Lighten Up! Lose Weight!

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"From my hypnosis practice, I know that releasing the issues behind the eating will release the weight permanently. LIGHTEN UP! LOSE WEIGHT!! is a powerful tool to obtain your ideal weight permanently. This step-by-step manual will give you the encouragement you need to overcome any issues with food, self-esteem and life."
Vickie Griffith
Certified Hypnotherapist and Weight Loss Specialist
Richmond, Virginia

I am impressed with how sound your program is offered in LIGHTEN UP! LOSE WEIGHT!! It addresses many facets that typical weight-loss programs never even consider! Your program looks at why our bodies gain and hold weight and you give specific techniques and scripts for releasing not just the weight, but also the need for the weight. In just ten weeks, a reader encounters concepts- emotional, mental and spiritual-never before related to weight loss. Yours is a well-balanced approach to weight loss through total understanding of oneself and one's needs. The hypnosis techniques and scripts are simple and easy to follow and, in my judgement, quite powerful. This program is a godsend.
Pat Walker
Owner, The Aquarian Bookshop
Richmond, Virginia

A step by step 10 week program of using hypnosis techniques to lose weight without starving yourself to death. Diet equals deprivation. Getting to your repressed emotions equals liberation - from all diets. Self-hypnosis through the power of self-talk and the power of your own mind, helps you to make better choices, by using self-hypnosis suggestions to improve your eating habits so you won't want that juicy hamburger and wonder why you ever stooped so low to eat that hormone-laden grease patty in the first place. You are already hypnotized through your negative self-talk, now you can change negative programming into life-changing "CAN-DO".

Lighten Up! Lose Weight! is a do-it-yourself project that gives you the answers to why you "yo-yo" and how stuffing and holding in anger and guilt contributes to fat.

The problem is not losing weight - you've done that dozens of times. THE PROBLEM IS IN MAINTAINING WEIGHT LOSS, and this program gets you in touch as never before with the reasons you don't, serving up interactive exercises on "checking your motive" on why you eat inappropriately.

About the Author

Marie Beach has been a certified hypnotherapist since 1994. Her previous careers included over 20 years as an award-winning newspaper, screen and magazine writer writing about matters of the mind. A graduate of Fordham University in New York, she attended Boston University's School of Journalism and worked in public relations, marketing and sales and as a teacher of creative writing. Previous published work was several editions of a book on Richmond and Virginia.

She is a certified instructor and member of The National Guild of Hypnotherapists, one of the largest and oldest organizations of its kind in the world. Certified in Complementary Medical Hypnotism, Marie has been both a facilitator and lecturer on the international bestseller, "A Course in Miracles" as well as serving as Chairman of a Virginia community services board providing mental health, mental retardation and substance abuse services and as a lecturer at the Medical College of Virginia on hypnosis.

Marie's approach in her practice follows the principle that true healing requires a letting go of guilt which is often lying in the subconscious part of the mind, and allowing forgiveness to take its place. That forgiveness must be extended to self as well as to others.