08 Jan NEW YEAR – NEW YOU?
My best friend and I were in a spa hotel for new year. She was not supposed to be there (the film she is making, has utterly ripped her of all savings) and I was definitely not meant to be there (lots of very important...
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01 Mar When fear comes knocking
I had a meeting today with a lawyer specialising in wills. Being unmarried, with children, I know I need a legal document and I’ve spent the last 10 years with my head stuck firmly in the sand doing nothing to make it happen. As a hypnotherapist,...
06 Jan Hello 2022! Life, but not as we knew it….
It is no wonder so many people contact Brixton Hypnotherapy, feeling anxious, fragile and overwhelmed. What seemed to be a curb on our freedom (just for a few months) turned into a year and then another. The result for many of us, has been a...
14 May When a crisis becomes an opportunity
If you heard Bill Gates talking when Covid started to get attention, you would have heard him predict a two-year cycle for this pandemic. My partner and I happened to hear this. Whatever I think of Gates and his agenda, I did some research of...
31 Mar Re-connecting with people you love
A popular therapy technique for hypnotherapists, counsellors and pscyhotherapists for helping you work through tricky relationships, is to put an empty chair in front of you, pretend that person is sitting there, and tell them what you need to say to them. You then swap...
08 Sep What is NORMAL?
A client recently told me ‘I know it’s not normal’ when she described something she does, which not only do I find common but definitely do myself! Like everything else, ‘NORMAL’ is a perception. But the backdrop it falls onto, is those experiences that have shaped...
20 Mar How to banish ‘overwhelm’ from your life
I have a re-occurring nightmare. I’m in corridors and I have to get to an exam. Every time I turn down a corridor, there’s another and I’ve got to get to some exam room but I can’t find it. Then I meet someone and I...
05 Mar The difference between breathing and BREATHING
If you sit on the floor, cross your legs and lean over as far as is comfortable, then breathe deeply, you will have a very different experience. This is because you are breathing into your back. If you have any kind of lower back pain,...
17 Jan Birthing and Parenting Workshops
I have just had the most furious email from an NCT practitioner. I sparked her outrage with a flier in which I advertised MY Hypnobirthing workshops as ‘a modern, up-to-date alternative to NCT’. She felt this slandered NCT. Needless to say, I feel I AM an...
14 Jan Anxiety – a guide
The single most important thing to know about anxiety is it’s about AVOIDANCE. It persists because we try to avoid our anxiety in the first place. Avoiding it simply makes it worse; you must CONFRONT. Types of anxiety: Social anxiety: excessive worry and concern about how...
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