Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) / Selective Eating Disorder (SED)
Do you examine everything you are given to eat ensuring it meet your personal rules?
Do you feel a sense of anxiety or dread with certain new foods?
Does the thought of the taste, texture or smell induce a fear of gagging or retching?
Is eating out with friends and family a problem as you won’t try new things and have a restrictive diet?
Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) also know as Selective Eating Disorder (SED)
This not just about being a fussy or picky eater but is a real phobia in much the same way as someone can be afraid of heights, water or spiders, but only affects people who try new food outside their normal dietary restrictions.
Also, like many phobias the actual original cause is often not known, although some experts suggest it may have been linked to a period of illness as a child such as having Tonsillitis or gastroenteritis where a limited diet was enforced by the pain of swallowing or the unpleasant sensation and association of vomiting or diarrhoea.
Hypnotherapy can change your negative thoughts around trying new foods and let you enjoy the pleasure of eating a wider range of foods. This in turn will enhance your social life and allow you to enjoy the same meals as friends and family and enjoy the pleasure of others cooking for you.
Being careful about what you eat is sensible behaviour at certain times such as when you are uncertain about levels of hygiene or trying a new style of cooking or if you have a health condition where certain foods although palatable may make you ill. But for most of us, in our home cultures, it's safe to eat pretty much anything.
Hypnotherapy can retrain your brain to accept and eat a wider range of food
During the session you will relax deeply, and suggestions will be given allowing you to;
There are different eating disorders which include,
We are qualified through the Royal College of General Practitioners to assess issues with selective eating disorders and offer interventions.
Do you feel a sense of anxiety or dread with certain new foods?
Does the thought of the taste, texture or smell induce a fear of gagging or retching?
Is eating out with friends and family a problem as you won’t try new things and have a restrictive diet?
Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) also know as Selective Eating Disorder (SED)
This not just about being a fussy or picky eater but is a real phobia in much the same way as someone can be afraid of heights, water or spiders, but only affects people who try new food outside their normal dietary restrictions.
Also, like many phobias the actual original cause is often not known, although some experts suggest it may have been linked to a period of illness as a child such as having Tonsillitis or gastroenteritis where a limited diet was enforced by the pain of swallowing or the unpleasant sensation and association of vomiting or diarrhoea.
Hypnotherapy can change your negative thoughts around trying new foods and let you enjoy the pleasure of eating a wider range of foods. This in turn will enhance your social life and allow you to enjoy the same meals as friends and family and enjoy the pleasure of others cooking for you.
Being careful about what you eat is sensible behaviour at certain times such as when you are uncertain about levels of hygiene or trying a new style of cooking or if you have a health condition where certain foods although palatable may make you ill. But for most of us, in our home cultures, it's safe to eat pretty much anything.
Hypnotherapy can retrain your brain to accept and eat a wider range of food
During the session you will relax deeply, and suggestions will be given allowing you to;
- Experience increasing levels of calmness abut food in general.
- Allow regularly experimenting with new foods
- Increase your relaxation when eating with others
- Enjoy new tastes and textures of food
- Lead a healthy life with a more balanced diet
There are different eating disorders which include,
- Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) / Selective Eating Disorder (SED)
- Anorexia Nervosa
- Bulimia Nervosa
- Binge Eating Disorder
- Elimination Disorders
- Pica and Rumination Disorder
We are qualified through the Royal College of General Practitioners to assess issues with selective eating disorders and offer interventions.
