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Solution focused hypnotherapy allows you to increase your well being in a short space of time. If yo

21/11/2025

Even posture can alter our thoughts. Standing tall, head up, shoulders back helps us feel confident. Slouching somehow makes the world seem heavier. It is as if psyche and skeleton are in perpetual communication each influencing the other.

The body does not simply house the mind in the skull with no interaction. The body participates with the brain, and helps shape decisions. The constant back and forth of the biofeedback loop means we can hack into and make positive changes when it gets out of hand.

Slowing the breath can calm the heart rate, this calms the brain. The brain can then send a note around the body saying "Splendid, we can all relax again". Never underestimate the powerful effects of relaxation!

With kindness,
Angharad

19/11/2025

When the brain decides to feel stressed (because of a looming deadline, an incoming message from the boss, tax man, parent etc),real or imagined, it instructs the body to prepare.

The brain whips the body up into a state of alarm. The body then continues to inform the brain how to feel. The brain interprets the pounding heart and sweaty palms as a sign that we must be in mortal danger. The brain concludes: yes so I must be terrified.

We tend to think of the brain as the boss in all this, but it isn't quite that simple, really the body and mind are in a constant gossipy conversation, but with neither quite speaking the other's language very well. It is like shouting in the mirror to yourself: "CALM DOWN"

With kindness,
Angharad

17/11/2025

How we think affects how we feel. But have we really considered how we think?

Thinking happens throughout the body. The gut for instance contains over a hundred million neurons, enough to earn it the name of the "second brain". Along with the vagus nerve connecting the gut with the brain it goes some of the way to explaining why we get "butterflies" before an interview/presentation/ bungee jump.

Relaxing the mind relaxes the body. Relaxing the body relaxes the mind. We simply cannot separate the two. Who has ever seen a functioning head without a body or vice versa?

With kindness
Angharad

14/11/2025

Solution Focused Clinical hypnotherapy harnesses your brain to daydream your way out of a funk.

That's it today.
With kindness,
Angharad
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12/11/2025

Do you think positive change becomes more likely if someone asks how you would like to be or if you are asked why you are not already like that?

While it is tempting to analyse what we don't want and what is going wrong, what do we gain? If we keep poking the problem then it will seem larger in our thoughts, and while we need to accept that there are always issues, what makes positive change is working out what that change might be.

If someone asks for directions - do you try to give clear step by step instructions to do you tell them the pitfalls and wrong turns and where not to go?

With kindness,
Angharad

10/11/2025

Have you ever noticed how our brains can spend hours replaying what could go wrong, might go wrong and yet is unlikely to go wrong whilst barely give a moment to imagining things going right?

It is an easy path to slip down, we can kid ourselves that it is best to br prepared for the worst. But all that does is steal joy - we can start to move in a more solution focused directions if we flip it on it's head and ask ourselves, what is already working just fine, and what would this scenarios look like if all went well?

With kindness,
Angharad

07/11/2025

The human body has all these systems keeping us functioning and it is a very chatty place. Everything is talking to everything else: immune cells gossip with hormones; the brain whispers to the gut and vice versa; HPA axis is like an overworked switchboard operator connecting all the calls all the time and trying not to short circuit.

When our stress response sends a cortisol surge through the blood stream telling our body "We are in trouble" the immune system, like a sprawling army of microscopic body guarding against infection, is listening carefully to these signals.

A little stress is good, it keeps the troops disciplined, but too much and the system becomes confused, even mutinous. Inflammation then tends to rear it's head. We want to practise taking a step back from all this noise and getting to a place where we can listen and then choose a calmer response.

Please feel free to call me for more information about how we can work together to calm the body and mind.

With kindness,
Angharad

05/11/2025

The HPA axis is shorthand for the interlinked behaviour between the hypothalamus and the pituitary gland in the brain and the adrenal glands in the body. As we regulate hormones (pituitary gland) and keep our body stable (hypothalamus) if we find changes, unknowns and stressors then this is communicated to the adrenal glands which start to secrete adrenaline and cortisol.

This is a great thing in moderation - a small amount of stress hormones will give us an edge and keep us sharp. The trouble begins when it doesn't switch off, like a faulty smoke alarm continually buzzing and won't give us any rest.

Managing the HPA axis is like realising the alarm can malfunction and sometimes everything is fine it just needs to have its battery changed. Everything is information to be digested, but what is the appropriate course of action?

With kindness,
Angharad

03/11/2025

Traditional medicine tends to treat the body and mind as unrelated realms, like neighbouring countries who refuse to speak because of ancient border disputes.

Research in epigenetic and psychoneuroimmunology (no I didn't let the cat walk over the keyboard!) mean that slowly but surely this idea that body and mind can be treated separately is being updated.

Stress negatively effects our health, contentment positively effects our health. The various systems of the body and mind work together to keep us safe, well, functioning. Learning how to be more in control of our thinking puts us in a great position for keeping calmer and effecting these systems more positively.

With kindness
Angharad

31/10/2025

If it is happiness we seek, real unfiltered contentment, then we need to connect.

😘Say the nice thing.
🙋Ask the second question
🧁Share the muffin

These human bridges may not seem like much, but they support us more than we know. Thes best bit is that they are available daily, free of charge, unlimited in supply. You just have to do it.

With kindness,
Angharad

29/10/2025

When talking about positive interaction and happiness it is important to clarify that we do not have to be relentlessly cheerful. No one likes that. It is about being human wth other humans.

Sometimes it might be "yeah, me too" or "wow that's tough". It is presence without the need to fix things. People want to be heard. It is the mental equiavlent of being handed a good cup of tea when you need it.

With kindness,
Angharad
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27/10/2025

Positive interaction is essential to our well being. In previous decades this would have been face to face, now the internet makes it easier to connect with 1000s more people yet somehow we can feel more disconnected.

We will always need in person connections, but digital connections has changed our interactions so we need to survey landscape and make it work for us. We can choose encouragement rather than criticism and create a community online.

A thumbs up or a like is nice, but a simple comment creates more connections. "thanks for your post, it helped me" is not a grand statement but it is a bit like opening a door rather than waving through a window. In a world of algorithms and platforms this style of intentional kindness is like throwing a pebble in a pond and the circles spread. Slowly, but they spread.

With kindness,
Angharad

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