Testimonials

How it feels to work with Sally Baker

Read what some of my clients have experienced:

Resolving emotional eating

No-one is more surprised than me. I get on the scales every week and every week I’ve lost a few more pounds. I kept waiting for it to stop working – nothing works for me – but this does, and the weight is still coming off me!
S-W

I had decided to go for sessions in order to lose weight. However, I got more than that. I lost weight in the weeks I was attending the sessions, and I am still losing now. I am on holiday right now and went off the plan. After two days my mind and body easily switched back. I have been programmed not to fail!
D-L

I don’t even notice the biscuits and cakes at work now. It’s not like I feel I‘m denying myself. It’s hard to put my finger on it, but I don’t even notice them anymore. It feels easy; I’m just not interested in eating that kind of stuff anymore.
N-S

I wanted to wait for a while before I sent this to you because, to be really honest, I never believed this would work. Nothing else ever has!

Anyway I came to see you in February feeling fat, desperate and a total failure. Had tried every diet known and some of them helped for a little while but eventually the weight went back on leaving me feeling even more of a failure.

After seeing that guy on ACA I decided to give hypnosis a go although the group sessions were never going to be my thing. It's the best thing I've ever done!!!!

Here I am after 3 months and the weight is coming off every week. But the best part is that I am not dieting. For the first time in my life I'm not dieting but I'm losing weight (can you tell I still don't believe it ?!!). I am so peaceful around food and eating small portions - I even know how to listen to my body now when it tells me it's full. That's never happened before 🙂

Thanks Liz for your help and compassion. I've got my life back.
C-L

I have a meal and I’m enjoying eating it as usual. After a while I look at the food and think to myself – you know what, I don’t want any more. It feels like I’m really smiling inside because it just feels natural, and easy to leave it – nothing at all to do with will-power.
C-O

I’ve had big emotional overeating issues for all of my 58 years and I was feeling resigned to becoming an unhealthy and overweight 60-year-old. Various changes in my life had made my problem seem quite insurmountable, but thanks to your help I have lost 18 pounds so far. I really feel now that next summer’s big event will be the milestone birthday of a newly slim 60-year-old!
T-G

Working with PSTEC and EFT has changed my life! I’ve lost 7 kilos in eight weeks, am happier than I have been in a long time, and I am taking control of my life at last. I would recommend working this way without hesitation – it has worked for me on so many levels!
G-U

I thought I would give you a little bit of an update on my progress. I continue to lose weight even though it seems slow but now I believe that it's a better way to do it. I'm learning patience as well!

Feel like I have lots more energy and I'm sleeping much better (don't understand how that works but I'm grateful). I bought some new clothes on Saturday as the old ones are hanging off me now and already I've dropped a dress size.

Really just wanted to let you know that I'm doing really well and will continue to keep you posted.
K-B

I am a chocoholic who has not had chocolate for two months and I don’t miss it!
K-T

I just don’t believe it ... Yes, I do! ... No! I don’t ... YES I DO !!! Three stone lost as of today!!! That is 42 pounds in 28 weeks!! Or 1.5 pounds per week! This is absolutely all down to this work – all supporting my round-the-mountain, round-the-park, round-the-shops walking, and my giving what I eat a higher priority than comforting feelings - especially the feelings of which I was not fully conscious.
N-P

I have felt a shift in myself already. I feel a sense of hope and anticipation, and I have successfully avoided eating anything chocolaty and sweet for a couple of weeks. Something seems to have clicked in for me. I have even been exercising a bit too – even I am surprised!
N-D

I’m thrilled as my bra size has reduced from 46 inches to 42 inches. Yesterday I bought myself some new leather gloves, and instead of buying a medium-to-large pair, the small-to-medium fitted me perfectly, and my shoe size has also changed from a seven to a six and a half - I’m even losing fat off my feet! I can do the zip up on my new size 22 trousers, and I plan that they will feel loose on me by the end of the month. But I have to say - best of all - I now wear size 22 knickers instead of size 32 and you know what? I haven’t bought very many pairs of this new size, as I’m not finished yet, and more weight is still coming off!
C-M

Believe it or not, I AM realIy excited at the prospect of being a slim, “normal-sized” person who can go to any shop and buy clothes straight off the peg as well as looking, and feeling, healthier, more confident and happier.
B-L

Gave away my crisp (potato chips) stash from my office drawer - so no more carbs in that form anyway! One down and more to go!
E-W

I got on the scales this morning (my weekly ritual) and I have lost seven pounds! I am ecstatic and can’t wait for my next session.
A-N

My mum certainly saw the difference in my face (i.e. slimmer!) but we both saw the difference when I put on the nightie I leave at her house. It was amazing to see the difference - it was no longer tight and you couldn’t see my flesh through the material! I also got into the compact shower cubicle at her apartment with ease instead of struggling.
S-W

SUCCESS! I have just weighed myself and have lost another pound so I have now lost a whole stone (14 pounds) before going away on holiday!’
A-C

There is definitely a spring in my step today - I lost three and a half pounds this week! I really feel I can reach my target weight loss of 28 pounds by the end of this month.’
L-D

I am now known in my office as “the incredible shrinking woman!”
J-J

What’s the difference between heaven and hell? Well, hell is weighing food, counting calories, having to watch how much fruit I am eating and saying ‘no’ to the things that I really like, such as cream and chocolate, and feeling like I am being “deprived”. Heaven is being able to eat fruit, eat a bar of chocolate at the weekend, and feeling confident in choosing what I want to eat rather than just what is written on a diet plan. I have a real sense of freedom regarding my food choices, and it is spilling over to every area of my life. If this is what heaven is - give me more!’
A-F

Here I am after three months and the weight is still coming off every week. But, the best part is that I am not dieting. For the first time in my life I’m not dieting but I’m losing weight. (Can you tell I still don’t believe it?!!) I am so peaceful around food, and eating small portions - I even know how to listen to my body now when it tells me I’m full. That’s never happened before.
A-P-T

It’s all been so easy. No more struggle. No more staying home from parties because I had no control around food. I don’t even notice the food there now as I’m too busy talking to people!
D-A

Three months on from my sessions and I have lost two stones [28 pounds/13 kilograms] which is great but the best part is that this has helped me change how I view and eat my food to the point that I not only believe I will achieve my goal but I will also maintain it. I love food, always have and always will - the difference now is that I do eat everything I enjoy but in moderation - my eating speed has slowed down tremendously, which means I end up eating a lot less because I realise I’m full.
F-T

Got some good news yesterday - my regular three-month blood test shows a big drop in blood glucose and, with drugs and diet, I’m in the non-diabetic normal range!!!!!!! Well done me!!!!!!!! My cholesterol has improved a lot too!
C-S

My blood glucose levels are continuing to drop. This morning I had another new morning fasting level of 5.7, so that’s three times this week. Yesterday I had my lowest ever reading of 4.8 and I didn’t feel crap. My body is adjusting to the lower levels. I’m getting used to the idea, and liking it, that change is not only possible, but it’s happening!
D-C

In addition to weight loss, I am now more confident. I have forgotten any negative emotions from the past. I don't have anxieties anymore, and I feel in balance with myself.

I say that everyone needs some of this in their lives. I’ve tidied up my mind. I’m continuing with the plan. Weight loss is going at a slow rate, but it is happening, and I am not giving up!!! Very happy with everything.
M-H

As a result of all the emotional churn up, I had the munchies at midnight. This time I tapped for a little while and what I actually ate was not that bad. I’ve noted it, forgiven myself, and am letting go. I am loosening food’s hold over me, and it feels wonderful.
S-B

I feel finally able to clear away the physical and “emotional” fat to allow my true self to shine out there in the world. You have supported me to learn how to do this for myself, on my own. I can really do this!
L-M

I always knew that the reasons for my difficulty in losing weight were hidden deep inside of me. I needed to find the way in there to deal with it. This has helped release old stuff with very little pain.
M-P

Food no longer feels like an ugly demon. Instead it’s something I can manage and enjoy. And, you’ve given me my confidence back!
D-A

This worked for me after nothing else had for over 10 years. I released trapped emotions which kept me overeating; I recognised patterns and dealt with them. This works, and I am so grateful.
B-H

Changes were very subtle at first, and although I was aware of my good spirits, it was only when everyone at work started to comment on how much lighter I seemed – lighter in terms of weight but also in spirit – that I fully became aware of the effects of the therapy. As well as having become smaller in size, I now feel much happier in myself. Finding out where my anxieties came from was an important revelation, and formed the basis for dealing with them. Sally is incredibly resourceful and has a myriad of techniques available for various issues that require on-the-spot thinking. Sally is also a very warm and empathetic person, and I felt incredibly comfortable in her presence and in the working environment. I would definitely recommend her to anyone.
A-S

After several sessions with Sally I noticed a number of improvements in my life. An increase in energy, more confidence, ability to focus, less anxiety and I am now experiencing better night’s sleep. EFT and PSTEC are wonderful tools that have enabled me to ditch some very old negative habits and behaviour that were in essence holding me back and stopping me from living a more fulfilling life. Thank-you!
D. London

Feel like I have lots more energy, and I’m sleeping much better. (I don’t understand how that works but I’m grateful!) I bought some new clothes on Saturday as the old ones are hanging off me now, and already I’ve dropped a dress size.
A-H

After the session I needed some space to carrying on processing. I gave my imagination free rein (risky!) and I visualised unravelling the fat from my tummy like unravelling wool from an old jumper - something I used to do a lot as a child (the wool not the fat!). I also imagined that each time I have a pee I’m peeing out droplets of fat. I feel that I’m releasing the fat. In fact I’m reminding myself to give my body permission to release the fat it’s held onto all this time.
L-A

I have been uncomfortable with my body since I was about 10 years old. At 41 years old it made me terribly sad that this unhappiness with my body has been the constant thought at the back of my mind throughout my life. Even during times of achievement, success and important milestones it has been there.

Sometimes it has been an overwhelming feeling of self-loathing and at other times just a niggling thought… it has always been there. I decided that after 31 years of endless failed attempts to achieve a size I am happy with and to maintain that size I needed to ask for help.

I acknowledged that diet alone was not the answer for me. If I could get a degree, a great job and raise kids successfully but couldn’t lose a few pounds then something else was going on and I needed somebody to help me find out what that was and help me find the solutions.

Sally helped me to tap in to memories and experiences that I had buried and was able to help me make the links between these and my relationship with food. She quickly helped me look at eating afresh and see it as an experience to enjoy and nourish me rather than an experience that reinforced feelings of self-hate or guilt.

Through various techniques I was able to visit myself at key points in my life and look at how experiences I thought I had left behind were unresolved needing to be healed. I felt at all times completely safe.

After 6 weeks with Sally’s support I have lost half a stone, I love good food and reject with ease previous unhealthy habits. I feel a sense of relief that I have been able to release a lot of pain and have a sense of hope for my future knowing I am strong and have the resolve to have a great and healthy life.
A-M

I have made significant and positive changes to my life and there is now potential for who knows what? I do know though that I am working on it, and I feel so much more hopeful about my future.
F-O

Having had the most horrendous year, losing a baby, then the boyfriend, then a nasty fall which involved a week in hospital and plastic surgery I was feeling very low. I had actually made contact with Sally as I wanted to try and lose weight through hypnotherapy, and as the layers of the onion peeled away during therapy it was clear to see I was an emotional wreck . Sally’s amazing ability to tune in to how i ticked and help in processing it all really moved me on through a very difficult time in my life .

We spent most of the sessions getting me over the break up, and the weight loss was parked until I was ready. I had 6 sessions and I can honestly say that I am in a much better place than I was when I first sat down with Sally, she definitely helped me to get here . It’s good to know that should I hit rock bottom again Sally is on hand.
H-M

Have been around the block and back a few times with various therapies, but I had the most powerful healing ever with these processes.
H-D

Went for blood tests last week and today got a clean bill of health in all areas - liver function, kidney function, very good level of sugar (i.e. low), low to regular level of cholesterol, so all good, and the doctor was very pleased to say the least.
O-N

The main difficulty I have is even remembering what the issues were that I did PSTEC on. It collapsed them so completely that it is as if they never existed – that’s how well they’ve worked for me!
C-B

For far too long I have felt weighed down and held back by a number of painful emotional “boulders”! With this incredible help I have found ways to either let go of the ongoing physical, and emotional pain completely, or to find a way of “living with” the experiences so that they no longer hurt or damage me. I no longer feel scared and depressed. I’m feeling happier and physically and emotionally “lighter”. I’m in my 50s and I’ve now been freed to be more fully myself out in the world, and to stop hiding my light!
T-F

Physically I’m really aware of my abdomen and the whole of me knows that something big has shifted. Knowing where my feelings of anxiety stem from has helped me to understand better why it has always been so important for me to know what’s going on around me with the children, with BH, and at work. Deep down I’m scared, and when I’m aware stuff is happening I need to know exactly what it is as it triggers all my old anxieties. Hence my controlling, and interfering behaviour, and why it’s with my family and not in my work-place. These incredible insights mean I feel ready to change that behaviour as I’m now longer afraid.
D-T

It’s a cliché, of course – all those years learning how to help other people have brought me to the place to finally be able to help myself. To give to me what I’ve given to others. At the point that I embrace and accept my ability to help others I now believe and trust that it can have the same healing effect on me. Yesterday I fully felt and experienced me caring for the scared little child inside of me. And I’m still feeling it…
E-L

We all know, diets do not work-if they did we would all be on the same one and we’d all be skinny and happy! Sally teaches you how to BE a naturally healthy slim person. Plain and simple.

I have had a lifelong struggle with food and my body, I was so exhausted thinking about what to eat or not eat all of the time.
My greatest wish was to be one of those people that just naturally and easily maintains a healthy slim weight and never worries about food-someone who eats to live instead of lives to eat. I used to think I would be stuck heavy forever... I WAS WRONG!

Sally is taking me there ! I am losing weight and more importantly I am become free from the struggle!!!!
Best money I have ever spent!
Nancy B, USA

Stuck and overwhelm

Confidence and self-belief

Self-esteem and anxiety

I came to Sally with extreme low self-esteem issues and anxiety problems.

She helped me to sort through my problems by talking with me - this was really successful alongside the different approaches that she tried with me, the clarity and knowledge that she gave me helped me a great deal because I naturally think a lot and I’m introspective, so talking to Sally and her helping me to see things in different ways was very beneficial for my way of working out stuff in my head.

I could process new ideas that she gave me and then I could act on them and I could feel real changes in the way I think and feel from conversations that we had.

Sally used hypnotherapy with me for some sessions to try and find the time in my life where I learnt to become hyper-aware to protect myself. We did some visualisations, and a timeline where I could meet my future-self.

We also did 'tapping' (Emotional Freedom Technique) which I found really helpful on various different things - I have been able to take this method away with me. I can use it to reduce my feelings of inadequacy around other women, and I can use it when I am feeling anxious.

We also did PSTEC to try to build my self-esteem and to become more calm and in control of my anxiety. I focused on key moments in my life that were related to my need to be hyper-aware and through PSTEC I was able to make my brain realise that those moments were meaningless now and to delete or reduce how much importance they had.

I learnt to 'check in' with myself and this has been amazing for me because when I become slightly delusional or panicky I am now able to take a step back and 'check in' and think, 'What am I actually feeling?' instead of thinking and acting in older brain patterns, and calm myself down.

We also did Magic Sentences so that I can deeply understand that I can be happy in myself and calm and in control. I can also do that at home with the recordings that Sally has sent me.

After working with Sally my sense of myself has improved with leaps and bounds. I am more able to be happy with myself, I feel less inadequate than I used to, and this is always improving even since I’ve stopped seeing her. And most importantly she has enabled me to feel more relaxed. When I do have shaky moments, I feel like Sally has helped me to unlock the tools to use to be able so that I can look after myself and re-jig my thinking so that I can cope with things. I never had this safety net before.
Caragh

As an actor working with Sally on Magic Sentences, I was able to use this really excellent tool to take control of a lot of anxiety in my life.

In my work I frequently find myself in new situations and for various reasons, anxiety had become my default position for a lot of life, more even than I was consciously aware of.

Using the Magic Sentence work, I have become much more aware of my negative, reactive behaviour, and can control it using the simple technique she taught me. This has reduced my stress levels, given me a different, much happier outlook and made me more successful at dealing with both everyday and unexpected situations. And it doesn't require a huge effort or hours of practice – the method is with you after one session.
Fiona

I was able to transfer the skills I learnt into my daily life – magic sentences helped me develop a new way of thinking, feeling and behaving.
Eve

I found Magic Sentences to be a really powerful and game-changing technique. I felt positive and long-lasting effects almost immediately. It has really helped significantly reduce my anxiety to levels below I have ever previously experienced. I would recommend Magic Sentences as a technique to anyone with similar symptoms, the results are truly amazing.
Andrew

Thanks so much for all of your support and I thoroughly enjoyed the sessions. Just to give you a quote for your site I was thinking something like this:

"Sally is a master in so many areas and brings a wealth of knowledge to her sessions! She is an expert in EFT, PSTEC and hypnotherapy and she genuinely cares about her clients.

She was always prepared and had an ability to get to the heart of each issue I was facing. I felt very comfortable working with her.

This is my first testimonial as I'm very careful with who I recommend but Sally is in a class of her own and I greatly respect her work. I would recommend her to anyone!"

Fred

I approached Sally to discuss overcoming social anxiety. Over our sessions we delved deeper into certain issues and I allowed myself, with Sally’s guidance, to find peace with the feelings that those issues manifested. I particularly enjoyed the tapping part of the sessions and find the techniques I learned so helpful; I use them on a daily basis. Sally is an incredibly warm and caring person and I immediately felt very safe and relaxed during our sessions. I feel so much better now, far more mentally healthy and in control of my life. Thank you so much Sally.

I'd been feeling stuck for a while, a several year cycle of self doubt, putting myself last and feeling an almighty pressure that I might be failing at everything.

I was having panic attacks, crying all the time and regularly feeling ill. I'd never spoken with a therapist before and worried it might not be right for me or it wouldn't work but I didn't want to feel like this any longer and after our first chat I knew at the very least I'd gain some interesting insights.

Sally is super smart, calm, incredibly personable, professional and makes it all feel very human. I learnt things about myself, spent time revisiting events that I thought I had 'dealt' with and learnt most of all to set some boundaries in my relationships in order to help give myself more time and care! The techniques are varied and you can really feel the craft that has gone into Sally's practice to be agile and rigourous. I would absolutely recommend Sally and knowing that she's there should my circumstances change again is a relief!
Rachael, London

Trauma and post traumatic stress disorder

Phobia

Life transformation

Coaches and therapists

Something every great therapist or coach needs to be aware of is the tendency to think that because we know how to help other people we're also the best person to help ourselves.

But the truth is because we all live inside our own experience of reality...we are actually the last person who should be trying to help ourselves!

This is something that I have become very aware of over the years and so I surround myself with a team of people who I can call on when I need to sort my own stuff out, people who know they have permission to call me out on my bullshit, and people who can see, from the outside, the things that I am unable to spot from the inside.

One of those people is my friend and colleague Sally Baker (who was featured this month in The New York Post no less - go Sally 🙂 )

Yesterday Sally and I were having one of our regular chats and I mentioned to her that the last couple of years I had seen a really significant change in my abilities as a coach, almost like I had taken my skills to the next level somehow.

But it was only this morning that I realised that the turning point when this change began was at exactly the time that I had worked with Sally over a few issues of my own that were causing me to feel stuck. I even went back and checked the calendar for the dates that we had worked together, and it was staring me in the face. The exact time that things started to shift in my life and business, when I became “unstuck”, was the time when I worked with Sally over some of my own issues that were getting in the way.

But, this isn't just a testimonial for Sally Baker, (although it should be…) Because I see this all the time with my clients. They make massive changes in their life, but don't realise it until some point in the future when they look back and realise how much has changed. And, this is one of those times where I have experienced that myself. 😮

I'm a great believer in congruence, that coaches should work with a coach themselves, that therapists should work with a therapist themselves, and that techniques and processes used to help clients should be tried and tested, not just theory learned from a book. Which is why I want you to know that when you choose to work with me, or anyone I recommend, you are choosing to work with somebody who walks the walk, and talks the talk, who has been where you are now and did something about it.

So if I can do it what's stopping you?
S-B, Jersey