Category Archives: Personal Development

Keep calm – it’s the secret to ageing well

This wonderful article explains how by keeping calm and being in control of your life can help in later age. Now whilst this makes sense, we are only understanding the neuroscience behind what we understand.

So if you are feeling

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What Fear Does to Your Brain – And How to Stop It

For those of you that have already worked with me, the following article will make perfect sense: a key part of the psychotherapy that I practice is getting clients to understand what is causing them to feel anxious, depressed, unconfident,

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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.
It takes forever to find out how to … Read the rest


Loneliness/ Poor Social Interaction? – Don’t suffer in silence, take action now!

With the weather as it currently is, all cold and rainy, we all have a tendency to hide away, cover our faces with our scarves and generally keep ourselves to ourselves.

I did an experiment this morning on my 40 … Read the rest


Hypnotherapy Is The Best Thing That Has Happened To my Body Image

Below is a great article on a writers experience with hypnotherapy and what she got from it. Within Solution-focused Hypnotherapy that I use within my practice, the sessions are similar albeit with a lighter and more fun approach (remember, the
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Get your SPARK back with Solution-focused Hypnotherapy

Do you feel that you’ve lost your way a bit in your life? Do you feel as if you are going through the motions but there is that slight ’empty’ feeling? Do you ask yourself “Is this it?!?”

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5 TED Talks to help you manage stress

One of my favorite inspirational “go-to’s” is TED Talks, a website that gets some of the most enlightening and profound talkers around the world to talk about what they love.

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15 Things Therapists Actually Want You To Know

"Visualize yourself not falling off the wall."

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

Mark Jones Hypnotherapy and Glenn CatleyAfter 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


Why hypnotherapy is the best investment you can make.

Positive thinking man over abstract background.Admit it, we all can if we are honest with ourselves, that those ‘shiny’ things we set our hearts on will make life better, happier, people will respect us, luck will now come knocking, our confidence will build etc etc.

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