look at your motivation. The source of each of our motivations is a belief. Think about it, if you did not believe that the gnawing sensation in your stomach meant that you were hungry, you would not feel motivated to eat.

When it comes to starting a regular exercise routine, you will need to feel a motivation to make that decision, and then you'll need to feel a lot more motivation to maintain it. Motivation is based on the ideas that we believe. So you we need to figure out what ideas will motivate you, because when you feel powerfully motivated, you will exercise consistently. Thanks to NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), hypnotherapy for confidence, weight loss therapy and EFT therapy for motivation, it's a lot easier to learn how to believe these new ideas than you probably think it is.

Another consistent factor with women and exercise is 'time', modern women face a lot of pressures and responsibilities and often exercise becomes the last thing on the list, even though you know it would make you feel better and less stressed if you had a routine in place. One of the things we do is help you create the 'inner space' in order to prioritise exercise, and help you turn off the 'internal argument' (sofa or gym?) and get your subconscious prioritising health and fitness.

If you want to have a better relationship with your body...

Then we need to look at how you talk to yourself. We believe that women generally struggle with body image. The media, social conditioning and all of the billboards bombard us with one simple message - that your body isn't good enough.

It's not surprising then that some of this suggestion has got into our internal programming, and most of us will have little grievances about our body, but it's unlikely to cause any major problem. It will begin to cause a substantial problem when those messages are added to an already fragile foundation of unresolved subconscious stress and negative inner talk, eroding our confidence and increasing our anxiety.

When those hang up's become a constant and never ending record in our heads about what's wrong with us and how unattractive we are then it's time to get that sorted. There's one person you really should do everything in your power to have onside - and that person is you!

Once we help you resolve the underlying cracks in the foundation of your self-esteem and body image through our use of alternative therapy, you will find it incredibly freeing. Just imagine if you focused the energy you are wasting on telling yourself you are not good enough into something you really wanted to 'be', 'do' or 'have'?