When friends become toxic then perhaps its time to let them go. Friendships are such an important part of our lives that its vital to get them right. Many of the same people who would refuse to waste their lives with an abusive partner will nonetheless hold onto toxic friends. Watch the above video if…
Fat-shaming. Should we or shouldn’t we? Does it help? Hi there. I wonder what you think of the video above. Is she right or is she horribly offensive? Judging by the comments beneath the original youtube video it’s an extremely divisive piece of film. Should we accept people for being obese or should society apply…
Losing confidence is a common consequence of a nasty fall. Hypnotherapy could help you to recover your poise. Toddlers need to make an effort to walk. As children and adults it should be easy. Sometimes, however, it becomes more of an effort than it ought to be and sometimes our own brains and their fears…
Work-related stress and how stress-management programs could help both employees and employers It seems as if the West is in a permanent state of economic uncertainty. Governments have increasingly fallen for populist notions of tax and spend, regulation increases year on year, foreign rivals such as China gather strength and businesses are feeling the pinch….
‘There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding.’ Erik Erikson (1902-1994) Erik Erikson is/was one of the most influential writers on the psychology of childhood. It’s a little old these days (rather psychoanalytical) but this quote is undoubtedly true. In fact it’s so true as to be positively trite….
Hypnotherapy for those on low incomes in Thame, Oxford, Reading and Wallingford One day a woman called me from Oxford and explained her situation. She was suffering from terrible anxiety and anger issues. She’d called a few therapists and had explained that she was on income support. Would they be prepared to see her at…
Summer is coming. Are you ready? If worries of weight get in the way of your happiness then hypnotherapy could help you Do you remember the somewhat exaggerated outrage surrounding this advert? Well, if you’re as comfortable with your body as are the women in the video then that’s a wonderful thing. However, if you’re…
‘The path of your life’s story was written in its first chapter’ Discuss. My clients sometimes come to me full to bursting with anger, tears and rage at the way they were treated as children. They know exactly what happened to them and they’re fully aware of how it affected them. Clients come to me…
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding about ourselves.” – Carl Jung I was recently waiting for a train in Reading and overheard a girl talking on the ‘phone nearby. She was plainly a little drunk and was seemingly begging some boy to take her back into his life. It didn’t…
Be self-assertive! Learn to say ‘NO!’ before your body does it for you. Well, he makes it sound all so easy on the video. For many people the art of saying ‘no’ is a difficult one. For many people the art of demanding things for yourself feels impossible. Hypnotherapy could help you to be…
What is the meaning of your life? Existential Hypnotherapy could help you to find it and live it I often sit down with a client and as they begin to explain their reasons for coming it becomes increasingly clear that their life has lost a sense of meaning. ‘Why am I here?’, ‘what’s my purpose…
Christmas is the season of giving, but lose your own self and depression will surely follow. As I write this there are millions of mothers, across the country, choosing gifts, buying gifts, wrapping gifts and preparing for the nation’s favourite ‘holiday’. There’s the visits to relatives to plan, the visitors, the office parties, the school…
The different varieties of hypno gastric band once promised to revolutionise approaches to weight loss in this country. What happened? Hello. If you’re looking for hypnotherapy in Reading, London, Oxford, Wallingford or Thame and are looking to lose some weight, to be slimmer, happier and healthier, have a read of this post before…
How good is your brain at seeing what’s really going on? Watch the video and find out! Our brains are very good at seeing what they believe they should see but we’re not so great at seeing what’s actually there. If you watch the video you’ll notice that you can’t help slipping back into…
Their imaginations can invent anything! Imagination has driven the world forward since the dawn of human history. We’ve used it to imagine the solution to a problem and then to put that solution into practice. We’ve used it to create the most soaringly beautiful works of art, the most glorious literature and we’ve used…
