#123 Georgia Foster – Drink Less in 7 Days 

Meet Georgia:

Georgia Foster is a Clinical Hypnotherapist & Voice Dialogue Trainer. She qualified with distinction at The London College of Clinical Hypnosis in 1996. Georgia specializes in alcohol reduction, emotional over-eating, self-esteem, anxiety, and fertility issues. Her unique and highly successful approach has helped tens of thousands of people learn how to feel better emotionally and physically. Georgia has been featured regularly in the media in the UK and Australia including Sky News, GMTV, Psychologies Magazine, and Good Housekeeping, amongst others. She is the author of six books: The Weight Less Mind, The Drink Less Mind, Drink Less in 7 Days, The 4 Secrets of Amazing Sex, The Stress Less Mind, and The Fertile Mind. Her on-line programs are: 7 Days To Drink Less, Emotional Resilience Training, Believing In You (self-esteem), The Weight Less Mind (emotional overeating) and ESBD Families (anxiety reduction and self-esteem for kids and parents).
Georgia resides in Melbourne, Australia with her partner Ian and triplet boys Ollie, Finn, and Hugh.

Show Notes:

ABOUT GEORGIA

• I am originally from Melbourne, but I live in London for 22 years
• In those 22 years, I became a clinical hypnotherapist and I went to teach hypnosis in Universities for quite a few years
• Prior to that, I trained with this amazing psychologist which really helped my clinic
• When I opened up my clinic in London, people will come up to me with stress, insomnia, anxiety and somebody told me to focus on her drinking a little bit
• That client told me that she does not want to quit and I told her that I don’t want to quit either
• I created a strategy for clients and word of mouth just spread
• I wrote a book so people can buy around the world
• So, I self-published my book and within the first month, it was in the Psychology magazine, Sunday Times, newspaper
• People started to realize that there was another way and that’s really my premises
• Some people choose to quit, that’s very fine but I am more like, “if you work on the thinking before the drinking, they you can change that emotional conditioning”
• We’ve now moved to Australia, back to my home city
• My passion is just to help people
• I am not saying not to drink, but let’s think about drinking a little bit less
• Statistically and culturally (some), are all big drinkers
• But the problem is, if you’re drinking too much, you tend to overeat the next day
• I am here as a message to say that the psychology that I was trained in is that, the world is made up with many parts and sub-personalities and there’s one personality trick called the inner critic
• The inner critic is the part that says: you did not achieve this today, you drink too much last night, you’re putting on weight, what’s your problem – all the negative talk
• The inner critic is not get rid of but we can learn to manage it
• We are not really drinking for the alcohol, we are drinking because of the dopamine
• My program is about training your brain to have that dopamine fix sober
• We don’t need to drink to be “that person” the inner critic tricked us to be “that person”
• You can be that funny, wonderful, charismatic person before you drink
• The inner critic is good in playing games and when we have too much thinking time, we can often think negative thoughts
• I always say that there is a fine line between thinking too much and not having enough time to think
• A really good tool is to listen some classical or meditative music just to calm everything down before you had that first drink if you can
• Another thing is important is breath
• When we are in a shallow breathe, we are anxious but when we deep breathe, calibrate
• The great thing about my work is that it trains people to be in the space before they had their first drink
• When we had our first drink if we are thirsty, our body will identify that it is liquid and the body will want more
• And actually, alcohol dehydrates us but the brain see liquid as hydration
• If you are drinking alcohol, you need to be eating as well
• There is this personality trait called the pleasers and when in comes to drinking, pleasers don’t tend to be more regular heavy drinkers and they are not very assertive and attracts bullies
• If you’re drinking to communicate, your brain will assume that whenever you need to have those challenging conversation, you need to have alcohol in your system
• But I am training you to be assertive in your sober life so that you are not drinking to communicate to other people
• One of the things about the pleaser is that they love food, wine, being with family and nurturing and they do it a lot too often because they can’t say no
• A pleaser is very popular but they are not looking for their their own health
• There is another drinking personality trait called the perfectionist which is the all or nothing drinker
• They are really good in obtaining alcohol to watching what they eat and once they start to drink, the inner critic goes away and they just drink really quickly
• They also ends up deciding to quit because it’s easier to quit because they can’t seem to get that middle ground of drinking
• I don’t want people to think that there is something wrong with them because there’s nothing wrong with them, they just get themselves into a drinking habit
• When you are feeling a sense of vulnerability, the brain will scan on what did you do on that emotion, how did you extinguish it
• We can train the brain through hypnosis to stop negative thinking through the day
• With hypnosis, you can train the mind to tune out from that negative thinking so that when you get to your wine, you’re enjoying it
• You have to be congruent with your goals to what you decided to sit
• You got to change the emotional part of the brain
• I am about training the mind to bring that intuitive compact
• Because if you listen to inner critic for too long, alcohol becomes the quick fix
• Neuroscientists has confirmed that hypnosis is the quick way to cut to the chase about how to change the unhealthy habits
• It’s not a lazy way, it’s just effective
• The brain can change very quickly with hypnosis but it takes practice and it’s a great tool if you want to cut back a little bit
• Between the drinking and eating, there is a difference because we need to eat to survive
• Food can give you dopamine, but you have a chemical reaction with alcohol that is stronger than food
  
• I have been doing hypnosis for 24 years
• It’s really about understanding the personality that hinders us from feeling whole
• In your sober life, if you feel that you’re not sexy then when you drink, we become more sexy
• We need to learn to be communicative positively before we drink because when the critic go away, we become more assertive
• Hypnosis is really a good way to train the brain to experience new ways of thinking and having them as reference
• Hypnosis is an emotional condition and we can train your mind to drinking a different way, drink less and incorporate alcohol-free days
• If you’re listening to your inner critic, guaranteed you’ll need to drink to get away from you

HOW CAN PEOPLE FIND YOU

• Website: georgiafoster.com

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