I have a client who has a very successful business in the fitness industry; she is very tuned into her body and what nutrition it needs so when she came to me recently and said she can’t stop eating peanut butter I knew it was going to be an interesting session. She had been craving peanut butter for about four days or so, eating it by the spoonful even when she wasn’t hungry, in fact she was often quite full and felt uncomfortable eating it. She said it felt like she was unsatisfied in some way and couldn’t fill it no matter how much peanut butter she ate but she had to eat it, she considered maybe she was calorie deficient but didn’t really think this was the case, she thought maybe she was deficient in something else. This was her rational mind trying to make sense of an irrational behaviour, however, I love that she knew this was something I could help her with and the session ended up providing quite a deep healing and a beautiful understanding of self.

Tuning into her energy I discovered she was eating for two, after she freaked out thinking I meant she was pregnant, I advised her that I found she had an extra energetic body connected and she was eating for both herself and this other ‘body’. I was told that this etheric body belonged to someone who was suffering anorexia and I asked her if she knew anyone with this condition. She knew immediately whom I was referring to, as she was extremely concerned for her daughter’s teenage friend who has an eating disorder, she has been very worried for her and trying to find some way to help. So this is another example of how feeling sorry for someone and worrying for someone can be detrimental to our own health and state of mind as in doing so my clients energy connected to this young girls etheric body and her sub-conscious stepped in and created a need for her to eat enough to nourish two bodies. Left long term my client would’ve had some weight issues for sure. But I felt there was more to this story.

Clearing this energy and cutting the connection I went a little deeper to discover that my client had an issue around feeling responsible and feeling guilty for other people’s weight issues. So it became clearer as to why she went to such extremes on a sub-conscious level to help her daughter’s friend. The origin of feeling responsible and feeling guilt over other people’s weight issues began when she was only 8 years old and she became the catalyst of her cousin’s ridicule and judgement for being overweight. Their grandfather took it upon himself to point out to the two young girls that one was thin and pretty and the other was not. It doesn’t take much for an 8-year-old little girl to feel guilt, shame and embarrassment for her cousin feeling bad about herself under these circumstances. If we are not careful we as the adults can easily create body image issues in our children. This was the first incident of body shaming but not the last my client had to endure throughout her childhood and remember she was healthy, active and a healthy weight for her age. Her issues were created as a by product of those around her.

I pointed out to her that I found it very interesting that she was passionate about and working in the health and fitness field. Food for thought really (pun intended).

So many messages in this session from showing us how much damage adults can do to children with their words, to a reminder that we cannot fix other people for them, feeling sorry for them and worrying about them is detrimental to our own health and well being,  worrying and feeling sorry for someone doesn’t help them at all in any practical way. Sometimes the reasons why we are behaving a certain way are not just about us and may have a deeper meaning worth investigating. Sounds crazy, I know but when I received a text message the following day to let me know the urge for peanut butter had completely gone I am reminded how powerful this work is and no matter how crazy some of it sounds I know my energy work absolutely works.

Anna x