Tag: hypnotherapy
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The Thief of Joy – Depression
That feeling as the darkness starts to descend, the lights slowly dim, until you’re left in a dingy, grey space. You have no mental energy to do anything, and then you feel worse because you haven’t done anything. You sleep for too long, and wake up lethargic and tired. Motivation is out of reach, or…
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Overcoming the challenges of OCD
For this post, I enlisted the help of my client, who over the last year has been attending Solution Focused Hypnotherapy sessions with me. We wanted to share her journey with other people struggling to take back control from the rituals, intrusive thoughts, and anxiety, OCD can bring. We begin by tackling the cliches, and…
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The magic of not looking back
The past can be a wonderful place to revisit, lovely memories of childhood, old friends, and days when everything just went perfectly. But it can also be a sad, lonely, traumatic place, filled with pain. The thing is our brains don’t know the difference between imagination, and reality. When we think of those lovely memories,…
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The Power of Trance
Trance. When I mention that word people generally say things like, ‘are you going to swing a watch in front of my face, or make me cluck like a chicken?’. People think that if I put them into trance I will be able to control what they think, say, and do. If only I was…
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Burnout and box ticking
That common word we hear banded about – burnout. We can all feel like this at times during our life, to different extents, and for very different reasons. Sometimes we don’t recognise it. We might feel like we are just working really hard, doing a great job, and misconstrue exhaustion for job satisfaction, or the…