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One of my favorite fairy tales is The Crescent Moon Bear.

A woman is  distraught because her husband has returned from war a different man. He is distant, and grouchy, and she sorely misses the sweetness of the companionship she remembers.

She goes to a healer and is told to journey to the top of the mountain and to get a  white hair from the neck of a black bear.

It is no small quest. She must climb the mountain, find the bear, and coax him with food. Oh, and then get close enough to a bear to pull out a hair.

She succeeds and runs down the mountain only to have the healer  throw her precious prize into the fire.

The woman is told to go home and practice everything she learned from the bear on her husband.

This is really a tale about taking one’s own pain and anger and learning love and trust. Everything she needed to know she learned within her journey.

For people who are ashamed for being overweight, the journey to love and trust oneself, can feel as dangerous as getting a bear’s neck hair.

But ultimately, it is the path to inner peace.

Pick the right journey for you.

Although everyone was excited to see all of the candy I brought to class, I couldn’t give any of it away.

The “Let’s get this party started” feeling quickly faded in the Make Peace with Food and You group.

One woman said,”If I am overweight, I shouldn’t eat those M&M’s , so I certainly don’t want to eat them in front of everyone.”

Someone else said, “I feel ashamed.”

The archaic meaning of shame is covering oneself.

A few weeks later, in the same group, what I heard was, “This is who I am.  Accepting me, and not coming from a place where I have to change me, kind of freed me to be nicer me. My obsession with food just isn’t there.”

I wish that for each and every person.

 

Private Hypnosis and EFT Weight Loss Sessions

Hypnosis and EFT For Sugar Cravings

I offer an initial discounted session. Sometimes my clients change their minds in one session.

A very nice man came in because he was addicted to candy bars. He works out, has a good life, loving wife, likes his work, and so on.

Slamming candy bars into his mouth, as a diabetic, wasn’t doing his health, belt size or self-esteem any favors.

When I understood I said to him, “We can go into your past and figure out why you need to feel bad about yourself, because from everything you have told me, that is the only reason I can see you are doing this. Or, we can give you a way to interrupt your behavior and make different choices.”

No surprise, he chose choices. A few days later, he proudly sent me his glucometer numbers.

Today he wrote me:

“Have not had a drop of candy since I saw you. I barely ever do the circuit interruption either. It’s been over a month. Please write away on how you saved a candy addicted-diabetics life. You are awesome Lisa, Thank you so much for my future.”

Love it. Love it!  Oh, by the way, this was a ten-year habit.

One EFT Session Takes Care of  Vertigo

The second example is a co-practitioner I found in the waiting room. She had a worried look on her face and had a few too many tarot cards spread out on the table.

She had been hit by a car,and was trying to decide whether to settle with her insurance company. The problem was she still had vertigo. She was able to work, but WTH, this was no way to live or work.

We figured out the exact moment the vertigo began by going through the accident moment by moment. As we worked, it began to lessen and then it went away completely and it has never come back. That was over a year ago.

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Seven Practical Steps to Reduce Sugar Cravings

For years, I made this statement, “As soon as my brain heard that I was planning some weight loss program, my inner rebel kicked in and demanded a candy bar.”

Well, not any candy bar; nine times out of ten, it was a Snickers Bar.

The thought of going on a diet hasn’t crossed my mind for over twenty years.  The concept of deprivation does not work for me.

So after writing yesterday’s post, I was at the store, where we all know, retailers prominently display candy bars.

I picked up a Snickers Bar.

I was a little amused. It has been months since I had one. And the rule is I can have what I want.

Well, I ate two bites and I was done.

This has never happened in my entire life. I have always finished a snickers bar.

I have never even shared one.

It just didn’t taste good to me. It tasted like something I had outgrown.

I didn’t get here over night.

But from my own experience and that of my many clients, I can tell you it is totally worth it!

And there’s more. A client near and dear to my heart, called to share that she had verbalized to the most pain-provoking person in her life, words of forgiveness.

Now she had said the forgiveness words in my office.  Most of the time, this is a fake it until you make it proposition.

The important part is setting the intention.

The intention of forgiveness creates an opening.

She said, “For the first time in years, I don’t feel an emptiness and I feel lighter.”

I know that sounds strange, but it makes perfect sense to her, and to me.

So that’s it.

Seven Steps to Craving Less Sugar.