A weight loss story about grief–not food, not exercise!

It’s that time of year again for New Year Resolutions!  I want to tell you about a DIFFERENT kind of weight loss story.  We have all been told that weight loss is about food & exercise, right?  I’d like you to know that there is so much more to the story.

A former nutritionist client of mine, referred a patient (I’ll call her Pam) to me this past October.  Because the nutritionist had such great results working with me with a difficult non-food issue, she wondered if I might be able to help Pam. This was not an issue about food, but about GRIEF.  That’s right…you read that correctly.  GRIEF.

Pam had a traumatic, and accidental death of a family member 20 years earlier when her weight became an issue.  It was a shocking and unexpected event that was loaded with many issues.  Through no fault of her own, that event caused an ENERGY BLOCK so big that it linked her energy to grief, loss, inability to enjoy fun anymore, fear of travel, as well as love relationship fears. That couldn’t be the cause of her weight gain, could it?  Oh yes, it could and it was.

From the first session in October 2014, I was able to “hear” all the links to this tragic death that she had never realized she anchored together.  Pam was a secret binger and couldn’t stop….till we started clearing the REASONS for the driving forces that made her want to eat.  She knew when her weight problem started, but couldn’t help herself or control her eating.

After completing her second hour of Tapping, she was feeling lighter, felt calmer and was more secure of herself.  By the third session, only two weeks after she started clearing the trauma, she had stopped binging and DIDN’T HAVE TO WORK AT IT!!!  Did you read that???  She DIDN’T HAVE TO WORK OR SUFFER AT CONTROLLING HER EATING!!!!!!!!!  She just stopped binging without any effort!!!  Let me say this again.  After TWO HOURS OF TAPPING, she no longer had the desire to binge after suffering for 20 years!

No matter what “diet” you go on, most people feel deprived, anxious and look forward to when they can have their favorite comfort foods again.  Sure, people lose weight on diets, BUT, how many keep the weight off?  How many more go back to eating, feeling out of control and beat themselves up for feeling like a failure?  How many people are constantly thinking about food, calories, and exercise to maintain their weight, or when the burden becomes too much, they just give up and return to old habits?

Food brought Pam comfort as it does for many people with weight issues, but once the driving forces UNDERNEATH the habit were cleared out, THE NEED TO EAT to cover the pain, left her.  She wasn’t lazy, stupid, out of control, a loser, or any of the other tags that you might give yourself when you can’t or won’t lose unwanted weight.  Her weight was covering up and shoving down EMOTIONAL PAIN that she didn’t know how to release.  It is the same story for ANY addiction. The addiction is helping you to cope by shoving down the feelings you don’t want to feel or know how to release.

Tapping gave Pam back her life.  She had NO DESIRE to devour the Christmas cookies, and all the holiday treats.  Imagine that?  When have you felt that kind of freedom from YOUR emotional upsets?  Weight issues are NOT about weight, but about emotions.  Did you know that the “formal” name of Tapping is EMOTIONAL FREEDOM TECHNIQUE?!!!  You don’t have to suffer with uncontrollable emotions and uncomfortable memories.  There is a solution.  Call me for an appointment today and make a REAL resolution in your mind and body!