I’m very pleased and excited to confirm that from 1st May 2015, I will be operating from a bespoke hypnotherapy centre in Ely.
Appointments will continue to be available during the day, in the evening and at weekends and I can now offer improved flexibility when you book.
My Ely Hypnotherapy Centre will be based at:
First Floor
3A Lynn Road
Ely
CB7 3EG
For all enquiries about hypnotherapy in Ely, and for any questions, please call me on 01353 669941.
For many clients, working out which came first, the anxiety or the depression, can see a bit like chicken and egg.
Are you depressed because anxiety rules your life and stops you doing the things you want to do? For example, one recent client I helped used to suffer very low moods in the summer while everyone went on holiday and she felt trapped at home, too worried about having a panic attack to venture too far.
Or is your anxiety part of your depression – a fear of the future, or feeling so bad or living with a sense of doom or lack of self worth. Many people with depression constantly worry and dwell about things in the past and things yet to happen.
But whether you have anxiety or depression (or both) – whatever label you or someone else has given it – the key question is always, how is this thing manifiesting itself now and how is it keeping itself going?
Recently I’ve been working with loads of people who want to stop smoking (and who are now non-smokers!).
And I know there are many more out there who could use the help to quit.
To a non-smoker it seems obvious that you should stop smoking – they will tell you about the impact on your health and the cost of smoking, as well as the stink of it on your clothes and in your hair.
Every smoker I work with already knows that every puff is leading them to an early grave and that they really should stop smoking right now. So what keeps you smoking even when you know the consequences?
If you struggle with anxiety then will be all too familiar with all those ‘what-if’ scenarios you run through your mind. And the more you think about all those worst case scenarios, the more anxious you feel – leading to even more vivid scenarios flowing through your mind.
And whilst you may be able to sometimes distract yourself or stay busy to keep the anxiety at bay, sooner or later, maybe in a quiet moment or whilst you are trying to sleep, these anxious scenarios keep coming back.
You may feel like all you want to do is stop your mind thinking for a while to give you some peace. Using the technique below will give you that peace by ending all those worries about the future and bringing you back to right now.
Do you find that some people seem to be able to make you feel anxious or nervous?
The more you have that anxiety, the more it seems to fire off even when you logically know there is no need.
Recently a client told me about someone at his work who drove him up the wall – just the sound of his colleague’s voice would automatically make him tense up and feel anxious and on edge. And any interactions with that person would bug him for hours after and often long into the night.
When he came to see me he was sick of feeling out of control of his own thoughts and feelings.
Here’s what he did and you can too if you want to successfully break that cycle.
In this video, Jean describes how I helped her overcome anxiety and panic attacks, over two years ago.
As is often the case, once someone has had a panic attack, because they are so overwhelming, the fear of having another one starts to create even more anxiety. This often includes the worry about having a panic attack, as well as the worry about having a panic attack in front of others.
Anxiety tends to feed off itself, generating more stress and worry and creating a vicious cycle of worrying about worrying. Yet as Jean demonstrates, it is possible to break free of that cycle and to start feeling calm, confident and in control.
Ely Cathedral Business Group are running their annual Celebration of Business until Thursday 21st May 2015.
I have a stand at the exhibition so if you are in Ely please do pop in and take a look.
And thanks to everyone who has already sent me best wishes and messages of support – I’m glad you all like my stand and I really do appreciate your support.
When I used to struggle with social anxiety, I would find most social occasions an anxious, worry-inducing struggle. I would worry beforehand about what people thought about me, I would constantly try and ‘read’ what others were thinking about what I was doing and saying whilst I was with them, and then I would dwell and replay situations in a negative way after the event.
I was constantly worried about not being good enough and being judged negatively by others.
Yet from an early age I thought that somehow I could push myself through it.
Are you stuck playing the waiting game and wondering why you aren’t getting the results in life that you want?
Recently I was working with a client who had spent many days – and many hours during those days – waiting for someone else to make a decision for him so that he wouldn’t have to make it himself.
He would worry, stress and lose sleep over it all. He would get angry, frustrated and self-critical while he waited. He would blame the other person for not making a decision and he felt resentful towards them.
Anxiety is an unhelpful use of your imagination – you imagine vivid scenarios of things going badly or going wrong and, in doing so, you create all those anxious feelings inside.
The more you run those worst case scenarios, the more anxious you feel. And the more anxious you feel the more you run those scenarios. It becomes a self-perpetuating cycle of anxiety.
Yet if you were watching a rubbish programme on TV you’d probably grab the remote and turn over wouldn’t you? You’d find something you’d rather watch.
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