Any blog is about sharing information - facts, opinions and ideas. Any good blog is about giving you new information - facts you may not have known, opinions that make you think, ideas that give you a new perspective, a new way of looking at things. You have got this far in life, so you [...]

This post follows on from Hypnotherapy Explained (Part 2). You may want to read this first. Hypnosis is simply a way of guiding you into a very relaxed state, known as a trance. If you have ever been relaxed in your life, then you can be hypnotised!If you have ever been relaxed in your life, [...]

This post follows on from Hypnotherapy Explained (Part 1). You may want to read this first. Your mind is the software to your brain’s hardware. Thousands of different programs running at any one time, many interconnected, most that you are never aware of. Your mind consists of two parts – your conscious and your subconscious [...]

There are many different definitions of stress, but let's start as we mean to go on, and keep it simple! I define stress as the feeling of having more to do than you can currently cope with. Stress can be a temporary response to a particular incident, or it can be a long-term debilitating state [...]

Welcome to the conclusion of my two-part "Why Diets Fail" series of blog posts... 5. Diets are boring, repetitive and can be very rigid in what they 'allow' you to eat.  Diets can create feelings of deprivation, sacrifice, and guilt, and they encourage obsession over food intake - day after day, year after year ... it's exhausting [...]

Diets don't work!  They completely miss the point.  Although they may help you drop a few pounds short-term, they are useless for being slim long-term and can actually be harmful.  The average woman will have tried at least 50 diets in her lifetime.  The average dieter will have put the weight back on within a [...]

Confidence is not something you are born with, it’s not something that you either have or don’t have. Confidence is something that you create – it’s a feeling, an emotion, a belief that you can handle and achieve anything! In reality, you are already confident about doing certain things but don't realise it and take [...]

This is the important part! There is a specific pattern to confidence, and it can be created by copying what confident people already do naturally. As with any feeling, there are just three elements to being confident:- How you picture yourself and what you see happening in your future – whether 5 minutes or a [...]

Confidence is fundamental to a long, happy and successful life. I know of no person who has achieved anything of lasting significance without believing in themselves first. There are of course people who fake it along the way but often at huge cost to other areas of their life – sooner or later it catches [...]