Hypnosis for IBS

MY STORY OF FREEDOM FROM IBS WITHOUT FODMAP AND PELVIC FLOOR THERAPY

I am so excited to share with you the special gift of self hypnosis, which helped me find relief from the symptoms of IBS, where I was able to get off the FODMAP diet, stop pelvic floor therapy and experience freedom with food and have healthy, regular bowel movements.

I had IBS since I was a child. I was constipated often and would sit on the toilet begging my poop to leave my body. When I was very anxious, I would have diarrhea. When I was in my twenties and in an unhealthy relationship, my IBS symptoms were at its worse. I was constantly bloated, gassy and constipated. I was so uncomfortable and scared to eat, not knowing which foods would trigger symptoms. When I went to Drs and nutritionists, I was encouraged to try the FODMAP diet. I was excited to have a tool to control my symptoms. What I didn’t realize was the price I had to pay for this diet. It is so restrictive, and so many delicious and basic fruits and vegetables are off limits. However, I was determined to get rid of my symptoms, so I was diligent about the diet and never ate out socially or in restaurants. I was able to do this for a year or two until it became too much. When I went to a new nutritionist, she told me to wean off it and that the FODMAP diet was never supposed to be long term. However, she didn’t have the tools to help me wean off it properly.  When I tried to wean off the FODMAP diet, I had too much fear of the symptoms coming back, so I couldn’t do it. I was also becoming too dependent on pelvic floor therapy to go to the bathroom. There were times; I was only able to go to the bathroom after my pelvic floor therapy sessions. I was also using a lot of suppositories and would buy them in bulk. At this point, I realized that the supports that I had were crutches, and they were not helping me be free and independent to eat without fear and to go to the bathroom on my own comfortably.

I researched and researched for more supports, until I found a therapist who did hypnosis for IBS. I didn’t know what hypnosis was, but I was willing to try anything that sounded promising. I will never forget how stunned I was when she said in hypnosis (paraphrased) “Your gut is healing itself... Even when you’re not thinking about it, your gut is healing”.  That concept was mind-blowing to me at the time: that I can just tell my gut to work well and it will. If it is that simple, why doesn’t everyone know about this and why did I do so many restrictive therapies for so long?

The more I practiced hypnosis, acts of self care, healthy boundaries and putting myself first, the more I was able to have freedom in my gut and I was able to let go of the FODMAP diet naturally, poop on my own and stop pelvic floor therapy altogether.

It’s my passion to share the gift of self hypnosis with you, so you can tap into your core being which is already healthy, whole and complete. You can learn to communicate with your brain to support a healthy gut with regular, healthy bowel movements and experience freedom with food. Additionally, in hypnosis we program specific actions steps, which are the behavior changes you want to make, which support you with your goals.

My training at Hypnotherapy Academy of America includes even more tools and resources, than the hypnosis I experienced. When working with me, you will get a free recording after each session, so you can program your mind daily to support you and your goals. I am also trained in analytical hypnotherapy, where you can look at your programming and bring it up to your conscious awareness so you can amend the script that’s running your programming to support you and your goals. For example, you can let go of thoughts, feelings and beliefs that don’t support you and you can program thoughts, feelings and beliefs that do.  You can also process traumatic events in hypnosis by feeling the feelings you suppressed, dialoging with any people from the event, and giving resources to that younger part of you and/ or reinterpreting the event with your adult reasoning mind. I am trained in a wide range of protocols and techniques to support you on your path to living your best life.