In the 1980’s Dr Vincent Felitti conducted a study of over 17,000 adult middle class Americans to find out how adverse childhood experiences prior to the age of 18 impacted their lives. He discovered how abuse, neglect, humiliation as a child affected their habits and...
We have so much more control of our lives than we realise. Much of what we have in your life now is down to the thoughts we think, pictures made in our head, our beliefs, assumptions and attitudes. I realise this may seem a rather...
Are you struggling to get a good night’s sleep? Perhaps your lifestyle is affecting your sleep cycles and you lie awake worrying about your lack of sleep and wake in the morning feeling groggy, lacking in energy and feeling under par. Sleep is such an important...
With a growing dependence on pharmaceuticals to treat depression around the world with 1 in 11 in the UK and USA and 1 in 4 in Australia being prescribed antidepressants are shocking statistics. The growth in antidepressants and the message still being touted that depression is...
As a tiny baby we enter this world brimming with confidence and self-esteem, we know that we can scream at 3 am and someone will rush to meet our needs. We are not concerned about being judged or worried about people looking at us as...
At this time of year when all around us are tokens of love, happy relationships and couples it can remind us that what we might have in our lives is not what we want or where we want to be. From experience I believe there are...
Let’s start with the word diet which has various connotations, it actually originates from a Greek word meaning way of living, way of life. Calorie counting does NOT work. Although exercise plays an important part in maintaining health. In actual fact 95% of your...
Have you struggled for many years to let go of an addiction or habit? Tried so many times and failed only to reinforce how hard it is to let go of that ingrained behaviour? Many of my clients find it hard to believe that they...
Have you tried to break a habit, whether it’s eating chocolate, drinking, recreational drugs and failed? Have you tried to stop smoking using patches, gum, willpower or vaping? Perhaps you have joined support groups, Facebook forums and found them disheartening when you hear of all the...
20 questions to help you find out if you are ready Do you feel like a social pariah? Are you smoking secretly? Do you feel like those little white sticks are controlling you? Fed up with wasting thousands of pounds a year poisoning yourself? The average smoker spends over...
