Feedback on LIGHTEN UP! LOSE WEIGHT!!

"From my hypnosis practice, I know that releasing the issues behind the eating will release the weight permanently. LIGHTEN UP! LOSE WEIGHT!! is a powerful tool to obtain your ideal weight permanently. This step-by-step manual will give you the encouragement you need to overcome any issues with food, self-esteem and life."
Vickie Griffith
Certified Hypnotherapist and Weight Loss Specialist
Richmond, Virginia

I am impressed with how sound your program is offered in LIGHTEN UP! LOSE WEIGHT!! It addresses many facets that typical weight-loss programs never even consider! Your program looks at why our bodies gain and hold weight and you give specific techniques and scripts for releasing not just the weight, but also the need for the weight. In just ten weeks, a reader encounters concepts- emotional, mental and spiritual-never before related to weight loss. Yours is a well-balanced approach to weight loss through total understanding of oneself and one's needs. The hypnosis techniques and scripts are simple and easy to follow and, in my judgement, quite powerful. This program is a godsend.
Pat Walker
Owner, The Aquarian Bookshop
Richmond, Virginia

A step by step 10 week program of using hypnosis techniques to lose weight without starving yourself to death. Diet equals deprivation. Getting to your repressed emotions equals liberation - from all diets. Self-hypnosis through the power of self-talk and the power of your own mind, helps you to make better choices, by using self-hypnosis suggestions to improve your eating habits so you won't want that juicy hamburger and wonder why you ever stooped so low to eat that hormone-laden grease patty in the first place. You are already hypnotized through your negative self-talk, now you can change negative programming into life-changing "CAN-DO".

Lighten Up! Lose Weight! is a do-it-yourself project that gives you the answers to why you "yo-yo" and how stuffing and holding in anger and guilt contributes to fat.

The problem is not losing weight - you've done that dozens of times. THE PROBLEM IS IN MAINTAINING WEIGHT LOSS, and this program gets you in touch as never before with the reasons you don't, serving up interactive exercises on "checking your motive" on why you eat inappropriately.

On My Own Terms: A Memoir

TWENTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD DARLENE BARRIERE is borderline anorexic when she enters psychotherapy. She's there to prove she doesn't need professional help, even though she hates everything about herself. She's afraid of being labeled neurotic or psychotic, but mostly, Darlene is afraid that she might be as crazy as her mother.

And so begins ten months of grueling sessions with Dr. Stein . . . . Darlene shares and faces the memories that led to a suicide attempt, a planned teenage pregnancy and subsequent abortion, promiscuity, a stint in detention, morbid obesity, eating disorders, and a voluntary tubal-ligation when she was twenty-one years old. But she doesn't share the fact that in her purse are three boxes of Ex-Lax. Darlene must face the reality that her mother hated her. She must come to terms with her love/hate feelings for her violent, lord-and-master father.

Twelve years later, Darlene learns her estranged mother has terminal bone cancer. As the family congregates to prepare for their mother's death, Darlene attempts to re-establish the emotional connection she once had with her brothers and sisters. But religious feuds, unresolved childhood squabbles, and Darlene's 'public-trustee-relationship' with her mother take their toll. Now she must deal with what happens when the past collides with the present.

For more information, please visit: www.members.shaw.ca/darbarriere

Obesity is the materialisation of a frightening internal struggle, and loss of control with your eating. It is a battle fought and lost with food each day. Being overweight is about being overwhelmed by food. Food has become the nurturing internal carer, a substitute parent which offers sustenance at a damaging price.

Compulsive eating, comfort eating, yo-yo dieting, mindless eating and eating to soothe stress, become the easy option in a desperate attempt to fill a vast emptiness inside that seems insatiable and has very little to do with hunger. Throughout childhood and the pressures of our environment we can lose sight of ourselves because of the need to find love and attachment in security. The secret of our true identity lies within the realms of the child within. Reaching that lost child and reclaiming that innocence and spontaneity will, I believe, take you towards your true self and then onto a journey of self care and self love which, although challenging gives new insights into how to manage around food.

Obesity is the materialisation of a frightening internal struggle, and loss of control with your eating. It is a battle fought and lost with food each day. Being overweight is about being overwhelmed by food. Food has become the nurturing internal carer, a substitute parent which offers sustenance at a damaging price.

Compulsive eating, comfort eating, yo-yo dieting, mindless eating and eating to soothe stress, become the easy option in a desperate attempt to fill a vast emptiness inside that seems insatiable and has very little to do with hunger. Throughout childhood and the pressures of our environment we can lose sight of ourselves because of the need to find love and attachment in security. The secret of our true identity lies within the realms of the child within. Reaching that lost child and reclaiming that innocence and spontaneity will, I believe, take you towards your true self and then onto a journey of self care and self love which, although challenging gives new insights into how to manage around food.

This paradoxical and confounding problem has often gone misunderstood and, as a result, mistreated for as long as it has been in existence. This book sets forth a creative and simple way for families and caregivers to understand what an eating disorder actually is, how to think about it in healing, helpful ways, and provides one facet of the total solution to understanding the true nature of an eating disorder. Because it is too difficult to fight something you cannot see, this book proposes a way to 'see' the invisible thought process called an eating disorder. Eating disorders are treatable as long as the disparity and depth of misunderstanding of all involved in the healing process are removed. The Eating Disorder Solution is a positive contribution to the growing effort to eradicate eating disorders.

On My Own Terms: A Memoir

TWENTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD DARLENE BARRIERE is borderline anorexic when she enters psychotherapy. She's there to prove she doesn't need professional help, even though she hates everything about herself. She's afraid of being labeled neurotic or psychotic, but mostly, Darlene is afraid that she might be as crazy as her mother.

And so begins ten months of grueling sessions with Dr. Stein . . . . Darlene shares and faces the memories that led to a suicide attempt, a planned teenage pregnancy and subsequent abortion, promiscuity, a stint in detention, morbid obesity, eating disorders, and a voluntary tubal-ligation when she was twenty-one years old. But she doesn't share the fact that in her purse are three boxes of Ex-Lax. Darlene must face the reality that her mother hated her. She must come to terms with her love/hate feelings for her violent, lord-and-master father.

Twelve years later, Darlene learns her estranged mother has terminal bone cancer. As the family congregates to prepare for their mother's death, Darlene attempts to re-establish the emotional connection she once had with her brothers and sisters. But religious feuds, unresolved childhood squabbles, and Darlene's 'public-trustee-relationship' with her mother take their toll. Now she must deal with what happens when the past collides with the present.

For more information, please visit: www.members.shaw.ca/darbarriere

Feedback on LIGHTEN UP! LOSE WEIGHT!!

"From my hypnosis practice, I know that releasing the issues behind the eating will release the weight permanently. LIGHTEN UP! LOSE WEIGHT!! is a powerful tool to obtain your ideal weight permanently. This step-by-step manual will give you the encouragement you need to overcome any issues with food, self-esteem and life."
Vickie Griffith
Certified Hypnotherapist and Weight Loss Specialist
Richmond, Virginia

I am impressed with how sound your program is offered in LIGHTEN UP! LOSE WEIGHT!! It addresses many facets that typical weight-loss programs never even consider! Your program looks at why our bodies gain and hold weight and you give specific techniques and scripts for releasing not just the weight, but also the need for the weight. In just ten weeks, a reader encounters concepts- emotional, mental and spiritual-never before related to weight loss. Yours is a well-balanced approach to weight loss through total understanding of oneself and one's needs. The hypnosis techniques and scripts are simple and easy to follow and, in my judgement, quite powerful. This program is a godsend.
Pat Walker
Owner, The Aquarian Bookshop
Richmond, Virginia

A step by step 10 week program of using hypnosis techniques to lose weight without starving yourself to death. Diet equals deprivation. Getting to your repressed emotions equals liberation - from all diets. Self-hypnosis through the power of self-talk and the power of your own mind, helps you to make better choices, by using self-hypnosis suggestions to improve your eating habits so you won't want that juicy hamburger and wonder why you ever stooped so low to eat that hormone-laden grease patty in the first place. You are already hypnotized through your negative self-talk, now you can change negative programming into life-changing "CAN-DO".

Lighten Up! Lose Weight! is a do-it-yourself project that gives you the answers to why you "yo-yo" and how stuffing and holding in anger and guilt contributes to fat.

The problem is not losing weight - you've done that dozens of times. THE PROBLEM IS IN MAINTAINING WEIGHT LOSS, and this program gets you in touch as never before with the reasons you don't, serving up interactive exercises on "checking your motive" on why you eat inappropriately.