Compulsive Eating

[Jenn Beninger]

I have a client that is a compulsive eater. She was bulimic in college 15 years ago. She doesn’t purge anymore – yet she eats compulsively. I have done a full health breakthrough and the compulsive eating has tapered off a bit yet not totally gone. What else have you found helpful for compulsive eating? She is at cause and willing – yet we haven’t found the answer yet.

I haven’t ever done a compulsion blow out – is this appropriate for that? I want to exhaust all avenues before I do the blowout.

Thank you,
Jenn

[Laura Petrie]

Good idea Jennifer and thank you for posting your question here!

what benefit is your client gaining by eating this way?

some things I’ve heard around compulsive eating – filling a void (emotional), boredom/no purpose, not filling time with things that are important (values), food=temporary comfort, protection/separation/detachment ….the list can go on and on obviously, because the fact that she hasn’t completely let the problem go could mean she doesn’t have a “healthier” way YET to get the same benefit this behavior has/is providing.

since you did a full breakthrough I don’t believe there’s any more cleanup work to do … possibly strategies to set her up for success in the future

anyone else have suggestions?

[Bogdan Bobocea, CEO]

I haven’t worked with compulsions but I have worked with over 550 phobias over the phone – and some of those long-standing too. One of these people had a sever phobia of eating, which was completely gone after the session. she is now very happy living in the UK and she is an NLP Master Practitioner, too

I have noticed that people need something ELSE to replace the behaviour as well. a new strategy, a new behaviour that replaces that and that feels just as familiar as the unuseful issue itself.

Since the UM doesn’t know the difference between reality and imagination (I.e. they both appear real – and that’s how most problems are being created btw), it follows that if they have a scenario of a positive, ersatz-type (replacement) of behaviour in place and they rehearse it by visualisation and they do that a few times a day, then the UM will create an alternate “feels familiar” attached to this behaviour that will create a new, healthy habit.

When I’ve started tasking my clients with this – and of course the key is that the scenario is positive and runs for at least 5 minutes and has sufficient level of detail that it appears real rather than an aberrant vision – their success sky-rocketed. I have then incorporated these frames into the preframes at the start of the session.

if you need more details, please email me on bogdan@nlpcoaching.com – I have acquired a wealth of experience working with that amount of people in two and a half years.

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