Health Coaching

Everyone knows they SHOULD lead healthier lifestyles, don’t they?

Everyone knows they SHOULD eat healthily, don’t they?

Everyone knows that smoking is bad for them and they SHOULD give up, don’t they?

Everyone knows they SHOULD exercise more, don’t they?

Everyone knows that they SHOULD take control of their health, don’t they?

And yet it’s not about what we SHOULD do is it?

Weight loss and weight management

Through a unique combination of NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), Clean Language coaching, Hypnotherapy and WRAP (Wellness & Recovery Action Planning) we provide a weight loss and weight management coaching programme that really works.

You may have tried dieting plenty of times without much success, maybe in the past you may have experienced your weight fluctuating up and down with no permanent satisfying results, jumping from this diet and that diet, perhaps feeling disheartened every day? If you have spent your life yo-yo dieting and now want a solution that lasts and has a major positive impact on your health, we know we can help and open a path to successfully making lasting change.

Did you know that you have previous experiences, beliefs and hidden motivations for your eating behaviours and these effect how you perceive food and yourself? So is it no wonder that you can easily sabotage and dominate your good intentions, creating a cycle of constant focus upon food, yo-yo dieting, disappointment and self-criticism?

Through a relaxing, enjoyable and informal coaching process we utilise the power of both the conscious and unconscious mind and speed through the process of change by helping you to understand and change your negative beliefs and habits. Soon your relationship with food and exercise will change and your unconscious mind will readily accept new information and new patterns of belief and behaviour, thus allowing lasting change.

So if you recognise any of the following, please contact us to help you become a healthy weight, leaving you free to live your life to the full and look and feel like the person you want to be;

• Comfort eating

• Yo-Yo dieting

• A negative body image

• Feeling frustrated and powerless over your inability to lose weight

• Have tried diet after diet with no long term effect

• Binge eating

• Self-criticism in relation to your health or weight

Chronic Disease Management

There are many types of chronic diseases and they can affect people physically in different ways. Yet there are a number of emotional and psychological issues that many who have to deal with chronic illness and pain find affect their every day lives. These include:

• Ongoing pain and discomfort

• Lack of control and being held prisoner by their illness

• Fatigue

• Isolation

• Drop in confidence

• Fear of the unknown future

• Frustration with themselves, their illness and with others

• Reduction in drive and ambition

Please contact us to discuss how our unique, empowering and safe chronic disease management coaching programme can combat all of the above and enable you to lead the best life possible.

We use a powerful combination of Clean Language, NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), Relaxation techniques and WRAP (Wellness and Recovery Action Planning) to really make a difference to your quality of life and give you back the control you want.

Dealing with Phobias

Did you know that there is a difference between fear and phobia?

Phobias are more pronounced than fears –a phobia is an overwhelming and debilitating fear of an object, place, situation, feeling oranimal. Also a fear can often be a rational and appropriate response to danger whereas a phobia is an inappropriate or exaggerated level of automatic response to a situation or object.

If you don’t come into contact with the source of your phobia very often, it may not affect your everyday life. However, if you have a complex phobia, leading a normal life may be very difficult and in some cases, even thinking about the source of a phobia can make a person feel anxious or panicky.

Symptomatic reaction to a phobic stimulant may include:

• unsteadiness, dizziness and light-headedness

• nausea

• sweating

• increased heart rate or palpitations

• out of breath

• trembling or shaking

• an upset stomach

Phobias can vary enormously, for example fear of spiders, lifts, closed or open spaces. If a phobia becomes very severe, a person may organise their life around avoiding the thing that’s causing them anxiety. A key characteristic holding a phobia together is that it is a very associated state. A phobia is an externally triggered, consistent, uncontrollable panic response to an internal representation. It is an irrational reaction. The interesting fact is that if you have a phobia, you actually respond to the picture you have created of ‘the thing’ and not ‘the thing’ itself. The thing triggers, it does not cause the phobic reaction.

Specific or simple phobias, such as animal phobias, environmental and bodily phobias (e.g. blood, vomit, injections) often develop during childhood or adolescence and may become less severe as you get older.

Some phobias, however, are more disabling. Complex phobias tend to develop during adulthood and are often associated with a deep-rooted fear or anxiety about a particular situation or circumstance. Two common examples of complex phobias are agoraphobia and social phobia (also known as social anxiety disorder). In severe cases, these phobias can become debilitating and may prevent you from carrying out everyday activities, such as eating out or meeting friends.

So how can we help?

Our method of dealing with phobias is safe and very effective. One thing we absolutely do not do is ask you to relive your phobia or intense fear in any way. In fact, we do completely the opposite. For simple phobias, we use a quick and powerful technique that protects you from any of the unpleasant feelings you associate with your phobia. It enables you to quickly and permanently let go of your phobia and allows the phobia to let go of the hold it previously had on you.

For more complex phobias, we use an integrated approach of NLP, clean language as well as other psychology based therapies and work with you in a safe and comfortable way to discover the root cause of the phobia. We then enable you to replace the previous phobia reaction with a more positive and appropriate emotional state.

To discuss how our way of dealing with phobia can empower you to be free of the impact your phobia has on you or your life please just give us a call or contact us.