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anyone use the hypnotherapy cds? i'm thinking about trying it. i listened to the demo. what i'm having trouble with is that the concept of the hypnotherapy and the ibs diet work against eachother. what i mean is that the whole idea of the hypnotherapy is to reprogram your brain in to not letting ibs rule your life. because, if you think about your ibs all the time you're just making the brain-gut dysfunction worse and harder to overcome. if we are so focused on i can't eat that , can't have that, what's in this food, this is bad, this is a no no, .... aren't we doing the opposite of what we should be doing? and that would be to convince our brains that we're ok and our bellies don't have to freak out every time we eat. we need to fix the dysfunction between our brain and our gut. i think obsessing over every stinkin thing we eat does just the opposite and makes us further from ever being normal again. i don't want to just control my ibs, i want to be normal again. i want to eat what normal people eat. this is no way to live. i'm sorry. i love this site and all the recipes. but, i'm not planning on doing this for the rest of my life. it's far too consuming. i want to get on with my life. any thoughts?

katharine

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IBS/GERD/Lactose Intolerant

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