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 …
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 …
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 …
I love feeling in control. I like to have a plan A, B and C, but when these plans are not effective in the way you want them to be, or a ‘birthing tool’ doesn’t work or maybe you forget what you are supposed to do when you reach a certain stage of your birth …
Let me tell you a secret. Birth affirmations, they don’t work! You will never hear a Hypnobirthing Coach tell you that! Let me explain to you why. When you think of a birth affirmation, you probably picture a note stuck on the wall, saying ‘I am strong’ or ‘I can do this’. Every day both …
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 …
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 …
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. …
