Issues with
food.
There seems to
be a lot of people having difficulty with their
relationships with food at the moment. Food is being used
in ways that would have been very difficult a century ago.
Maybe it is because it is so readily available and so
comparatively cheap that it is becoming so much of a
problem.
People seek help for a variety of food related issues. Some
people find that they just need to eat too much and are
thinking about food all the time, some people binge eat,
some are bulimic, some don't eat enough. Some can't eat
certain kinds of foods, some can't swallow their food etc
etc
Quite often people hate that part of them that makes them
like this, and in doing so they split that part off and try
to bury it away. I often talk to a client and ask them to
think about the problem as helping them in some way. In the
example of a binge eater, what function is the binge eating
providing? It may be that the binge eating is being used to
avoid certain difficult feelings.
We can use hypnotherapy to find out what causes the desire
to binge, and how the bingeing is helping the client, once
we find its function the client is more able to accept that
part of themselves and we can work on ways of support that
don't involve food. When they are aware of the difficult
feelings that the food was helping with, we may help them
work with those feelings, find out why they suffer so, and
go about a path of healing and growth in that area.
With any food related issue I would always encourage a
client to visit their GP and talk it over with them in
order to rule out any organic cause to the problem, once
they have been given the all clear hypnotherapy can be a
very effective way of working with these issues.
