Low self-esteem is a significant psychological factor that can lead to unhealthy eating habits and difficulty in managing your weight. If you have a negative belief about your true worth, you may find that you often struggle with self-perception and a lack of confidence, which can create emotional distress. To cope with these negative feelings, food may have become a source of comfort and emotional relief, leading to compulsive eating behaviours. Support to lose weight with hypnotherapy in Brighton is available at The Conway Practice, or during online remotely by Zoom, Skype or telephone, if you find this more convenient.*
Hypnosis is a holistic and safe therapeutic intervention, where all the relevant aspects of your relationship with food can be explored and addressed.* Eating habits can commonly be traced back to childhood, and are influenced by parents or care-givers, where food is either given as a reward or comfort, and withheld as a reprimand for bad behaviour. These distant memories remain embedded deeply within the subconscious mind, and reflect on eating habits during adulthood, without any conscious awareness of the origin.
Emotional Eating
If you have low self-esteem you may find you are using food to soothe feelings of inadequacy, loneliness, or sadness. Emotional eating becomes a way to temporarily escape from negative thoughts and feelings, providing a short-lived sense of comfort and distraction. However, this can quickly become a habitual response to stress and anxiety, due to a reliance on food to manage your emotions, rather than addressing the underlying issues. During hypnotherapy for weight loss with Jonathan Conway, new coping mechanisms can be introduced, with relaxation techniques and distraction methods to manage the fight-or-flight stress response.*
Cycle of Regret and Guilt
Compulsive eating can lead to an emotional cycle of shame and guilt. After a binge-eating episode, you may feel guilty and regretful of your lack of control, which can further lower your self-esteem. This negative self-perception can reinforce the belief that you are incapable of making positive changes, perpetuating the rotation of restrictive and compulsive eating. The feelings of failure and self-criticism increases emotional distress, driving you back to food for comfort. Hypnotherapy can help you to recognise the subconscious triggers to your disordered eating habits, and replace any negative beliefs with confident affirmations.* While you are comfortable and relaxed under hypnosis, Jonathan will guide you to in positive visualisation, enabling you to appreciate that you can achieve your weight-loss goal and finally re-gain control over your eating habits with self-motivation and recognition of your true sense of worth.*
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