Lighten Up! Lose Weight!: A 10 Week Self-Hypnosis Program

This is a book that is different and unique from all other weight loss books. It's as you suspected all along - eating inappropriately is emotion-driven. This book puts you in the driver's seat and helps you take away the power you have given to food.

Marie Beach has been a certified hypnotherapist since 1994. Her previous careers included over 20 years as an award-winning newspaper, screen and magazine writer writing about matters of the mind. A graduate of Fordham University in New York, she attended Boston University's School of Journalism and worked in public relations, marketing and sales and as a teacher of creative writing. Previous published work was several editions of a book on Richmond and Virginia.

She is a certified instructor and member of The National Guild of Hypnotherapists, one of the largest and oldest organizations of its kind in the world. Certified in Complementary Medical Hypnotism, Marie has been both a facilitator and lecturer on the international bestseller, "A Course in Miracles" as well as serving as Chairman of a Virginia community services board providing mental health, mental retardation and substance abuse services and as a lecturer at the Medical College of Virginia on hypnosis.

Marie's approach in her practice follows the principle that true healing requires a letting go of guilt which is often lying in the subconscious part of the mind, and allowing forgiveness to take its place. That forgiveness must be extended to self as well as to others.