My techniques can help you from focusing on destructive habits and constantly putting yourself down and punishing yourself - even if you don’t fully believe in the power they hold!
I guide people from all walks of life, both men and women who felt like their life was put on hold because of the hold that food had over their lives.
They are either people who have gone through some form of counseling or rehabilitation but have somehow always resorted to their destructive patterns again.
This is why the traditional route of getting you into counseling where you talk about your past, your feelings and food behaviors, is not enough for lasting change as works with the conscious mind only.
Sure you may have managed to change how you consciously view food and your body in the past. You may have in the past lost or gained weight and been successful only to find that you are back where you started.
That is because in order to break away from emotional eating patterns. We need to change our relationship with food, our body at the subconscious level. We need to retrain the way we deal with emotions if we want to have inner peace and stay at the weight that is healthy for our bodies.
The counseling works on the assumption that by ‘talking’ about your past and your feelings you will somehow be able to stop the compulsions or addiction. ...This is NOT the case!
I know this first hand.
I literally spent thousands of dollars on counseling.
In the counseling sessions, I talked about my childhood, my mother, my father, my work, my boss, my relationships with men, my friendships, my brother and sisters, my relationship with money and eating habits.
I felt like each week I was telling story after story but not getting anything in return.
I struggled to see how talking about the story of my childhood would free me if all I did was talk and no healing or strategies were offered to move forward were given.
I waited and waited for another expensive counseling session after another and nothing constructive was offered to me.
I started to dread the commuting, waiting, sharing and commuting.
And worst of all…
...My food behaviors had not changed and I was beginning to lose ALL hope.
I found the whole experience exhausting rather than energizing.
Talking about sad times made me feel sadder and eat more.
I was getting worse and paying for it.
I was spiraling into negativity and my eating patterns were out of control. We talked about my feelings and emotions, but there was no exercise or tools to process and clear these emotions.
What I needed to hear was success stories of people that binge eat, compulsively eat, starve or make themselves sick I like did. I needed to hear how that this counselor had helped people change their lives and become free.
What I needed to take away with me was tools for when I felt the urge to overeat or be sick or to avoid eating altogether. I needed guidance for those moments when the urges to act out were strong, I wanted someone to message or call so I could resist the urge and instead eat healthily and sensibility.
I needed to know what to do if you feel drained with guilt for eating something...
...or how to stop thinking and obsessing about the next thing to put in my mouth. But most importantly...
I needed to love myself…