Weight loss using hypnosis and hypnotherapy is well established in the North East, Carlisle, Newcastle and Northumberland. And it comes with celebrity endorsement too.  Claire Sweeney recently appeared in a documentary ‘My Big Fat Diet’, where she deliberately changed her eating and exercise habits.  She changed them from habits that kept her fit and healthy to habits that saw her put on 2 stone in six weeks.  She went up by three dress sizes and her blood pressure went from in the ‘very healthy’ range to the ‘high blood pressure’ range that, if it had continued, would have required treatment.

Of all the changes she experienced, from not being able to wear her favourite clothes to the comments she received from her friends and colleagues, the biggest change she noticed was psychological.  She was amazed at how her attitude to food had changed.  What she believed about eating had changed.  How she selected what she ate had changed.  It was as if someone had flicked a switch inside her head which completely changed how she thought and behaved about food.

So, it was clear from Claire’s experience that an overweight and unhealthy person had a different psychology to that of a thin and fit person, in the context of food and eating.  And this is one of the reasons that so many diets fail.  The vast majority of people who are trying to lose weight know what foods they should be eating.  They know they should be building more activity into their lives.  They know the same things that thin and healthy people know.  And yet the majority of the diets fail.  A few people just ‘give up’, others lose some weight, gain even more and the cycle of yo-yo dieting continues.

What more and more people are now realising is that they need help to ‘flick their mental switch’.  And they’re going for professional hypnotherapy in Newcastle, Northumberland, Carlisle, the Borders of Scotland, in fact throughout the country.

If you’d like to find out more about this please get in touch.  Performing Excellence offers clinical hypnotherapy in the North East of England and the Borders of Scotland.  If you’d like further information on how I can help you contact me at-

Email kim@performingexcellence.co.uk

Telephone 07980 127832

When practicing hypnotherapy in Newcastle, Northumberland and Carlisle, one of the most frequent requests I receive is to help someone give up smoking.  Not to quit smoking, or stop smoking, but to give up.  And this implies having to make a sacrifice.

It’s a bit like shopping.  I was at the supermarket the other week.  As usual, I was shopping on ‘auto pilot’.  I had my standard list, and I knew where everything was so I went about my business.  But this time, for ‘marketing reasons’, they’d changed the layout of the shop.  The aisles where laid out differently, where I usually found my breakfast cereal now had tinned vegetables.  But even though I’m a person of habit, I soon found my way around again and in a short time had completed my weekly shop.  Now I know this happens from time to time, and I also know I can easily change my shopping habits – you never know, I might even try a new supermarket next time!

Many people in the North East and Cumbria find all sorts of reasons for smoking.  Pleasure, self confidence, enjoyment, relaxation, a boost.  And they fear that in quitting they will be giving up these things.  But when I ask them about it further they find out these reasons aren’t really true.  They realise that when they actually think about it, there’s nothing pleasurable or enjoyable about it really.  How can smoking provide both relaxation and a boost, both opposite things?

For many, it’s just a habit – something we ‘just do’ automatically.  And habits can be very easy to change.  We’re in the habit of driving on the left in Britain.  And when we travel abroad we slip easily into driving on the right.  So things we do automatically can be changed.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.  When smokers are asked if, knowing what they know now, would they have ever started smoking in the first place they all say “No!”.    Would they want their young children or grandchildren to smoke?  “No!”. So it can’t be that good then.  So the real question isn’t for what reason do you smoke, but rather why did you ever start smoking in the first place?  Think about it, if you now know you’d rather never have started, how do you feel about that reason for starting all that time ago, now?

Many of the smokers I see in hypnotherapy say they feel like they have a tight band around their chest that stops them breathing.  They have a compulsion to smoke that eats away at them, and if they can’t get a cigarette they’ll move heaven and earth to get one.  Talk about real willpower – the lengths some people go to continue to feel so bad!  Have you ever been on your feet all day, your feet ache and you’re tired?  Your feet feel as if they’ve swollen up and your shoes are too tight.  Your toes, heels and soles are uncomfortable and you’ve had enough.  How enjoyable is it to finally get the weight off your feet, maybe to finally sit down, maybe even have a foot massage and a warm bath.  And this can be like the relief when you quit smoking.  The stress and strain of having to smoke finally disappears – how good will you feel then?  Just like your young children or grandchildren do now – and they feel that good all the time  – and they don’t smoke.

So, you’ve got nothing to give up.  All you have to do is decide to quit.  Stop smoking and enjoy the release.  And I understand that it’s not always as simple as that for you, but that’s where hypnotherapy can help.   And hypnotherapy can be like the foot massage and warm bath – the help that really makes the difference for you.

Offering clinical hypnotherapy in the North East of England and the Borders of Scotland, Performing Excellence offers performance coaching and change work in all areas of your life to help you perform at your best.  If you’d like further information on how I can help you contact me at-

Email kim@performingexcellence.co.uk

Telephone 07980 127832

Anyone who offers hypnotherapy in Newcastle, Northumberland or Carlisle is likely to be in demand over the new year.  The North East and Cumbria is frequently highlighted as having some of the worst health statistics in the country.  And this means that more and more people are turning to hypnotherapy to lose weight, stop smoking and control alcohol.

Recently the Daily Telegraph reported that pop star Lily Allen dropped from a size 14 to a size 8, and she credits her weight loss to hypnotherapy, saying “Hypnosis gave me a flat tum – I’ve never been happier!”.  And now that celebrities are experiencing the benefits of hypnotherapy, in Newcastle, Northumberland and Carlisle ordinary people like you and me are also achieving remarkable things.

And I always notice a boost in the number of people seeking hypnotherapy in the North East in January as a result of setting New Year Resolutions.  While many of the most popular New Year Resolutions tackle weight loss, stopping smoking and reducing alcohol consumption, people set themselves targets that address any bad habit or fear.

And I also get to help people achieve their most magical aims.  I recently helped an expectant Mother who wanted to use hypnosis to help her with a natural childbirth, and a man whose fear of water prevented him from developing his canoeing skills to go out with his children.  The Mother experienced a completely natural and easy birth using no gas or drugs, and the man now has a new lease of life and is enjoying his new found energy and activity.  The joy and delight that each of them now has helped me to set my own New Year Resolution – and that’s to continue to develop my skills, using hypnotherapy in Newcastle, Northumberland and Carlisle to help people achieve their resolutions over the next few months and beyond.

Offering clinical hypnotherapy in the North East of England and the Borders of Scotland, Performing Excellence offers performance coaching and change work in all areas of your life to help you perform at your best.  If you’d like further information on how I can help you contact me at-

Email kim@performingexcellence.co.uk

Telephone 07980 127832

Happy New Year.