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Paul McKenna Owes Courtney Love An Apology

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Courtney Love's Excessive Weight Loss By Hypnosis
Courtney Love’s Excessive Weight Loss By Hypnosis

 

Singer Courtney Love (of the rock band “Hole”) has lost a startling amount of weight and is now being referred to as “skeletal” in the press. She credited her massive weight loss to hypnotist Paul McKenna (of the TV Show “I Can Make You Thin”).

 

While it’s no surprise to readers of this blog that hypnosis can result in rapid and substantial weight loss, it’s important for the hypnotist to use a process that will result in a healthy body, not simply replace a food addiction with an eating disorder.

A web search for pictures of Courtney Love will pull up images of a woman who indulged to excess (both food and drugs) and is now abstaining to excess. It is possible to lose too much weight after all.

It would seem that she replaced her addiction to drugs with and addiction to food and now an addiction to weight loss.

If Paul McKenna had helped Courtney Love establish healthy weight goals, instead of just pursuing maximum weight loss, he could have helped this woman to achieve positive results

Hypnosis is a tool and like any tool it can be used to create or to destroy. To help others or to help yourself. Whether he did it for the money or the publicity, Paul McKenna should apologize to Courtney Love for putting his own notoriety above his duty to help her.

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It’s important to start your weight loss process with a healthy, well conceived, realistic goal of what you want to accomplish. Only then can you use self hypnosis to manifest that ideal body into your life.

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Grace


I agree with you that Paul McKenna should not have put his own agenda ahead of someone’s health when it came to “helping” them with an issue. However, I also believe that an individual needs to learn to take responsibility for their own actions, and many people know perfectly well when they are destroying themselves…and sometimes, that’s exactly what they’re looking for. They may say it makes them happy, and they might not even realize that it’s false happiness, or that what is making them “happy” is going to hurt them much worse than they can even anticipate in the long run.

I tend to have an addictive personality (like it seems Courtney Love has). In the past ten years, I’ve bounced back and forth between borderline obesity and anorexia. I feel that it may have to do with my tendency to be OCD. If I’m not pregnant or nursing an infant, I’m obsessed with how low that number on the scale can go. I tend to use the excuse that I’m “still clinically at a healthy weight for my height” in order to continue down a self-destructive path without “getting caught.”

Throughout my first 3 pregnancies, I tried to use the pregnancy as an excuse to “eat for two.” I also couldn’t (or maybe just wouldn’t) workout. These things, combined with the metabolism of a corpse, led me to borderline obesity by the time each child was born. The negative feelings that followed always led me back down the same old “comforting” path of anorexia.

Before becoming pregnant for the fourth time, I realized that something had to change. I finally realized that I really can be in complete control of myself, but I have to WANT it. I came to the conclusion that I’m either going to die from what I’m doing to myself (most likely as a result of heart failure), or I’m going to make a conscious effort to be as healthy as possible and be a good example to others in my life, no matter what the “visual end result” may be.

I got very lucky and discovered your website after seeing a video about you on YouTube. I remember you mentioned that you help people STOP their SELF DESTRUCTIVE behaviors. That’s when I knew that I had finally found the help I was looking for. I had NEVER heard anyone offer such a thing, especially when it comes to weight management. All I’ve heard is, “lose weight now” “lose weight fast” “stop being ugly and start being skinny NOW” “be the envy of blabbity blabbity blah”.

It is because of your flat-out honesty and your obvious efforts to help people to better themselves ALL AROUND that I’ve finally stuck with a plan. I have yet to hear anyone else in your position make it clear that they want to HELP people and to keep them from falling further down the rabbit-hole of self destruction. Whenever I notice that someone in my life needs help with something that I know they can ultimately control themselves, I refer them to your website. I know that the information and suggestions they receive will always be sincere in helping them better themselves.

I can honestly say that my outlook on things would definitely not be as positive had I not opened my mind to what you have to share
PattiNYC


It is really sad how many of us (either to lose, gain or redistribute) are obsessed with our weight. We should concentrate more on being healthy and active than the shape of our body, becuase everyone is different.

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