Category Archives: Business Performance

Serotonin enhances learning, not just mood

Many of you that have enjoyed therapy with me know the importance of serotonin in our moods and happiness. You also know that we produce serotonin through positive thinking, positive action and positive interaction with others. Fairly sensible stuff! This

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The neuroscience of motivation—and how it can change your life

This great article explains the process of motivation: the neuroscience behind the process and the actions we can do ourselves to ensure this happens. What is encouraging about this article is that they understand the importance of understanding the science

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The Science-Backed Reason To See Your Therapist In The Morning

A new study found that clients made more progress in overcoming anxiety, fears and phobias when they went to psychotherapy in the morning versus going in the afternoon.

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7 Crucial Lessons People Learn Too Late in Life

This short and sweet article gives us 7 great lessons that we can all learn from. Within the realms of my solution-focused therapeutic approach, lessons 2 & 6 particularly resonate. For those of you that have worked with me, I’ll

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Our memory capacity could be 10 times larger than we thought

This fascinating article, whilst rather “science’y” suggests that our understanding of of how our memories are store is farmer conservative than we imagined. When we pout this in to the context of my therapy room, one of the key elements

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Go to Bed, Woman! 6 Reasons You Need More Sleep

Clients of mine will know how much I go on about getting those 6-8 hours in every night because of the importance of ’emptying our stress buckets’. The specific reason is that we need to get sufficient REM sleep (rapid

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A beautiful metaphor for life & how Solution-focused Hypnotherapy works

An Autobiography in Five Chapters

Chapter 1

I walk down the street.
There is a deep hole in the pavement.
I fall in.
I am lost…I am helpless.
It isn’t my fault.
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The Perfect Nap Time According to Science

This great infographic shows how you can maximise your snoozes to get the very best from your day. I teach my clients in every session the importance of great sleep and taking time out and enjoying some REM sleep (the

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15 Things Therapists Actually Want You To Know

This is a great article for all of you still um’ing and ah’ing on whether therapy is for you. Therapy should be thought of in exactly the same way as fitness. We all need to ensure that our mental fitness

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A hypnotic meeting with Former WBC World Boxing Champion, Glenn Catley

After many 100’s of hours of hard work, late nights and a voyage of self discovery I am weeks away from becoming a fully qualified Clinical Hypnotherapist (the gold standard of hypnotherapy) I met an inspiring, hypnotic and genuine man … Read the rest