The Automatic Program | Returning You To You

The Eating Is Automatic.

You didn't choose it. You didn't decide at 10pm to undo everything you'd worked for all day. Something fired before you were even conscious of it, and that's why willpower doesn't work.

Willpower is conscious. This thing runs underneath it.

Every diet you've tried asks your thinking brain to overpower something that doesn't live in your thinking brain. Your thinking brain runs about 5% of your behaviour. The automatic program runs the other 95%.

It was never a fair fight. And that means it was never your fault.

The pattern lives in the nervous system. That's where it was installed, usually when you were very young, and that's where it needs to be interrupted. When I interrupt it at that level, the urgency just goes. The box of chocolates in the cupboard is still there next week. The pull to the kitchen at 10pm isn't.

Not because you fought it. Because it stopped.

Don't Take My Word For It.

I'm not asking you to believe that. I wouldn't either, if I were reading this.

Gill had been living with this for over 30 years. After working with me, she said:

“I cruised the kitchen knowing what I want isn't there. That has never happened before in my life.”

Gill

Moosh had done four years of therapy before she found me:

“One session and I felt the shift in my body. My frozen memory has changed.”

Moosh

Neither of them found more willpower. The program driving their eating got interrupted. And when it stopped, the food just lost its hold.

What It Looks Like When the Pattern Stops.

These are women sharing wins in our free community. Unprompted. In their own words.

Community win: forgot about the mini cakes in the cupboard, chocolate hasn't been calling me all week

Community win: walked past the chocolate and wasn't tempted for the first time in years

Community win: the voice pushing her to eat everything had very little to say

Community win: strawberries on the train instead of a family size bag of Minstrels

Community win: no desire for evening snacks for the past 4 days

Community win: hasn't binged on sweets when driving or feeling bored or stressed

Community win: went to dinner with friends, shared a meal, felt content

I should probably tell you why I do this.

I was born with Hirschsprung's disease. It affects the nerves in my bowel. I didn't find out about it until I landed in A&E as an adult. It affects my weight, how I look from one week to the next. My clients see me bigger, smaller, swollen up. I'm not the "after photo" therapist.

Before I qualified, I was the binge and starve girl. I'd tried everything going before I ever trained as a psychotherapist.

The process I use now came after I stopped trying to fix this at the thinking level and started working where the pattern was actually stored. It worked on me first. Then I tried it with clients and it worked on them too.

That's what I do now, every week. And it keeps working.

One more thing.

I know what it took for you to get to this page. Women who've sat where you're sitting have told me things like "I'm not sure I could take another failed experiment" and "the amount of money is staggering I've spent" and "I struggled in silence."

I've sat with women who'd been carrying this for 46 years. Others for 60. Every single one of them thought they were too far gone.

They weren't. And neither are you.

Take your time. Look around. When you're ready, I'll be here.

Anna

Here's what you can do next.

Choose your own adventure.

This is a directory to everything I've made.

If you do want to work with me, you'll be able to figure out how from there. I'm not going to rush you into anything. This work only works when you're ready for it, and I'd rather you took your time than paid for something you're not sure about.

Most of it is free.

The women who do the best with this are the ones who've spent time reading, watching, and recognising themselves in the work before they ever book a call. If that's where you are right now, that's exactly where you should be.

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