Taste & Perception: Rewiring Your Relationship to Food and Flavour

Are you a picky eater? Has your doctor, naturopath or nutritionist put you on a new food protocol. Are you struggling to eat well? Are you feeling trapped by your sweet tooth?

We have the solution for you!

What if what you “like,” “crave,” or “avoid” isn’t about willpower, discipline, or good/bad food…but about your perception of it? Realize, your perception can change!

In this guided, experiential workshop, you’ll explore how your nervous system, attention, and past experiences shape what you taste; and how subtle shifts in awareness can dramatically change your experience of food.

This is not a nutrition lecture.
This is not a diet.
And nothing here is about forcing yourself to like foods you hate.

Together we will invite you to notice, explore, and experience how taste and perception can change to support you.

Through a series of gentle food tasting experiments and guided awareness exercises, you’ll discover:

• Why taste is perception
• How to shift your sweet sensitivity, without cutting anything out
• Why bitterness often triggers aversion, and how to change this
• How memory and emotion influence taste
• Creating real satisfaction with contrast and curiosity
• Learn simple, practical anchors you can use in real life to bring curiosity and awareness into everyday eating

Participants can expect to find that foods they once found “too bitter” or “not sweet enough” begin to taste different during the workshop itself.

This workshop is for you if you:

• Are a "picky eater"
• Want to expand your palate to improve nutrition
• Want to ease the transition to a new food protocol
• Feel like you're stuck in a rut
• Want a calmer, more neutral relationship with food
• Are curious about how the mind and nervous system affect eating
• Have tried “doing the right thing” with food and felt frustrated
• Want tools that feel gentle, embodied, and sustainable

Jessica Taylor is a human behavior expert, hypnotist, and the Clinic Director of Pleasant Hypnosis in Vancouver, BC. With extensive experience using the Master Hypnotist Society method, NLP and Advanced Hypnosis techniques Jessica empowers clients to lose weight, stop smoking, let go of stress, develop healthier, more empowering habits, and unlock their full potential.

For more information about Pleasant Hypnosis visit: pleasanthypnosis.com

Sidney Shindle is the founder of Veritas Wellness, a Certified Nutritional Practitioner and former national level synchronized swimming coach. She believes that providing the right knowledge and tools, my clients can develop and sustain their own foundation of health.

For more information about Veritas Wellness visit: veritaswellness.ca

Together, we blend science, sensory experience, and subconscious learning to create insight that actually sticks.

"I grew up conditioned to dislike seafood. Hypnosis helped me reframe seafood to have more positive associations and now I'm eating seafood without feeling disgusted. Success!"* - Reza Askari, Business Owner

"I have had a negative relationship with food and eating my entire life - for as long as I can remember eating and meals were associated with anxiety, shame, frustration, stress, tummy aches, body aches and remorse. I was just done with feeling this way and even though I’ve had conventional therapy around food, I still could not shift my relationship with food towards a positive and enjoyable experience. After working with Jessica my relationship with food, eating AND myself has shifted completely. I could not have “seen” food, eating, myself in the new way before."* - Janet Kimmel, Personal Trainer

• Please arrive having eaten normally; not overly hungry or overly full
• If you have severe food allergies, email us in advance
• All tasting and hypnotic exercistes are optional; you may opt out of any part at any time

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