Katie Deacon Hypnotherapy

11/12/2025

🌿 If you find yourself reacting quickly, feeling overwhelmed, or getting caught in emotional spirals, you’re not alone. These responses are often automatic, especially when life feels busy, stressful, or unpredictable.

Solution Focused Hypnotherapy offers a gentle, empowering way to create calm from the inside out. It helps you build emotional resilience, reconnect with your inner strengths, and move towards responding with clarity, confidence, and a renewed sense of inner freedom.

Together, we focus on small, meaningful steps that support real, sustainable change, helping you move forward in a way that feels grounded and achievable.

If you’re looking for calm, encouragement, and a safe space to grow, I’m here to support you. 💜

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11/12/2025

Last night I had the privilege of attending the Celebrating Rushcliffe Awards. An evening filled with inspiration, gratitude and genuine heart-warming moments.

Rushcliffe is full of so many people who give so much of themselves to support their communities. Connection and belonging are vital for our mental health and wellbeing, so this celebration was right up my street.

It was truly wonderful to be part of recognising and celebrating all of their amazing achievements, and it definitely went into my gratitude journal last night. 💜

10/12/2025

🌿 Learning to respond rather than react is one of the most empowering shifts you can make. Especially when life feels busy or emotionally charged.

Here’s five gentle, practical techniques to help you create a little more space between the trigger and your response, so you can feel calmer, clearer, and more in control:

✨ Start with your breath — three slow, grounding breaths help settle your nervous system and give you a moment of space.
✨ Notice what your body is telling you — tension, tightness, or heat can be early signs that a reaction is building. Awareness helps you steady yourself.
✨ Ask yourself: “What response serves me best right now?” This simple question shifts you from instinct to intention.
✨ Step away briefly if you can — a short walk, a gentle stretch, or even a warm drink helps your body reset.
✨ Speak kindly to yourself — pausing isn’t hesitation; it’s strength, clarity, and self-support.

These small practices can make a meaningful difference in how you move through challenging moments.

If you try even one of these this week, notice how the moment feels when you give yourself that tiny bit of space. 💜

If this resonates and you’d like support in finding your way back to calm more consistently, I’d love to support you. Small steps really can create powerful change.
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09/12/2025

🌿 I’m so grateful when someone chooses to trust me with their wellbeing.

Working with this client through their IBS and CFS symptoms was a privilege, and watching their confidence grow while supporting them to reconnect with their inner strength has been truly inspiring.

Their kind words are a powerful reminder of how compassion, support, and evidence-based Solution Focused Hypnotherapy can make such a meaningful difference. 💜

08/12/2025

🌿Do you find yourself reacting instantly and then wishing you’d had a moment to pause first?
Maybe when someone upsets you, surprises you, or you suddenly feel under pressure?

This week, it’s all about exploring the gentle shift from reacting to responding, and noticing what becomes possible when you pause before you act.

Reacting quickly is something your brain does automatically, especially when you’re stressed, tired, or under pressure.

Responding is different. It comes from a place of calm and clarity, where you feel more in control of your emotions and your choices.

What might change for you when you give yourself that moment of space? 💜

I’ll be back on Wednesday with some gentle, practical tips you can try.

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07/12/2025

🌿 Sunday Serenity

This Sunday, let this be a gentle reminder that you don’t have to follow every fearful story your mind creates. You can pause, breathe, and choose a kinder direction. 💜

06/12/2025

🌿 Start the New Year with more calm, compassion, and confidence.

This January, I’m offering a gentle guided relaxation space for peri-menopausal and menopausal women who want to feel clearer, more grounded, and more themselves again.

Across six weekly sessions, we’ll explore how the brain works, why changes in sleep, mood, and energy can feel more noticeable during midlife, and how guided relaxation can help you reconnect with a greater sense of balance and ease.

You’ll be supported with:
✨Clear, compassionate insight into how your brain responds to stress.
✨Simple, sustainable ways to support better sleep and emotional steadiness.
✨A soothing guided relaxation each week to help settle the mind and ease tension.
✨A sense of grounded empowerment to carry into your everyday life.

Maximum 6 participants — a warm, restorative space to start your year feeling supported. 💜

If you’re a peri-menopausal or menopausal woman you can join us for guided relaxation sessions to help you feel calm, clear and empowered.

04/12/2025

🌿 This time of year, life can feel especially full with all the extra commitments, emotions, and responsibilities. You might feel stretched, frazzled, or exhausted, while your mind keeps racing even when your body is telling you it needs rest.

Sometimes, it’s not about doing more. It’s about understanding what’s happening inside you. Understanding your triggers gives you back control and helps you respond with clarity rather than react automatically.

Solution Focused Hypnotherapy can help you:
✨ Calm your nervous system
✨ Reduce overthinking and mental chatter
✨ Build new, more resilient pathways
✨ Respond with clarity instead of reacting automatically
✨ Feel steadier, calmer, and more in control

Sometimes, one small, meaningful step can make all the difference. 💜

03/12/2025

🌿 Do you ever feel yourself react before you even know why?

Triggers can activate your body, your emotions, or your thoughts before you’ve even had a chance to catch up. These simple practices can help you soften the response and find your way back to calm:
1. Hand-to-heart breathing
2. A 10-second shoulder drop
3. Naming the emotion, not the story
4. Anchoring to something steady
5. A one-minute intentional pause

Understanding your triggers helps you respond with compassion rather than becoming overwhelmed by the moment.

And remember, you’re not supposed to do this perfectly. You’re learning to support yourself gently, one small moment at a time.

Which one will you try the next time you notice a trigger? 💜

If this resonates and you’d like guidance in finding your way back to calm more consistently, I’d love to support you. Small steps really can create powerful change.

01/12/2025

🌿 Have you ever wondered why some days you feel calm and steady, and other days the smallest thing feels like ‘too much’?

When life has been busy or emotionally full, your brain and nervous system become more sensitive to triggers. A shift in someone’s tone, a responsibility, a memory, or even a quiet thought can land more heavily than usual.

And you’re not “overreacting.”
You’re responding from an already overloaded system.

Understanding what’s happening in your mind and body helps you support yourself with more compassion. When you know why things feel harder, it becomes much easier to respond gently instead of judging yourself.

This week, we’re exploring how triggers can show up in your body, emotions, and thoughts. And how understanding them can help you feel steadier, calmer, and more resilient.

I’ll be back on Wednesday with some simple, grounding ways to support yourself when a trigger appears.

Which signs does your body give you when you’re reaching your limit? 💜

30/11/2025

🌿 Sunday Serenity

During this busy festive season, it’s easy to pour out kindness to everyone else and forget to refill your own cup. This Sunday, I invite you to turn your compassion inward.

Self-kindness isn’t a luxury. It’s a powerful way to steady your nervous system, soothe your mind, and hold gentle space for all your feelings. 💜

27/11/2025

🌿 Sometimes, one small, meaningful step can make all the difference.

The festive season can be full of pressures, expectations, and endless to-dos. It’s easy to feel stretched, frazzled, tired, or mentally “switched on” even when your body craves rest.

Solution-Focused Hypnotherapy can help by:
✨ Calming your nervous system and lowering stress levels
✨ Supporting your mind to release unhelpful thought patterns.
✨ Helping you access clarity and renewed focus.
✨ Guiding you to feel more resourceful, present, and in control.

Through gentle, tailored sessions, you can create a sense of calm, clarity, and balance — even in the busiest seasons.

If you’d like to explore how this approach could help you feel steadier and more centred this December, I’d love to support you. 💜