Thanks to the power of the tweet, yesterday I found myself on the phone to this lady. She was looking for a volunteer for aversion therapy. For chocolate. Yes. That's right. Chocolate.
I have a huge problem with chocolate that's not even funny. In truth I've had a problem with eating in general ever since I gave up smoking 11 years ago. When in the past I would have lit a cigarette, now I eat. And I smoked 20 a day most days.
Getting chocolate out of my system won't cure that particular issue but I do think it would help with my sugar-induced highs and lows. Chocolate is the key.
When I was 9 months old my mother wrote of me that my favourite things were dogs, chocolate, music and staying in the bath. Charlie points out that I haven't changed in more than 40 years. True. So I am absolutely fascinated by the idea that I can change something that has always been so strong in me, by literally changing my mind.
I know that we create much of our own emotional reality. Which in turn, I believe, helps create our wider experiences. I also know that sometimes what you need comes to you.
So here I am, having spent a month or so discussing with a friend, hypnotherapy for emotional eating. Having spent the last few weeks so deep in resistance to change over which I have no control that I am exhausted, confused and physically aching from my own inflexibility (Louise Hay could use me in a text book right now). And this comes up.
It's not a solution. A way forward is for me to find at a deeper level. Yoga anyone? But it is going to be an interesting little snapshot of the power of the mind and I'm excited to find out what it's like. I'm hoping it has moved on from this.
And that she lets me sit on this (the sofa, not Emilia Fox):
