Neurofeedback Brainwave Training
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Rewire Your Brain to Support Healthy Eating Patterns, a Positive Body Image, Better Health,
and a Sense of Wellbeing Come in close. I want to tell you a secret. It's something the diet industry wouldn't want you to know. That overwhelming urge to use food in ways that you wish you wouldn't -- it's not a character flaw, and not something you can solve with willpower. What's more, the obsessive thoughts and pervasive shame and confusion about how your body looks -- the mental cage in which you live -- won't be solved with another diet and exercise plan.
Know what? It's the dieting that's causing all the pain. It's hating your body and endlessly hustling to reshape it that makes you hungry and obsessive. Instead of delivering the body of your dreams, it locks you into disordered eating patterns. And it starts an internal war. When you feel the despair of being in this cycle, know that it's your body's' voice fighting back. It's fighting against the chronic stress of feeling flawed and being malnourished as you continuously try to "fix" what's not even broken. For many people, dieting starts when cultural pressure to be thinner distorts your body image. Most people who struggle with disordered eating don't see themselves as they are, but how they fear they are. And because dieting inflates hunger and cravings, triggers yo-yo dieting cycles and other disordered eating states, and is one of the major causes of weight gain over time, it locks in that distorted body image and the feelings of shame. And when it comes to the mental and physical dysfunction that the dieting lifestyle causes, that's just the tip of the iceberg. Many dieters suffer chronic illness triggered or made worse by the stressful dieting lifestyle. Know what else? You can calm that hungry sea inside you with something as simple as sitting back in a comfy chair and watching a pleasant scene. I'm talking about neurofeedback brainwave training. Neurofeedback brainwave training is a therapeutic method that can rewire your brain to support healing from the physiological, mental, and behavioral dysfunction caused by the stress of a dieting lifestyle. It works at the root of the problem -- the dieter's overactive stress response. It teaches your nervous system how to restore calm so that you can feel more connected to and comfortable in your body. It soothes and quietens that mind-monkey that chatters on about how many calories you consumed so that you can have peace. It also strengthens your ability to regulate your emotions and eating. As you rewire your brain with brainwave training, you'll realize that you are not as hungry or prone to overeating as you thought you were. As you release yourself from rigid control of your appetite and weight, your body's own healthy hunger and weight regulating mechanisms can go back to work for you. You'll reclaim a sense of agency over your feelings and eating patterns. Many people who struggle with disordered eating also experience other forms of stress-related physical and mental dysfunction. As we support a healthy nervous system through neurofeedback training, you are likely to see improvements in many areas of your life. Your neurofeedback practitioner will do a thorough assessment before treatment begins so that the therapy addresses your whole being. Below is a list of conditions we can often improve with neurofeedback training:
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Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find barriers within yourself that you have built against it." |
When our founder, Alison Ross, became a psychotherapist, she realized she couldn’t just talk her clients out of eating and body image struggles. To help them recover, she needed to calm their activated nervous systems. This knowledge came, in part, from her own experience of recovering from disordered eating and body image struggles. You can read about this in her book, Non-Dieting: How to Love Your Body and Be Healthy in Diet Culture. Alison became a neurofeedback provider working in the Othmer Method. And she quickly recognized that neurofeedback had been the missing therapeutic piece.
How does neurofeedback training work?
Neurofeedback training involves sitting in a comfy chair for about thirty minutes at a time while watching a pleasant scene like a rainforest hike or a moving mandala on the monitor in front of you. Your neurofeedback practitioner will place electrodes on your head in formations that correspond to the therapeutic effects being targeted. The electrodes do not put anything into your head. Instead, they gather information about brainwave activity and feed it into the computer. The computer uses the data to render the scene you are watching. As your brainwave activity changes, so does the image in front of you. Changes in the scene such as volume, color, clarity, and speed gently redirect brainwave activity into more functional patterns. Over time, with regular training, usually at least twenty session, you develop a healthy new normal that includes a quiet mind, inner peace, better focus and energy, and a sense that you are in charge of food and your feelings.
How does neurofeedback training work?
Neurofeedback training involves sitting in a comfy chair for about thirty minutes at a time while watching a pleasant scene like a rainforest hike or a moving mandala on the monitor in front of you. Your neurofeedback practitioner will place electrodes on your head in formations that correspond to the therapeutic effects being targeted. The electrodes do not put anything into your head. Instead, they gather information about brainwave activity and feed it into the computer. The computer uses the data to render the scene you are watching. As your brainwave activity changes, so does the image in front of you. Changes in the scene such as volume, color, clarity, and speed gently redirect brainwave activity into more functional patterns. Over time, with regular training, usually at least twenty session, you develop a healthy new normal that includes a quiet mind, inner peace, better focus and energy, and a sense that you are in charge of food and your feelings.
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Contact us for a free 15-minute consult to learn about how neurofeedback can assist your recovery from disordered eating, body image struggles, and other stress-related mental and physical disorders.
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[46] https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/childabuseandneglect/acestudy/index.html
[47] Fuemmeler BF, Dedert E, McClernon FJ, Beckham JC. Adverse childhood events are associated with obesity and disordered eating: results from a U.S. population-based survey of young adults. J Trauma Stress. 2009;22(4):329–333. doi:10.1002/jts.20421
[47] Fuemmeler BF, Dedert E, McClernon FJ, Beckham JC. Adverse childhood events are associated with obesity and disordered eating: results from a U.S. population-based survey of young adults. J Trauma Stress. 2009;22(4):329–333. doi:10.1002/jts.20421
