Neurofeedback Brainwave Training
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Rewire Your Brain to Support Healthy Eating Patterns, Body Confidence, and Wellness
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 misuse food -- it's not a character flaw and not something you can solve with willpower. What's more, another diet and exercise plan won't fix the obsessive thoughts, pervasive shame, and confusion about how your body looks -- the mental cage in which so many dieters live.
Know what? It's the stressful dieting lifestyle, more specifically, hating your body and hustling to "fix" it by dieting, that's causing all the pain. Instead of delivering the body of your dreams, it locks you into disordered eating patterns. And it starts an internal war. When you wage war on your body, it will fight back against malnutrition and chronic stress in the voice of emotional and physical hunger. Before you know it, your effort to take control of your appetite and weight takes control of you. You might have started dieting when cultural pressure to be thinner distorted your body image. Or, when other adversities you experienced provoked feelings of shame and self-doubt. 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 predictors of weight gain over time, it locks in that distorted body image and the feelings of shame. Over time, the hustle to be something you are not can even contribute to chronic illness. Know what else? You can go a long way to healing from disordered eating and a negative body image 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, improving body image. It soothes and quiets that mind-monkey that chatters on about how many calories you consumed. It also strengthens your emotion and eating regulation abilities. As you rewire your brain with brainwave training, you'll realize that you are not as hungry or prone to disordered eating as you thought you were. As you release yourself from rigid control of your appetite and weight, your body's own hunger and weight regulating mechanisms can go to work for you. You'll reclaim a sense of confidence, and agency over your emotions and eating patterns. Many people who struggle with disordered eating also experience other stress-related health problems. As we support a healthy nervous system through neurofeedback training, you are likely to see improvements in areas of your life beyond eating and body image. 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:
The healing that happens in any specific condition during neurofeedback treatment mirrors the whole person's deeper healing. Neurofeedback teaches us how to sit in the driver's seat of our own selves--increasingly stable, strong, and connected to our body and mind as we learn to experience thoughts and feelings without being overwhelmed. As we reimagine ourselves and refocus our lives, we take a healthier kind of control -- one that comes with self-acceptance and self-care and works for our long-term well-being and a more sustainable happiness. |
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 sessions, 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 sessions, 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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