Stimmung Therapy Services

14/11/2025

The Observer did an article in which I featured (9 years ago now) highlighting the work in which I specialise. It popped up on my FB memory feed… Still 100% relevant today. For enquiries you can reach me here stimmuntherapy.com/contact. Feel free to peruse stimmungtherapy.com for full services.

06/11/2025

I don’t know about you, but some of the generic mindfulness practices available online give me the pip! Don’t they you? It could be the accent, it could be the insincere, saccharin, sappy tone. It might be the words, the script, the phrases that I just don’t buy into. And there’s no point in pretending to.

Wow! Way to judge! Whatever. Let’s just say I feel a lot of energy around many mindfulness meditation practices. Could it be that I’m arrogant and believe that I know better? Maybe it could. I am of course the expert of me.

But right now I need my own and I need it to work. So, I’ve taken matters into my own hands. I wrote my own. I wanted to take agency for my own pain management, healing, getting better, not fighting or trying to control the pain in a stressful way. I’m sharing this because maybe this is something you can do too: write, record and listen to your own mindfulness meditation. My purpose was to create a meditation that stopped me turning away from the pain, that told me it was safe to feel the pain, that this is my body communicating to me.

I also wanted it to have the purpose of grounding me, which is not strictly Mindfulness to be honest. It’s more akin to hypnotherapy. But this is what I need right now to take some responsibility, particularly when I have felt let down by our beloved NHS and its emergency ward consultant and her mindless, pharmaceutical, toxic prescriptions. No energy there either😬🙄.

And guess what? It works. Don’t get me wrong, you, just as I, may have volatile, changeable, confusing pain that will still sometimes feel unbearable. But the great thing about recording your own words is that they are there at hand: you just press play whenever you need them. Anyway. I wanted to share this with you maybe you can give it a go, whether it’s for physical or emotional pain. Be creative!

You are the expert of you.

29/10/2025

Don’t acquiesce mindlessly to prescriptive psychology. Be open to the advice - remember, psychologists love their evidence-based recommendations. But psychologists can be mindless too. And arrogant. You need to take responsibility to develop self knowledge and the ability to trust your intuition, otherwise you have no agency or effort. Just sticking to text book psychology will not endure. Be open to full immersion, whilst not losing your personality. But don’t be resigned, surrendering or thoughtless. In your discombobulation, your confusion, your identity disturbance, your lostness… you are the expert of you.

24/10/2025

Boundaries set by others may be perceived as rejection. That’s because in a little way, you have been indeed been rejected. It’s also a signal that the other person has reached the limitations of their capacity. Take heed, and have the humility to respect the other’s boundary.

21/10/2025

What is it that you are bringing to the relationship?

21/10/2025

This is the pathway to freedom. You have a choice; there’s always a choice.

07/10/2025

29/08/2025

The list of emotional experiences relating to loss is probably infinite. What else might I have included…?

27/08/2025

Something I repeatedly hear my CEO clients telling me: society praises goal-driven, highly functional, perfectionism. This way of being in the world can lead to tunnel vision, burnout, damaged relationships and emotional and social loneliness if it becomes compulsive and mindless. In the end you can lose your business, your mind, your family, your friends and your purpose. Not a great end.

18/08/2025

Eric Fromm wrote a great deal about love. He said, ”Love isn't something natural”. We fall into it, but - when it happens - that’s the easy bit: “standing in love …requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice”. Practise, practise, practise. Practise standing in love.

13/08/2025

04/08/2025

How often have you used the phrase, “walked right in…”? When have you thought, “I just found myself….”? As if you had no control over how you got there. As if your feet just took you there. Whose feet are they?