What is trauma? For something so common, trauma is quite misunderstood. It includes so much more than just major accident or an abusive event, perhaps bullying. It is defined as the experience of the survivor or the response to a deeply disturbing or distressing event or a series of events that leads to overwhelm, anxiety […]
Read MoreWhat is your why?
It is a really great exercise to stop and ask yourself why. What is your motivation in the various areas of your life and what do you really care about? Your purpose is what keeps your passion and joy alive. Sometimes life gets too much, the world seems to be falling apart around us, and […]
Read More hypnotherapy, The Richards Trauma Process, TRTP, what is your whyWhy is it a hard let go ?
It is a hard let go for harmful habits and illnesses even though recovery happens when you are liberated from the cause. Often something happened in the past to trigger stress that was not released. The memory of the event is what caused the habit or illness which has been carried on in your life as some form of […]
Read More hard to let go, hypnotherapy, smoking, stress, Unconscious mindWhat are the side effects of quitting smoking
The usual side effects of quitting smoking without the help of hypnosis are very unpleasant withdrawal symptoms which start after around 2 hours and continue for about a month in many cases and sometimes longer. What happens is that when you started smoking you convinced your unconscious mind that keeping you smoking kept you safe […]
Read More hypnotherapy, side effects of quitting smokingHypnotherapy is more than hypnosis
A client came in today very worried about hypnotherapy so I asked why. It turned out that she had Googled “side effects of hypnosis”. Oh dear what a collection of stuff can happen if someone unqualified works with you. This is why you need to make sure you are seeing a fully trained hypnotherapist not just […]
Read More hypnosis, hypnotherapy, NLP, therapyUsing stress properly
It is worth thinking about how lobsters grow because there is an interesting lesson here about using stress properly. Lobsters grow inside a hard shell and the go on growing until that shell feels much too tight and the lobster feels under pressure. So it goes under a protective rock, away from predators, bursts its […]
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