I've spoken before in this blog about the fear that news reports can provoke in us (July 7, 2017), and about the idea of cutting down on...

I often find myself having to reassure clients that seeming “setbacks” in self-development are normal and even beneficial.

Many of us have seen the information circulating on the internet that we have 70,000+ thoughts per day and that most of them are negative...

As a hypnotherapist, I come across many people who put themselves last on the list when it comes to self-care.

It can be difficult to find the good in a bad-seeming situation. However, in many if not most cases, the unwanted situation has a positive..

...and as I often teach my clients, self-distancing is a useful strategy for finding relief from one’s own bad-feeling thoughts.

In Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence, Rick Hanson explains that enjoying better...

In Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), it’s said that change occurs only when people have hit bottom, can take responsibility for...

Confidence issues are very common. Do you feel you lack confidence? Or is there some other trait you feel you don’t possess? 

Have you ever desperately wanted to get a certain reaction from another person and been disappointed?

A client I’ll call Joanne had an unpleasant spat with her sister-in-law, Irene, on Christmas Eve.

Anxiety is a pattern that has created a kind of pathway in the brain, and a person can learn to abandon this pathway and walk down...

Imagine my surprise when the new context proved challenging. Very challenging. I often thought, This isn't as I imagined it would be.