Hypnoanalysis, parts therapy and more ...

Dear Dr Anne,

News from one of our students ... This wonderful lady attended a workshop we had on Parts Therapy and her results are TERRIFIC. In Parts Therapy that's her Power Word. She gave us permission to send this to you, and permission to have it printed in Subconsciously Speaking. Her name is Linda and she is an IMDHA Certified Hypnotherapist. Larry is also an IMDHA Certified Hypnotherapist and her partner for this session. Here is her story:

A brief history:

Linda has struggled with her weight nearly all of her childhood and adult life. She was hypnotized previously by a psychologist and used many different methods of getting her weight off ... sadly without much success, in her Hypnoanalysis training with us, she discovered an ISE that identified why she had the need to remain large. She finally started having success in reducing her weight. She was invited back, as were several other students, to attend an introduction to Parts Therapy workshop. She felt there was still something in there that needed to be discovered regarding why she couldn't feel full. She addressed that in this Parts Therapy training.

In that session, Linda regressed to a newborn baby who was crying because she was so very hungry. She recalled that she was starving and wanted my mother. She knew, even as a newborn, who her mother was and she needed her. She remembered crying for a long period of time and many of the babies in the nursery were crying along with her. At the close of training, Linda felt TERRIFIC about knowing the ISE and all the NEW JOBS this part was going to do for her now when she completed the session.

We all know that the processing doesn't stop in the Hypnotherapist's recliner! Her mind continued to process and correct those things from the ISE forward as she started her long drive home. Here is her story from that point:

Dear Jim and Pat:

First of all I want to thank you again for giving me the opportunity to learn Parts Therapy. It is going to be a wonderful tool to use to help so many people. Larry is wonderful ... what a sweet and enthusiastic spirit.... I learned a wealth of information and techniques ... thank you for that.

Now i want to tell you that I feel TERRIFIC!!!!!! Finally for the first time in 50 years I feel that the overeating issue is gone. After I got home, I called my Morn and she added more to the story. She told me that she only got to feed me once in a while. She held me once after the delivery and then, because I weighed only 6 pounds, I was taken from her and she didn't see me again until the next day. She said I was in the regular nursery, but because I was considered small she wasn't allowed to feed me at first. The nurses and nuns wanted to see how I was going to eat. What a joke (They were really going to see how hungry and starved I could get and how loud I could cry till they fed me) THOSE NUNS!!!!

I really never stood a chance as far as not feeling extreme hunger ... that wasn't the only time that it happened like that. My Mom told me that when I got home from the hospital, I lost a lot of weight and she was constantly feeding me, but I still lost weight. I would cry like I was starving but then get too tired while I was sucking and would get exhausted and fall asleep. She said that the visiting nurse came and said that the reason that I was losing weight was that I was small and the hole in the nipple was so tiny that it took too much of my energy to suck and get the milk out, so she showed her how to cut the top of the nipple so that I didn't have to hardly suck to get the milk. That was also probably another mistake because then I could wolf down my milk without my body realizing that I was full. The start of another problem that would later cause overeating and weight gain.

Then guess what ... when I was 3 months old I got thrush and I couldn't eat again and cried because I was starving. My Mom said that she felt so bad, because she knew I was hungry, but my mouth was sore and I couldn't eat. They painted my mouth with gentian violet and after a little while I was back to wolfing my bottle down again.

It's funny, but my Morn has told me so many times over the years, You were such a good baby. You never cried except when you were hungry and then you really cried. Otherwise you were such a pleasant baby, mmmmm. Sounds like me through my whole life. Such a pleasant person.... never cried except when I was hungry or starved and believe me many times I was starved. Starved not only for food ... hut starved for love and attention. I had good parents ... but I had an older sister that needed a lot of attention and then a younger brother that came when I was 5 years old, and boy, was I jealous of the attention that he got. Of course I remember wolfing lots of food down at that age ... not only because of being starved, but that's when I started to pack the pounds on so that boys and men wouldn't look at me ... as we found out in class with the previous regression.

Then after the weight started to pound on (listen to that choice of words) and my self-confidence was shattered by so many people ... I really felt staved for love and attention. It's funny but so many times during the course of my 50 years, I remember crying myself to sleep. And as I was driving home from class I realized it was the same exact feeling that I had in that nursery. Starved and crying. I can't tell you how many times I got up out of bed and gorged myself to make that feeling stop ... and of course because I was eating so fast it took a lot of food to get full.... if I ever really did feel full ... I'm not sure I ever did. And of course all of that only made my problem worse ... never solving anything.

I've been hypnotized so many times during my lifetime and I always wondered why the suggestion of eating slowly and taking small bites and chewing them 25-30 times never worked for me. I never, ever took those suggestions. I always ate fast and lots of food. Even when I was actually dieting and ate smaller portions, I wolfed the food down. Now that I think of it, I can't even suck on a piece of hard candy and enjoy it. I immediately chew it up and swallow it. My sister was just laughing about that the other night when she gave me a piece of hard candy. She said, suck on that now, don't just crunch it and chew it and swallow it right away ... you're going to break your teeth. You never could suck on apiece of hard candy. I really couldn't I had to crunch it up and swallow it.

My session answered so many of my questions and solved one of the biggest problems and issues of my life. I really do feel TERRIFIC and free now--to go on with my life not having to feel starved for anything. I have everything I need within myself to always feel full, satisfied, comforted, loved and TERRIFIC!!! I know that the weight will start to fall off, because a big weight has been lifted already, and I'm doing all the right things nutritionally and with exercise. Now my subconscious mind is in the driver's seat and it will take care of the rest. Even my pain is better. Thanks to you guys. All of you.

I just wanted to share a few more things with you. How about the fact that the only time that I felt my best was when my niece was born and l was at her delivery and I was working in maternity as a nurse. I was really obsessed about making sure that the babies were held, comforted, loved and fed when they started crying and were hungry. It really bothered me that some of the nurses would say, they can cry for awhile it won't hurt them--it's good for their lungs. Now I know why that upset me so much.

I was destined to work in maternity so that I could keep other babies from my experience ... how about that for Karma! I HAD to work there. When I was in school we were told that whoever graduated first in the class would get to pick the department that they wanted to work in. Well I studied like crazy to do just that and I got to work in maternity. I knew that it was where I had to be from the first day that we trained on that floor and I heard the babies crying in the nursery. I thought it was just my maternal instinct coming out, but as we just found out it was so much more.

I was just thinking ... wouldn't it be an interesting study on obesity to find out how many children and adults are overweight because they were unintentionally starved as newborn infants. Not only because the hospitals are understaffed, but also because some poor babies now are breast fed and have to suck and suck and still feel hungry until the mother's milk comes in ... days later. A lot of doctors won't even OK water as a supplement until the mother's milk comes in. The babies are constantly eating and sucking and getting nothing to make them feel satisfied and full. I saw many breast fed babies actually starving ... again that bothered me tremendously. The poor little things would scream and scream and never feel full ... I could see that they were starving and then if the doctor would finally OK a supplement, the baby would drink it so fast that they would almost choke. Now I can see how that can lead to so many problems later in life. WOW. What an awakening!

Well ... that's some more of my story. Hope I didn't take up too much of your time. I just had to share all of this with you and thank you again

Linda

Epilogue:

Hypnosis is a powerful tool to get to the cause of so many limiting beliefs and behaviors. I also believe we need to remember that when we work with clients who have had a long history of weight problems, there may be more than one ISE. Our society has attached so much emotion and importance to food, they may have multi layered issues. One ISE may be why the need to overeat, another may be why the client can't feel full, yet another why the need to hang on to the weight, and so on. As an IMDHA Certified Hypnotherapist, I know the importance of continuing to learn techniques that bring results. Being attracted to results ... rather than being attached to them!

... we had a lot to share! Peace and blessings to all.

Dear Dr. Anne and Dr. Jerome,

What a wonderful conference--I learned much from the Sutphen workshop, I enjoyed speaking, all the networking, and hearing the other presenters. The hotel was wonderful--the staff went out of their way to make everything perfect. Thanks to both of you for all of the hard work that you put into the conference each year. It definitely shows,

Donna Bretz--OH

Pat and Jim Sievert, Berea, OH

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