Hypnosis for Permanent Weight Loss

It's human nature to run away from pain. Who would want that? That's so crushing and depressing and even devastating. But the more we resist it, the more it complicates things.

How do we truly feel the pain and embrace it, so we expand and find freedom?

Samantha Skelly is a self-made entrepreneur and CEO of two multimillion-dollar wellness companies. She is a highly sought-after international speaker, best-selling author, and wellness coaching expert with a heart-centered approach to business coaching and life for two companies. These include the Hungry for Happiness Movement that helps men and women experience true transformation and authentic happiness through training certified coaches to utilize emotional and energetic coaching techniques so that no one needs to suffer in silence. And Pause Breathwork whose mission is to unite all of humanity by helping people breathe, feel and heal.

In this episode, Samantha shares how we can get into the body, welcome pain, fully feel it and exhale compassion through Breathwork. As she talks about it in this episode, her life is a picture of how she dealt with the pain. With all the turmoil it brought, she fully faced it, and she was entirely crushed. But, here she comes rising, opening up to more nurturing relationships and breathing in a life of co-nourishing dynamics. And without mentioning, a life designed with self-love at its core, above all.

"When we try to just figure out our problems from the level of the mind, we're thinking about how to feel better. But with Breathwork, we don't have to think about how to feel better; we just feel to feel better." - Samantha Skelly

What you will learn from this episode:

02:37 - The path that led her to stumble upon Breathwork and the foundation of her business

05:34 - One biggest issue that leads one to overeat and have an addiction

07:20 - Welcoming pain and exhaling compassion

10:05 - Great mindset on getting people to change

12:17 - Shut up and just feel

13:45 - How we get caught up in our emotions

18:25 - Achieving a sustainable business and lifestyle

20:52 - Claiming a new standard – choosing self-love

24:02 - A life lived in 'healthy co-nourishing dynamics' through Breathwork

28:55 - How embracing pain opens up to more capacity to bring in aligned relationships

31:17 - Survival strategy being different for every person

Resources:

Are you interested in becoming a breathwork facilitator? You can find all that here: pausebreathwork.com/facilitator

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Have you ever tried any of those weight loss programs and diet plans, say, Keto or Intermittent Fasting? Did it work? If it did, then that's good.

But what if it did for some time? But, after a while of reaching your goal or getting close to it you came tumbling down and getting all the weight back again?

Maybe, there's something that's not right here.

Because when you decide on your choice of weight loss journey to take on, listening to your truth is a serious thing.

When you listen to your truth, you don't act based on fear that will only make solutions short-lived where you end up in more mess.

Hypnosis helps you act in alignment with your inner intuition and supports you in dealing with relationship boundaries, achieving and attracting good and nurturing relationships, and being on the road to freedom and happiness without thinking of food all the time.

We're talking about long-term work here. It's about choosing food without guilt or shame but with an empowered choice.

And about getting into a life of lasting transformation and one that you thought would never have been possible.

"If you're kind of contemplating Keto, or Intermittent Fasting, or some other kind of diet thing, or maybe even Hypnosis for permanent weight loss, the thing about it is that whatever choice that you make is that it is 100% in alignment with you." - Leslie Thornton

What you will learn from this episode:

00:12 - What you should be wary about these weight loss and diet plans

03:15 - What Hypnosis supports you for: Getting to the source of your body-weight-food-struggle dilemma

04:03 - Leslie's recommendation when it comes to your choice: Listen to your inner truth

05:36 - What you should understand on why the weight loss industry is a multi-million dollar industry

06:02 - Eating healthy while giving yourself leeway to just be present with your body with no judgment and shame

06:33 - The only thing that's wrong with you is that you think that there's something wrong with you, when it is untrue

07:39 - What happens when you don't align your actions to your inner truth

09:27 - Sharing the positive vibes Leslie had been receiving and continue to be coming her way since starting Hypnosis

10:44 - Wishing the same thing happens for you as it did to her

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Do you feel like you're in a bottomless pit where you're constantly stuffing your mouth with food? Are you still into the diet mentality, starving yourself to lose weight?

Do you feel sluggish, confused, tired, unenergetic, putting important issues aside and not dealing with them?

You've got to check on yourself, what's all this mess around and the unhealthy habits you keep on doing.

There's always a way to get rid of all these concerns. Let's listen to this episode and find out Leslie's own experience with hunger pains, how she overcame it and what we can do to do away with constant hunger bouts every time and get equipped with tools to make empowered choices.

"If you're hungry all the time, I will check on your sleep, first thing, like, are you sleeping enough hours? And if not, you prioritize that." - Leslie Thornton

What you will learn from this episode:

01:12 - First cause of you getting hungry all the time and what you should do instead

03:55 - Second cause of constant hunger pangs and how to avoid it

06:51 - Why it's a bad idea to starve yourself to lose weight

08:01 - Number three thing that causes you to get hungry constantly

08:48 - Important announcement

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Have you noticed seeing yourself as a failure when others see you as this great person? That's where the problem starts, pushing us to subscribe to a diet mentality. Either we restrict ourselves or soothe our insecurities with food in excess.

It helps when we develop self-awareness and tap into the tools that will help us redirect our thoughts and energies into something valuable and intentional for our wellbeing.

Layne Bruner, the founder of Wellthy Soul, uses her positive energy and authenticity to inspire, motivate, and teach others how to create incredible lives full of health and joy, forever. After 20+ years of dancing and performing in college and professionally, Layne battled against insecurity and self-doubt coupled with disordered eating.

In this episode, Layne shares how she came into awareness of her body image issues that prevented her from fully embracing the uniqueness and the potential to live a full life. She was exposed to the reality at an early age that sometimes people make you find your value with what others want you to be and what society and the industry demand that you become.

When what really matters is finding alignment within and your true purpose in life and the impact you have on others, not necessarily about physical appearance alone, that's where she found herself in a mess for a time.

She shares her journey of a lost child and person trying to fit in but couldn't make sense of it. And today, she's become fearless to live a well-meaning life and create a strong positive impact on others. She brings back a healthy self-image not dictated by anyone but by one's genuine desire to live a life in freedom and authentic happiness.

"When you are more mindfully living, all the way through your body, from ground to ceiling, toes to toes to the crown of your head; when you're really being self-aware, then you can identify when you're triggered – to soothe with food versus when you're just at a birthday party having a birthday celebration. And you can recognize both of those environments in the situations and then be able to make conscious decisions on whether I'm going to have a champagne toast, or if I'm just going to continue to celebrate with water, and that's okay." - Layne Bruner

What you will learn from this episode:

02:59 - What it looks like for her experiencing body image issues at an early age

05:36 - Scarred from birth

06:30 - Dancing professionally but at her worst

11:28 - Using food as a source of control

13:21 - Realizing the reason for her undereating

14:14 - When does she feel out of control of herself

14:59 - Looking at her appearance from her own eyes

15:59 - Self-awareness and what it can do to you

16:45 - Tools that help her manage her feelings of low self-worth and stress

17:37 - Talking about her soul walk and workout - how those two serve their purpose

19:42 - Practicing morning mindset

24:36 - Seeking professional help and the best thing about having an accountability partner

28:53 - Exchange of positive energy and how it helps her deal with negativity

33:31 - Developing and modeling an approach towards handling obesity and weight issues that are less damaging to children

38:53 - The way to getting massive positive results for her clients

39:54 - Sharing that panic attack and what that experience taught her about her life's purpose

48:11 - How her soul work and mindset work help her live a life of no fear

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Nursing a breakup is never easy. It's the last thing you would want to have. Some are lucky, though, they don't have to go through it, but many of us, at one time or another, experienced it. The pain, the hurt, and crazy emotions you feel, including those maddening thoughts you create about you and the ex; those are insane, mind you.

But you don't have to suffer like that anymore.

Would you believe that getting over your ex happens in just a moment?

Dorothy Johnson is a breakup coach. With the Life Coach School, she teaches her clients how to get over their ex and build a life better than the one they had with their ex in three months or less by addressing the root cause instead of heartbreak symptoms; I love it. I love it. Because we work on the root cause of the weight loss versus the weight symptoms, she uses a simple three-step process to heal the heart, create closure and get excited about the future.

In this episode, Dorothy shares how you deal with heartbreak and getting over an ex and not let yourself suffer over something you have no control about. She helps you create a beautiful life that no one can take away from you regardless of whether you are in a relationship or not. She also underscores how to be committed in a relationship without being too attached. She suggests never to compromise; instead, always commit to conscious decisions, so you always feel empowered.

"I think it's really, really important for us to start looking at the root cause of heartbreak, the root cause of not being able to get over someone, which are the thoughts that you're thinking, the stories that you're creating, and ultimately, those stories and thoughts create desire or attachment to that partner. And when we start addressing that, all of the breakup symptoms fall away. Should I be in contact with him? Should I go to this party? Should I do that? All that stuff doesn't really matter when you've addressed desire and attachment and the stories you have around your breakup." - Dorothy Johnson

What you will learn from this episode:

02:47 - Why is it harder to grieve for someone alive than a dead one

04:32 - Looking back at the break up she had five years ago and where it brought her to this day

07:32 - How those thoughts about the breakup create feelings leading to suffering

09:00 - Why the need to address the root cause of the breakup

12:08 - Your weight loss journey as it relates to overcoming breakup or any loss in life

15:34 - Getting over your ex happens in a moment

18:10 - What getting over your ex really means

20:41 - Differentiating commitment and attachment

22:05 - Reducing desire and attachment while in a relationship

24:08 - Building a life that no one can 'take away' whether in a relationship or not

28:15 - Creating 'an epic and beautiful Sunday of your choosing

29:23 - Compromise versus conscious decisions - words you use matter

33:51 - Celebrate yourself for whatever you have consciously decided on, even if it failed

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Are you an athlete, a pro athlete, or somebody who just goes to the gym? Do you find yourself obsessing with sports and counting calories most of the time? Regardless of what you are and whatever situation you are in, there is much more of you than just sports. And your body deserves the care, the food, and the nutrition it needs.

And exercise and sports must be something that gives you joy, not a chore that drags you down.

Lindsey Elizabeth Cortes MS RD CSSD is a Sports Dietitian, entrepreneur, and lifelong runner. Her mission is to help female athletes overcome disordered eating and use food as fuel to perform at their highest level.

As a former Division 1 Track & Field athlete and still lifelong athlete, Lindsey knows the importance of fueling to perform. But unfortunately, far too many female athletes fall into the trap of underfueling, overtraining, disordered eating, and more. She is on a mission to stop that – to empower female athletes to understand food, have fun with food, and of course, fuel their athletic dreams.

She has worked as a sports dietitian for collegiate athletes at schools including the University of Georgia, Florida State University, and University of Texas-San Antonio. She also worked as the tactical dietitian for Air Force Special Operations for many years and continues to support the US military through various contracts. But now, Lindsey focuses solely on her business Rise Up Nutrition. She provides 1:1 and group nutrition coaching programs. Lindsey is very active on social media @female.athlete.nutrition and is the host of the Female Athlete Nutrition podcast to educate and empower other female athletes to become fierce in their mindset, fit in their bodies, and be fueled to perform!

In this episode, Lindsey Elizabeth shares how important it is for you to give your body the right food and nutrition it needs; how can you become the best athlete or the best at what you aspire to be when you fail in that aspect? She also talks about red flags that something is wrong with your eating habits and what you must do about it.

She also made it a point to say that food is good, and it is actually neutral and that you must have an empowered choice to choose food according to your physical, financial health, and even social setting. It's about choosing food that makes you happy at the moment.

"When I look back on my college, I was so like, how come I'm not performing? After all these years of training so hard and controlling my diet, how come you're not performing well? Because maybe you need not to push your body so hard and not control your diet so much." - Lindsey Elizabeth Cortes

What you will learn from this episode:

03:45 - What it was like every day having disordered eating and how it led her to become a dietitian from being an athlete

11:20 - Making a pivot in sports nutrition, what made her do it, and the best thing about it

18:03 - Sports, the drive, perfectionism, undereating, and taking care of oneself

23:31 - Are you having a Ph.D. in calorie-counting?

28:58 - Becoming the best athlete and treating your body right

36:49 - The two biggest things people come to her for as a result of undereating or underfueling

39:28 - Talking about the red flags of disordered eating

42:45 - There is so much more to you than just sports

44:18 - Stepping away only to come back stronger

47:55 - What defines an athlete

52:04 - The right mindset around food for people with health concerns

57:07 - Looking at your life as a canvas and being empowered by your choice

Connect with Lindsey Elizabeth Cortes:

• Website: www.RiseUpNutritionRUN.com
• Podcast: Female Athlete Nutrition Podcast
• Instagram: @Female.Athlete.Nutrition
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What happens when you are on a diet mentality? You see, when you eat more than you should, your mind gets panicky. You become defensive, and your brain harbors dark thoughts about you crossing the line. That's how it operates. When you are always about control and restrictions, your mind tells you you cannot trust yourself; the reason why you label food as good or bad, when in fact it's not. And it's all just in the mind. Therefore, your defense mechanism is to act out of fear so that you shield yourself from the pain. But the truth is, the more you hide it for the wrong reasons, the more it keeps haunting you and causing you more pain.

The other side of it looks like this, that when you act out of purpose, even losing weight is no longer a concern. It just happens as you arm yourself with the tool to have that belief-turnaround-work that leads you exactly where you want to be — the road to peace, freedom, and lasting happiness.

Hypnosis for Permanent Weight Loss provides you with these tools. You only have to act now and begin your journey of a long-term transformation.

"And consider the fact that when you make choices from purpose, then you always get exactly what you want to have and you have total peace, and sometimes you don't actually want to eat perfectly, or you don't really care that much about losing weight." - Leslie Thornton

What you will learn from this episode:

01:07 - The frustration you feel when eating more than what you should

02:07 - One thing that needs to be addressed first when your body is in pain – making decisions based on fear versus purpose

06:10 - What happens when your body is too full and how to do away with negative thoughts

08:59 - Forgiving yourself and doing away with putting labels on food

11:41 - What it's like when you're on the road to letting go of diet mentality

12:05 - Benefits of knowing the belief turnaround work when you overeat

14:14 - Not an easy journey but all worth it

15:29 - The most significant thing you need to arm yourself with when you embark on this journey to freedom

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Do you want to lose weight without isolating yourself? How about taking off those extra pounds without all the restrictions and strict rules? Have you wanted to do away with all the binging and stress eating? You are not alone. Come and let's find out!

Our guest for this episode, Yvonne, a Hypnosis for Permanent Weight Loss program graduate, shares her story of a rollercoaster ride with her body weight issues.

She could still remember the thinnest she had ever been in life and how thrilled she was knowing and being in it.

But things started changing when different seasons in life started coming, and her values were no longer what they were.

And the more she became obsessed, so to speak, with losing weight, dieting, exercising - everything started messing up, and she's not keeping up with the ideal weight she always wanted.

Not until she started listening to Leslie's podcast and eventually becoming a part of the Hypnosis for Permanent Weight Loss program did she see things turning around for the best.

Talk about binge-eating and excessive eating; she, too, can't believe that's no longer the case these days.

Panicking when around food and in a social circle? That's already in her past.

Getting empowered and eating whatever and whenever she wants?

That's more the scenario now, without fear of what others think and more of what makes her feel happier and better.

Most importantly, it's about seeing herself as beautiful as ever, and having that awesome feeling radiate through unknowingly and making other people notice that too.

"I was sharing something I don't share with people. It's just very scary for me to share, but I got to share it. And I did the ugly crying on camera. And they were there; they supported me through it. They didn't make me feel like what I was feeling was wrong, or I should be ashamed of it. And that, I think, was really the biggest turning point for me in the program. Because after that everything just expanded." - Yvonne

What you will learn from this episode:

01:19 - How was her body weight, life before Hypnosis, and what her professional background is

02:05 - Sharing her journey to getting at her thinnest ever years back

05:10 - What it looks like when your values aren't aligned with what you are thinking

08:06 - The most essential takeaway she got from listening to Leslie's podcast

09:47 - That feeling of being heard deeply and specially cared for

11:42 - Her biggest turning point in the Hypnosis program

16:41 - How opportunities started opening up after that 'ugly cry'

19:47 - Starting to see a beautiful woman in herself staring at her now

22:31 - Achieving that freedom around food and a whole different way of looking at her bodyweight issues

27:31 - Stopping binging and stress-eating

29:22 - It's not going to be perfect, but something huge is happening

30:27 - Gaining confidence and reminding her of who she truly is

32:42 - Her inspiring words to those who want transformation in their life now

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Sure, you are super successful – in your career and professional life. But have you looked within and tried asking why you can't keep yourself together? Why can you not completely deal with your weight and body issues when it comes to food? Our subconscious mind laid out for us early on in life what we've learned to believe all along and in like manner, whatever trauma, hurts, and pain we felt early on in childhood, we tend to keep them buried. And unconsciously, we tend to numb it away with food, alcohol, and what have you.

Another thing is, just when you think everything's all good, there you are, all stressed and seeing things spiraling down and messing up all over again with your life.

Sometimes, you wake up and are all ready with the resolve to get consistent with your diet plan, but, unknowingly you find yourself binging and dipping fast into your bag of chips. There, again, your willpower is in vain.

We've seen many successful public figures and famous people drown themselves in drugs in their quest for success. We've often set aside that part of our body that calls for much-needed attention.

Maybe you're afraid to face that scary side of yourself? Maybe you're scared to ask for help and be heard? Maybe for lack of space for which you feel safe unloading your vulnerabilities?

How about this time you take action, finally confront that which you've been trying to avoid, trust the process of the healing journey, and set yourself free?

Why not avail of this tool we call Hypnosis to help you quickly communicate with the noisy part of your brain and let it settle down instead of going through that everyday struggle of control and restrictions?

Emotional mastery is the way to go over self-sabotage.

"A sustainable way to be successful is that you also learn how to healthily manage those stressors and those feelings along the way, while you're still going after your goals in a super powerful way." - Leslie Thornton

What you will learn from this episode:

01:06- What self-sabotage looks like

04:07 - A helpful tool to quiet part of your unconscious mind and get you aligned with your goal

05:33 - How your unconscious mind is making you feel safe and makes you numb away that pain

07:24 - Common reasons for self-sabotage

09:21 - Going past self-sabotage

09:54 - HIghly successful but broken inside

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It's nice to look back on how this podcast got started and see how far it has gone in doing its part of letting the message out and touching many lives. Can't also help but think of the times when Leslie fought her own battle with food addiction and what that looked like for her. Talk about emotional eating, that constant bingeing and craving for food. Add the countless diets she had to hop on from one to another and all the diet trends available out there but still to no avail. Yes, she may have gotten things in control for a time, and she succeeded at keeping away from food, but those times she gave in and fell off track, that was making her feel guilty about herself not sticking to what she was supposed to do and all those negative self-talk comes into play again.

Imagine how dark life seems to be when you have all those unnecessary voices at the back of your head messing up with you and your life. Being in that constant hustle-hamster-wheel of letting off the hook of body weight is just a cross to bear.

Body-hating is just one consequence; consider low self-esteem, throw in unhappy relationships with family, loved ones, and love life — and you're in for a chaotic life within that you unconsciously try to mask with something short-term.

This episode speaks of how Hypnosis for Permanent Weight Loss helped everyone heal and achieve emotional mastery. And how liberating that feels when you gain not just temporary but a lifetime of transformation.

Topics Covered:

00:01 - Looking back at the year when she got started in podcasting and how it has helped lots of people since then

05:07 - The negative self-talk we need to overcome ourselves

07:21 - Getting past her own food addiction

08:22 - Not judging yourself but seeing as someone needing help

09:48 - The truth when you don't fully love all parts of yourself

13:49 - What happens when you operate from your authentic self

17:46 - Self-awareness and getting into the most significant investment for yourself

18:35 - Doing our share of making a better planet for everyone to enjoy

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