Lily Allen has admitted she recently started therapy to manage her addiction, which is “related to her sense of self-worth”, and she uses a pair of “vibrating balls” to navigate her issues
Lily Allen is currently in therapy to manage her addiction.
The West End Girl hitmaker recently revealed that she has sought help over the last four months after realising her problem. She spoke about the issue on her podcast Miss Me? with Miquita Oliver for a Christmas special episode.
This comes soon after she recently explained the reason behind her boob job.
She said: “I actually did EMDR therapy yesterday on my spending and how it’s related to my sense of self-worth and we tried to separate the two, so let’s see how that goes. I think I try and get rid of it [money] because I don’t think I deserve it.”
“EMDR therapy is a special type of therapy. There’s stimuli that stimulate the left side and the right side of your brain and basically try and create new pathways in relation to certain behaviours, or traumatic experiences, or traumatic interactions with certain human beings, or anything really.”
Lily said that she began EMDR therapy “about four, five months ago” and branded it “life changing”. She gushed: “I just absolutely love it. I am not a doctor and I am not qualified to give that kind of advice but this is what is working for me currently.”
“You usually start by sort of deciding on which area you’re gonna focus on during that session and then you visualise the experience.”
“If you’re trying to change your attitude towards a traumatic event, you try and think about how painful that event is from one to 10 and then you activate the stimuli, which in my case is these two vibrating balls that I put in each hand and you sort of close your eyes and put yourself in that situation and then try and identify what the feelings are that are coming up actually in your body, and in your mind. Then you do that sort of five or six times and you find that the pain level associated with it goes down and down and down.”
Lily said that she “tried and separates herself from thinking the handbag is going to make her a better person”.
Earlier in the episode, the singer admitted she’d bought herself a “huge diamond and emerald ring” which she called “a little present that’s not so little”.
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