A New Relationship with Food and Weight

I am now excited to be offering 'A NEW RELATIONSHIP WITH FOOD AND WEIGHT' appointments.

End the endless battle of dieting and TRANSFORM YOURSELF AND YOUR LIFE.


The great thing is this appointment is still beneficial even if you're not overweight, it's about a new healthier, happier relationship with yourself and food.  No more guilt. 


Often the real cause of overeating is suppressed emotions, little or big upsets from the past that we've pushed away.  We often don't even realise that they are there, but they are hiding under the surface trying to get out.  We have to keep eating to keep them hidden away, and we do this without even realising it.


 Now is the time to let go of the past, love yourself and life.

This is how Zoe describes her experience.  Please contact me for more details.

"I was given Anne's number by a friend who really recommend I see her before trying another slimming club (and most likely failing again!) So very sceptically I called Anne and had a really positive and uplifting chat which made my mind up to visit her.


I was welcomed into her home therapy room which was lovely but was still very sceptical. How could I solve my weight issues like this? I have no major worries in my life and I feel reasonable happy most of the time, but once there I thought well I'm here now may as well go with the flow....nothing to lose.......So after 3 hours of talk and relaxation and the full journey therapy I had worked through issues I never even thought I would come to the surface again.


After the 3 hours I left feeling like a weight had been lifted, I had closure on some issues I had buried over the years and finally feel very positive about me, and starting a new healthier lifestyle.


And sure enough all the advice and guidance given by Anne has made me view food and my weight in a completely different light....Light being the operative word I am shedding the pounds faster than I would ever have done at a slimming club. But most importantly I feel back on track and back in charge of what I do and what I eat thanks to Anne"


Zoe N E Lincs

Are Our Minds Like a Sat Nav?

I'm starting to believe that our minds are more like a Sat Nav than we could ever image.

With the Sat Nav we put the destination in (postcode) then we listen to the directions to get there.  So what if we just had to put our goal into our mind and then listen to the instructions to get there.

All the successful business coaches use goal setting as a huge part of what they recommend.   There are endless books written all using goal setting as the way to move forward.  Athletes use visualisation of seeing themselves winning (already having the goal) as part of their training.  Religions ask us to pray for what we want (set the goal).

So why haven’t we all got what we want? 

• Firstly we don’t set the goal, we don’t have a destination.  We drift along like a raft in the sea just being bounced around where life takes us, oblivious to the fact that we could make a difference.  We occasionally dream of something better, but without any serious intent, without writing it down and without visualising and feeling ourselves already having it, it won’t happen. Imagine going out in your car without a destination, you could end up anywhere, or even nowhere, just going round in circles.

• Secondly, if we have set our goal, then we don’t always listen to the directions/ guidance when we get it.  We shut ourselves off to the instructions on how to get there.  We carry on doing the same things, expecting to get the perfect result.  There is a saying that madness is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting to get a different result.  We have to make change for change to happen.  If you become aware and listen you will hear the guidance, it is there whispering to you get up, focus, you can do it, it is nudging you along and as you listen synchronicity will start to happen.  The right people and situations will turn up at the right time, and your life will turn around.  It’s like a magic that happens when you listen and take action.  All the successful people know about this, they either do it naturally or have learned it.

So let’s go for it.  Set the goals, write them down, visualise yourself having them, feel what if feels like to have them, then LISTEN.  Listen to the guidance and take action, do it.  Could it all be as simple as programming your Sat Nav!

Happy New Year - Resolutions?

New Year's Resolutions -  I'm all in favour of setting positive intentions, but I just don't think 1st January is the best time for success.  I've still got a massive box of Thorntons chocolates unopened, a bottle of sparkling wine, plus a lovely raspberry roulade that we started yesterday and I want to enjoy them all.  I don't want to feel a failure by eating them, I don't want to eat them with guilt, I want to experience the pleasure of them all.  So I'm going for moderation not abstaining.  I really don't believe in the all or nothing approach, as you are either starving yourself or over eating. 

Years ago I used to diet and I would literally fast on some days, but on the days I ate I would go mad.  On the run up, to the start of a diet, it would be a time to eat everything you're not going to be allowed to eat, so you would probably get fatter before you even started.  Fortunately in 1994 I read a book that changed my relationship with food and my body for good.  It was called 'The Only Diet There Is' and it was a diet of negative thinking and beliefs.  It teaches you to eat everything with love and to look at the real issues of why you are overeating instead of just trying to use will power to achieve your goal.  You can only keep the will power up so long because the root cause still exists. 

So this year my approach to Christmas was, during December I set lots of positive intentions.  I exercised more than I had been doing.  I made an effort to meditate twice a day, which is transformational in itself.  Believe it or not meditation is the greatest tool to eating healthy, it somehow brings you into alignment with a more naturally healthy you.  I had odd minimalistic eating days when I would just eat fruit in the day then normal eating on an evening.  That helps to stop the overeating becoming a new daily habit. 

So here we are now 1st January, I don't feel my slimmest or healthiest, BUT I've eaten lots of nice things with love and I'm only fractionally heavier because my clothes still fit OK.  So all in all, I'd call it good plan for me.  I shall start weaning off the quantities of chocolate I've been having ready for really healthy eating in February.

I am now offering appointments called 'A New Relationship to Food and Weight' as I believe the key to health, happiness and being our ideal weight lies in letting go of our stress and our past baggage, learning a new positive way of thinking so we can live our life in joy as our natural healthy slender self.

A Happy New Year to you all.  I look forward to seeing you.  An appointment is only a phone call or an e-mail away.  Love Anne xx

Happiness Is An Inside Job

Simple Joy

This is a picture I took when I first moved into my house last year.  I was so excited to see an owl on top of a telegraph pole.  Then I noticed that it hadn't actually moved while I'd been looking at it.  I went back a while later and noticed it still hadn't moved.  At that point I began to realise it wasn't actually real. 

Initially I was disappointed, but then it turned to joy again.  Someone had bothered to put a model owl on top of a telegraph pole.  They had climbed to the top and positioned it so perfectly.  

I thought what a wonderful place to live.  I felt like I'd moved to some magical place where people still cared . 

The simple things in life can still bring great joy - even a plastic owl!  I still look at that owl and it brings me the same pleasure every time - someone bothered to do it.

Remember Who You Are

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

In this busy world it is so easy to forget who we really are. Life can become one endless treadmill.  Get up, go to work, come home from work, eat, fall asleep.  Then start it all over again.  During all of these activities, there can be some sense of fulfilment, achievement, even a laugh or two but what really is difficult to hold onto in this busy world is the STILLNESS WITHIN.  This is the part of us that keeps us balanced, helps us to make positive choices, tells us when to stop, rest, go within, allowing us to come home to ourselves.

In this coming home to ourselves all the stress and strain can melt away, we can access a wisdom beyond our logical imagination.  Life just seems easier and the stuff that really doesn't matter can fall away.  Make a commitment to yourself to REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE.  Make some quiet still time for yourself.  Breath deeply and slowly, bring your awareness inside the centre of your body, rest there, get to know your true self.  You are amazing.

Change Versus 'Better The Devil You Know'

How many of us remember the saying 'Better The Devil You Know, Than The Devil You Don't Know'  How many times has that held people stuck in life.

We fear change so much that we stop with 'familiar' how ever uncomfortable it may be. It amazes me the power of familiar, how it makes us feel safe even if we don't like it.  It's really worth being aware of this and slowly starting to dare to move away from it.   Moving out of our comfort zone may seem frightening but it's really worth giving it a go.  Who knows what wonders are out there waiting for us.   Someone recently said to me 'comfort is over rated' and it's true, if we dare to move beyond it we can grow beyond our wildest imagination.  So go for change, dare to live and watch your life transform.  Trust your inner feelings to guide you to take the right steps.  You deserve to be happy.