NK Counselling & Hypnotherapy

07/11/2025

💭 **ADHD, Impulse Control & Eating Disorders in Women** 🍽️

Did you know women with ADHD are **3–4 times more likely** to struggle with an eating disorder?

It’s not about “lack of willpower” — it’s about how the ADHD brain works.
ADHD affects **impulse control, emotional regulation, and reward systems** — the same areas that influence how we eat and respond to food.

✨ Common patterns:

* Emotional or binge eating when overwhelmed
* Skipping meals or forgetting to eat
* Using food for comfort or stimulation
* Feeling guilty or out of control afterward

Many women aren’t diagnosed with ADHD until they seek help for disordered eating, anxiety, or burnout. Understanding the link can change everything — it allows treatment to target the *root cause*, not just the symptoms. 💚

If this resonates with you, know you’re not alone — support that addresses both **ADHD and eating habits** can truly help.

Many women come into my therapy room, just for a safe place to talk without judgment and to start understanding themselves. This may need to go back to childhood, or even into parents childhood at times.

Hypnotherapy can help calm the nervous system and help with mindful eating.

To book a confidential free 10 minute phone consult with me (Natalie), contact me through my email or website.

n.k.therapies17@gmail.com

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06/11/2025

The class clown.
The driving force.
The creative one.
The chatty one.
The one that's great a sports, so full of energy.
The risk taker.
The fun one.

The anxious one.
The emotional one.
The one that's a bit slow.
Never finishes work.
Can't find anything.
Forgetful.
Never on time, or too early.
The one that's worried about judgement, body shape.
The one that can't sit still.
The one that's always in a world of their own.

This is what's noticed before the diagnosis.

You already have a label.
A label that makes you question yourself.

Am I good enough?
I let everyone down.
I'm just not bright enough.
Why can't I concentrate?
What's wrong with me?

This can then cause anxiety and depression.

Anxiety affects one in three women with ADHD.

And anxiety is what's bringing these women into my therapy room.

It's when we start to talk about the past and how difficult it was for them, that they start to understand themselves.

If you would like to try counselling support, contact me (Natalie) through my website or email. I offer a quick phone consult before you decide to book a session.

nkcounsellingandhypnotherapy.com

n.k.therapies17@gmail.com

https://www.nkcounsellingandhypnotherapy.com/post/understanding-adhd-the-hidden-struggles-behind-the-class-clown-and-the-creative-one

ADHD, or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, is often misunderstood. People commonly associate it with hyperactivity and disruptive behavior, but the reality is much more nuanced. Individuals with ADHD can be the class clown, a creative genius, or the energetic athlete. They often bring a fres...

05/11/2025

So funny, 🤣 🤣

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05/11/2025

🌿 **What Is Hypnotherapy?** 🌀

You’ve probably heard of hypnosis — but did you know it’s also a powerful **therapeutic tool**?

✨ **Hypnotherapy** uses guided relaxation and focused attention to help you make positive changes in your thoughts, habits, and emotions.

It’s *not* mind control or magic — you’re always awake and in control. Instead, it helps you access your **subconscious mind**, where real, lasting change begins. 💫

Here’s what hypnotherapy can help with:
🌙 Reducing anxiety & stress
🚭 Breaking habits (like smoking or overeating)
😴 Improving sleep
💪 Boosting confidence
🧘‍♀️ Managing pain or fears

Think of it as **mind empowerment** — not losing control, but taking it back. 💭

If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to experience hypnotherapy, maybe it’s time to give it a try. You might be surprised at how powerful your mind truly is. 💚

I am Natalie, a counsellor and hypnotherapist.
I can combine both therapies, depending on what you want.
Many people combine therapies when they experience regression, using it to find answers from their past.

If you are interested, I can give you a quick 10 minute phone call to answer any questions and for you to explain a little of what you want help with.

Contact me through my email or website:

n.k.therapies17@gmail.com

nkcounsellingandhypnotherapy.com

04/11/2025

🌸 People-pleasing looks like:

Saying ‘it’s fine’ when it’s not.

Overthinking if someone’s mad at you.

Apologising for things that aren’t your fault.

Feeling guilty for saying no.

🌸 Healing looks like:

Setting boundaries.

Allowing others to be disappointed.

Choosing yourself without guilt.

🌸 You’re not selfish for protecting your peace — you’re growing.

Are you a people pleaser?

Do you know where it comes from, but can't stop it?

With many people it comes from somewhere in their past, when it was easier to say yes than say no.

Maybe if a person said no, it would lead to negative consequences for them.

Or maybe it's a learned behaviour.

If you would like counselling support, with not just people pleasing. as usually there's something else connected to this, for many it's anxiety, please email me (Natalie), or find me on my website.

n.k.therapies17@gmail.com

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03/11/2025

01/11/2025

I can’t sleep 😴 and switch off my brain unless I read.

I’ve just finished reading this beautiful story.

The imagery, the characters, the descriptions, I can only describe as an exquisite read.

I was there on the beach, in the marsh and feeling every emotion of the character.

Amazing, I highly recommend. ❤️

31/10/2025

Off to 4DX Cinema to see one of my favourites.

Have you guessed it?

30/10/2025

My dad’s 76th birthday present, a walk over the O2.

Not for for me though, as I don’t really like heights. 🤩

29/10/2025

Over my years as a teacher and counsellor, I have heard of so many🤦‍♀️ women 🤷‍♀️ finding out they have ADHD when they take their child to be assessed.

Another way a woman may recognise herself as having ADHD, is when she seeks mental health support for anxiety or depression. 🤦‍♀️

I see this scenario all the time. The woman comes into my room and we begin to investigate when anxiety first began, and this is when the woman realises that she has carried this anxiety her whole life, from childhood. 🤰🏻

It is then she may speak about problems socialising, feelings of unease, panic, the brain spiralling 🧠, catastrophizing, disorganisation, not being able to contain her emotions, forgetfulness, talking or acting without thinking, impulsivity, the list goes on.

Having a safe space in the counselling room to talk, can really help to understand and realise these are not just personality traits, there's actually scientific reasons; the prefrontal cortex 🧠(the organising, planning and behaviour regulation part) functioning differently for one.

Or maybe you suffered events that caused a great deal of childhood trauma, and you escaped in your brain, possibly within a daydream.

If you are interested in counselling support, I offer a free 10 minute phone consult before you decide to book. My name is Natalie and here's my website and email. Contact me for more information on how I can help you.

nkcounsellingandhypnotherapy.com

n.k.therapies17@gmail.com

29/10/2025

At 52 minutes in, Mel speaks about how she was diagnosed with ADHD when she took her son to be assessed.

She speaks about how research was done into boys with ADHD, not girls. Boys demonstrate physical hyperactivity and girls going inwards.

The lost generation of women; women going undiagnosed, women being medicated with anxiety when ADHD is the root.

When a girl has something that makes it difficult to manage being in school, then that girl is going to have anxiety.

Mel describes having ADHD medication is like having terrible vision and then putting on glasses.

She also quotes Gabor Mate and how he believes that stress in a mother can impact her child.

She speaks of her own experiences of having ADHD and how it affected her family.

Along with this, she gives an honest account of her own life experiences, including childhood trauma and how she carried that into her adulthood.

It's a very interesting listen, if you're a client of mine you will know how much I like Mel Robins and think she talks total sense in such an honest and easy way.

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