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Core You Hypnotherapy

Jacquie Whur MSc Psych
Coaching psychologist, Clinical Hypnotherapist, EMDR Practitioner
& Metabolic Health. Trauma informed.

I work with weightloss, food noise & emotional eating, and helping to free you from stress, anxiety, and insomnia 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 Amb

assador 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.

02/09/2026

Yes, really 🤪

Because sometimes the way out of an anxious thought loop isn’t to think your way out of it.

It’s to get back into your body.

Tongue posture and anxiety might seem completely unrelated, but they can become part of the same mind–body feedback loop.

Your brain is constantly monitoring what’s happening inside your body, your breathing, heart rate, muscle tension, posture and sensations, and using that information to help interpret how you’re feeling.

That’s interoception.

It’s a big part of how we recognise and regulate emotion.

So what’s your tongue got to do with it?
Where the tongue sits can influence what’s happening around the jaw, neck shoulders and spine, affecting how we breathe and hold the body.

The brain reads the body.

Which brings me to golf. 🏌️‍♀️
Yesterday was a rubbish round.
I kept lifting my head. I know why.
I was rushing to see if I’d hit the ball ok.
That little moment of anxiety creates a physical response.

I tense. I move. I anticipate.
And then…
I hit a rubbish shot. 😤😂

And what do I instinctively want to do?
Think about it more.
Analyse it.
Try harder.
Control the thought.

But when the brain is caught in a loop, sometimes more thinking isn’t the answer.

We need to change the information coming back from the body.

So next time I’m standing over that golf ball, I’m going to try something much simpler.

Check my tongue. 👅😂
Where is it
Is my jaw relaxed
Am I holding my breath
Can I soften my body

Try this:
👅 Say “Nnnnn” and notice where your tongue naturally lands.
👅 Let it rest gently against the roof of your mouth, behind your front teeth.
😮‍💨 Relax your jaw, close your lips and take a few slow breaths through your nose.

Then simply notice.
Your jaw. Your neck. Your shoulders. Your breathing.
And most importantly…

What do you notice inside?

Sometimes the way out of the thought loop isn’t to think harder.

It’s to come back into the body.

Your body is constantly sending information back to your brain.

Note to self:
Stop thinking.
Check the tongue. 😝
Relax the shoulders.
Breathe.
And just hit the bloody ball. 😂🏌️‍♀️

30/08/2026

Dogs, don’t you love them 🤦‍♀️

Anyway, if you want to hack your health, when you’ve finished eating, get up and move, even if it’s just to go up and down the stairs.

As little as 2 minutes of movement, has a significant effect on lowering blood glucose levels. Your muscles are the storage cupboard for glucose, but you’ve got to use them to open the door to the storage facility.

And, before anyone mentions it, yes calorie in/out matters, but that’s not the language of health, your blood glucose and insulin levels are.

Get moving 💕

29/08/2026

It’s still a question I ask myself, but not because I doubt it.

I knew nothing about hypnotherapy when it first came into my life.

It happened quite by chance, and looking back, I couldn’t have needed it at a better time.

I’ve always been a big believer in the synchronicity of life. That sometimes things arrive exactly when we need them, even if we don’t understand why at the time.

Hypnotherapy helped me profoundly.

It gave my mind the space it needed to process the enormous amount of sh*t that life was throwing at me at that point.

There was something about it that was both gentle and subtle…and yet incredibly powerful.

It changed things for me, I wouldn’t be the person I am today without it.

From helping me personally, to now allowing me to witness the powerful change it brings for other people.

And then, every now and again, you get reminded just how far that ripple can travel.

Last week, a friend said to me that the single best piece of advice she’d ever received was when I told her to encourage her son to try hypnotherapy.

She said the transformation in him had been amazing!

And moments like that make me stop and think…
What is it with hypnotherapy?

Maybe it’s that sometimes the biggest changes don’t come from trying harder.

Maybe they come from finally giving your mind the space to do something different.

And perhaps that’s why I’m still so fascinated by it.

26/08/2026

Confidence was never the starting point…

Ask yourself a different question, and you may find a different answer.

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12/08/2026

The only health hack you might actually need 😊

To be honest, I’m sick of scrolling through social media seeing one hack or another 🙄

Hack your metabolism. Hack your hormones. Hack your appetite. Hack your sleep. Hack your blood sugar.
Hack your cortisol

The whole thing is at complete odds with what we actually need !

You can’t shortcut your way to good sleep, nutrition, movement or sunlight, because these things need consistency 🙈

Health isn’t built from the things you do once.
It’s built from the things you do often. The things you do most of the time, not some of the time.

So if you really want to hack something…

Hack your mind.

Because your mind is where the resistance lives.

I’ll start Monday. I deserve it. I’ve already messed up today. I don’t feel like it.
 That old story that says this is just who I am 🥱

That’s the part that needs changing. 🧠

Not because your mind is the problem.

But because your thoughts, beliefs and habits determine what you repeatedly do.

And what you repeatedly do…
is what changes your health.

Stop looking for the next health hack. Start working on the thing that determines whether you actually stick with it.

Your mind.

11/08/2026

Empower your journey, strengthen the changes you are making. Don’t rent your weight loss, own it!

I teach you how to silence food noise.

Food noise is both biological & psychological.

It’s metabolic health & emotion regulation skills.

04/08/2026

July went by in a blink of an eye, it’s been a month crammed full !!

Life will never stop, it will never be quiet enough, and that’s what’s so wonderful about life.

It will never give you just the right moment to start focusing on yourself, because the right moment is always now ☺️

There is always something else happening around the corner.

Stop thinking that you need to wait until after your holidays, birthdays, going out days…

The right moment to learn how to make good choices is right now, whilst you’re living life.

Find your why 💫 make it powerful 💫

When it becomes strong enough, it acts as the pause that the brain needs. This is what pulls the mind into making the choices that you want.

The ‘why’ is the cognitive pause that helps shift the brain out of the automatic.

And when we add hypnosis to the ‘why’ it becomes an extremely powerful tool 💪🧠

Stop waiting, change happens whilst you live life, whilst you keep moving forward, not whilst you’re standing still.

23/07/2026

2 stone off…only part way through the journey, when the injections had to stop due to gallstone. Without them the weight was creeping back up.

This is when my client came to me, we are now 4 session in, the rebound weight has come off and she is moving on with continued weight loss.

But this isn’t the big win 🎉

The biggest change is that she’s no longer relying on a medication to make the decisions for her.

She’s learnt how to recognise the difference between physical and emotional hunger.
 She understands the thoughts that used to pull her towards food.
 She tunes into her body’s signals instead of ignoring them, she now understands what drives food noise and how to quieten it.
 She makes food choices that leave her feeling good and satisfied.
 She is responding to stress without automatically reaching for food as the coping mechanism.
 She’s building habits she can carry with her for life.

But something else has changed too!!

She’s rewriting her story, she is not using a diet mindset, no restriction. She is nourishing herself…with food, with compassion, and the ability to make the choices rather than denial and restriction.

Instead of seeing herself as someone who needs medication to stay in control, she’s discovering that she has the knowledge, awareness and confidence to do it herself.

That shift in identity changes everything.

Because now she’s not only changing her own relationship with food, she’s changing her family’s too. The meals they eat, the conversations they have around food, and the example she’s setting every day.

The GLP-1 helped suppress her appetite.

It didn’t teach those skills.

GLP-1 medications can be an incredibly valuable tool for many people. They can reduce appetite and create the breathing space needed for change.

But long-term success comes from developing the skills that remain when the medication isn’t there.

The goal isn’t simply to lose weight.
It’s to become the kind of person who no longer needs to battle with food every day.

That’s where lasting change happens.

10/07/2026

Most people think metabolic health starts with what you eat.

But one of the first signals your metabolism receives each day isn’t food... it’s light.

Stepping outside into natural morning light within the first hour of waking helps synchronise your body clock.

That clock doesn’t just influence sleep, it also regulates the hormones involved in appetite, blood sugar control and energy metabolism.

When your circadian rhythm is well aligned, your body is generally better at:

☀️ Regulating blood glucose
☀️ Supporting insulin sensitivity
☀️ Producing energy more efficiently
☀️ Balancing hunger hormones
☀️ Sleeping more deeply, which further benefits metabolic health.

Even 5–15 minutes of natural daylight can help, especially if you can get outside rather than viewing it through a window.

Think of morning light as a metabolic cue. It tells your brain and body, “The day has begun,” helping to coordinate countless biological processes that influence how you feel and function.

If you’re trying to improve your metabolic health, reduce food cravings, or support weight loss, don’t just focus on what’s on your plate.

Start by stepping outside.
Sometimes the smallest daily habits create the biggest biological changes.

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25/06/2026

Years ago, I may have focused on the calories.

Today, I’m more interested in what these foods are telling my body.

✔️ Are they helping me feel satisfied

✔️Are they supporting my gut health

✔️Are they helping reduce food noise

✔️Do they reduce inflammation.

Foods like berries, pomegranate, seeds, rocket, olive oil, cold potatoes contain compounds that support beneficial gut bacteria, in particular one called Akkermansia.

Current research on Akkermansia shows that it helps to improve metabolic health. ❤️🧠🫀

Akkermansia reduces inflammation by strengthening the gut lining, which then naturally supports the release of GLP-1, aiding appetite regulation.

Protein aids satiety, but its fibre and polyphenols that to speak to your gut through the bacteria formation.

The gut and the brain are in constant communication.

If you want to quieten food noise you need to learn the language that your food speaks.

When food noise gets quieter, healthy choices often become easier. This isn’t willpower it biology.

Have you noticed certain foods keep you satisfied for hours while others leave you searching the cupboards an hour later?

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