May 24, 2021 | Uncategorised
Social isolation is one of the most powerful, negative experience that causes a shorter life expectancy than smoking, obesity or diabetes. Humans rapidly degenerate into an immune-suppressive state in an environment of chronic social isolation. If we cannot talk to...
Apr 6, 2021 | Uncategorised
When I first started my counselling and hypnotherapy training, I had to start a self-reflection journal based around what we were learning at the time. This was because some of the things we learnt about may trigger us and bring up issues that either we had buried or...
Mar 29, 2021 | Uncategorised
Did you know that tarot cards have always had deep roots in psychological applications? Psychoanalyst Carl Jung explained that the cards were an easy way to represent the “archetypes of mankind” – or universal traits like strength, ambition and passion-in psychology,...
Mar 23, 2021 | Uncategorised
Over the last couple of months I have completed my EFT practitioner training and more recently done some CPD to update my knowledge in NLP. But what are these and how can I introduce them into both my hypnotherapy and counselling work? EFT (Emotional Freedom...
Mar 12, 2021 | Uncategorised
Lockdown is difficult for many and the effects of lockdown can put a huge amount of pressure on a relationship. I have done a lot of work on myself over the years so consider myself very lucky in that I can often realise when I am projecting something of myself onto...
Mar 2, 2021 | Uncategorised
When I turned 40 it was a turning point for me. I had been a mum, worked in childcare for many years, but also had this burning desire to turn my part time work which I loved and felt passionate about into more of a viable business. During my 40th year I got married...
Feb 11, 2021 | Uncategorised
I decided to write this blog because all we are hearing in the news is the need to stay home, protect the NHS, save lives. We hear the daily death rates due to COVID19 and since the 23rd March 2020 we have been in lockdown. It’s all about physical illness. Throughout...
Jan 25, 2021 | Uncategorised
My last blog was about addiction so I thought it would be useful to do one about habits and explain what the difference is between the two. A habit may be described as:- • A recurrent, often unconscious pattern of behaviour acquired through frequent repetition, where...
Jan 14, 2021 | Uncategorised
A habit can be described as someone having a choice as to whether they do something or not. Once brought to the conscious mind a habit can be changed. An addiction is something that cannot be overcome without help. People will go to great lengths to get what they...
Jan 5, 2021 | Uncategorised
Ambiguous loss is a theory developed by Psychologist Pauline Boss, and it began in the 1970s while she was researching fathers who were detached from their families due to work or military deployment. She later expanded her research to include all losses involving...
