What if the heaviness you're carrying isn't a personality trait — it's your nervous system asking for something different?

Clinical hypnotherapist Bec Marshall joins Charlotte to unpack hypnotherapy, the fawn response, functional freeze, and how high-functioning women can start feeling safe in their own bodies again.

If you've been pushing through, performing capable, and quietly wondering why everything feels heavier than it should, this episode of The Feel Better Podcast is for you.

Bec is a clinical hypnotherapist, trainer and nervous system educator with a rare gift for making the science of the subconscious mind feel both fascinating and genuinely useful. Together we explore hypnotherapy, nervous system regulation, and why understanding your stress response is the foundation for feeling better in your body, your motherhood, and your everyday life.

Inside this episode:

• What hypnotherapy actually is (and what it isn't)
• The conscious vs subconscious mind, and why willpower keeps failing you
• Fight, flight, freeze and fawn — and why so many women are stuck in fawn
• Functional freeze: how high-functioning women run on empty
• Why feeling safe in your body is the foundation for nervous system regulation
• How birth, motherhood and grief reshaped Bec's own nervous system
• A simple three-step framework for moving out of stress: interrupt → anchor → practice
• Why food is a signal of safety to your nervous system, not a moral test
• The link between long-held emotion, trauma and chronic pain
• Plus a bonus self-hypnosis practice you can come back to

If you've been searching for a gentler, more grounded approach to anxiety, burnout, perfectionism, and the quiet weight of high-functioning life — this is the conversation you didn't know you needed.

Find Bec Marshall at behypnotherapy.co.nz, and more support, tools and ways to work with me at charlottecummings.nz.

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