Dietitian and Master Clinical Hypnotherapist Bonnie Killip shares practical tools and mindset shifts to help you reconnect with your body, release shame, and find a more compassionate way to live in your skin.
Before we dive in, take a deep breath.
Not a shallow, distracted one but a slow, grounding breath you feel in your belly.
If you’re here, you might be feeling overwhelmed by your body, your mind, or what might feel like a constant tug-of-war between them. You’ve likely tried all the logical tools, but still find yourself stuck, maybe even cycling through shame, guilt, frustration and exhaustion.
You’re not broken. You’re just trying to make changes by using only your conscious mind. Which is only part of the power of your mind. And that’s where hypnotherapy comes in. Hypnotherapy offers us a direct and intentional means of working with our unconscious mind.This is a game changer to making real changes in our lives. An important one being the fact that about 95-97% of what we do in a day is purely habit or unconscious and most of our "problems" exist and are sustained at the unconscious level. Therefore, when we work with our unconscious mind we are working at the level at which the problem exists and we are also working with the entirety of our mind. The value of which cannot be underestimated.
Most body image struggles don’t live in the rational mind. They live deeper, in the unconscious mind, where learnings, fear, identity, and beliefs about our worth and the world were formed and sustained.
If you’ve ever thought, "I’m not good enough" or felt your worth is tied to the way you look, you're not alone. These beliefs are often so embedded that logic and willpower alone can’t shift them. That’s not a failure, it's just that logic and willpower can only get us so far but ultimately when we're talking about making sustainable changes they simply are the wrong tools for the job.
Hypnotherapy offers the missing piece because it allows us the opportunity to work directly with the unconscious mind, where real change happens. And crucially is sustained because it goes beyond changing a behaviour or thought and instead becomes a new way of being. Removing the old and exhausting internal battle.
Forget the stage-show clichés (and maybe everything else you've been told about hypnosis). Clinical hypnotherapy is a safe, side-effect free modality that helps you access the part of your mind responsible for 95-97% of your thoughts, feelings, and behaviours.
In sessions, you’re awake, aware and in control. You are just in a calm, focused state (think: that dreamy moment before falling asleep or even when you find yourself absorbed in a movie). From here, we can start to shift the patterns that logic can’t touch. It’s not about giving up control. It’s about reclaiming it. Because something most of us do not get in life is a lesson on how to run our minds. Many of us live our lives feeling like our mind is in charge of us and often it's a very cruel boss. Using hypnotherapy we can change this.
Here’s how I have worked with thousands of clients from all around the world to guide them as they move from distress to experiencing a level of clarity, ease, authentic confidence and self-trust they didn't believe was possible:
You can’t heal a body you’re at war with. We begin by calming the nervous system using breathing, visualisation, and other tools to access your “rest and digest” state. This is the only place true healing can happen.
Most body struggles trace back to early influences: a parent who dieted, media messages, offhand (and often well meaning) comments. Hypnotherapy allows you to revisit these moments with compassion, ask what beliefs took root, and choose what to keep and what to let go of or understand and feel differently about.
In hypnosis, we rehearse new experiences. Including feeling confident in your body, eating with ease, seeing yourself through kinder, more compassionate eyes. Your mind begins to believe this version of you is real because it’s felt it and it knows it is possible. That experience and new belief changes everything.
Many clients say, I don’t trust myself or if I stop controlling, I’ll spiral. That’s a belief or what we hold to be true, but it is not the truth. You likely know many people in your life who have a good relationship with their body and food without controlling. In fact if we look at what a good relationship with our body and food truly is, it is by definition not controlling but instead being naturally at ease and in charge of our decisions. We work to reconnect you with your hunger cues, your body’s signals, and a sense of self-compassion that becomes your new foundation.
And much, much more because the most crucial thing to know if you are curious about giving hypnotherapy to see how it can change the way you feel about your body, yourself or your relationship with food is that hypnotherapy is all about the experience. It works with the unconscious mind or the more feeling part of us and creates change which means that its value is not found in understanding the science behind hypnosis, it is found in the experience and the change that you get out of it. You can reflect and analyse and understand later but first allow yourself to make the change.
The truth is you don’t have to keep fighting yourself.
There is a different way.
One built on trust and real freedom because your body is not the problem.
Ready to Truly Befriend your Body?
Ready to learn to work with instead of against your mind and live the rest of your life in a different way? I offer 1:1 consultation packages that integrate clinical hypnotherapy, NLP, and nutrition coaching for Eating Disorder Recovery.
Click here to book an obligation free online 30 minute Clarity Call to see if you are a good fit for what I offer or send me a question: Contact Bonnie Killip About Eating Disorder Recovery
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Email: bonnie@fuellingsuccess.com
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