Better Sleep In Hot Weather
As Britain heads into a heatwave this week, many people find getting a good night’s sleep a real challenge. Here’s a few of my favourite tips for a better night’s sleep during a heatwave. Keep The Hot Air Out Look at which side of your home the sun is on, keep windows and curtains on…
Coping With Change
Change happens. The world around us and our lives within it are forever changing. Day by day things never stay exactly same. Some changes are good and some are bad. Some are expected and some are not and can come as a shock. Even good changes can be hard to adjust to at times. Why…
Finding Ways To Give Back
Before qualifying as a clinical hypnotherapist I knew I wanted to help others as much as possible. After qualifying and setting up my practice, I started looking for ways I could give to my community while still being fair to myself, my family and my fledgling hypnotherapy practice. How could I fit volunteering in to…
Are You Driving Forward or Looking Back?
Think for a moment, where do you focus your thought energy? Are you looking at the road in front or backwards at what’s already behind you? You wouldn’t drive your car looking only at what’s in the rear view mirror rather than the road ahead, that would spell disaster- most likely within seconds of starting your…
Anxiety In Children, Coping Better In Lockdown
Let’s face it – It’s a bit tricky at the moment isn’t it? Dining tables and bedrooms have morphed into work desks and classrooms, our old weekday routines have been flung out of the window as we yet again find ourselves weeks in to another lockdown. The kids are frustrated, trying to learn in a…
Blue Monday – Real or Not?
Blue Monday…. The unfortunate title given to the third Monday of January, said to be the most depressing day of the year. But why?..Who came up with the idea that the third Monday in January is really the most depressing day of the year and should be known henceforth as “Blue Monday”? Blue Monday is…
Rewiring The Brain – Breaking Negative Cycles
For a long time popular theory was that our brains were “hard-wired” after our formative childhood years. Neuroscientists now know this is not so and we can change our brain and our behaviour over time, meaning our brain is more like modelling clay than hard, breakable porcelain. Neurons in our brains fire up as we…
Villains & Chickens – What is Hypnosis?
What is Hypnosis? In Solution Focused Hypnotherapy we use a combination of solution focused talking therapy aka Psychotherapy and trance aka hypnosis. I find people are usually cautious of hypnosis and given the way the media chooses to portray the subject it comes as no surprise. I remember when I was a child, seeing hypnosis…
Anxiety
1 in 4 people will experience a mental health problem of some kind each year in England [1], 1 in 6 people report experiencing a common mental health problem (like anxiety and depression) in any given week in England[2]. These figures are from long before the recent Coronavirus pandemic and although there is no official updated…
