BULIMIA & EATING DISORDERS: RADIO PROGRAM FEATURING KATHY WELTER -Calgary Alberta -

1: What is Just Be Well? Who are we and where do we have offices? What do we do?

JUST BE WELL IS AN INTERNATIONAL COMPANY WITH OFFICES AND PRACTITIONERS ALL OVER THE WORLD. WE HAVE A PRACTICE IN VANCOUVER WITH OFFICES IN BURNABY AS WELL.

WE ARE CLINICAL HYPNOTHERAPISTS, MASTER HYPNOTISTS WITH SPECIALTIES IN NLP AND EFT.

USING THESE METHODS WE HELP OUR CLIENTS ACHIEVE THE CHANGES THEY WANT IN AN AVERAGE OF 3-4 SESSIONS. WE'RE DIFFERENT FROM THERAPISTS OR PSYCHOTHERAPISTS, IN THAT WE DO NOT USE DRUGS OR CHEMICAL INTERVENTIONS, WE SIMPLY USE THE CLIENTS SUB CONSCIOUS OR UNCONSCIOUS MIND TO ACHIEVE THE CHANGES THEY WANT.

OUR WEB SITE LISTS MANY OF THE DISORDERS WE WORK WITH SUCH AS ADDICTIONS, DEPRESSION, SOCIAL DISORDERS, DEBILITATING FEARS AND ANXIETIES.

SPECIFICALLY AT THIS TIME, APPROXIMATELY 80% OF MY PRACTICE IS WORKING WITH CLIENTS WHO HAVE EATING DISORDERS AND SPECIFICALLY BULIMIA

MY APPROACH TO THIS DISORDER IS THE THREE DAY BREAK THROUGH BULIMIA PROGRAM I HAVE IN PLACE, WHICH INCLUDES MANUAL & CD's

2: How do they get started with this disorder?

WITH BULIMIA, 100% OF MY CLIENTS HAVE ADVISED THEY EITHER LEARNED IT FROM SOMEONE ELSE - FRIEND OR FAMILY, OR THEY LEARNED IT FROM SOME FORM OF MEDIA OR BOOK/MAGAZINE. EVEN THE INTERNET OFFERS WAYS TO USE BULIMIA.

SOME PROFESSIONS DEMAND EXTREME WEIGHT CONTROL, SUCH AS DANCERS, MODELS, ACTORS...FASHION INDUSTRY, AND PEERS WILL OFTEN SHARE THEIR SECRETS ABOUT HOW TO MAINTAIN WEIGHT.

THE FIRST TIME IS HARD FOR EVERYONE, JUST LIKE THE FIRST CIGARETTE, IT NEARLY KILLS US. BUT PERSISTENCE AND BELIEVING IT'S GOING TO GIVE US SOMETHING WE WANT, IE: SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE, OR THE DESIRED WEIGHT, KEEPS US 'PRACTICING' LONG ENOUGH UNTIL THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND, WHICH JUDGES NOTHING AS GOOD OR BAD, SIMPLIFIES THE PROCESS FOR US, BY AUTOMATING IT. IT SIMPLY SAYS, 'OH YOU WANT TO DO THIS EVERY DAY, EVERY TIME YOU THINK THESE THOUGHTS, OR FEEL THIS FEELING...GREAT WE'LL MAKE THAT AUTOMATIC FOR YOU, SO YOU CAN CONCENTRATE ON OTHER MORE IMPORTANT THINGS'

JUST LIKE ANY ADDICTION, IT BECOMES FIRST A PATTERN WE PRACTICE, AND THEN SEEMINGLY IT OPERATES FOR US, AS IF IT HAS A MIND OF IT'S OWN.

ALL OF MY CLIENTS HAVE ADMITTED TO ME, THERE IS A HUGE RUSH OF ENERGY FOLLOWING THE PURGE PROCESS.

WHEN ONE UNDERSTANDS HOW THE BODY WORKS YOU CAN SEE WHY THEY GET THIS FEELING IN THEIR BODY. A BULIMIC CAN EAT ABOUT 3700 CALS IN UNDER 20 MINUTES AND ALL CARBS. THEIR BODY IN THE MEANTIME, IS RAMPING UP THE VARIOUS CHEMICALS, ENZYMES AND HORMONAL RELEASES TO DIGEST THIS HUGE INFLUX OF FOOD. THE PURGING LEAVES THE BODY WITH THE CHEMICAL RUSH, AND NO PLACE TO USE THEM....HENCE THE ENDORPHIC OR EUPHORIC HIGH THAT FOLLOWS THE PURGE.

YES, THEY ALL GET THIS, AND THEY ALL LOVE THE FEELING, AND ARE SO IN RELATIONSHIP WITH THIS HUGELY POSITIVE FEELING IT WASHES EVERYTHING ELSE AWAY FOR THE MOMENT! ALL HAVE ADMITTED TO THIS - EVEN THOUGH THEY SHARE WITH OTHERS THEY HATE DOING IT, THEY KEEP THIS LITTLE SECRET TO THEMSELVES. MOST PEOPLE ARE SHOCKED AT HEARING ABOUT THE POSITIVE RUSH AFTERWARDS, AND MOST OF MY CLIENTS ARE SHOCKED THAT I KNOW.

I CHECK WITH EVERY CLIENT....100% ADMIT IT. SOMETIMES THAT'S THE BEST THEY FEEL FOR THE WHOLE DAY, DIRECTLY FOLLOWING.

MANY CLIENTS REFER TO WHAT THEY ARE DOING AS 'HAVING A BAD DAY', THEY SUPPORT IT WITH THE LANGUAGE THAT WE WANT TO HEAR, BECAUSE WE DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY ANYONE WOULD DO THIS AND KEEP ON DOING IT. MOST OF US HATE GETTING THE STOMACH FLU, HOW COULD THIS BE A GOOD THING?

SO THE BULIMIC KNOWS THIS AND HAS FOUND A LANGUAGE THAT SUPPORTS THE BELIEFS OF THOSE CLOSE TO THEM, INVOLKING SYMPATHY AND ACCEPTANCE OF THEIR ADDICTION.

NOT UNLIKE THE SMOKER, OR THE ALCOHOLIC OR ANY OTHER USER, THE BULIMIC HAS LEARNED HOW TO DEFFER THE PERSONAL JUDGEMENTS AWAY FROM THEMSELVES, AND THAT PROTECTS THE ADDICTION.

PROFILES;

WOMEN & MEN IN THEIR TEENS THROUGH TO MID-20'S HOWEVER, MY OLDEST CLIENT IS 48 YEARS AND HAS BEEN DOING IT SINCE AGE 15.

HIGHLY TALENTED, OFTEN AT THE HEAD OF THEIR CLASS, GAME, ARTISTICALLY, EXPRESSIVELY. ONE CLIENT WAS SLATED FOR TOP POSITION IN A WOMEN'S SOCCER CLUB, ANOTHER A TOP DANCER, ANOTHER AN INCREDIBLE ATHELETE, ANOTHER A GIFTED RUNNER, ANOTHER RIDING 50 MILE ENDURANCE RIDES....ANOTHER A GIFTED RESEARCHER, ANOTHER A MEDICAL STUDENT WITH MARKS TAKING HER TOWARDS HEART SURGEON....AND ON IT GOES.

ALL GIFTED, TALENTED INDIVIDUALS WITH EXCEPTIONAL ABILITIES THAT TAKE THEM INTO THE LIME LIGHT, AND THEN THEY FALL. ONCE ALL EYES ARE ON THEM, THEY BECOME DISASSOCIATED FROM THEMSELVES. ALREADY HIGHLY INTELLECTUAL, THEY ARE EXTREMELY HARD ON THEMSELVES, EXTREMELY PERFECTION ORIENTED. TRIPPLE TYPE A PERSONALITIES, THIS BECOMES AN OBSESSION.

THEY BECOME VERY ALONE, VERY ISOLATED, RELATIONSHIPS ARE SURFACE, TENDENCY TOWARDS DEPRESSION, VERY HARD ON THEMSELVES, GUILT RIDDEN, VERY SHAMED, PRIMARILY THEY HAVE LOST THEIR "RIGHT USE OF PERSONAL WILL". THEY HAVE GIVEN IT OVER, AND CAN NO LONGER ASSOCIATE THEMSELVES TO THEIR PHYSICAL BODY OR THE PATTERN THEY HAVE DEVELOPED. THEY HAVE A HUGE LOATHING FOR THEMSELVES, HOWEVER, THEY ALSO SECRETLY CANNOT IMAGINE THEIR LIVES WITHOUT THEIR 'LITTLE FRIEND'....WHO HAS TAKEN OVER THEIR LIVES.

PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS ARE SHALLOW AND AT BEST SURFACE. OFTEN BREAK UPS ARE MORE A RELIEF THAN A SADNESS, AS THEY ARE NOW ABLE TO BE ALONE WITH THEIR ADDICTION.

INFLUENCES:

MEDIA, MODELING, FRIENDS AND PEERS. WHERE EVER A PUBLIC IMAGE INFLUENCES A YOUNG MAN OR WOMANS BELIEFS ABOUT THEMSELVES.

PURGE DAMAGE

TEETH, GUMS, GLANDS IN THE MOUTH, LESIONS, AND BACTERIAL INFECTIONS

TRAEACHEA - LESIONS, BACTERIAL INFECTIONS, SORE THROAT, HUSKY VOICE

DAMAGE TO HEART, LIVER, KIDNEYS' BOWEL FUNCTION

A WOMAN CAN LOSE HER MONTHLY CYCLE FOR YEARS WHILE DOING BULIMIA
IMMUNE FUNCTION BECOMES COMPROMISED BONE STRUCTURE, THE BONE DENSITY OF A YOUNG BULIMIC CAN BE THE SAME AS A 70 YEAR OLD WOMAN,
FULL OF HOLES AND PORUS AS THERE ARE NO NUTRIENTS FEEDING THE SYSTEM, NO COLLECTION OF CALCIUM AND ESSENTIAL VITAMINS TO FEED THE SYSTEM.

DAMAGE TO THE BRAIN AND CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM - THE SYNAPTIC CONNECTIONS , AS MEMORY LAPSES, INABILITY TO ACCESS ALL OF THEIR EMOTIONAL SYSTEMS, THEY SEEM VAGUE, DISCONNECTED, UNINTERESTED IN LIFE, FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS OR ANYTHING.

OFTEN RELATIONSHIPS ARE SERIOUSLY DAMAGED, TESTING OF THE BULIMIC SHOWS EVIDENCE OF A DEPLETED AMOUNT OF SERATONIN, AND ENDORPHIC INHIBITORS. THESE ARE THE BRAINS FEEL GOOD CHEMICALS WHICH ALL HAVE ACCESS TO.

THEY WILL AGE VERY POORLY AS THEIR BODY AND IT'S ORGANS ARE DEPLETED AND STARVED. IF SINCERE ENOUGH, DEATH CAN RESULT

THE TURN AROUND

THE TURN AROUND FOR BULIMIC'S WHICH WE USE, IN OVERCOMING THIS ADDICTION CAN BECOME A CORNER STONE IN THEIR LIVES PROVIDING THEM WITH A STRONG PERSONAL ANCHOR TO OVERCOME ALMOST ANYTHING LIFE CAN PRESENT.

THEY BECOME SURVIVORS AND THE TOOLS THEY GAIN THROUGH OVERCOMING THIS AND RETURNING TO A BALANCED LIFE, OFFERS THEM PERSONAL EMPOWERMENT, AND A COMPLETE AND TOTAL AWAKENING TO THE SUBTLE INDUCEMENTS OF MEDIA AND SOCIAL PRESSURES.

THEY BUILD FROM HERE ON THEIR OWN PERSONAL SELF ESTEEM SYSTEMS AND NO ONE CAN EVER TAKE THAT AWAY FROM THEM AGAIN.

HOW DOES SOMEONE GET ANOTHER TO STOP:

NO ONE CAN, AND THAT'S THE FRUSTRATION. FAMILY MEMBERS CAN'T UNDERSTAND IT AT ALL AND FEEL THERE MUST BE SOMETHING DESPERATELY WRONG WITH THEIR LOVED ONE OR THEMSELVES

THE BULIMIC HAS TO WANT IT, THEY HAVE TO BE VIGILANT, DETERMINED, JUST LIKE STARTING ANY NEW BEHAVIOR THERE HAS TO BE CERTAINTY, DETERMINATION AND COMMITMENT FOR THEMSELVES, NO ONE ELSE.

JUST LIKE THE SMOKER, FALLS OFF, STARTS AGAIN, HE DOESNT' GIVE UP, HE STARTS OVER, THE NEXT DAY. OVER AND OVER, UNTIL EVENTUALLY THEY HAVE HAD ENOUGH, AND WITH ENOUGH BEING ENOUGH, THEY FINALLY STOP FOR GOOD.

EVERY TIME THEY QUIT, THEY ARE CLOSER TO QUITTING FOR THE LAST TIME, AND UNTIL THEY QUIT FOR THE LAST TIME, THEY ARE STILL IN THE ADDICTION.

DOES IT WORK?

ABSOLUTELY, DISPELLING THE TRANCE OF BULIMIA IS KEY. IT'S NOT THE DEEP DARK SECRET OR THE TERRIBLE PERSON WHO DOES THIS...IT'S JUST AN ADDICTION.

USING THE UNCONSCIOUS MIND TOGETHER WITH THE REPATTERNING TECHNIQUES OF NLP WE CAN HELP OUR CLIENTS REGAIN THEIR LIVES, THEIR SELF RESPECT, AND THEIR FUTURE.