The scope.
For the chronic pain lipedema brings, the frustration of a condition that doesn't respond to standard diet or exercise the way it's often expected to, and the day-to-day experience of living with it.
Episodes.
The library keeps growing — new episodes are added regularly on Spotify.
What the research says — and what it doesn't cover yet.
We'll say this plainly: there's no dedicated clinical trial of hypnotherapy for lipedema specifically. It's a relatively under-researched condition generally, and hypnotherapy hasn't been studied for it in isolation.
What this series draws on instead is the general, well-established evidence for hypnotherapy and chronic pain: a meta-analysis of 18 studies found a moderate-to-large pain-relieving effect across a range of pain conditions (Montgomery, DuHamel & Redd, 2000), and a broader 20-year overview of hypnosis meta-analyses found the most consistent, high-quality evidence specifically in pain populations (Rosendahl, Alldredge & Haddenhorst, 2024).
Lipedema brings genuine chronic pain, and often a difficult relationship with a body that doesn't change the way it's expected to. This series works with the pain and the distress around it, using established general mechanisms rather than lipedema-specific trials that don't yet exist — built to sit alongside your specialist's care, particularly around diagnosis, staging, and any treatment such as compression or surgery, never in place of it.
Montgomery, G. H., DuHamel, K. N., & Redd, W. H. (2000). A meta-analysis of hypnotically induced analgesia: how effective is hypnosis? International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 48(2), 138–153.
Rosendahl, J., Alldredge, C. T., & Haddenhorst, A. (2024). Meta-analytic evidence on the efficacy of hypnosis for mental and somatic health issues: a 20-year perspective. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1330238.