Struggling to lose weight? Try something different, try hypnotherapy instead

The diet and fitness industry is huge. It literally makes billions per year, and there is always another diet around the corner to try. You will have heard or even tried most of these…

5:2

Keto

Meal prep

Membership programmes

Clean eating

Liquid detox

Atkins

Dairy free

The Everything free diet!

I have met so many people who have struggled with dieting, they see no way of losing weight and all of a sudden it becomes a mountain that they cannot climb. 

The more desperate you become to lose weight the more diets you will try. 

The more diets you try, the more money you give to the diet industry.

Millions of us try these diets only to find that the weight loss doesn’t last and our money goes down the toilet. 

 

There is a reason why your diet isn't working

Diets ignore your emotions and you emotions play a key role in your eating habits. What you need is lasting change, lasting results and weight loss that you can sustain. To do this you need to actually change your habits and the way that you think about food. Weight loss is about your attitude to food, how it fits into your life style and your relationship with the things that you are eating.

Hypnotherapy can change you and your weight, giving you the results that you want. 

If you need help with your weight and keeping it off. Call me on 07525051263 and lets get this under control

Sad Syndrome - help in Brackley, Banbury and Oxfordshire

Winter has historically and culturally been a significant time of year. There are wonderful events happening over the winter period and there is plenty going on.

But for some of us, winter is a dark time. With the lack of sun light and the cold weather, a lot of us stay in and some people start to feel really low.

Its not surprising people start to suffer at this time of the year. Many animals go into hibernation, plants look dead and with the pressure of Christmas more and more people get into debt. This, combined with all of that time spent confined indoors, arguments can start.

As a result, this can add up to being a pretty miserable time.

You may even have got to the stage where you expect to feel bad over winter so you begin to dread it. And so, the cycle of winter depression starts to creep in.

If you feel like this, then I can assure you that this doesn’t have to happen every winter.

We can work together and get to the core of the issues that may be lurking underneath. Once you are free from those, we can have a look at rewiring your perception of the winter months and how you respond to them.

Rest assured, regardless of the season. You can feel happy, energised and able to deal with things. You can feel more like yourself again.

Hypnotherapy is great for SAD Syndrome. So if you are feeling down, I have offices in Brackley and Banbury.

Feel free to contact me on 07525051263 or use the contact page on my website.

Mental Illnesses hurt, no matter who you are.

Chester Bennington. What a great man! I can still remember standing in mud which oozed over the top of my wellies as I watched him in concert. I can remember how I didn’t pay much attention to the mud because Chester had the kind of voice which caused you to forget that you had been standing in the pouring rain for hours. I love Linkin Park and they gave me such wonderful childhood memories.

So as you can imagine, I was just as confused and as shocked as everyone else when I heard that he had succumbed to his inner demons and put an end to his life.

First world problems

I walked into work when the news broke out and one of my colleagues said, ‘God, all that money, a Playboy bunny wife and all his fans loved him? I don’t get it. I would have been so happy.’

I found myself agreeing with him for a second. Most of us have probably thought about the idea that a lottery win might sort out our problems. Well, I’m afraid that mental illnesses simply don’t give a shit who you are or what you have.  Anyone can suffer from a mental illness and Ferraris, mansions and fame will do nothing to plug the hole which many feel gaping in their hearts. Tragically, some people will get to the point where the pain is so hard to live with that they may simply not want to continue living at all.

Living with mental pain

Suicidal feelings often arise when the pain, the situation, the guilt, the shame is so big that a person feels a need to make it stop.  They may begin to see nothing but an ugly future in which the issues and the feelings that they have in the now, are still there.

People around them will mutter empty nothings, that everything will be okay, that things will get better and to stop being so silly. They mean well but these words will fall upon deaf ears, because that person in the fog of a mental illness cannot see through the thickly cloying mists which swirl and close around them. They simply cannot see a way out.

There is a better way

The problem with suicide is that it’s the most permanent solution to a temporary problem. There’s no come-back, no room for second thoughts and no room for buyer’s remorse. Mostly.

Studies of those who jumped from the Golden Gate Bridge, and somehow survived, show that every single one of them regretted their decision as they plummeted towards the water. All of them experienced an overwhelming desire to live.

Of course, you don’t have to be rich and famous. I was working with a client, quite recently, who felt the very same way. She believed that her life had reached the point of no return and that only the gaping maw of a silent grave could swallow and remove her pain.

It wasn’t, I’m glad to say, true at all.

Thankfully, she reached out to me instead, and I took her hand, helping her find her feet on the path which – step by step – led to her recovery. She learned that tiny but significant actions began to restore her faith in her own ability to shape her life. She wasn’t merely a passive victim of circumstance. She had power and control.

She re-learned how to feel connected to the people around her and how to re-forge her relationship with life. Her wounds healed, her heart recovered and eventually her mind followed suit.

She’s now living happily with a new partner. Life is full of hope and those dreadful, dark days stand firmly in her past. I’m proud of her achievements and am proud to have played my part.

Please don’t give up. Hypnotherapy, psychotherapy and all sorts of talking services can help.

If you need more information, you're worried about someone or you need to talk, then please call 07525051263.

Harry Potter and Self Esteem? What's the link.

Self - Esteem is delicate. It can take years to build and yet a few simple words can raze it to the ground. I know how fragile it can be. Every day, I use hypnotherapy in Banbury, Brackley and Oxford to help people repair the damage which others have done to their confidence, their sense of self and their sense of worth.  

Watch the video! It’ll only take a few moments.  

Harry Potter’s teacher is a vicious little bully who does her best to destroy his self-esteem, his happiness and his future. As he writes, her words engrave themselves onto his hand, causing pain and drawing blood. She’s truly nasty, isn’t she!? 

She’s not alone. Bullies are more common than many people like to think. Their words can be cruel, destructive and mean. We all know how damaging bullies can be. Every school had one. Yours did too. I bet you even remember their name. 

But what if the abusive bully exists in your own mind? 

How do you talk to yourself? What kind of language do you use? Do you praise yourself for the good things you’ve done? Do you take pride in the good person you are? 

I thought not. 

If you’re here because you’d like to improve your confidence and self-esteem then it’s probably fair to say that you’re a bully. The problem is however, that you bully yourself! 

My clients will typically bully themselves into the ground. I shudder when they tell me how they treat themselves. I shiver when they relate how cruel they are – to their very own selves. 

The worst thing is – they’re often barely aware of how they do it. 

People become their own bullies 

Perhaps your parents began the process. Maybe it was a bully or two at school. Over time their words became normal. You began by wondering why you’d been singled out. You ended by feeling as if you knew. They were right to bully you. Their words became your words. Their voice became your voice. You became your own bully and nobody in the world can be crueller to your own self than you are.  

Those words are etched deeply into your soul 

The words etched into Harry’s hand became deeper and deeper every time he went to detention and, given time, such destructive thoughts will leave their mark on anybody’s sense of self-worth and esteem. A mark was left on Harry’s hand and, in a similar manner. pathways are physically carved into your brain every time one of these horrible thoughts is allowed to exist, unchallenged. 

Over time those thoughts become automatic. They become ingrained and you may not even notice them as they wend their way through your brain.  

They do, however, leave a mark. They become normalised, routine and accepted as truth. The damage slowly accumulates over time.  

You’ve become your own bully. How could hypnotherapy help you to be free? 

It may seem hopeless. You may feel as if those thought patterns are so hard-wired that they can’t be undone. 

It’s not true, they can be. If you’re determined to change then they will be!  

I know this is true because I spend every week using hypnotherapy in Banbury, Oxford and Brackley to help people rewire their minds. What is learned can be unlearned. If you’d like to let go of repetitive and self-destructive thought patterns then please do get in touch. If you’d like to free yourself from that inner bully then give me a call. If you’d like to feel more confident, happier in your own self, more confident in your own skin and free, get in touch. 

I’d be more than happy to talk with you. I’ll be glad to explain how hypnotherapy could help you to be free of self-doubt, anxiety and pain. I’ll help you to heal those old wounds and to be free! 

Call me on 07525051263 or click the contact me button on the website to put poor self esteem behind you.

I look forward to hearing from you 

Adelle