As a hypnotherapist, you are dedicated to helping others heal and grow. However, to sustain this important work, it’s imperative to prioritize your own self-care. By taking deliberate steps to nurture your physical, emotional, and mental health, you not only enhance your quality of life but also become a more effective and resilient practitioner. Remember,...
I have often posted about how eating the right foods can help with chronic pain. So I will start with a quick recap. If you know the science behind your food choices it is much easier to make good choices. It is all about inflammation, which lies behind or worsens much chronic pain. Your immune...
We know that anxiety can increase pain and our perception of pain. At the moment we are living in a world situation that feels very unstable, uncertain and indeed dangerous in places, and it makes most of us more anxious than we would usually be. For some of you, this may be leading to a...
When I wrote my book on Long Covid (with Shelia Granger) I dealt with fatigue at some length. I know it is one of the major problems people who are dealing with Long Covid have to face. This week I am going to run through one of the main issues which people have to cope...
There is not much good to say about the Covid pandemic we have lived with for years now. But there is one thing which I think we can welcome. That is the huge amount of research that is going into Long Covid. This is the post-viral syndrome that is affecting large numbers of people who...
In my last blog, we saw last week how we can improve our mental attitude and how this can help us live with chronic pain. In this blog, we are going to look at some more direct help. How we can use our minds directly to lessen our pain. So here we go. Understanding chronic...
Do you recognise these scenarios? You have pain and you are in; you are tired. A thought comes into your head and will not leave. You begin saying to yourself, I am always tired, there must be something else wrong perhaps the doctor has missed something important. You begin to think you will not be...
If you are going to get the most out of your social life, even if you suffer with chronic pain, you need to learn how to ask for what you need. Watchwords here are: ask clearly, ask kindly, ask firmly. You need to be able to tell people your feelings and your needs in terms...
This month I am very happy to post this guest blog post by Thana, who has been affected by Long Covid. He details the interactions he has had on a local level to try to get more help. It is a perspective which most therapists will be very familiar with: the time is takes to...
We are now well over halfway through the summer. And it is a strange time for most of us. Confusion and uncertainty for us all We have to put up with a lot of confusion and uncertainty about so many things: • where we can go on holiday • if we should go...
