If you know the reason for your anxiety then you can take steps to deal with it so the experience calms down or becomes obsolete, but if you do not know the reason then it can leave you somewhat high and dry with no clues as to how to deal with it.

I would argue that every phobia is simply a fear of feeling afraid. A phobic reaction has nothing to do with the trigger itself. It is a fear of the feeling that you get when that trigger is there.

For the vast majority of my vaping clients, the nicotine addiction is not the problem. The problem is the lies, excuses and justifications that they have told themselves over the years to justify feeding the habit.

Four Times Winner Hypnotherapist Of The Year in South East England.

I am often asked by people who have survived trauma if I can hypnotise them to forget traumatic memories. It's a good question, but not good therapy.

So, how can hypnosis help for sleep all night? The trick of the self-hypnosis sleep audio is that it focuses the mind in the moment on the process of falling asleep in an abstract way, so the mind can let go of the things that are keeping it otherwise occupied…

Although sadness feels like a negative emotion, it has a positive intent. When you lose someone or something meaningful you require the support of others. Sadness is a message from you to you to get that support.

Jealousy can feel like a very negative emotion, but it means well. What if jealousy is just a message from you to you about something that someone else has that you want.

If something happens to make you feel anger and you forget it is just a message from you to you that something's not right, then you become the message. Your mind narrows its focus on that one thing that was not right to the exclusion of everything else.

What if anxiety is about happiness and well-being though? What if anxiety was just a message from you to you saying that something is threatening your happiness and well-being?

At a time more than any other in our lives it is easy to blame external events for how we feel inside.

I have a number of different hypnotic ways to disarm traumatic memories, and one that I have been using for a few months now involves Donald Duck.

You may not be aware of this, but you will not get exactly the same service from every hypnotherapist if you visit more than one. Hypnotherapy is different with different practitioners and it is worth knowing a little about this if you are looking for someone to support you.

When I first set up my Worthing hypnotherapy practice I decided on calling myself a hypnotist in order to set myself apart from other Worthing hypnotherapists.

Zoom sessions and chats during lockdown have highlighted to me that the importance of self-image is a bit of a myth.