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Why Anxiety Isn’t “Just in Your Head” — And How Hypnosis Can Help Create Lasting Change
Anxiety is one of the most common reasons people reach out for support, yet it can still feel incredibly isolating when you’re living with it.
For some people, anxiety feels loud and obvious — racing thoughts, panic, difficulty sleeping, constant worry. For others, it is quieter, hidden beneath being capable, organised and “holding it all...
One Word, Many Meanings
As humans, we are meaning-makers.
All day long, without even trying, we interpret the sounds, sights and sensations around us. A door closes. A text goes unanswered. Someone sighs in a meeting. We instinctively decide what it means.
And here’s the fascinating part: the meanings we create are often completely different from the meanings...
Finding Inner Peace: Calming the Busy Mind Through Awareness and Creativity
When I ask clients what they want to achieve, change, or seek, a common answer is peace. What’s interesting is that what peace looks like is different for each person—deeply personal, shaped by their own experiences and circumstances. The word peace gets bandied about in many contexts: the classic wish for world peace, the association with...
When You Feel Stuck: Rewiring Patterns Through Awareness and Creativity
Clients often come to see me when they feel stuck. That sense of being stuck shows up differently for everyone, but it tends to share some common threads: feeling unable to change, struggling to move out of patterns that are harmful—or at the very least, not helpful.
At the core of so many of these experiences is the belief that we can’t...
Coffee, Creativity and the Curious Brain
Last week, I floated the idea of using our brain in a creative way to support neuroplasticity — helping to maintain the adaptability of our brain, our mindset, and our perception. I shared the first prompt: green.
It sparked ideas, opened up conversations, and even led to some creative output. I picked up coloured pencils and played with...
An Invitation to Adapt, Create and Change
Regular creative practice increases our brain’s ability to change and enhances our mental health.
Small Shifts, Big Change: Moving Towards a Calmer State of Mind
Part of creating change in your life begins with awareness — noticing what’s happening in your thoughts, feelings, and body, and then deciding whether that reaction is valid and useful. Sometimes our initial thoughts or responses don’t serve us very well. When that’s the case, the next step is to consider what would be more helpful instead....
How to Ease Stress and Anxiety by Noticing Life’s Little Delights
In our constant search for happiness – something social media often tells us we should be chasing – it’s easy to forget that a good life is made up of a full range of emotions. Happiness is beautiful, but it feels even richer when it follows sadness. Calm is nourishing, but we often appreciate it most after stress. Real life is a mix of highs,...
Lift Your Gaze: A Simple Strategy to Calm Anxiety and Interrupt Overwhelm
When anxiety strikes, it often feels like it takes over everything—your mind, your body, even your breath. It can be like falling into a well-rehearsed script that your body and brain know all too well. But what if you could interrupt that script with a simple, physical shift?
One surprisingly powerful way to do just that is this: lift your...
Quick Body Scan: A Simple Path to Calm
The concept of ‘body scan’ is a simple but effective tool that can help you to connect with the present and calm your mind. When used effectively it can amount to a form of meditation, but it is so convenient and easy to do that we can use it in many situations where we might not normally think that meditation will work.When your mind is...
How to Use Box Breathing to Calm Your Mind
How many times when you are feeling stressed do you hear someone say ‘just breathe’? If you are like me your automatic response might be ‘I AM breathing!!!’ However, different patterns of breathing can impact you in ways that aren’t always obvious at first! Box Breathing is a tool you can use anytime, anywhere, to lower your...
Blink VuMu – Creating Healthier Patterns
I wrote about the technique of interrupting overthinking using ‘Blink VuMu’ a while ago, and many of you have found it helpful. Since then I have realised that there are many more uses to this technique than just ‘overthinking’. This article explains the broader applications of this technique and some ways of incorporating it so that you...
