Comfort Foods Linked To Childhood Trauma
Case Study: What Does the Macaroni & Cheese Mean?
Sarah came to me frustrated because she would find herself eating Ice cream in large quantities several times a day. She was also addicted to high-carb “comfort foods” like macaroni and cheese.
At age 5, it was she who discovered the body of her father after his fatal heart attack. She sat with the body for many hours before anyone else came home. Her dad had often taken her for ice cream and had loved macaroni and cheese.
Using Time Line Therapy TM, we released Sarah’s childhood trauma. We also used Time Line Therapy to release her pertinent limiting decisions and beliefs. We used NLP Submodality techniques and Swish Patterns to change her internal representation of macaroni and cheese and ice cream. We ended each session with powerful Ericksonian hypnosis.
Result:
Almost a year after our work together, Sarah still hadn’t touched macaroni and cheese. She was able to eat ice cream, but now in moderation. She changed the way she had been eating in general and began to follow a nutritional plan (not a “diet”) that worked well for her body. She also instituted a sensible program of moderate exercise. Not surprisingly, she also lost weight.
