Emotional resilience and hypnotherapy

23 Jun Emotional resilience and hypnotherapy

When the going gets tough/ the tough get going! A song by Billy Ocean came to mind when Journalists used the word ‘tough’ and ‘might’ for current world politics. But hypnotherapy redefines toughness—not as silence or suppression, but as the strength to face and heal from emotional pain.

Emotional Resilience = that’s really TOUGH:

In hypnotherapy we recognise ‘tough’ differently, as emotional resilience and here is why;

Childish toughness is who can beat up the other kid, but toughness in adulthood can come in so many forms; the toughest people i’ve seen, show grace, humility and forgiveness.

To be truly tough is to respond, rather than react and to meet emotionally triggering scenarios with a calm, gentle curiosity. Hypnosis works best, when my clients are curious, open and vulnerable and for that, boy do you have to be emotionally resilient!

Daring to be wrong, daring to step down; that’s tough.

I previous client at Brixton Hypnotherapy, taught breathwork around the world,  he was ‘tough’; he’d been on a hell of a wellbeing journey and is still on it; a past addict, he’d spent a decade homeless before he turned a corner.

He came to me, so many tattoos and facial hair, that all I could see was a strong squat body and two piercing eyes. In a soft, gravely voice, he said he’d just led 500 people in Wales in letting go of emotions. He told me he’s changing the world, one breath at a time.

 

Hypnotherapy: room for surprise!

I have to admit, as a hypnotherapist in private practice for more than ten years, i’m not easily surprised, but this client surprised me. He turned out to be a guru of breathwork and could hold and guide 5,000 rippling through intense emotions, like I can hold my small dog on a lead! He had confidence, poise and emotional resilience in spadefuls and he was only with me, to nudge him along his journey.

The Power of Breathwork:

I am not new to breathwork. It is powerful and you have to be brave to use it on clients as you have no idea how they will react. To date, nobody has reacted the same; everyone has gone on a unique journey but the exciting thing about this, is everyone has had a journey!

 

 

Back to my client with uber emotional resilience! In my hypnotherapy chair, wanting to talk through demons and use hypnosis.

And that’s half of why he is truly ‘tough’. Open to new things, not sitting in hiw bearthwork kingdom thinking he’s got all the answers and at my clinic being vulnerable and curious.

Clients like this, they are tough. A survivor who had found a gentler, calmer, more connected way of living. Who had found his truth and was spreading the love and light.

Teaching Emotional Resilience:

As a hypnotherapist in London, i’m seeing clients with Anxiety, Stress, Sleeplessness, struggling with parenting and holding leadership positions. These people who get dressed in the morning, ‘putting on their big girl pants’ and trying to walk into offices looking ‘tough’ and ‘capable’.

How I can help:

Using hypnosis, but also other therapy tools, I bypass the thinking/chatter/ brain over-thinking stuff (most of my therapy clients have already been in years of psychotherapy or counselling) and I go straight to the body where they’re holding so much trauma and damage and I try to soften and release that before we re-build another, softer story.

And what’s curious, is hypnotherapy can do this. Suggesting, nudging, story-telling someone onto another path before re-building their resilience, will-power and commitment to a point in which they are truly and authentically tough.

If anyone wants to recommend me to one of these ‘tough’ world leaders, I am taking on new clients as of September!!