Tackle driving anxiety
It can be so limiting to your life when you are scared of driving, whether that’s a fear of getting back behind the wheel after a difficult experience or a long-held difficulty in dealing with certain types of roads or situations. Driving needn’t create uncomfortable anxiety! You can learn to tackle driving anxiety using some […]
Cognitive behavioural hypnosis for menopause symptoms
For many years, menopause has been a subject that we don’t know about, we don’t share our experience and we don’t talk about it. Words that spring to mind include wizened, shrivelled, miserable, old, challenging, difficult, misunderstood, emotional, grumpiness and hot!! A pretty negative bunch of words! But that thankfully is being challenged and changed. […]
Tackling Christmas overwhelm
Overwhelm can come in many different forms at this time of year. We can feel overwhelmed about the money we are being pressurised to spend, about the responsibilities we are facing, about the time and energy we need to find to cope with the additional demands, and with loneliness or grief at being separated from […]
Free yourself from the fear of socialising
Do new situations with groups of people terrify you? Do you avoid situations where you might be expected to talk to more than a couple of people? Does the thought of going to a wedding, a party, or a work social event fill you with dread? Are you afraid that people will think you’re weird/boring/stupid/dull? […]
How to beat your flying phobia
Are you one of those people who dreads the summer holidays? Everyone else is getting excited and planning which foreign sites they want to see, which books will entertain them on that sun lounger, but you have a growing feeling of dread, because the holidays mean that you will have to face getting on a […]
How to sleep better
Do you struggle to sleep? Sometimes lying awake for hours until you finally drift off into a fitful and unsatisfying sleep, or falling asleep easily but waking in the middle of the night with your thoughts racing and lying there catastrophising about your life for what seems like hours? We all have problems with our […]
Using hypnosis to change eating habits
As we see the first signs of spring coming, even though it is still way too cold to begin to strip off the layers of clothing, my mind is turning to the body underneath! I know that I would be healthier if I toned my muscles more and lost a few kilos that have crept […]
What is pain and where do you feel it?
There are sayings such as “Pain is all in the mind” that strike us as nonsense when we stub our toe or crash into a door. But there is definitely an element of truth in it, that applies very importantly to the pain that we experience following a serious injury. In fact, I’m not going […]
Anxious about performing? Learn how to tackle it with hypnosis
Adele has recently been all over the news because she dramatically cancelled her Las Vegas series of shows at the last minute. Speculation has been rife about whether this is a sign that anxiety about performing and worries that her show would not be ‘perfect’ finally got the better of her. Well, who knows the […]
Social anxiety and how hypnosis can help
Have you lost your social mojo? Begun feeling stressed and anxious at the thought of meeting people again, even though they might be your closest friends? Have you felt calmer and more relaxed during the past 18 months than you can remember because no-one has been expecting you to have a social life, talk to […]