Life After Covid

In the aftermath of Covid-19 life has taken on new and unprecedented dimensions.  Everything has changed and yet everything has stayed the same.  In the last few months we have witnessed the strength of the human spirit.  Individuals have put themselves forwards to help out their elderly and isolated neighbours.  We have also witnessed the…
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Anxiety and the Caveman

Anxiety and the Caveman

It is not surprising that humans, as a species, suffer from anxiety.  For 99% of our time on earth we have been hunter / gatherers, surviving only because we could negatively forecast what would happen if we didn’t manage to eat that day, or what would happen if we were attacked by wild predators.  We…
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What is hypnosis good for?

What’s so special about hypnotherapy? Why do I love hypnotherapy above all other therapies?  Well, some therapies make us feel good, that’s for sure.  No one can doubt the pleasure of a good massage, for example.  Sometimes I’ve floated off the couch feeling pampered and poodled but, the feelings don’t last that long, do they? …
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Meeting of Minds

Meeting of Minds

This was the moment when the Member of Parliament for Bosworth, David Tredinnick, and the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Matt Hancock MP, visited Burbage House Health Clinic.  Part of my working time is spent at Burbage Health Care, where I am often in residence as one of their therapists.  Amongst the attendees…
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What Can Hypnotherapy Help With?

As I go through life I find myself in many different places, interacting with a variety of people in all sorts of situations. Sometimes I am waiting at the check-out and I listen (unobtrusively) to people talking about their problems to their friends or to the assistant.  Was that you? At other times I am…
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