Hypnotherapy was the answer to my anorexia (even though I thought it was BS!) with Bonnie Killip

<p><strong>Why Knowing What to Do Isn&#39;t Enough: Hypnotherapy, Recovery &amp; the Subconscious Mind with Bonnie Killip</strong></p><p>Bonnie Killip is a dietitian, clinical hypnotherapist and eating disorder recovery specialist based in Australia. She also lived with anorexia for fifteen years, went through hospital treatment repeatedly, knew more about nutrition than almost anyone, and still could not recover until she found something that worked at a completely different level. That something was hypnotherapy. What she shares here is genuinely game-changing.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>This episode is for you if:</strong></p><ul><li>You know what you need to do to recover but cannot seem to actually do it</li><li>You have spent years in therapy and still feel stuck</li><li>You feel like there must be something uniquely wrong with you because others seem to be able to recover</li><li>You have been told recovery is just something you manage forever, not something you fully achieve</li><li>You are curious about hypnotherapy and what it actually involves in practice</li><li>You want to hear from someone who found the system lacking and discovered a different way</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>In this episode, we cover:</strong></p><p>✨ Bonnie&#39;s fifteen years living with anorexia, in and out of hospital, and why having all the nutritional knowledge made no difference at all</p><p>✨ The moment she sat in her car after a support group and cried, and why it changed everything</p><p>✨ How she found hypnotherapy through a newspaper clipping her grandmother had saved</p><p>✨ Why she went to her first session completely sceptical and what happened anyway</p><p>✨ What hypnosis actually is, and why the subconscious responds to it differently than conscious talking therapies</p><p>✨ The ninety-five percent principle: why almost everything we do runs on autopilot and why that matters so much for recovery</p><p>✨ Why feelings, beliefs and identity, not lack of information, are what keep people stuck</p><p>✨ How pre-verbal beliefs get formed and why talk therapy often cannot reach them</p><p>✨ What hospital treatment looked like for Bonnie and why disempowerment keeps people cycling back</p><p>✨ Why no one asked Bonnie what she wanted for fifteen years of treatment, and what happened the first time someone did</p><p>✨ Why trying something different when what you are doing is not working is wisdom, not failure</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Powerful quotes from the episode:<