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4 Top Tips to Sleep Through Noise
Sleep is a perennial problem. There are so many things that can be disruptive to your sleep: caffeine, heavy food, light pollution, intrusive thoughts and ...
Read More How to create a powerful shield and why you should
Image by ha11ok from Pixabay What you need to shield from Life throws a lot of stuff at you on a daily basis. The person ...
Read More How the 7 Chakras Can Help you Sleep
Image by Okan Caliskan from Pixabay Chakras Have you ever wondered about chakras: what they are and why you should care? Many people think of ...
Read More Top 3 Ways to Battle Uncertainty
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay There is a lot of uncertainty in the world right now, that much is clear. Between the war in ...
Read More The 2 Aspects of Insomnia
Cat sleeping Image by super-mapio from Pixabay Insomnia, or trouble sleeping, is probably the thing that people most often mention as an issue. Not that ...
Read More What increases your sense of safety?
Tapping is a lifesaver Sadly, we all have situations in our life where we don't feel a sense of safety. It might be when you're ...
Read More How do you unwind and feel calm before bed?
Last week I posted a video on how to start your day off well. Now we go to the other end of the day, with ...
Read More Bright New Day
Life is often full of stresses and worries, and many people say they struggle to find time for themselves, time to bring a bit of ...
Read More What to do when overwhelm raises it’s ugly head
Have you ever felt completely overwhelmed? Like you just have no energy left. Or maybe that there is so much to do you will never ...
Read More How much do you believe you deserve?
Are you always just scraping by? Stuck in a cycle of getting enough to cover basic needs, but nothing beyond that? Or perhaps it feels ...
Read More How do you shift your mindset?
How you think about yourself, others and any issues or difficult situations that arise in your life has a huge effect on how you respond ...
Read More How are your beliefs about wealth affecting you?
We all have beliefs about what it means to be wealthy. Sometimes those are positive, like being wealthy allows you to enjoy time with your ...
Read More Breathing and tapping
Breathing is an amazing thing. It’s something you probably take for granted most of the time. After all, your body gets on with breathing for ...
Read More Here’s a Great Place to Start Meditating
Have you ever worried that you can’t stop all the thoughts that keep distracting you from just being present? Or perhaps you are feeling tired ...
Read More Do Positive Affirmations Work?
Have you ever tried using affirmations? Many people who have end up a bit disappointed. Some attribute the failure to not being dedicated enough, others ...
Read More Falling (Back) Asleep
How often do you lie in bed tossing and turning? It might be that you struggle to fall asleep when you first go to bed, ...
Read More How to use your body-mind connection for greater wellness
Finding your bliss There is more and more evidence of the strength of the body-mind connection, and of ways to use this to your own ...
Read More How (and why) to trust your body
Do you trust the messages your body sends you? If you feel something either physically or emotionally, do you let that be your guide? Far ...
Read More Have you met the Three Headed-Hydra of Perfectionism?
There's a lot of debate in the New Age community about our inherent perfection, and how it is important to accept yourself as perfect just ...
Read More I can’t help how I feel, can I?
Have you ever thought or said (or listened to the song) "I just can't change my emotions"? It's a common belief, and yet not at ...
Read More Here’s a little pick me up
Although we are out of winter, traditional SAD territory (Seasonal Affective Disorder), you can feel down at any time of year, and for any number ...
Read More World Meditation Day?
The concept of a World Meditation Day (officially next Wednesday, 15th May) sits strangely. I get that the idea is to raise awareness of meditation, ...
Read More Have you tried the ABC of change?
Change is a tricky thing. For a start, it can sometimes feel scary. For another, it can feel difficult. Whether it is changing your diet, ...
Read More Feeling Foggy? Try This!
There are so many times in your life when you might feel a bit foggy-headed and uncertain. Whether it’s because you’re overtired, overwhelmed, or facing ...
Read More What’s a Worry Box with ASMR when it’s at home?
The video above is designed to help release stress and worries of any kind by putting them into a box and out of your mind. ...
Read More Here’s a hypnotic explanation of how tapping works
Hypnosis is a powerful tool for creating lasting change. This is due, at least in part, to two major phenomena. The Autonomic Nervous System Firstly, ...
Read More Do You Sleep Like A Baby?
Many people's answer to the question in the title would be a resounding "No!" Perhaps you struggle to get to sleep at night, tossing and ...
Read More Releasing Self-Criticism
How often have you said or done something, or maybe received feedback or a comment, and suddenly there's a voice in your head, telling you ...
Read More Do you feel like the Red Queen?
Have you ever felt that you are doing so much, and yet not achieving the results you want. Similar to overwhelm, this is a common ...
Read More Transforming Overwhelm
In modern life, overwhelm is often a familiar companion. While the definition to do with emotions is 'to have a strong emotional effect on', I ...
Read More Where exactly on your head should you tap?
One question I'm often asked is about tapping on the head during EFT. In various videos you may notice EFT practitioners tapping in different ways ...
Read More Hard choices made easy!
It can be really difficult to make decisions. Every day, there are a myriad of things you need to choose and make judgement calls on. ...
Read More Do you have to ‘deeply and completely love and accept yourself’?
The basic recipe in tapping strikes many as truly bizarre! First, you start off talking about all the mud and muck in your life (for ...
Read More What’s with all the negativity?
Even though I hate my job, but can’t get up the nerve to leave… Even though my kids drive me crazy and I feel like ...
Read More Finding Calm in the Face of Change
With kids, it sometimes seems like as soon as you've got a handle on what's going on with them, it changes! It can be really ...
Read More How to break a bad habit
Everyone has habits, some good, some bad. In the video below, I talk about how habits form, and how to change them, as well as ...
Read More Top 5 benefits of a group
Some people see groups as the poor cousin of one-to-one therapy, including some therapists. However, this is a very short-sighted perspective. While it's true that ...
Read More How high are your standards?
You might think it's good to have high standards, and in some ways it is. Still, one of the dangers of high standards is that ...
Read More Tapping to find calm and peace
How often does your mind spin with thoughts? Maybe it's one or two thoughts repeating over and over, maybe it's a million thoughts all crowding ...
Read More This is how to beat procrastination
Have you ever procrastinated? Okay, that's probably a silly question. Almost everyone falls prey to this time-wasting practice at some point, some of us often. ...
Read More Top Ten Ways to Improve Your Self-Esteem, and Why it Matters
In the social-media-filled world of today, there is so much evidence of what other people are doing. So much emphasis on how you should look, ...
Read More This is why I use pictures with my clients
How often have you struggled to put into words something that you're feeling? Maybe it's a goal you want to achieve that you can't quite ...
Read More Here’s why you need to tap into emotion
Like the Christmas song 'I saw Mommy kissing Santa,' everyone has a story of something they experienced which affected them at a deep emotional level. ...
Read More Taking a Blogging Break
When life gets busy, sometimes it is necessary to prioritise. This is part of the approach I discussed last week, in terms of building resilience ...
Read More How To Navigate Life’s Winding Roads
Problem-solving for particular issues is a great skill to develop. Yet, life has its ups and downs, its twists and turns, that must be faced ...
Read More What To Do When Life Throws Stones In Your Path
Have you ever had one of those days/weeks/months/years when life just seems to keep throwing stones in your path? For example, you want to change ...
Read More What Is Hypno Relaxation
Relaxing mindfully is a great thing to do for your mental and physical wellbeing. One way of doing it which is growing in popularity is ...
Read More Top Eight Reasons To Relax
Relaxation is something we all need and enjoy in one form or another, be it reading a book, listening to music, walking in nature, or ...
Read More How Understood Do You Feel?
A recent blog post caught my eye. It asked: if you speak multiple languages, do you need multiple therapists? Language Is Cultural The conclusion was ...
Read More Top Nine Reasons to Write
How often have you thought about a question, come up with an answer in your head, and then written something else entirely? There is something ...
Read More How Ready Meals Keep You Addicted to Sugar, or Why the Third Princess Inherited the Kingdom
Life is so busy, who has time (and the skills) to cook food from scratch for every meal? Who Cooks For Whom? It's not just ...
Read More S-T-R-E-S-S and 6 Ways To Counter It
Who hasn't said, "I'm so stressed right now!" Seems like our lives and society are set up to stress us out on a fairly regular ...
Read More Top Five Factors Affecting Your Weight – Not What You’re Expecting?!
Most people think they know what the best advice is to get control of their weight: eat small portions of healthy food and exercise. Yet, ...
Read More How To Really Make Healthy Eating Easy
The Starting Point Have you seen this TEDx Talk, which promises to explain “How to make healthy eating unbelievably easy”? Unfortunately, it only manages to ...
Read More 5 Kinds of Motivation and How to Make Them Work For You
Motivation is often considered the biggest factor in whether or not you succeed at something you set your mind to. Be it getting a new ...
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