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Jacquie Whur MSc Psychology
Clinical Hypnotherapist, specialising in weight loss, anxiety & self esteem. Habit - Behaviour & Mindset Change

Take back control, banish sugar cravings, build a new relationship with food. Core You Hypnotherapy is about helping you to become the person that you want to be. It’s about helping you to find peace, calm, acceptance, change, happiness at your very Core. Along with being a Hypnotherapist, I am a lowcarb/keto Nutritional Advisor with Nutrition Network and an Ambassador with the Public Health Collaboration, working to change obesity, type 2 diabetes and pre-diabetes with weight loss and diet changes. I have a full weight loss program. My aim is to help my clients not only lose weight but to change their relationship with food, change habits and behaviour and build self esteem.

30/03/2026

You don’t lack confidence, you have a self trust problem.

Confidence is a feeling…
and feelings change

So if you rely on confidence, you’ll only show up when you feel like it.

That’s why you keep starting and stopping.

Every time you say…
I’ll start Monday
I won’t snack
I’ll go for a walk
and then don’t
You break trust with yourself.

Your brain learns ‘I can’t rely on me’.

That’s the real issue

Not confidence…Self trust, and self trust is built through proof.

Small things, done consistently, even when you don’t feel like it !

That’s where real confidence comes from.

Not motivation

Just evidence

So stop asking
how do I feel more confident
and start asking
how do I become someone I trust.

Because when you trust yourself
confidence follows.

💕

24/03/2026

What ever you’re looking to change, you need to know that the mind doesn’t need to see the entire journey.

It just needs a clear small single next step.

From a neuroscience perspective, dopamine isn’t just released when you achieve a goal. It’s released in anticipation of progress.

When a task feels vague or overwhelming, the brain registers uncertainty, which then increases resistance and stress. This ultimately reduces motivation and halts you before you’ve even started.

When you define a specific, achievable next step, you get a shift:

• Cognitive load decreases • Perceived effort lowers • The brain predicts success

That prediction is what triggers a dopamine response, reinforcing focus, motivation, and sets the ball in motion.

So instead of focusing on the end goal, focus on what is the next actionable step.

Motivation is not something you wait for.
 It’s something the brain generates in response to clarity and achievable action.

Progress creates momentum not just psychologically but also neurochemically.

Sometimes… that next step is just starting a conversation.

You’ll be surprised how different things feel when your brain no longer has to figure it all out alone.

21/03/2026

When something feels real enough, when you can feel it, your mind begins to accept it as reality.

You only have to think about how powerful this is when it comes to worst-case scenarios…
 Your body reacts, your emotions rise, your whole physiology has changed, and yet nothing has actually happened.

That’s the power of your imagination.

It’s why allowing yourself to daydream matters.

This is why hypnosis is so effective.
 It allows you to mentally rehearse the outcomes you want, while layering in the emotional depth that makes those experiences feel real.

This is how the mind learns. Not just through words or images, but through feelings.

Emotion is the glue that makes change stick.

It’s not enough to simply see the life you want…
 You have to feel it.

💕

13/03/2026

This time last year 🥶

Still not sure what part of me thought it would be a good idea to camp in the Arctic 🙈

By day it was awe inspiring, by night it was brutal!

I really had to pull on the ‘awe’

‘Awe’ doesn’t just feel good, it physiologically widens the nervous system’s capacity to handle stress.

It helps to build the window of tolerance, so the nervous system feels balanced enough to think clearly, and respond flexibly.

I had to stockpile the awe during the day, because the nighttime’s is where my window of tolerance was seriously stretched to the max 😱

11/03/2026

This is us partying in the mountains and making memories, for Mr W’s 60th birthday 💕

‘Make memories’ is the last thing my grandad said to me.

He died aged 93, he golfed 3 times a week until he was 90, and walked around 3 miles per day on top of that to go and collect his morning paper.

For me this is what looking after my health is about, staying strong, healthy, and fit. I want to keep doing this for years…I want to be able to keep making memories.

I want to still be skiing when I’m old. 👵🏻
I want to partake in an active life with my family. I don’t want lack of strength or health to take any of that away from me.

I want to still be able to see the beauty of the mountains covered in snow, the endless blue sky, the freshness of the air. 🏔️

I want to still be dancing on tables. 💃🏻

Looking after my health isn’t about stopping the things I love. I’ve eaten my body weight in cheese, I’ve drank buckets of Aperol and rose.

This isn’t my everyday life, this is part of my 20%

The other 80% is everyday life, where I make the choices to build health.

To eat real food, to make time to move my body. If I don’t, then my future self will miss out and I won’t get the memories that I want to make.

💕

24/02/2026

What you do within the space of silence matters. 🧠

Otherwise when the food noise returns fear grows.

You go back to thinking that you can’t control it.

The thing is Glp-1’s don’t just silence hunger, they also dampen the brains reward system.

If you eat through stress or emotions, or use endless cycles of dieting and restrictive eating, then you have outsourced not just appetite regulation but emotion regulation.

Food noise was never about willpower, it’s neurobiological.

It’s primarily driven through the hormonal imbalance of insulin resistance, and the stress response.

Glp-1s don’t teach you how to naturally quieten food noise, they don’t teach you how to find space within your emotions so that you don’t need to turn to food.

They don’t teach appetite regulation or emotion regulation.

So what you do within the period of silence matters.

What you eat, how you move your body, daylight, sleep, stress management, emotion regulation.

These were the things that caused the weight gain in the first place.

Food noise appeared because of one, or a mixture the above.

Don’t take the space of silence for granted, use it to learn and become stronger. 🧠💪

💕

10/02/2026

A brand new study has just shown exactly what my clients consistently report.

Less stress ☺️

Using hypnosis for nervous system regulation and anchoring for safety. The study showed that the participants who were in the hypnosis group had significantly lower cortisol awakening response (CAR). The control group, no change.

My clients all joke that they take me to bed with them at night.

There’s nothing to do other than close your eyes, listen and then let yourself drift off to sleep. 💤😴

Pulling safety into the body is how you hack cortisol.

If you want to give it a try, DM me your email address and I’ll send you the recording.

💕

05/02/2026

Sometime the speed of change still takes me by complete surprise.

My client had developed a real fear of riding her horse, and it was getting her down and robbing her of any sense of enjoyment 😔

We could only have been about 4 mins into using EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) when she stated that she simply couldn’t find the fear anymore.

The feeling was gone, and as hard as she tried she just couldn’t pull it back.

We then built confidence 🤩

She’s now free from the feeling and the thoughts that were holding her back, and loving riding. 💪

Sometime change happens like a flick of a switch.

💕

04/02/2026

What did she say…which path did she tell you to walk.

We are biased to the present situation, we choose what’s familiar, and comfort over what’s new or difficult.

If you want to reach your goals, you have to start being your future self.

💕

03/02/2026

Just been listening to Dr Mary Claire Haver’s latest podcast, 70% of all Alzheimer’s case are women, this is a scary figure.

This is why I prioritise what I eat
This is my I move my body
This is why I work on my stress management
This is why I’m conscious of improving sleep quality.
This is why I advocate for continued learning.

Alzheimer’s doesn’t just happen, it’s slowly evolving over decades, and perhaps if it had a different name, we may realise that we have more control. Research increasingly uses the term type 3 diabetes, or diabetes of the brain.

It is a metabolic disease, through insulin resistance.

As women we are more at risk because of declining estrogen, and as recent research has shown, HRT doesn’t protect against it.
BUT your lifestyle does 💪🧠

You have more control over your future self than you think.

I can’t guarantee that I won’t get Alzheimer’s, but I hope I’m tipping the scales in my favour.

This is why my work focuses on metabolic health, it matters.

28/01/2026

You can change your mind, and you can also change your body…I did ! 💪

I educated my mind and it changed my life.

21/01/2026

I know it doesn’t look that great…
but it actually tasted really good.

But here’s the interesting part about the visuals…

What your eyes see when you look at food is perception.
 And perception isn’t just visual — it’s shaped by your nervous system and gut microbiome.

Many of us eat with our eyes first. But that only becomes important when the brain is relying on external stimulation for reward.

When we ask ‘What do I feel like eating’
 That answer is strongly influenced by how regulated your nervous system is and by the quality of your gut microbiome.

Different foods feed different bacteria. Those bacteria influence digestion, inflammation, satiety signals, and even cravings via the gut–brain axis.

When ultra-processed foods dominate, microbes that thrive on them increase,  and they send louder ‘feed me’ signals.

When the gut is supported and blood sugar is stable, the brain doesn’t need visual excitement to justify eating.
 Satiety hormones signal safety. Dopamine quiets. Perception shifts.

The eyes still see the same food, but the nervous system isn’t asking, ‘Is this exciting enough’

This isn’t forcing yourself to like “boring” food.
 It isn’t pretending. It isn’t discipline.

It’s biology adapting.

A system that no longer needs overstimulation to feel satisfied.

Food doesn’t have to look impressive to be enough. #

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