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THE TRUTH OF POSITIVE THINKING

Our thinking is the cause of the things we struggle with in life. We can be quick to blame others when something goes wrong and we sometimes refer back to an earlier negative memory which has been imprinted on our wellbeing. We all create our own reality. Our words create our world. Everything that happens …

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FEAR

WOMEN WANT TO FEEL CONFIDENT ABOUT THEIR BIRTH, NOT FEAR Fear is a thought, it is imagined, it’s an invention of the mind and fear is telling you what your thinking in the moment is, right now.  We are built for our feelings in the present. We cannot predict the future, so it is impossible …

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BIRTHING TOOL NO LONGER WORKS?

I used to be an impatient person, especially when I faced a difficult situation and I knew how to make it better, but whatever I was doing wasn’t working. This then got me frustrated and annoyed. When we feel stuck with something our instinct is to reach out for help and when we are preparing …

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THE BEST BIRTHING TOOL

  I teach women some of the most powerful birthing ‘tools and techniques’ to use before and during labour, but the most powerful one of them all is the one that you already have, deep within you. It is you. Your mind. Your own thoughts.   Your own thoughts create your feelings, what you see …

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TAKE BACK CONTROL

THE EVIDENCE IS THERE In 2011 Quest Cognitive Hypnotherapy launched a research project to assess the effectiveness compared to other talking therapies within the NHS. 71% considered themselves recovered after an average of 4 sessions. This compared to an average of 42% for other approaches using the same measures (like CBT). The pilot study was …

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GIVING BIRTH ALONE

Do the thoughts frightened, alone, unsafe, unloved, guilty, anxious, vulnerable come to mind? When I birthed Harrison, Chris was not there. He was not at the hospital. The midwives sent him home because they believed ‘nothing was going to happen that night’. I had pre-eclampsia, so I was induced early. Nobody expected a precipitate labour. …

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