Steph McGee Hypnotherapy

26/06/2025

🚨‼️Anxiety is our brain’s smoke alarm.
And sometimes, it goes off even when there’s no real fire, just some overcooked toast..again (just me then?)

Our brain has a special region called the amygdala, an almond-shaped part that’s constantly scanning for danger. It’s fast, emotional, and very, very cautious.

When it senses a threat, real or imagined, it triggers our body’s ‘fight or flight’ response, you know the feeling, that feeling of dread and racing heart, tense muscles, short breaths, and that familiar surge of adrenaline. And we feel…well, yuck!

🚨 That’s anxiety. It’s our survival system trying to protect us.

The problem?
Our amygdala is our smoke alarm and it doesn’t know the difference between the burnt toast and our house being on fire.
It can even set off the fire alarm if we are having a tough conversation or a we are stuck in a traffic jam,
Anything might feel an emergency.

🧠 Meanwhile, our prefrontal cortex, the calm, logical part of our brain, is the clever bit, it is slower to respond and it it is able to think clearly even though the amygdala appears to be producing that high-pitched scream of our smoke alarm . Luckily, it is able to assess the situation rationally.

✨ But here’s the hopeful part, we can strengthen our prefrontal cortex through things like mindfulness, hypnotherapy, and deep breathing techniques. Would you like to know more about Solution-Focused Hypnotherapy (SFH)

SFH isn’t about ‘getting rid of’ anxiety. It’s about teaching our alarm system when to take a breath.

Because we don’t need to fight our brain, we just need to help it feel safe.

And we’re here for that. Contact your local
for a chat.