I had a meeting today with a lawyer specialising in wills. Being unmarried, with children, I know I need a legal document and I’ve spent the last 10 years with my head stuck firmly in the sand doing nothing to make it happen. As a hypnotherapist,...
A popular therapy technique for hypnotherapists, counsellors and pscyhotherapists for helping you work through tricky relationships, is to put an empty chair in front of you, pretend that person is sitting there, and tell them what you need to say to them. You then swap...
Most of my clients are women in South London and I can honestly say as a hypnotherapist in South London, I hear many stories from women about how they feel they’re personality, life and ambitions have been negatively influenced by men; it ranges from the...
A client recently told me ‘I know it’s not normal’ when she described something she does, which not only do I find common but definitely do myself! Like everything else, ‘NORMAL’ is a perception. But the backdrop it falls onto, is those experiences that have shaped...
I have a re-occurring nightmare. I’m in corridors and I have to get to an exam. Every time I turn down a corridor, there’s another and I’ve got to get to some exam room but I can’t find it. Then I meet someone and I...
If you sit on the floor, cross your legs and lean over as far as is comfortable, then breathe deeply, you will have a very different experience. This is because you are breathing into your back. If you have any kind of lower back pain,...
I have just had the most furious email from an NCT practitioner. I sparked her outrage with a flier in which I advertised MY Hypnobirthing workshops as ‘a modern, up-to-date alternative to NCT’. She felt this slandered NCT. Needless to say, I feel I AM an...
The single most important thing to know about anxiety is it’s about AVOIDANCE. It persists because we try to avoid our anxiety in the first place. Avoiding it simply makes it worse; you must CONFRONT. Types of anxiety: Social anxiety: excessive worry and concern about how...
I went on a workshop recently about Internal Family Systems. It’s a method of therapy that’s very popular in America and is gaining traction here now that neuroscience is backing up many of its assumptions. To summarise; we have a huge family living inside us! These...
A client of mine described her life with pre-school kids as this: draining, exhausting and boring! She felt she’d morphed into ‘non-entitity’ that spent all day meeting ‘needs’ before collapsing at night. If her partner dared go near her in bed, she’d scream ‘don’t even...