Medication for Anxiety
Medication for Anxiety I am trying to work out whether there is a stigma that surrounds...
Change Your Life with Yoga and Meditation (No Matter What Age You Are)
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Do you have to be a product of your environment?
Do you have to be a product of your environment? A friend recently ranted at me … with me …...
How to Calm Anxiety
How to Calm Anxiety When you awoke this morning, you felt good for the first time in a long...
Can Hypnotherapy help with Stage Fright?
Can Hypnotherapy help with Stage Fright? Many years ago, a lovely man, who has sadly since...
Celebrate Yourself with a Success Jar
Celebrate Yourself with a Success Jar There are two people in my life who view themselves...
Mental Health Awareness Week 2021 – Nature
Mental Health Awareness Week 2021 – Nature This week marks the Mental Health Foundation’s...
Feeling Uncomfortable? People Don’t – You Do!
Feeling Uncomfortable? People Don't - You Do! Every Friday I go swimming, half an hour of...
I Like the Feeling of Drowsiness after Eating Too Much
I Like the Feeling of Drowsiness after Eating Too Much I spent yesterday afternoon...
What Causes Social Anxiety in the Brain?
What Causes Social Anxiety in the Brain? In March 2020, across the globe we experienced a...
Everything You Need to Know About Hypnotherapy for Anxiety
Everything You Need to Know About Hypnotherapy for Anxiety I recently organised my client...
Hypnotherapy for OCD: Does it Work?
Hypnotherapy for OCD: Does it Work? Every now and then I hear someone remark that they are...
Practicing Gratitude During Difficult Times
Practicing Gratitude During Difficult Times There is so much to worry about currently that...
Boost your Immune System
Boost your Immune System Over the weekend I found myself pinned to a bed for half an hour....
There is No Health without Mental Health
There is no health without Mental Health It would be difficult for me to leave this...
Why Hypnosis isn’t The Therapy
Why Hypnosis isn’t the Therapy The trouble with hypnotherapy is that it can help anything...
Lose Weight when Food is Your Culture
Lose Weight when Food is Your Life Yesterday a friend was telling me that she feels eager...
How Are You Feeling? Try these tips to feel happier today.
How are you feeling today? Try these tips to feel happier today. With the Covid19...
15 Recommendations to Help Families Exercise at Home
15 Recommendations to Help Families Stay Active and Exercise [author_image...
Change Requires Change
Change Requires Change I recently received a message from an acquaintance volunteering in...
Drinking Too Much Alcohol?
Drinking Too Much Alcohol? Unsurprisingly the stay-at-home order from the Government has...
Finding the Confidence to Leave a Job
Finding the Confidence to Leave a Job Every now and then I speak with someone who wants to...
Short Term Goals to Increase Motivation
Short Term Goals to Increase Motivation How is your motivation doing? Early, last week I...
Budget-Friendly Hobbies for Your Best Life
A Budget Friendly Hobby It’s important for people to have hobbies. Spending all your time...
Finding Happiness
Finding Happiness Yesterday I was helping Anna to write her online dating profile. When I...
An Alternative Look at Self-Care
An Alternative Look at Self-Care Are you someone who goes to at least one yoga class a week...
What is an anxiety disorder?
What is an anxiety disorder? Everyone experiences feelings of anxiety throughout life....
What is anxiety?
What is anxiety? Ever have those conversations, where somebody tells you all about the...
Get Away from Anxious Comparison without Running Away
Anxious Comparison Talking recently about envy and the view of wishing for equality a...
Reducing Anxiety in a Changing Environment
Adapting your Mindset The World is constantly revolving and evolving, take us along with it...
Helping Someone With Suicidal Thoughts
Suicide Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the United States, taking the lives...
Positive thinking and living to change your reality
Positive living to change your reality Whether you are a spiritual thinker or purely...
Three Mindfulness Exercises
Last week at school my children started a project on Buddhism. They created a beautiful...
Flipping Anxiety
Battling Anxiety I wake up and I lay there, scanning my body. Checking for the feelings....
Let yourself be seen
Being seen I was in the swimming pool last week; it is something I do weekly – every...
Panicking about panic attacks
Panic!! Picture this, you have a big day tomorrow, a presentation at work, lunch with a new...
Escapism – life digital free
#Digitaldetox On Thursday I perched in front of the computer with a cup of steaming tea...
When everyone is feeling anxious
Maybe they are feeling anxious too I was recently in a local coffee shop. Sitting...
Do I need help?
It's ok to not be ok The sharp shrill of your alarm rings at dawn on another day. You roll...
What is selfcare? And why is it important for you now?
What is self care and why is it important? When I stumble down the litter strewn pavement,...
Authenticity and Happiness
Authenticity and Happiness “What do people say about you when you’re not around?” ...
What is Communication?
Communication is Key In previous blog posts I have mentioned nonviolent communication...
Significantly Decrease your Distress in Less than Two Months
How to Significantly Reduce Stress in Less than Two Months. Are you seeking to reduce...
Can meditation help my anxiety?
Can Meditation Help My Anxiety? Anxiety is a complex situation; it’s taken me hours of...
Why is a hypnotherapist preaching about meditation?
Why is a hypnotherapist preaching about meditation? My last few blog posts have been about...
Mindful Meditation and three techniques you can start using today.
Mindful Meditation and three techniques you can start using today. Mindfulness has been a...
Seven Different Meditations, their uses and why.
Meditation and You Do you hear people talking about meditation all the time? Read...
Facing Infertility with Hypnotherapy
Some Simple Steps to Aid Fertility The British Fertility Society predicts that nine to...
These two questions will help you lose weight
What is going to help you lose weight? I love helping a serial yoyo dieter with...
How many hypnosis sessions for weight loss?
How many hypnotherapy sessions will it take to help me lose weight? You want to lose weight...
Anxiety & Depression within The USA
Anxiety & Depression within The USA Almost half of American adults are presently...
Anxiety Vs Internet Addiction, the “chicken or egg” paradox.
What came first your Anxiety or your Internet Addiction? What is it about the internet that...
4 things to remember if you actually want to lose weight
4 things to remember if you actually want to lose weight If you are overweight there are...
Insomnia? A beginner’s guide to sleep.
Are you struggling to sleep too? Sleep, sleep, sleep … oh how beautiful you are…. when we...
Anxiety and faking it until you make it
The Misconception of Anxiety There is a misconception that people with anxiety, depression or...
‘ Adele weight loss ‘ – are you googling it?
Adele Weight Loss Adele weight loss – what does that phrase mean to you? How did Adele lose...
Fear of Flying & uncertainty
I recently overheard a conversation…. “OHHHHH NO…..” Said person number one as she...
How to maintain the calm of lockdown in a normal World
Whilst others around you are struggling with lockdown, are you secretly struggling with the...
Covidxiety
#COVIDXIETY This morning I worked with a client who is experiencing #covidxiety - my pet name for...
Fertility Hypnosis
The benefits of hypnotherapy for infertility I know that if you are trying to fall pregnant there...
Mental Health Awareness Week – body image – how we think and feel about our bodies
We had friends to stay this weekend. At one point the children were watching videos of themselves....
Maternal Mental Health
I recently met with a mother in early pregnancy. We were talking about the doula services I offer;...
National Infertility Week
This week is National Infertility Week. As someone who supports many couples struggling to...
Stress Awareness Month
Yesterday I walked past this tree, I noticed how entwined the branches were – like a tangled...
National No Smoking Day
National no smoking day – what a huge day for smokers. The first national no smoking day was in...
A hypnotherapist’s review of Disney Pixar’s Inside Out
You have to bear with me here as some things might be incorrect and I may have missed some minor details. I watched this with a nearly four year old that finds it difficult to sit still for more than five minutes at a time(I was also cradling…
Hypnobirthing, a little for the birth partner
Whilst it is not your body that will be in labour it is really important that you know what it is like for the birthing mother. If you are female you may have done this before but it is still good to have a reminder. For males it is really…
Have you heard of the fight or flight response?
Today I was speaking with a client that has a fear of flying. During the conversation I mentioned the fight or flight response. The client wasn’t really aware of what this natural reaction is. Immediately after finishing the session I went on to…
Have you heard of hypnotherapy?
I feel most people have heard of hypnotherapy, most people I speak to seem really interested in hypnotherapy but I don’t know how people think they would benefit from some hypnotherapy. In this brief article I’d like to give an insight into these things.
Are holiday concerns giving you the heebie jeebies?
Has a phobia in your life quashed any holiday dreams? As we approach the holiday season each year I see an increase in clients that want to eradicate a fear of flying. Often people book a holiday a long way in advance and as it approaches start to worry
Window Cleaner come Doula
My window cleaner came this afternoon. He likes to chat. A lot. When he arrived he knocked at the door. This is never a good sign. He usually just jumps the six foot back gate. Knock, knock. Thankfully Matt opened the front door. This is never
Hypnosis is Self Hypnosis
There is a saying amongst some hypnotherapists which is often used. That is “all hypnosis is self hypnosis”. What does this mean and how relevant is it? The general gist is that the hypnotist is not in control of the hypnotised.
Finding the Right Therapist
Recently a post popped up on a local mummies Facebook page, it was someone seeking a hypnotherapist. A few people recommended me, a few people recommended another local hypnotherapist and one person recommended a less local hypnotherapist.
A Bikini Brain
ith the holiday season slowly creeping up on us I thought I’d write a shot blog on hypnosis for weight loss. After all; when the sun starts peeping through, the shops start stocking bikinis.In my personal opinion the most important thing is health.
Natural Instincts: Why we override them and how to fix it.
They say that when our alarm goes off on a cold dark morning, so that we can get to work on time, we override 43 separate natural instincts. FOURTY THREE!! Yet many of us do this daily and really without a second thought (other than we’d rather not!)