To stop feeling anxious, stressed or worried, you have to learn to just stop the thought
Every day it’s estimated we have around of 50,000 thoughts, which is around 2083 per hour, or around 35 thoughts per minute. That’s a lot of thinking! This steady flow of internal information serves as a thick filter between our thoughts and feelings, our head and heart, and governs our behaviours. The quality of our […]
Alcohol Abuse and Recovery Therapy Birmingham
You cannot force someone you love to stop abusing alcohol. As much as you may want to, and as hard as it is to watch, you cannot make someone stop drinking. The choice is up to them. Don’t expect the person to stop drinking and stay sober without help. Your loved one will need treatment, […]
ANXIETY and PANIC ATTACKS
When we come into this world, we are anxiety and fear free. What we learn from there on, based on our environment and situations we encounter. This forms the basis of our beliefs, attitudes and responses, all of which drive our behaviour. Learn how to unlearn unhelpful anxiety thinking styles and empower yourself to believe […]
Eating Disorders and Control?
Many adolescents and adults in treatment for an ED share that their symptoms serve a purpose, that of control. Control of what though? Their body? Their environment? Their lives? What I have experienced as an ED Therapist is that ED symptoms serve to control, numb, or even suppress the experience of uncomfortable emotion, whether it […]
How Clinical Hypnosis Works for Erectile Dysfunction
Sexually active individuals can benefit greatly from using hypnosis to improve sex and relationships. The most effective way to treat erectile dysfunction completely and permanently, is to resolve what’s causing it; if there is no longer any cause, there can be no effect. So why do you suffer from erectile dysfunction? You have probably puzzled […]
What is EMDR?
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a highly effective treatment method for a wide range of issues. EMDR is a powerful therapeutic approach with the aim of reducing distress in the shortest period of time. It uses the natural healing ability of your body to clear emotional and cognitive blockages. The mind can often […]
Making A Change Is A Decision
Did you ever realise that making a change is actually just a simple as making a decision? Just like you decide what you eat for breakfast, you decide whether you smoke, what job role you have, how much money you make. Taking responsibility for all of this can seem overwhelming, but ultimately it’s the truth. […]
Neuroticism: handling negative emotion
How well do you handle negative emotion? Are you easily offended? Do you react easily to criticism? Neuroticism is a trait that dictates your responsivity to negative emotion. Psychologically, it is well understood that those who are high in neuroticism have an harder time with depression and anxiety. But an understanding of this trait can […]
Set the standards: becoming better than yesterday
Setting long-term goals it hard. There’s always someone one step ahead of us. It’s a constant sacrifice for the future, which will always lay within the unknown. One important fact about your self-development and increasing your efficiency? It compounds. If you were to get 0.1% better every day? You would be 25% better within the […]
Defining your why
Quite often, we set our sights on the ideal life we could have. We plan, organise ourselves and go ahead, ready to put in the work. For anything we want, we have to work. To continue to motivate yourself can be painful, particularly if what we are trying to accomplish is hard. The one thing […]