Alasana Hypnotherapy

31/12/2025

Lesson 2568 The year that was!

2025 has been a year of facing truth, meeting myself honestly, and staying grounded through the beautiful moments and the challenging ones.

There were times that stretched me, softened me, and asked me to grow in ways I never expected. There were days that felt heavy and tender.
Yet I am here, breathing, standing, trusting, and continuing to choose myself.

One of the most courageous choices I made this year was staying ALCOHOL free. Not as a trend, not for applause, but as an act of deep self respect.
It has meant feeling instead of numbing. It has meant clarity instead of fog. It has meant sitting with emotion instead of avoiding it. And it has given me strength, presence, pride, and a deeper connection to who I truly am.

I am grateful for my body, my heart, my community, and every person who has walked beside me this year.

I am grateful for the lessons, the softness, the resilience, and the quiet knowing that I am always allowed to choose a kinder life for myself.

As we move into a new year, I carry grace, gratitude, trust, and love forward. I step into 2026 with clarity, peace, and hope, ready to continue growing, healing, and creating a life that feels aligned and true.

Happy New Year, beautiful souls. May the year ahead meet you gently.






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30/12/2025

Lesson 2567 What is the audience Screaming?

If your life was a movie, what would the audience be screaming at the screen right now?

Would they be calling out for you to finally choose yourself?

Would they be urging you to leave the situation that keeps you small?

Would they be whispering for you to rest, to slow down, to soften?

Or would they be cheering you on, reminding you that you are braver than you believe and far more capable than you give yourself credit for?

Sometimes we get so caught up in surviving the story that we forget we are also the writer, the director, and the main character.

You get to change the script.

You get to rewrite the next scene.

You get to decide how your story unfolds.

And if your audience is screaming at you to finally take that step, make that change, heal that pattern, or open your heart to something new, maybe it is time to listen.

If this is speaking to you, this is where hypnotherapy can support you.

It can quiet the noise, soften the fear, dissolve the old beliefs that keep you stuck, and help you reconnect with the part of you that knows what you truly want. The part of you that is ready to be heard. The part of you that deserves to take centre stage in your own life.

What do you think your audience would be saying right now?

29/12/2025

Lesson 2566 one new thing every month.

For 2026 I decided I was going to try 1 new thing every month.

It could be an experience.

It could be food.

It could be a place.

I started today.

Today I went for a float at .cave .

It was so good!

I have wanted to do one for ages but there was a little bit of anxiety around doing it.

Today I just did it.

Feels so good.

Follow along for my monthly things.

Please feel free to also suggest things I can do/eat/try.

26/12/2025

Lesson 2565. 57!
Yesterday I turned 57.

And the truth is, I am not doing what I thought I would be doing at this age. I am not even sure what I imagined life to look like, but it certainly was not this. Even ten years ago I could never have pictured the path I am on now.

Life has this incredible way of reminding us that it is never too late to change direction, rise again, grow, and begin something entirely new. When people tell you that you cannot do something, sometimes the most powerful response is to quietly do it anyway.
2026 is the year of yoga for me. Not just as movement, but as strength, longevity, freedom, and self respect. I want my body to support me when I am 80 so I can stand up, sit down, move with confidence, and keep living fully.

In February I begin my 200 hour teacher training with followed by a further 100 hours in May with my beautiful friend at .

This next chapter feels purposeful. It feels aligned. It feels right.
It is never too late to start.

This year was also my first sober Christmas and birthday, and liberating does not even begin to describe it.

2025 placed health and life into fierce perspective and it has opened the doorway to becoming an even better version of myself.

There is so much ahead. Trips. Training. Retreats. Growth. Expansion. More courage. More trust.

57 looks good. And it feels even better.

25/12/2025

Merry Christmas from my family to yours.

Hope your day is filled with peace and joy.

Love Al 🎄

20/12/2025

Hypnotherapy is wrapped for 2025, and what a powerful year it has been.

Throughout the year I have had the honour of supporting people to:
• ease anxiety
• lift depression
• increase sports performance
• strengthen self esteem
• release limiting beliefs
• stop smoking
• lose weight
• connect with their ideal self
• leave abusive relationships
• feel safe in their bodies
• trust themselves again
• reduce or stop drinking
• step into confidence and go for promotions
and so much more.

There have been 5 beautiful babies born and 3 engagements this year, and every single story has mattered deeply.

I take none of this for granted. It takes courage and trust to open up, to be vulnerable, and to choose change.

I am deeply grateful to every person who has sat in the magic chair and allowed me to walk beside them for a little while.

Here is to more healing, more growth, and more beautiful transformations in 2026.

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19/12/2025

Lesson 2564. The year that was 2025

What a roller coaster it has been as I sat and reflected on 2025. So much unfolded in ways that were never planned, shaping our lives in ways we never expected.

I am deeply grateful for the country we live in. I know not everyone will feel the same, and that is okay. I was listening to one of my favourite podcasts this morning, and they reminded me that when we share our opinions, we must also expect pushback. What matters most is how we choose to respond, how we hold ourselves, and how we care for our nervous system in the process.

This year held so many moments of joy, as well as incredibly frightening times. There were long months laced with anxiety, carried by two powerful words… “cancer free.”

And that is just my little world.

In the collective there has been fear, uncertainty, grief, confusion and so much raw humanness. None of us are unchanged.

What I know for sure is that we can only do what we can do. We can choose to care for our energy. We can tend to our minds. We can soften where we can and strengthen where we need to.

As 2025 comes to a close, may we remember kindness. May we remember peace. May we remember our shared humanity.

Here is to continuing to walk gently, together.

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17/12/2025

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Love this post. So true. The HSC results do not determine the rest of your life.

Look at me I am proof of this!

To our wonderful students who will receive HSC results, this is one day in your life that will not determine your future. You have many opportunities to persue your passion whether that is sport, music, tech or working in a job you love and thrive at. Most of the Doctors working at Family Medical Practices undertook post graduate medicine after they did another course first. Some did teaching, water science, occupational therapy and music. One even played football in the NRL. At 18, the world is yours, travel, work, gain financial literacy, enjoy your friends and if you need to see your GP to overcome a speed bump, pick the one that suits you, it’s your choice who you connect with. Enjoy a safe and fun holiday! We all know it’s your parents reading this, cause we don’t have snap chat at FMP!

17/12/2025

Who is coming along on Sunday?
A beautiful way to finish out the year 🙏

Heart of the Solstice

A sacred gathering to receive the sun’s medicine and plant seeds for the path ahead. When the sun stands at its highest point and we are bathed in its longest light, we meet in the heart of the Solstice. This is a time of celebration and of stillness—a sacred pause between what has been and what is yet to come. The Earth blooms in fullness, and we, too, are invited to open, to receive, and to shine. Our ceremony begins by arriving deeply in the body through breath and somatic movement, awakening our connection to the earth beneath and the light above. We will be guided by the gentle yet potent presence of plant allies, whose wisdoms and energies will ground us into the moment and expand our senses. From this place of embodied presence, we will journey into an activated sound experience—a river of light language, ancient tones, and vibrational instruments. Here, sound becomes medicine, clearing the past, illuminating the present, and opening space for what longs to grow. Together, we will honour the year that has been—its beauty, its challenges, its transformations—and plant seeds of intention for the seasons ahead. As the sun begins its slow return toward the dark, we will carry the Solstice light in our hearts, a steady flame to guide us through the turning of the year.

Date: December 21
Time: 12.30pm - 2.30/3pm
Cost: $75
Location: 1/13-17 Gymea Bay Road Gymea NSW
Book: via website www.loveanandi.com.au or DM

05/12/2025

Lesson 2561 Sonder.

A client taught me a new word yesterday, through a tattoo.

SONDER.

Sonder is the quiet realisation that every person you pass is living a life as deep and intricate as your own.
A whole inner world filled with memories, fears, dreams, and stories you will never fully know.

It is the moment you pause and recognise that the stranger walking beside you carries their own chapters.
The barista who remembers your order has a heart that has broken and healed.
The driver at the lights might be holding a hope so delicate it has no words yet.
The person who frustrates you may be moving through something heavy that you cannot see.

Sonder softens us.
It widens our compassion and reminds us that we are all navigating our way, trying, learning, growing.

In hypnotherapy, we often explore how expanding awareness shifts our emotional state.

Sonder does the same.
The moment you see others as whole and human, something inside you settles.
You meet the world with less defence and more understanding.

Sonder invites us to walk through the day with a quieter heart, a gentler mind and a deeper appreciation for the invisible stories unfolding all around us.

04/12/2025

Lesson 2559 The Bali Bintang.

We carried those Bintang Radlers everywhere.
Bought them thinking they would be the perfect poolside moment.
A little holiday ritual.
Something you are meant to do when you are away.

We moved them from room to room in the first resort.
Then carried them down the main street of Ubud to the next one, tucked safely in our bags, still unopened.
They sat in the fridge the whole time and we even forgot they were there.

I bought them because it felt like the thing you do on a holiday.
But we chose not to drink them.
Not out of restriction, simply because the desire never arrived.

There was something quietly refreshing about that.
Letting go of the story that a holiday has to look a certain way.
Realising that enjoyment comes from presence, not from copying a moment we think we are supposed to have.

Sometimes the freedom is not in the sip, it is in the choice.