Zoë Clews & Associates Hypnotherapy
Hello and a very warm welcome from Zoë and the team. You may have come to us because you want help for yourself or perhaps you're doing some research into hypnotherapy treatments on behalf of a friend or loved one. Either way, the biggest question you have is whether we can help solve the problem that brought you here. The answer is yes.
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January - the month when many of us 'swear off' old behaviours is an excellent time to talk about the 'The Control / Release Cycle'. The control / release cycle is talked about in John Bradshaw’s excellent book ‘Healing The Shame That Binds You’.
The control / release cycle is this: a period of rigid control and boundaries around an area of your life – stringent dieting and exercise for example , followed by a period of release – when you fall into a ‘binge’ pattern: eat all of the foods you forbade yourself in the ‘control’ period and avoid the gym like the plague.
it can also happen with smoking, drinking, shopping, sex, gambling, gaming or anything else mood-altering.
The control / release cycle means you either have total control ‘compulsivity’ or you have no control ‘addiction’, they are interconnected and set each other up as the more intensely you control, the more you require the balance of release and the more you self destructively release (undoing all your hard work) the more intensely you require control and so on.
If there are feelings of low self-esteem, shame and self-punishment from childhood underneath the control / release cycle it seems to intensify both sides of the tension: extreme control followed by extreme release.
We can see this dynamic in any kinds of addiction. I have seen this dynamic, to lesser or greater extent, present in clients we have worked with, who have struggled with addiction, weight loss, relationship and eating disorder issues for many years before coming to the clinic. We will often work with sugar addicts who bounce ferociously between juice cleanses and the biscuit tin.
We have an eating disorder specialist, an addiction expert and a weight loss specialist and we offer extensive trauma therapy too.
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French agriculture minister Didier Guillaume rather unhelpfully suggested this week that wine was different to other alcohol and couldn't be blamed for binge drinking and #addiction issues.
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Alcohol is alcohol. Over reliance on it is a real issue, whatever you're drinking. It's a sign of some unresolved emotional or mental issue and a mechanism you use because you think it manages your #stress and #anxiety. It doesn't.
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Wine is different from other alcohols and cannot be blamed for binge drinking, French minister claims
He noted that alcohol addiction is a 'real problem'
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