Compulsive eating can sometimes be considered a form of addiction. As with substance or alcohol dependence, you may feel powerless over your eating habits, and need to consume more over time to feel the same satisfaction. Managing this unhealthy relationship with food can be extremely challenging without support, even when facing physical or emotional consequences, such as weight gain, shame, or health problems, resulting in the disordered behaviour continuing. Help to overcome compulsive eating with hypnotherapy in Brighton is available at The Conway Practice, or remotely with Jonathan Conway by Zoom or telephone.*
Hypnosis is an alternative therapeutic approach that can be highly effective in addressing compulsive or mindless eating*, where willpower alone has proved to be insufficient.* During therapeutic intervention with hypnosis, the origins and triggers to your food dependence will be explored.* These can often be a result of emotional distress, unresolved trauma, or low self-esteem. Hypnotherapy works by accessing the subconscious mind, where negative beliefs and automatic behaviours are stored.* While you are deeply relaxed in a calm environment, you will be gently guided toward healthier responses to emotional stress, anxiety, and other food-related triggers.* This state of mind isn’t unconsciousness or sleep, but a heightened focus and greater receptivity to positive suggestion.*
Alternative coping mechanisms will then be introduced, including relaxation methods, distraction techniques and positive visualisation.* These can reinforce recognition of self-worth, and body awareness, restoring control over your eating habits.* Hypnosis targets the underlying cause of compulsive behaviours, rather than simply the symptoms.* You may for example turn to food as a means of self-soothing, with a subconscious connection to childhood when this was a form of reward or a pacifier. Negative beliefs can be replaced with positive affirmations, enabling you to build a healthier self-image and build a more empowering relationship with food, overcoming a cycle of over-eating and guilt.*
Hypnosis in Brighton to manage compulsive eating can bring long-term transformation, with the ability to make conscious and healthy choices.*
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