I do a lot, probably too much lurking in Facebook groups and I keep seeing questions like can hypnotherapy cure BPD? Can hypnotherapy cure CPTSD? Interesting questions that I thought would make an interesting post so I am going to stop lurking for a bit and answer
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There’s a lot of confusion about what hypnosis can and can’t do when it comes to memories. Sigmund Freud developed the theory of repressed memories, Freud believed that when a memory was too traumatic to remember it got repressed. A lot of people still subscribe to this
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Not having a sense of direction in life, feeling like you have no purpose, like you’re going nowhere is something everyone experiences at some point or another. It can cause some people to feel like life has no meaning, worthlessness, low self esteem, feelings of anxiety and
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Hypnosis is a very effective intervention for people suffering from anxiety. This study found that around 79% of people experienced a reduction in their anxiety when compared to control subjects. I personally suffered with very bad anxiety which negatively affected all areas of my life. I tried
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Stress is a feeling, like all feelings and emotions it serves a purpose, all humans and animals experience stress. Stress can alert a person when something is wrong and give them the motivation to deal with a stressor or dangerous situation. There is a difference between stress
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Answering questions put to me in my Facebook group. Is pain a mental thing? Answer: Pain is a signal that there is something wrong, like gauges or lights in a car. Pain is your body telling you something needs attention. If the source of the pain is
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As a hypnotherapist I have helped many clients to overcome insomnia and sleep issues such as bad dreams. Sleep problems are very common in fact most people experience problems with sleep, it is estimated that 33% of people experience sleep issues of some kind. If you regularly
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Do you regularly find yourself needing to do something and putting it off, it could be that you need to write a report for work, make a call or write a blog post and you just can’t bring yourself to do it? You tell yourself “I’ll just
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A fear of how other people perceive us is quite common and natural from an evolutionary perspective. How others perceive us is going to affect our social status, ability to reproduce, etc. in more violent times being judged harshly by our tribe could have meant being attacked
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We’re approaching the end of 2022 and you, like many people, are probably thinking about what you want to achieve in the new year, maybe thinking about setting some resolutions for the new year. So today I am going to talk about what you can do to
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