Shrinking Thinking is a unique Weight Management programme created by Caroline Winn & Martin Lawson at Ascent NLP Ltd in response to the sheer lack of emotional support available for people who are continuously struggling with their weight.
While coaching clients across the UK, Caroline & Martin noticed the recurring themes of emotional eating, negative thinking and bad feelings around diet and exercise, and the fact that so much of what both men and women eat is tied up
with how they are feeling about themselves. It stands to reason that to help people to lose weight and improve their health, we must first help them to feel better about themselves, and to change the emotional connections that have been made with food and exercise. And so Shrinking Thinking was born.
Caroline & Martin are “thinking and feeling experts” – experts in helping clients to eliminate emotional baggage from their lives, changing destructive thinking patterns, and freeing clients to live the lives they choose to live rather than the ones they were given! Caroline & Martin are both Master NLP Coaches, and Master Practitioners of NLP, Time Line TherapyTM and Hypnosis, and are regularly adding new tools, techniques and therapies to their repertoire – for example, Caroline will shortly be a qualified EFT Practitioner.
At Shrinking Thinking we also have our own Fitness & Nutrition Specialists who provide advice on exercising sensibly & eating healthily during the programme, and also help our members to separate the facts from the myths around diet & exercise.
For Edinburgh our Specialist is Tracey Griffen who has been getting the fine folk of Edinburgh fit since 2005. She will get you motivated, fit into that old pair of jeans, or even improve your running performance. With a real passion for fitness, Tracy believes that being a good instructor depends on clear communication and building a trust relationship with clients. She owns a bonny wee private studio in Leith, and specialises in helping people on the road to fitness, either for the first time, or rehabilitating after injury or illness. www.griffenfitness.com. Tracey is also author of the Healthy Living Yearbook, which is full of healthy recipes and advice on avoiding temptation & getting fit.
For Perth our Specialist is Catriona Dick of Mii Fitness, www.miifitness.co.uk. Cat is a Personal Trainer based in Perth, and you will often see her in Bannatynes and other gyms, helping her clients with 1-1 fitness sessions and nutritional advice as well as regular classes such as kick boxing, spinning, bootcamps and swimming. She has been known to completely gut the contents of her clients’ fridges to ensure they stick to her eating advice, and is a strong advocate of a healthy eating lifestyle rather than dieting. Cat is also a qualified sports massage therapist – easing clients sore muscles after she’s put them through their paces!
At Ascent NLP, Caroline & Martin have been providing businesses and individuals with training, coaching and development services tailored to their client’s needs since 2008. They provide their one-to-one clients with the ability to understand and the coaching to resolve their issues – often linked to seemingly unrelated past events – helping clients to move forward and become more successful in both their work and personal lives.
For businesses, they specialise in improving team communications and motivations, and can provide bespoke training packages, as well as team events. Caroline & Martin also run public workshops, and provide inspirational speaker sessions to businesses & community groups on a variety of popular subjects, including public speaking, stress management, achieving goals & managing life changes. Their coaching services can be found in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Milnathort (Kinross) and Perth and also through the Jan de Vries Healthcare clinics
More information on Ascent NLP can be found here http://www.ascentnlp.co.uk/
Caroline and Martin can be contacted on 0843 330 8729 or Contact Us Here
