Holistic Renewal

Holistic Renewal Holistic Renewal works with young people and adults offering person-centred Psychotherapeutic Counselling and Clinical Hypnotherapy.

I am a qualified Hypnotherapist, NLP/EFT/Past Life Regression Practitioner and Reiki therapist. I am committed to supporting people in making the positive changes necessary for a more fulfilling and satisfying life.

The start of a new year often brings pressure to feel motivated, organised, or ready to “start fresh.” But the real work...
02/01/2026

The start of a new year often brings pressure to feel motivated, organised, or ready to “start fresh.” But the real work doesn’t begin with goals, it begins with honesty.

In therapy, the first step toward change is always awareness. Not the polished version of awareness you share with others, but the quiet truth you whisper to yourself:
“This is where I really am.”
“This is what I’m actually carrying.”
“This is what hurts… and this is what I want.”

When you meet yourself honestly, without judgement or denial, something powerful happens. You stop fighting the reality of your emotions and start working with them.

You don’t have to be ready for huge steps. You just have to be willing to stop pretending you’re somewhere you’re not.

Clarity creates movement — even if that movement is small, gentle and slow.

Facing yourself is the beginning of forward. And honesty is the doorway.

The start of a new year often comes with pressure:to reinvent, reset, fix, improve, achieve, accelerate.But healing and ...
01/01/2026

The start of a new year often comes with pressure:
to reinvent, reset, fix, improve, achieve, accelerate.

But healing and growth rarely follow calendar dates.

Instead of resolutions rooted in self-criticism, consider intentions that honour your pace, your needs, and the season you’re actually in.

New Year’s Day can be:
- a fresh breath
- a quiet reflection
- a gentle beginning
- or simply another day — and all of these are okay.

You’re not required to have clarity, motivation, or a grand vision today. You’re allowed to enter the year slowly, thoughtfully, and with compassion.

The invitation this year isn’t to become someone else, it’s to become more deeply yourself.

As the year ends, many people feel pressure to “finish healing” or “start fresh.” But healing doesn’t obey calendar date...
31/12/2025

As the year ends, many people feel pressure to “finish healing” or “start fresh.” But healing doesn’t obey calendar dates.

The transition into a new year is an opportunity to reflect on what is worth keeping and what deserves release.

Letting go is not forgetting, it’s choosing where your energy goes next.

Between the year you’re leaving behind and the new one ahead, there’s a tender in-between space where clarity can finall...
30/12/2025

Between the year you’re leaving behind and the new one ahead, there’s a tender in-between space where clarity can finally rise to the surface.

You get to pause. Look at what hurt you, what shaped you, what changed you, and what you’re no longer willing to carry. Not with harshness, not with pressure, but with honesty.

Healing is not just about tending to old wounds.
It’s about choosing the direction of your next chapter.

In therapy, I often ask:
“If your healing could speak, what would it ask you to prioritise next?”
More boundaries?
More softness?
More truth?
More rest?
More courage?

The future doesn’t magically arrive, it’s created through small choices that align with your needs, your values, your emotional capacity and your self-respect.

This is the moment to ask yourself:
What do I want to feel more of?
What do I want to let go of?
Who am I learning to become?

You don’t have to transform overnight.
You only need to make choices that honour the version of you you’re growing into.
Let this next year be shaped not by fear of the past, but by the clarity of what you deserve moving forward.

As the year begins to wind down, many people start looking back at the moments that hurt. The disappointments, the heart...
29/12/2025

As the year begins to wind down, many people start looking back at the moments that hurt. The disappointments, the heartbreaks, the patterns we repeated without meaning to.

It’s easy to slip into self-blame or wish we’d handled things “better.” But healing isn’t about perfect choices. It’s about understanding the parts of you that were trying their best with what they knew at the time.

In therapy, we often explore wounds not as failures, but as messages. They show us what we long for, what we fear, what we still carry from our past, and what boundaries we didn’t know how to hold yet.
They point to the places inside us that are still waiting for comfort, clarity, or care.

As you reflect on this year, instead of asking “Why did this happen to me?” Try asking: “What is this experience teaching me about what I need next?”

Sometimes the wound isn’t asking to be “fixed.”
It’s asking to be seen.
Acknowledged.
Understood.
Given space to speak.

Healing is less about erasing what hurt and more about integrating the wisdom that came from surviving it.

Let this be the year you stop fighting your wounds, and start listening to them.

The end of the year often brings a quiet audit of our choices, mistakes, and unmet intentions. Self-blame can surface ea...
28/12/2025

The end of the year often brings a quiet audit of our choices, mistakes, and unmet intentions. Self-blame can surface easily.

Compassion is not about excusing behaviour, it’s about understanding it.

When you soften toward yourself, growth becomes possible.

The social, emotional, and sensory load of the holidays is immense. Many people misinterpret burnout as sadness, but oft...
27/12/2025

The social, emotional, and sensory load of the holidays is immense. Many people misinterpret burnout as sadness, but often the body is simply signalling overstimulation.

Rest is not avoidance.
Rest is regulation.

Your nervous system needs space to decompress, especially between social gatherings, emotional conversations, and intense environments.

Honouring your limits is a celebration of self-respect.

The holiday season is saturated with highlight reels: proposals, pregnancies, promotions, perfect families. Comparison b...
26/12/2025

The holiday season is saturated with highlight reels: proposals, pregnancies, promotions, perfect families. Comparison becomes almost automatic.

But comparison activates shame, the sense that we’re “behind,” “failing,” or “not enough.”

Your timeline is not invalid because it doesn’t match someone else’s.

Therapeutically, we reframe comparison as a clue, not a condemnation. When you compare, you’re often identifying a value, a longing, or a need. That awareness can guide you toward genuine change, rather than self-criticism.

Today means something different for everyone.For some, it’s connection, warmth, celebration, and togetherness. For other...
25/12/2025

Today means something different for everyone.

For some, it’s connection, warmth, celebration, and togetherness. For others, it’s grief, loneliness, overstimulation, complicated family dynamics, or simply the quiet wish to make it through the day.

Both experiences — and everything in between — are valid.

Christmas has a way of amplifying whatever sits beneath the surface. Joy may feel brighter. Sadness may feel heavier. Longing may feel sharper. Gratitude may feel deeper.

Wherever you find yourself, I hope you’re able to offer yourself a moment of gentleness. A breath. A pause. A reminder that you don’t have to perform a version of the day that doesn’t feel true.

You’re allowed to experience this day in the way that honours your emotional reality.

Family gatherings often reactivate old roles: the peacemaker, the caretaker, the quiet one, the achiever, the fixer. Eve...
24/12/2025

Family gatherings often reactivate old roles: the peacemaker, the caretaker, the quiet one, the achiever, the fixer. Even after years of personal growth, stepping back into the family system can pull you into outdated versions of yourself.

This isn’t failure, it’s the power of early conditioning.

Awareness creates choice.
If you feel yourself shrinking, becoming hyper-responsible, or carrying emotional labour that isn’t yours, take a breath.

This year, you’re allowed to show up as who you’ve become, not who you once were.

Grief doesn’t check the calendar. Christmas can reopen wounds you thought had softened, the absence of loved ones, the a...
23/12/2025

Grief doesn’t check the calendar. Christmas can reopen wounds you thought had softened, the absence of loved ones, the ache of relationships that ended, or the longing for a version of life you hoped would exist by now.

Therapy teaches us that grief is cyclical, not linear. Memories become louder during the holidays because rituals highlight what — and who — is missing.

If you feel sadness creeping in, it isn’t regression. It’s remembrance. Grief is simply love that hasn’t found a place to land.

Christmas can intensify loneliness, not because we’re physically alone, but because the season magnifies emotional gaps....
22/12/2025

Christmas can intensify loneliness, not because we’re physically alone, but because the season magnifies emotional gaps. Being surrounded by people who don’t see you, don’t hear you, or don’t understand you can feel more isolating than being on your own.

Loneliness at this time of year is often tied to unmet attachment needs, unresolved family patterns, or the longing for deeper connection. It doesn’t mean something is wrong with you. It means you’re human.

Sometimes loneliness is simply your system telling you what you crave: authenticity, belonging, and emotional safety.

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