The other night Mr Chalk and I settled down to watch ‘Bums, boobs and botox’, a new documentary on Channel 4, a fly-on-the-wall show about the work of the cosmetic surgery performed by ‘Transform’.  

What amazed me was how this type of work is sold and promoted – on the one hand you saw a group of ladies sat round with nibbles and wine, watching a procedure being carried out, with all the gore and blood on show.   Can you believe, however, that they took £21,000 that night?   What happened to good old Avon or Body Shop parties?    You then saw a shot of their ‘call-centre’ staff trying to persuade people to come along and have a consultation in order to find out what work needed doing.   Presumably these sales staff are all medically trained?……

There are evidently some people who have such disfigurement, that it is ruining their lives, and surgery is the best option.   However, with most of these people, they looked perfectly OK beforehand, and one cannot help wondering how much the clinic preys on their insecurities, and makes healthy profits from them.   The media and the press quite evidently do not help, with their images of ‘perfection’ – teenagers are all too aware of this, and many neuroses develop in adolescence because of bullying from others, but also their perception of what constitutes a perfect body, and how image is so important.

What saddens me, is that with many of these people, they feel that their lives will only start once they have a certain procedure, but they then become addicted and they cannot stop having surgery.   Obviously clinics such as ‘Transform’ are run on a profit-making basis, and the moral issues here are quite neatly brushed under the carpet.

I felt really sorry for the chap who had a hair transplant, and after nearly 2 months of what appeared to me a really painful, lengthy procedure, it just looked like a very sparse few rows of grass seed, not likely to become the luscious locks that he had dreamt of (and taken out a £5,000 loan to pay for).

I wonder if you have been thinking of having cosmetic surgery, but feel deep down that there is another way?   Hypnotherapy and NLP can really boost confidence to such an extent that we become much less ‘body-conscious’, but able to see things from a different perspective.   People often find that its not really all about image, but by feeling great from the inside, this can actually have an effect on the way we look too. 

If you need a ‘natural’ boost, please call on 01449 780352 or 0781 7158429, or email me on wendy@wendychalk.co.uk.  

Take care.