People seem to have an insatiable appetite for reading about celebrities. There are more and more stores in the press about people in the public eye who have turned to hypnosis to help them.

One of the things that often shows how famous people are slightly different from the rest of us is something that you may not have considered before....It's simply that they are not afraid to ask for help. They know that we cannot do everything for ourself and so looking for assistance with a problem is something that comes very naturally to them.

Here are just some of those people....

Simon Cowell, actor Matt Damon, Singer Adele, Samuel L Jackson, Ben Affleck, Ellen De Generes, Drew Barrymore, Charlize Theron  and Prince Harry have all used hypnotherapy to quit smoking. The Prince’s sister in law Kate Middleton used also used hypnotherapy to regain her appetite following a very widely reported bout of morning sickness. Kate Moss has also used those hypnotic techniques to help her with the stress and worry of pregnancy, as has Jessica Alba.

Reese Witherspoon has used hypnosis to overcome her insecurities after finding that Hollywood knockbacks were affecting her self esteem.

Spice Girl Mel B has had hypnosis for stage fright. Geri Halliwell has seen a therapist too.  Another performer who also suffered a fear of performing and had panic attacks is Michael Ball. You can see him talking about learning EFT in this video...

Actress Eva Mendes had hypnotherapy to overcome her arachnophobia and conquer her fear of spiders. 

Actor Aaron Eckhart has said that hypnosis changed his life forever after he used it to give up smoking and alcohol.

Kevin Costner, star of Waterworld even used it to help with seasickness.

Orlando Bloom had help to deal with eating too much chocolate. Did you know that you can learn to just turn down cravings!

The Duchess of York known as Fergie hired a hypnotherapist to help her to stop biting her nails, and a different Fergie, the singer from Black Eyed Peas sought help for an addiction.

Top Sports people like Tiger Woods and David Beckham have long known about the benefits of using their mind to help their sports performance coaching too.

There are so many more people who have seen the benefits...and as long as they do and keep talking about it the more we can learn about changing things that what want help with and that you do not have to face problems alone.