Hypnosis for Permanent Weight Loss

We are all about getting results... and getting results fast. That would be an unhealthy way to do it.

It's a good idea to lose weight and look after your well-being, but if the process makes you unhappy and you're doing something just to lose weight, you would lose appeal to what you are doing. And most likely, relationships and social interactions suffer.

That would never get you far down in your journey to reach your goals. Because the stress of sticking to what you think is the only thing that will make it a success for you could be your downfall.

Diet mentality is made of this stuff, making you look perfect when it should never be like that.

What the body wants is gentleness and compassion. And it's about giving yourself permission and an empowered choice to eat what feels good for you at the moment.

That way, you feel good about yourself and how you relate with people you care about the most. And that's what matters.

Jay Williams is a Co-Owner, Founder at Hale Fitness. Back when he found CrossFit in 2007, Jay was 315 lbs and couldn't do a push-up or a pull-up. Even though he used to be a decent athlete and enjoyed going to the gym, he got fat and sick after sitting behind a desk for so many years…he had to do something, or he was headed to an early death….

In this episode, Jay shares his journey from a 300+ pound guy to someone a hundred pound lighter. He shares tips and strategies on how you can teach yourself to stretch your timeline of reaching the goal but still do what's necessary. He also shares what intuitive eating looks like for him. And how it's never about rigidity and sticking to perfection but feeling good about yourself and your body and making yourself present with the people that matter to you the most.

"The number one key to me being successful is just, or any success I've had is just little wins that I can celebrate every day. And the less focus I have on the goal and the more focus I have on the process, the happier I am and the more success that I find." - Jay Williams

What you will learn from this episode:

07:01 - Looking back at his childhood years and the turn of events in his school life, and the injury that contributed to his weight gain

10:29 - Initially making progress at first but fell off the tracks again

12:57 - A big support system makes a huge difference

15:52 - How he met his wife and what unconditional support she's getting from her since they began dating till they get married

18:25 - The realization of doing something better for his health

21:04 - What keeps him continue doing what he is doing for his health now

24:29 - Three reasons why people want to lose weight [depending on their truth]

29:31 - Doing what makes you happy

33:48 - Eating the way you've set yourself to eat but with permission to eat anything you want in that moment

34:54 - Giving a glimpse of his intuitive eating

38:46 - How feeling bad about yourself never helps and sharing a strategy to help you get successful

42:01 - The idea of tracking and how you can win

46:58 - How to turn your focus out of those 'downs' in life

Connect with Jay:

• Website: https://halefitness.com

Valuable Resources:

• Register for our LIVE FREE Monthly "Themed" Healthy Hypnosis Hour!

• Join Emotional Mastery Coaching with Leslie

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This is often where we get it all wrong, finding someone to complete us. And this is where the problem lies because we often rely on another person to constantly fill that emotional void we should have worked on ourselves first.

When that brokenness in us is not healed yet, it manifests in our relationships. Most often, that leads to us being unhappy, unfulfilled, wanting more, and ending up in unhappy relationships.

We need to feel whole and complete in ourselves first. And having said that, we also need to say no to what won't work for us and yes to what we genuinely want and is best for us.

Once we work on ourselves to be fully capable of standing on our own, have emotional mastery, and stop being needy, we attract the right person.

We often see that happening when we least expect it; the right one comes along.

In this episode, our guest, Brooke, shares that hiring a coach and investing in herself for her happiness and fulfillment is the best thing that ever happened to her.

Mindset, for her, is everything. You may not be perfect about it every day. But like her, who has gone through a divorce and emotional distress brought about by that event, it helps to feel empowered. That is, putting meaning into what happened instead of being victimized by it.

Once she finds herself in that situation, she only basks in her worthiness and gets to choose whom she wants, never worries about not finding a guy because she knows what she wants and will get it, which indeed she did, with her husband now.

"Work on yourself; you can only clean up your side of the street. You can't fix or change anyone else." - Brooke

What you will learn from this episode:

03:30 - How she reached a point and understood that her first marriage was not a failure

05:18 - Sharing about mindset work and how it has been so significant in her journey

07:03 - How she found her way and healed after the divorce: hiring a coach and doing healing modalities

10:30 - Inner healing and attracting the right relationship for you [not scared to invest in one's happiness and satisfaction]

14:54 - The reason her other half got attracted to her: she felt complete and whole in herself

16:45 - The value she brought to the relationship and the need for emotional mastery to be not needy

20:08 - What dating was like with her now husband

25:11 - Making things happen: take decisive action

27:09 - You're choosing him; he's not choosing you [you just sit in your worthiness]

29:57 - Using the law of contrast to get clear on what you want

31:25 - Feeling complete and feeling the stability first in yourself and not project it to another person

32:14 - What it looks like if someone projects

35:01 - Talking about attachment styles and how it can vary in relationships

39:29 - Want to be with a king and not a prince because you work on yourself to be a queen

43:11 - Keeping the love alive

45:16 - What she wants to tell those who have dating challenges

Valuable Resources:

• Register for our LIVE FREE Monthly "Themed" Healthy Hypnosis Hour!

• Join Emotional Mastery Coaching with Leslie

Connect With Leslie Thornton:

• Book A Clarity Call

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What are all these alcoholism, food, and body weight issues doing to your peace of mind and freedom?

After all these years of trying to lose weight, you're again back at it, gaining more than what you've lost. And the cycle goes on, and here you are, feeling you're never getting away from it for the rest of your life.

Maybe a case of you are doomed to be that way forever or simply because you've never looked within and let your authentic self shine.

Without realizing it, for most of your life, you let fear get in the way of genuinely owning yourself and what you could become.

Perhaps you have so many questions about how that could possibly be? For one thing, you eat healthily; you say it. But have you looked further down and deeper?

There, you might find the answer.

And Hypnosis might be the program to help you along the way to that massive transformation you look forward to having for the remainder of your life.

In this episode, our guest is a Hypnosis program alumna who went from having all these food and body image issues about herself. Not only that, she had a bout with alcoholism that she never understood why not until she found herself in the Hypnosis program and eventually let go of it.

She is the first one to admit that her journey is not perfect. And who says it is? But when all the craziness tries to resurface, she knows when the emotional mastery tools come in handy. And how that makes her feel beautiful as a woman even with no make-up on. And that's what matters most, radiating true happiness that is priceless.

"Dive in. Give it a try and see what you can do, when you open doors for yourself that you thought were closed as I did." - Jen

What you will learn from this episode:

01:17 - What her reality was before Hypnosis

04:03 - The terrible feeling of losing and gaining weight

08:52 - Never gaining weight since starting Hypnosis for three months

09:56 - What a happy woman looks and feels like

11:24 - Overcoming one of her biggest problems

13:19 - Takeaway from the Hypnosis program

17:12 - How the Hypnosis tools help her overcome anxiety with calmness

18:58 - She couldn't be more thankful for what the Hypnosis team had done to her food and body weight issues

20:39 - The problem she had with alcohol and how it relates to her body weight issues

27:38 - Describing her road to getting past alcohol addiction

30:06 - Treating herself as a science experiment rather than a failure

32:14 - How a 'no judgment zone' took all the power out of alcohol

34:49 - Inspirational message for everyone

Valuable Resources:

• Register for our LIVE FREE Monthly "Themed" Healthy Hypnosis Hour!

• Join Emotional Mastery Coaching with Leslie

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Somehow, even when we act and decide to do specific actions based on an empowered choice, we still have that scarcity mindset at the back of it.

We want to make things happen all at once, and our mind keeps wandering off to doing and thinking things that sabotage a slow but sure transformation we want for ourselves.

Perhaps, that's human nature. And each of us has our own money story that speaks of where we are in our life right now and how we approach that as we make decisions and actions in our everyday life.

Our attitude toward money matters finds its parallelism in the way of a diet mentality when we deal with body weight and body image. This also sends a message of a scarcity mindset.

How do we deal with body weight loss and want every good thing to happen in our life and career right then?

Zack White is a widely regarded coach known for changing the game in engineering career coaching. He has worked with hundreds of engineers at all levels from dozens of top companies worldwide to escape burnout and achieve breakthrough results. Zach is the founder and CEO of Oasis of Courage, known as OACO, a fast-growing company with unique and proven coaching programs exclusively for engineers. He also hosts the Happy Engineer Podcast, where listeners discover the steps to engineering success through expert interviews in Zach's own transformational framework, The Lifestyle Engineering Blueprint.

In this episode, Zach shares his clients' contrasting money stories of abundance and scarcity and his own self. Despite being a coach, his experience tells us that in wanting to work on our issues, we still have vulnerabilities to deal with.

And it's good to have someone to call us out when we go wayward and guide us back to where we should be going and the goal we must fulfill. In that regard, a community of like-minded people who truly understand what you go through and can help you also see the light and freedom that you deserve is what you need.

As the road to transformation is peppered with challenges and not easy, it's one good idea to have someone hold us accountable to the success we want for ourselves.

"You as a human, have an unlimited return on investment, there is no limit to what you can create when you invest in yourself." - Zach White

What you will learn from this episode:

04:19 - Contrasting money stories of abundance and scarcity

09:13 - Not worrying about solving everything today and having someone guide you every step of the way in your transformational journey

14:24 - How money matters and our attitude towards it also influences our actions towards our body issues and weight loss

17:27 - Zach shares his vulnerabilities: his money baggage realities

25:00 - The reason we need to break the lies we believe between money and our worth

29:24 - Learning to trust your intuition around money

35:25 - You can be fine with none; you can be fine with millions

39:41 - The role money plays in judgment and how that isolates us

50:56 - Getting that unlimited return on investment when you invest in yourself

Connect with Zach White:

• oasisofcourage.com

• LinkedIn

Valuable Resources:

• Register for our LIVE FREE Monthly "Themed" Healthy Hypnosis Hour!

• Join Emotional Mastery Coaching with Leslie

Connect With Leslie Thornton:

• Book A Clarity Call

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• Email: [email protected]

Valuable Resources:

• Register for our LIVE FREE Monthly "Themed" Healthy Hypnosis Hour!

• Join Emotional Mastery Coaching with Leslie

Connect With Leslie Thornton:

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Talking about sugar cravings is complicated. There's science behind it that promotes taking sugar out of your life either for a short period of time as a detox or for the rest of your life. So many people swear by it, and I used to be one of them. And there's also the emotional aspect, that we're using sugar to soothe our emotions. What is your inner truth about sugar and what kind of lifestyle resonates with you? There have been times when I have been 100% resonant with sugar elimination because I believed it was an addiction I had. But what if sugar could exist as not the evil demon that society makes it? What if it's more about us not processing our emotions and dealing with that aspect? What if being upset at the end of the day because you've been yo-yo dieting is actually making you feel bad because you're not being authentic to what you truly feel passionate about? I want to invite you to take a deeper look at what truly resonates with you and we'll explore this more in next week's episode, Sugar Cravings Part 2: The Emotional Aspect.

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• Register for our LIVE FREE Monthly "Themed" Healthy Hypnosis Hour!

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When you think about it, food is not the enemy. It's our perception about it that makes it so.

In order to avoid getting involved in something that requires our attention, we distract ourselves with food.

How long will you wait for something tragic to happen to your loved ones or even to yourself before you look inside and take action?

We need to stop looking at food as the root of some deeper problems, because the answer lies somewhere down inside.

It's not just about weight issues; think about getting healthy and living life to the fullest with friends and family.

Hypnosis doesn't just help you lose weight, but it enables you to gain insight into parts of yourself that have been shaped by your past experiences, and may be preventing you from moving forward.

You get to master your emotions and use tools to know exactly what you want rather than just covering it up with food obsession. Then you will be able to overcome it and turn things around.

In this episode, our guest shares how she realized the importance of taking care of herself and her health so she could be there to support her family and loved ones. As someone curious about Hypnosis, not just to overcome weight issues but also to gain more in life, she decided to try it out.

As a result, it was a journey worth her time, money, and emotional commitment since it taught her to do things with intention without sacrificing fun and enjoyment.

And with the peace of mind and freedom she gained, it was all worth investing in.

"I never expected it to be as life-changing as it was. And so I could only wish this for anyone that's out there. And if you're thinking about it, I know it is a commitment. There's a time commitment. There's a financial commitment. There's an emotional commitment. But who better to invest in than yourself?"

What you will learn from this episode:

00:42 - What led her to decide to join the Hypnosis program

02:04 - Hypnosis is more than just weight loss

04:05 - The experience that brought about a life-changing realization

10:19 - Her milestones since joining the Hypnosis program

16:07 - Getting intentional about the things you do but still enjoying it

17:45 - Overcoming diet mentality

22:32 - Encouraging words we can all find comfort in

Valuable Resources:

• Register for our LIVE FREE Monthly "Themed" Healthy Hypnosis Hour!

• Join Emotional Mastery Coaching with Leslie

Connect With Leslie Thornton:

• Book A Clarity Call

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• Email: [email protected]

There is shame in admitting you've messed up, and it is indeed scary to be opening your wounded self to the rest of the world.

It is never easy to bare yourself in front of everyone. People have so many opinions about you, solicited or not.

Judgment, ridicule, and what have you. Those are inevitable but still hurtful.

But who doesn't have bad days? Even the best and the most successful of us are dealing with our stuff.

Yes, showing one's vulnerability takes courage. But how much harder it must be if you remain in the false world of perfectionism?

That's why we've got this diet mentality that leads us to the belief in restriction, control, and that feeling of scarcity.

But there's a more sustainable way of dealing with all our imperfections. And the first step is asking for help.

Rachel Brooks is a fitness lifestyle entrepreneur, author, podcaster and speaker with a mission to empower women to become their best selves through the practice of creating a positive mindset, a healthy body and a soul filled with love and gratitude.

Erin Klein is the founder of Moms just Want to Have Son where her mission is to help women maintain their badass-goal-crushing self that can take on motherhood. Together, Rachel and Erin host the competent woman podcast where they show up as their true authentic, transparent and vulnerable selves and talk about everything including confidence, body image, relationships, business, finances, fitness, freedom, travel, and fun all rolled into one.

In this episode, Rachel Brooks and Erin Klein share their journey of overcoming imperfection, being hard on themselves, and getting comfortable showing that side of their vulnerability.

Their personal experiences led them to partner up, produce a show, and create a community where women find a safe space to be themselves. Not perfect but encouraging and empowering each other to become better and, most of all, confident even amidst troubles and weaknesses.

"It's a beautiful thing. Because when you could come full circle and stop that chase and stop feeling like you have to have that pressure nonstop, to be enough, to do enough, to have enough, and just lean into the current, this present, being you, then you feel like this ignition of confidence and self-worth and value." - Rachel Brooks

What you will learn from this episode:

02:09 - What Rachel does and how she helps women become holistically confident

05:55 - Erin talking about learning and growing with each other instead of doing it all on your own

08:28 - A funny story of how Rachel and Erin met and partnered up as hosts of the Confident Woman podcast

15:42 - Defining 'Confidence'

17:00 - Encouraging a revolution of more vulnerability and relatability

28:26 - Ourselves being the solution and the problem

32:25 - Reclaiming your life and reframing those beliefs

36:43 - How hard it is to be dealing with perfectionism

43:03 - Embracing freedom and flexibility

47:10 - The purpose of a confident woman collective

Connect with Rachel Brooks and Erin Klein:

• theconfidentwomanpodcast.com
• https://www.instagram.com/theconfidentwomancollective/
• https://www.instagram.com/theconfidentwomanpodcast/

Valuable Resources:

• Register for our LIVE FREE Monthly "Themed" Healthy Hypnosis Hour!

• Join Emotional Mastery Coaching with Leslie

Connect With Leslie Thornton:

• Book A Clarity Call

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Do you have tendencies to look after others' needs before your own? Do you behave a certain way so people don't get upset and always get what they want from you?

You attend to everyone's troubles, but you have a hard time making sense of your own. That could be a sign you are a people pleaser, and chances are, you are stress-eating because that's how they relate with each other. That when it happens, your only way out and source of consolation is food.

That often happens when you are not aware of where that stress is coming from. What easier way to deal with it than stuffing yourself with food. But, more than just thinking of food as the solution, there must be something else to help you ease the stress away.

Feeling through those feelings is the best way out. But it's always hard the first few times you do it. And it requires self-mastery.

Hypnosis helps you with these emotional mastery tools providing and allowing you lots of ways to deal with it and not just a tunnel vision mindset that only includes food.

Get out of your fear now and take action!

"Sometimes taking great care of yourself is eating food for comfort. Sometimes there's nothing like that, but now it's just like that's one option out of many in the Hypnosis for Permanent Weight Loss." - Leslie Thornton

What you will learn from this episode:

00:01 - What makes you a people pleaser?

03:02 - Still pleasing people but not becoming a doormat

03:56 - How stress eating relates to people pleasing

05:07 - What happens when what you're doing is just a band-aid for what is actually happening inside

06:03 - Handling your stress better than just eating [awareness of where stress is coming from]

07:30 - Learning how to create a joy wheel of ways to deal with stress and not just eating

Valuable Resources:

• Register for our LIVE FREE Monthly "Themed" Healthy Hypnosis Hour!

• Join Emotional Mastery Coaching with Leslie

Connect With Leslie Thornton:

• Book A Clarity Call

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• Email: [email protected]

Do you count yourself as someone who can't get past the fast food chains you pass by every day without ever getting yourself a burger or fries to munch on to give in to all those cravings?

What about indulging in all the cookies you can get your sight on?

Have you tried every fad and trend for years to lose the weight you've gained, and nothing's happening?

Most times, you eat what you would label as junk food, and while at it, you find yourself in a negative dialogue with yourself for being bad at eating those stuff.

Sometimes, you would catch yourself being guilty and finding shame in gobbling up all those 'bad food.'

And all these end up with you questioning your self-worth and self-image, which leads to all those body image issues that become excess pieces of baggage that are hard to deal with.

Imagine this: you are losing weight, but without starving yourself, eating stuff you once labeled as bad, and, most importantly, gaining back your self-confidence.

But first, get out of whatever fear keeps you from investing in yourself. Take action!

That's when you set on the road to provide yourself with emotional self-mastery tools that the Hypnosis program allows you to have for a lifetime of newly found freedom.

In that case, I invite you to listen to this episode as our guest Sophie, a Hypnosis program alumna, proved otherwise what has taken her years of trying different ways of solving her body weight issues to no avail. This time with the program, she loses weight even when not trying to do it. What could have led to a change of mindset, the inner peace, and the freedom to be around food without being scared about it. And most importantly, acquiring that empowered choice over everything that you do and eat. Isn't that liberating to think about? That is also possible for you.

"Leslie said something so profound that stays with me every day, you don't take a shower once, and you're clean forever. You still have to wash up every day. You can't just shower once. So, every day I listen to my Hypnosis. And I've incorporated it, whether it's food that's going in, whether it's emotions or anything I don't want; I take care of it with my Hypnosis every night." - Sophie

What you will learn from this episode:

01:41 - What her relationship with food before finding Leslie's podcast, and what led her to join the program

03:51 - How she dealt with the negative self-talk with herself every time she ate what she termed as 'bad and naughty' food

08:10 - What Sophie loves about the program and what helped her the most in her life-changing transformation

11:12 - What it means to invest in yourself, inner-child reparenting, and becoming a person with empathy for others' feelings and situations

15:50 - Losing weight even when not dieting and getting off the toxic relationship with oneself

25:50 - Not fun every day, but making empowered choices makes all the difference

27:43 - Sophie's encouraging words for you to find out if this Hypnosis program is a good fit for you

Valuable Resources:

• Register for our LIVE FREE Monthly "Themed" Healthy Hypnosis Hour!

• Join Emotional Mastery Coaching with Leslie

Connect With Leslie Thornton:

• Book A Clarity Call

• Watch Free Training

• Website

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• Email: [email protected]