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The short answer is being slim for most people is a life style not a diet. If you go on a diet for a couple of weeks or a couple of months and lose some weight, if you then go back to your old bad eating habits you will always regain the weight and possibly […]

Julie James: Way back in 1995 my husband came home one day and announced that he was going up to London for the weekend to do a Self-Hypnosis course. I thought I might be missing out on something if I didn’t do it as well. Little did I know at that time the wonderful life

How does hypnosis work? The simplest definition of hypnosis is ‘communication between your conscious and subconscious minds’ Your conscious mind being you’re rational logical decision making mind and your subconscious is in charge of all your autonomic processes like breathing and blood circulation. Your subconscious mind is also in charge of your behaviours and emotions.

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could go and see a hypnotherapist and come out of the session an hour later and be a stone lighter…if only! Unfortunately that isn’t how hypnosis works; it is a bit more complicated than that. Hypnosis works by changing your relationship with food for the better. A lot of

Fixed odds betting terminals, better known as the crack cocaine of gambling. Are you addicted? Back in the news again yesterday this is proving to be a big problem not just in the South East but all over the country. So what drives people to gamble? One of the first reasons is the thought of

With the i360 now open a lot of people will be looking forward to taking a ride, however there will also be a number of people dreading the prospect due to a fear of heights. A lot of fears are totally irrational however in this case it is good to have a healthy respect for

There has never been a better reason to stop smoking. That reason is the coronavirus epidemic that is currently gripping the world. You would have to be living on another planet not to know that this is a respiratory disease that attacks the lungs. As a smoker or vaper you will have already compromised your

We seem to be getting advice left right and centre about how to deal with this enforced period of isolation…join in Jo Wicks exercises, meditate, call your friends on Facetime, the list goes on and on, some of it helpful some of it no so. But no one knows exactly how you are feeling, no

In the current health crisis everything seems to be going online including therapy. While this may not be your first choice, if you find yourself needing hypnotherapy at the moment it is probably your only choice. When things get back to normal it will be a new normal and we will all be much more

Unfortunately the coronavirus epidemic is affecting us all, health worries, financial worries, changes to the way we work and live. The result for a lot of us is anxiety and in some cases panic attacks. You could argue that the real epidemic is coronavirus anxiety. As humans we like certainty, routine and social contact, all