Have you ever tried to change your eating habits overnight? Sworn off sugar on a Monday, white-knuckled your way through Tuesday, and found yourself face-first in a packet of biscuits by Wednesday? You are not weak. You are not broken. You are trying to fix the symptom while the root cause sits untouched.
In this episode of the Sexual Empowerment for Women podcast, Lorraine Maguire, a Certified Advanced Rapid Transformational Therapist, shares how she went from struggling with overeating, alcoholism, and crippling self-doubt to helping other women do the same.
Why Willpower Alone Will Never Fix Your Eating
Most women over 40 have been on dozens of diets. They know what to eat. They know the plan. And yet they keep falling off. The problem is not knowledge or discipline. The problem is that emotional eating is driven by beliefs buried deep in the subconscious, beliefs about not being enough, about needing comfort, about food being the only thing that feels safe.
Lorraine knows this from the inside. She struggled with overeating and excess weight for years, alongside alcoholism and anxiety. On the outside she appeared confident. On the inside, she was drowning in low self-esteem and self-doubt.
This is the pattern so many women recognise. The disconnect between how we present ourselves to the world and how we feel inside. And it touches everything, not only food, but how attractive we feel, how we show up in our relationships, and how freely we allow ourselves pleasure.
What Is Rapid Transformational Therapy?
Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT) is a method that combines hypnotherapy, psychotherapy, NLP, and cognitive behavioural techniques to access the subconscious mind and rewire the beliefs driving unwanted behaviour. Unlike traditional therapy that can take months or years, RTT aims to create lasting change in one to three sessions.
Lorraine describes it as “updating the software in your mind.” The beliefs that were installed in childhood, the ones that tell you food is love, that you are not worthy, that your body is a problem, those beliefs are running your behaviour on autopilot. RTT goes to the root, finds the moment those beliefs were formed, and helps you install new ones.
For women who have spent decades battling their bodies, this can feel like coming home. It is the same journey many women experience when they begin to explore their sexual empowerment, reconnecting with a body they had been at war with.
The Connection Between Overeating, Body Image, and Intimacy
What Lorraine discovered is that overeating is rarely about food. It is about numbing. It is about stuffing down feelings that feel too big, too frightening, too shameful to sit with.
When a woman is at war with her body, that war does not stay at the dinner table. It follows her into the bedroom. It shapes how she receives touch, whether she can let herself be seen, whether she can relax enough to feel desire and arousal.
Lorraine was single for 11 years before doing this work. After her transformation, she found a loving relationship. When you stop punishing your body, you create space to inhabit it. And when you inhabit your body, connection becomes possible.
What You Will Learn in This Episode
- Why diets fail and what is actually driving emotional eating
- How Rapid Transformational Therapy rewires subconscious beliefs in as few as one to three sessions
- The link between how you feel about your body and how you experience intimacy
- Lorraine’s personal story of overcoming alcoholism, overeating, and low self-worth
- How to stop “faking it” and start living from the inside out
About Lorraine Maguire, Rapid Transformational Therapist
Lorraine Maguire is a Certified Advanced Rapid Transformational Therapist and member of the International Institute for Complementary Therapists, based in Auckland, New Zealand. She uses RTT and hypnotherapy to help people get to the root cause of issues like overeating, anxiety, low confidence, and self-sabotage.
Lorraine’s own story is one of radical transformation. She has overcome alcoholism (25 years sober), overeating, panic attacks, and over a decade of being single. Today she helps other women update the beliefs holding them back so they can become their most confident, healthiest selves.
Connect with Lorraine: lorrainemaguire.com
Frequently Asked Questions
Can you change your eating habits permanently?
Yes, but not through willpower alone. Lasting change requires addressing the subconscious beliefs that drive emotional eating. Approaches like Rapid Transformational Therapy work at the root level, helping you understand why you eat the way you do and rewiring those patterns so the urge itself shifts.
What is Rapid Transformational Therapy and how does it work?
RTT is a therapeutic method that combines hypnotherapy, psychotherapy, NLP, and cognitive behavioural techniques. During a session, you access the subconscious mind to find the root cause of unwanted behaviours. The therapist then helps you reframe those beliefs and install new ones. Many people experience significant shifts in one to three sessions.
Is emotional eating connected to body image issues?
Deeply. Women who struggle with emotional eating often carry shame about their bodies, which feeds a cycle of restriction, bingeing, and self-criticism. Breaking this cycle means healing both the eating patterns and the underlying body confidence wounds. When you stop punishing your body with food, you create space to feel alive again.
How long does it take for RTT to work?
Lorraine describes seeing shifts in as few as one to three sessions, each lasting around 1.5 to 2 hours, spaced approximately 21 to 25 days apart, with personalised hypnosis recordings to listen to between sessions.
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With a big warm hug,
Tarisha
