How do habits begin? For many of us, it’s way back in childhood. For some of us, it’s as simple as being taught to finish everything on the plate or have some cookies and milk and you’ll feel better. For a lot of people, it’s a way of self-soothing and comforting when we’ve had trauma that we don’t know how to process and we can’t talk about and we don’t have anyone to tell. It’s the whole shame and guilt and everything that goes with it. All of a sudden, food becomes our best friend. It’s something that we can go to the cookie cabinet at night and the cookies are there for us. Weight loss hypnotherapist Rena Greenberg says we’re already hypnotized by the food industry, the media, and the advertising. We’ve already been conditioned to do the behaviors that we don’t even want to do and they often lead to undesirable outcomes. Rena talks about hypnotherapy as a way to take back your power and do what you consciously want to do to get the results that you want in your life.