Your Mental Wellbeing

Useful articles to help your Mental Wellbeing.

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Understanding Phobias

I was interested to hear that ITV’s “This Morning” programme were using a hypnotherapist every day last week to cure phobias. I recorded the shows as I was interested to see how they covered the subject, and you can’t beat a bit of Phil and Fearn now and again can you? They had a different […]

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Are you OK?

How are you feeling? Are you OK? If you’ve been paying attention to the media, watching what’s going on in the political world, keeping an eye on global as well as local events it’s possible that you aren’t OK. I seem to have been talking a lot to people about the power of positive thought

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Understanding Anxiety

Everyone has anxiety sometimes. Anxiety is a normal and helpful part of being human. If you struggle with anxiety you may be surprised to hear me use the term “helpful”. A level of anxiety is essential to keep us alert and safe; it’s there to protect us not to harm us. We need some level

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Effortless Information Recall

Today’s tip will help students to effortlessly recall information they may need during an exam. It goes without saying that in order for these techniques to work you must have attended lessons and actually studied the material throughout the year. Everything you have ever seen, heard or learned is stored in what I call our

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How to beat Self-Sabotage

Have you ever had the experience of knowing what you want, knowing all the benefits and great feelings it will bring you, knowing exactly what you need to do to get there; and then doing absolutely nothing? Or maybe worse, finding yourself doing anything and everything else apart from taking action steps to get what

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Be your own best friend

I work with a lot of people who are struggling with something in their lives. This might be low self-esteem, confidence issues or they may just be stuck and frustrated with an area of their lives. Quite often we will get on to the subject of that voice in their head. I ask them what

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Do I need therapy?

I recently gave a talk to a group of people to help raise money for charity; I try to attend speaking engagements as often as possible. It’s a great way to give people an understanding of complicated psychology in easy to understand terms and to give them tools and techniques that they can take away

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Flying without Fear

As the Easter holidays approach, families’ thoughts turn to jetting off to sun and sand. A great opportunity to relax, have fun and recharge those bodily batteries. However, not everyone feels quite so excited. It’s estimated that one in six people have a fear of flying. People who are scared of flying will generally have

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How to get someone to open up

We’ve all had experiences of suspecting that all is not well with someone we care about. We desperately want to help them, but whenever we try to talk to them they just clam up and say nothing is wrong and they’re fine – although we’re pretty sure they’re not. A lot of people are struggling

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What one person can do

Today is “World Storytelling Day”. Adults and children all across the globe will be celebrating the art of storytelling by telling and listening to stories. I thought I would share one of my favourite short stories with you as a way for us to join in. It’s adapted from “The Star Thrower” by Loren Eiseley.

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