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I work personally with many children with behaviour problems and their  families and each family story is a unique story. The reasons are many why they are experiencing the problems they do  – Take for example a young man  who reached the national headlines – he was 12 years old and weighed 20 stones. His self esteem and image was so low that he become school phobic because of the comments and abuse hurled at him each day. His story became a successful weight loss story with lots of love, care, support and encouragement from his HET therapist, who is also a school nurse!

Toby’s  problem had a root cause – the break-up of his parent’s relationship – both he and his mom would comfort eat together and mom would over compensate for Toby with food substitutes – to Toby, love = Food!!!

Until the root cause was healed – Josh would always have a weight issue through his life, running a programme of self hate and looking for self love through obsessive food intake of foods that were processed with additives and sweeteners which are known to have detrimental health effects and create behavioural problems in some cases.

Needless to say Toby had no motivation to participate in any exercise due to his PE experience a school of abusive comments and being laughed at. In fact Toby was motivated to do very little other than sit at home watch TV and play on the computer all day – and eat!

A HET therapist will start their support programme, firstly by carrying out a questionnaire to help find the acceptable and unacceptable behaviours. These are then agreed with everyone working with the child and some goals and targets are greed and set with everyone concerned. A contract is made with everyone through which the child can earn rewards and incentives and defines consequences. This ensures consistent boundaries and is adaptable to every single child on the programme. We then support the emotional state through Bach Flower remedies. Then we look at lifestyle, health and well being through diet, nutrition and fitness levels. Then we look at core issues, negative patterns, early influences and dynamics, learn relaxation methods and cellular support. All this is learned alongside an eco therapy programme which supports  understanding of the HET approaches and forms a bridging curriculum between family, school and the community.

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Tags: Obesity In Children

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