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Anxiety is a feeling of unease, such as worry or fear, that can begin mild but progress to severe. Everyone has feelings of anxiety at some point in their life – for example, you may feel worried and anxious about sitting an exam, having a medical test, or a job interview. However, once the exam or other task has been completed and you no longer have a reason to be unsettled, yet the symptoms remain, you begin to worry yourself about lots of things. This is called generalised anxiety...

Those with anxiety will be well aware of the way the condition can cause thoughts to spiral and consume. Moving at a dizzying pace, these anxious thoughts can lead to physical symptoms such as chest pain, heart palpitations and nausea. It’s no wonder then, that when anxiety strikes at night, sleeping can feel impossible.

Night-time anxiety can be triggered by the thought of a busy day tomorrow, a conversation that happened earlier in the day or even the fear of not getting enough sleep...

Anxiety is, for many people, a common problem. Whether it's anxiety about new situations, meeting people, exams or speaking in public, anxiety can have crippling effects upon our lives. A number of individuals experience anxious feelings when there appears to be little or no evident reason for it. Although many people experience similar anxiety, related symptoms, factors such as personal circumstances, the level of support available and their environment will also affect the individual’s...

You might think the title of this article, ‘Feel anxious? Be curious’, is an odd thing to read given how distressing symptoms of anxiety can be. You’d be right, simply because it’s unusual for anyone to suggest an anxious individual to be ‘curious’ about a debilitating condition like anxiety. Key research shows, however, that trying to suppress unwanted feelings using things that distract or by simply suppressing thoughts simply are not effective. In fact,...

Addiction, trauma, and anxiety are some of the most common issues and problems faced by people in today's busy, stressful and challenging society. And often, a client who is an addict may also be experiencing anxiety. Or vice versa, a person suffering from trauma or anxiety, may also be developing (or already have) an addiction. Clinical hypnotherapists are seeing an ever increasing number of clients facing these issues such as addiction, trauma and anxiety. And when you consider what we all...

We would all like to change some of our bad habits. Nobody plans to procrastinate, but somehow, it just keeps happening. We may feel motivated one day, but then get into the routine of our lives and forget what we had promised ourselves. Days, weeks, or even months go by and the results of our lives remain the same. We don’t do anything differently, so nothing changes. There could be moments in life when we may sense that more is possible. To feel more confident, to stop worrying, to...

Many parents are now choosing hypnotherapy as a means of helping their child overcome mood disorders or behaviours that are affecting the quality of their lives, but what can hypnotherapy help with and what does the process involve? Hypnotherapy to help childhood issues The use of hypnosis for children is actually relatively new and dates back by around 50 years. It was in the 1960s when Dr Franz Bauman, a general paediatrician from the US, became the first President of a major hypnosis...

Do you often say, one part of me is, but the other? If you do this as much as I do, you may suspect you don’t ‘know’ yourself very well. The truth might be the opposite; that you know yourself very well indeed. I recently went to the first Internal Family Systems (IFS) intro day held in London. The theory from American therapist Richard Schwartz is we have an entire family living within us and they have various roles, beliefs, fears, conflicts and collusions. Schwartz came up...

365 new days means 365 new chances. So, it’s the beginning of a new year and a chance to make positive changes. If there’s something you’d like to improve or change then now is the ideal time. If you’re in a job that leaves you feeling less than fulfilled and means you wake in the morning feeling unmotivated then perhaps you can muster up the confidence to look for a new challenge. Perhaps work left you feeling burnt out and stressed and you know you need to manage...