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CREATE THE LIFE THAT MAKES YOU HAPPY!

My name is Simon Mason and I am a licensed Thrive Programme consultant.

The Thrive Programme (TTP) is an incredibly effective programme that teaches you the skills to change the way you think, feel and behave. It gives you the skills to make lasting change so that you can be the very best version of yourself.

TTP is a brand-new approach to treating mental health issues. It is suitable for everyone aged 12 and above. As long as you have the motivation to create the life that you want, you can learn to thrive.

We all know someone, maybe a friend or family member who seems to coast through life, managing the pressures and stresses of life, work etc and taking everything in their stride? This is what a thriving person looks like. They weren’t born that way, it is something they’ve learned along the way. And YOU CAN TOO, once you are shown how to.

The key into taking control of your mental well-being, and thriving, is understanding and outlining the driving forces behind it, with real answers and solutions for these issues that will enable you to take control and positively flourish in life.

Although you don’t need to have a particular symptom in order to learn these skills, many of my clients do have specific issues that they’d like to overcome – and, in learning to thrive, they can do exactly that!

The programme specifically addresses the psychological elements that cause people to develop symptoms such as;

👉🏻 Depression
👉🏻 Anxiety
👉🏻 Stress
👉🏻 Panic Attacks
👉🏻 Low Self Esteem
👉🏻 Addictions
👉🏻 Fears / Phobias
👉🏻 OCD
👉🏻 Social Anxiety
👉🏻 PTSD
👉🏻 Negative Emotions
👉🏻 Anger Issues

We can only control our mind when we fully understand how it works. This is called self-insight; understanding why we think, feel, react and behave as we do.

The programme is undertaken on a one-to-one basis in one of my offices in Rickmansworth or Aylesbury. There are approximately 6-8 weekly sessions lasting one hour, with further follow up sessions in the weeks after, to ensure your goals are achieved.

Throughout the whole programme, and beyond, each client has my full support, commitment and guidance to help them achieve successful and lasting life changing results.

If you, or anyone you know, may be interested in making the steps into making your head a better place to be and learning to thrive, contact me to arrange a free consultation.

During the consultation, everything is discussed - I will explain the programme in more detail, all your questions can be answered, with your suitability and a price agreed.

07789 600 199
simon@learn-to-thrive.co.uk

30/04/2020

Another great blog from Thrive Consultant Cara Ostryn.

It can be quite a daunting experience for a woman with vaginismus to speak to her GP or medical professional about the condition, and it can unfortunately be all too common that the advice they are given is to just relax and “have a glass of wine”. This is the equivalent of telling a depressed p...

08/04/2020

GOOD NEWS! 💭 💭 💭

You have thousands of opportunities - every single day - to feel calmer and more in control in your life.

50,000 - to be more precise - as this is the number of thoughts you think on a daily basis, and each of those thoughts has a massive impact on your beliefs, attitudes and emotions.

If you get up about 8am and go to sleep about 10pm, that’s roughly one thought every second...

Your thinking may feel automatic or inevitable, but this is not the case. There is a nanosecond between something happening and you creating a thought about it: and this is the moment when you can choose your thought. Even if you've thought a weak, powerless thought, you can STOP and change it for something better. The thoughts you think create the feelings you experience.

💭 The thoughts you think create the feelings you experience. 💭

Try it. Try it now. Reflect back to something you’ve already thought today. Maybe you listened to the news this morning and you started thinking scared, anxious or helpless thoughts. The news may well have been serious or concerning, but this doesn’t mean you have to think negatively about it. Here are some alternatives.

✴️ Think positive. There are often two sides to every story: think about the positive one.

✴️ Think safe. How does this news directly impact on your life? Can you change a negative thought for one of relief or patience?

✴️ Think calmly. Just because something terrible has happened, it doesn’t mean you have to think catastrophic thoughts. You might have been conditioned to think in this way: after all, catastrophe sells papers, keeps the airwaves buzzing and attracts your attention on social media. Nonetheless, you have a CHOICE.

When you start to become more consciously aware of your thoughts, it can be a nasty surprise to realise how your mind has become used to thinking negatively, and a pleasant surprise to recognise that you can change this.

To begin with it will feel odd to stop and make a conscious choice about what to think, but in time, and as your awareness grows, it gets easier. As you start focusing on your thoughts and begin to make a deliberate choice over what to think, prepare yourself to feel a little uncomfortable to start with. This is because it’s new (the brain doesn’t like new: it much prefers old and familiar, even if what’s familiar is also causing you to feel weak and powerless; down and depressed).

Feeling uncomfortable is absolutely FINE. But, you will need to tolerate the feelings of uncertainty as you get used to it.

Thinking habits can be changed really quickly – and the more effort you put in, the quicker you’ll reap the benefits.

Remember back to our last post where we talked about beliefs… where we said that having strong, powerful beliefs were the key to having good mental health (strong ‘foundations’)? We also stated that ‘a belief is just a thought you keep thinking’… well, changing some of these 50,000 thoughts you have each day is the simplest and easiest way of creating better, more helpful and powerful beliefs.

We know that people with mental health issues tend to have some common negative thinking styles. They are prone to thinking of things as either ‘good’ or ‘bad’ – this is black & white thinking. Or they catastrophise even the smallest of setbacks, which causes feelings of stress and panic.

Some people brood and ruminate, perhaps in an attempt to control a situation- even though brooding has little or no influence on the outcome.

Remember, stop and think! Only you can do this for yourself. Do not allow yourself the luxury of a negative thought just because it's easy: put the effort in to thinking and feeling better.

Think the powerful, positive thoughts you need to feel good. Learn to tolerate the feelings of uncertainty, and get used to having a calm and optimistic outlook on life, knowing that you're in control. This time next week your new outlook could already feel normal.

If you missed the chance to take the beliefs quiz from our last post, and you want to know that many of your beliefs are powerful and helpful and HOW many are potentially holding you back in life, just reply ‘yes please’ in a comment to this post, and I’ll message you a link to it. You’ll get a - free - six-page report! 👇👇👇

08/04/2020

Great testimonial from a sexual health doctor that i'm currently taking through the Thrive for Vaginismus programme:
“I was frustrated reading about the endless physical therapies and misinformation surrounding vaginismus. It’s no surprise things like pelvic floor exercises don’t work because vaginismus is not a physical problem. I’ve learnt through the thrive programme my va**na is perfectly normal it’s my thinking that is problematic.”

06/04/2020

5% of life happens to you, and the other 95% comes from how you choose to react to it!

Heard that before?

The 95% all comes down to your beliefs - how powerful and helpful are yours? - take our free quiz today...👇👇👇

To recap the content from last week (and, if you’re new here today: Welcome! We suggest topics.
✅ You’ve never been taught the skills you need for mental health – until now
✅ Your mental health is your responsibility and within your control: you CAN feel great
✅ Psychological foundations are essential: these are created by your thoughts and beliefs
✅ You can change your thoughts and beliefs, and it’s easier than you think

So, a question for you today:

Is life happening TO YOU, or are you HAPPENING TO LIFE? 💥

The emotions, stress and anxiety we experience are our REACTIONS TO life - they are not directly ‘caused’ by what happens in our lives.

👉 This is why some people get stressed and anxious very easily, and some don’t.
👉 This is why some people are terrified of dogs, and some people love them.
👉 This is why some people are anxious about needles, lifts, flying, spiders etc and some aren’t.

What makes us different is how we REACT to the different pressures and hurdles in life… and this comes down to our foundations, which comes down to our beliefs and day-to-day thinking.

For some people it really feels like ‘life happens to them’, for others, it feels like they ‘happen to life’. It all comes down to how you REACT to life, and how you react comes down to your beliefs.

The more powerful and helpful your beliefs, the less pressure you feel from life, the less life gets you down, the less life gets you stressed and anxious.
When you feel powerful and in control, you are able to bounce back from almost any situation.

It can be helpful to identify where you already feel calm, powerful and confident, and those areas where you need to adjust your thinking. The aim is to have a strong Sense of Power and Control over your Experiences (SPACE) in all areas of your life.

✴️ Fate, luck & chance
✴️ Religion and spirituality
✴️ Social influence (authority figures, parents, teachers, employers)
✴️ Thoughts, feelings and emotions
✴️ External factors: work, your health, the weather
✴️ The past: your thoughts and beliefs about your past including your childhood and past relationships.

Most people have areas of strength and weakness. For example, you might be a high-flier at the sports field and have a strong sense of SPACE in this domain, but be terrified by the prospect of a trip to the doctor. Or you could have had a terrible time at school and be clinging on to limiting beliefs about your career potential and feelings about whether you are (or are not) worthy of a promotion or a pay rise, but feel at peace with yourself as a lover or spouse.

Perhaps you can think of someone who has few limiting beliefs and so acts and behaves with strength and positivity in ALL domains. That person… could be you.

Our Sense of Power and Control can be subdivided into two different skill-sets:
1. Control: these are the skills you have to directly control, manage or avoid a situation.
2. Coping skills: as the name says, these are the skills you have to cope with difficult, challenging or stressful situations.

Everyone has these two skill-sets - as everyone has a Sense of Power and Control - to a greater or lesser extent.

Generally speaking, the lesser your coping skills, the more control you try to exert over life. For example, if you believe you couldn’t cope being in a room with a spider, you’ll do everything you can to avoid that spider. You can’t ‘cope’, so you ‘avoid’. Think of ANY phobia or anxiety at all, and you’ll see that they are all - in essence - the same: you believe you couldn’t cope, so you avoid.

What do you think happens to your skill-set when you learn to cope with something? You no longer feel as stressed or anxious in that situation, you don’t worry or brood about that situation, you no longer fear that situation… you feel powerful and able to cope.

People who feel powerful and confident about public speaking never worry about a speech or presentation they have to make, whilst people who have lots of social anxiety might agonise for weeks before such an event. Either the event is terrifying or it isn’t, right?

WRONG! It’s not the event (or situation) it’s how powerful you feel about it - what you believe about it - that matters.

Think about your own life: what situations do you try to control (or over-control?) manage, or avoid because you feel you couldn’t cope?

One of the main symptoms of this ‘desire for control’ (the absence of coping skills) is anxiety. We create anxiety by worrying and brooding about future events we don’t believe we’ll cope well with. There is also a huge amount of research linking depression to a ‘lack of control’ and feeling powerless.

Remember: you NEVER create stress or anxiety about situations you feel powerful and confident about. You Sense of Power and Control is all about your psychological foundations - the beliefs you hold about yourself and life. Basically, the more powerful and helpful your beliefs, the better your mental health.

So, just how powerful and helpful are YOUR beliefs? 💥

Over the last ten years we have created a number of helpful quizzes and tests so that you can measure a number of important variables in relation to your mental health, happiness and ability to thrive. Today, we are going to give you access to our free SPACE Quiz. This quiz will look at a significant number of important beliefs you hold about your life, and will report back to you how powerful you feel in those areas. If you take the quiz you will be emailed a full 6 page report that will not only give you an overall SPACE/Foundations score, but will also split the score into your Control and Coping skills, AND further identity in what areas your beliefs are most helpful.

Do you feel powerful about your past, or do you feel that your past still has some effect on your life now?
Are you superstitious? 86% of UK residents are highly superstitious - not realising that these beliefs are really powerless and unhelpful!
Do you believe that your mental health just ‘happens to you’ and there is not much you can do about it?
Does life happen to you, or do you happen to life?

Self-awareness is fundamental to increasing your SPACE and this quiz will really help you.

To access the quiz, simply reply/comment to this post with ‘Yes please’, and I’ll send you a direct message (through Facebook) with a link. (If for some reason you don’t see the message, check the ‘message request’ tab under ’settings’)

Are you ready to take back control AND learn to cope? 👇👇👇

03/04/2020

Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.

You’ve probably heard that before. It’s time to ‘think you can’ and ignore the little voices in your head that might have led you to believe that you couldn’t 🤫

Today we’re going to do some heavy-duty demolition on your limiting beliefs, so you can replace them with beliefs that make you feel calm, confident and capable 😊

In the 50s, the psychologist Julian Rotter introduced a concept called 'locus of control'. Locus of control is the degree to which you believe YOU have control over the events of your lives. People with great mental health usually believe that the events and experiences of their lives are controlled by their own thoughts, behaviours and actions.

By contrast, if you think thousands of unhelpful, limiting beliefs each day, and believe that the events and experiences of your life are controlled by external forces (e.g. authority figures, fate, luck and chance or events in your past) you will feel weak, powerless and overwhelmed. These thoughts and beliefs are the root cause of depression and anxiety and many psychological disorders.

As long as you believe your thinking (and mental health symptoms) are caused by something beyond your control - e.g. the date; your genetics; your personality; an event that happened in childhood, you will remain powerless to change.

To explain this further, imagine you believe that the weather makes you depressed. You wake up to find it’s grey and gloomy outside, so you feel down in the dumps and anticipate the day being a disaster. By contrast, if you have strong beliefs about your own ability to create positivity and success for yourself, you will ignore the miserable weather and get on with having a great day, regardless of the rainclouds.

Remember, BELIEFS ARE THOUGHTS YOU JUST KEEP THINKING. Just thoughts you keep thinking. There’s no such thing as a ‘deeply held belief’, or an ‘ingrained belief’ - a belief is just a belief… the moment you decide to change it, to stop thinking that way, you’ve already begun to change it… and within a FEW DAYS you’ll have an entirely new, helpful and powerful belief.

Swapping unhelpful, limiting beliefs for powerful, helpful ones is the way to build the essential foundations for positive mental health 🧠

You have thousands of beliefs that have been surfing your brainwaves, largely unchecked – until now. You probably picked these up from your parents, your school, friends, colleagues, media, the press, but that doesn’t mean that they’re valid, or even that they’re helpful to you. In fact many of the beliefs you’ve been thinking up to now are the reason you’ve been creating for yourself stress, anxiety and depression. This really isn’t your fault, and it’s not too late to change 💪

And this is why it’s so important to be aware of your beliefs. Once you know what you’ve been thinking and believing, you can check if these thoughts and beliefs are serving you or if they need to be changed, demolished or chucked in the proverbial bin to make room for something more positive and helpful. On Monday, we’re going to give you access to our purpose-built online quiz - so you’ll be able to see EXACTLY how many of your beliefs are powerful and helpful.

For now though, maybe it’s helpful to think of a belief as a balloon…🎈 Creating and maintaining a belief takes effort – it’s an active process - you don’t just think it once and ‘hey presto you have a belief’; you have to keep thinking it to keep the belief ‘alive’. Same as blowing up a balloon… it takes effort - you have to keep blowing and blowing to get it inflated. The bigger the balloon (or belief) - the more effort you have to keep putting in to inflate it and keep it inflated 🎈💨

Everyone remembers a birthday when they were a child… having balloons around the house? Trouble is, no matter how well you tie a knot in the balloon, they ALWAYS deflate after a few days. Same thing goes for beliefs… if you just left them alone for a few days, stopped thinking about them, stopped blowing air into them, they would eventually just shrivel up and disappear!

Balloons always deflate, beliefs always disappear - without active input from you.

The above is especially true if your belief flies in the face of evidence, or is contradicted regularly. Think how hard it must be for someone who has - for example - anorexia: everyone around them is telling them they’re not fat, and yet they believe that they are… think how many times a day they must be thinking ‘I am fat’ in order to contradict what everyone else is saying. Better still, think about the ‘flat-earthers’ - people who believe the earth is actually flat. Every day we see evidence that the earth is not flat, and that it is in fact a spinning sphere: 🌎 - gravity, pictures on the news, google earth, when you fly in an aeroplane etc… think how hard flat-earthers’ must be working to maintain their mistaken belief that it's flat!

To change any belief, just stop thinking the unhelpful thoughts and replace them with something more powerful and helpful. What do you WANT to believe? What sort of life do you want?

If you’ve been thinking ‘bad weather makes me miserable’: STOP ⛔️ Replace this immediately. Don't blow any more air into this balloon, and instead put effort (and yes, it will take effort) into generating a new belief instead. For example, ‘I can influence my own mood, regardless of the weather’, or, ‘I can have a great day even if the weather is sh*t'. The evidence to support this new belief is the fact that you do - very quickly - learn to have a great day despite the weather, so the new belief becomes your norm, and you feel more powerful 💪

As you can see, this is really quite simple. What new beliefs do you want to create?

What NEW beliefs are you going to create today? 🎈🎈🎈

P.S. Remember to look out for the link to our beliefs quiz on Monday...



simon@learn-to-thrive.co.uk
07789 600 199

01/04/2020

Let’s do some armchair travel today…

Instead of being at home, we’re off to London to see the Shard.

This 310 metre-tall building is iconic. Rising above the London skyline, it is a feat of engineering and beauty. A trip to the top takes you high above the rooftops and into the clouds.

Of course, we only see the part of the Shard ABOVE the ground. Below, are deep, strong foundations. Without these, the building would not be able to stand proud; able to withstand adverse weather.

Consider YOUR mental health to be like a tall tower. Just as the Shard needs strong foundations to stand tall and strong; so does your mental health. When the storms blow – when ‘life happens’ – you need to be confident that your foundations are strong and deep.

For most people, it’s pretty easy to feel good when things are going well. If the sun shines, you enjoy your job, you get on with your partner, your children behave, you spend your time doing things you enjoy: it’s likely you’ll feel good. Foundations don’t matter so much when everything’s calm.

But when life ‘gets tough’; when you’re thrown a curveball or a challenge: that’s when you need to know that you are strong, robust, that you can cope with anything that life throws at you… that you can fall back on your foundations.

Your foundations – the ‘underground brickwork’ that your mental health/wellbeing is built upon, are just beliefs. That’s it: your foundations are just a series of beliefs you hold about life. You weren’t born with these beliefs, these are beliefs you have formed during your life to date, based on the experiences you have had, and the way you have viewed and processed them.

If all that seems a little Zen, think about it for a minute… think about a situation in life that you feel confident about. Go on, think about one. Got one? I’ll bet you rarely worry about this type of situation? You rarely feel anxious about this sort of experience? You probably don’t lose sleep over it, never get stressed about it, and only ever think about it in a powerful and positive way? Right?

Imagine you are used to public speaking, you are confident about it, and you have a presentation to do tomorrow… how do you think you would be feeling about it right now? You’d be feeling calm and relaxed, not worried, not anxious, not stressed. You’d be thinking – ‘yeah, I got this’.

Now imagine instead you are not used to public speaking, and you have a presentation to give tomorrow… you’d probably be stressed and anxious, maybe brooding about it, you probably won’t sleep tonight, you might even be dreading it.

Two entirely different experiences, ENTIRELY created by the beliefs you have around your skill-set about public speaking.

Powerful beliefs create powerful feelings. Truth is, you NEVER create anxiety about a situation you feel powerful and confident about. The more situations you feel powerful and confident about, the deeper your foundations, the less stressed, anxious, depressed etc you’ll be.

Think back to Mondays post about the OAPS and their pot-plants… just by taking control, putting in effort, and watching their plants grow, the OAPS felt more powerful. In essence, their beliefs started to change… they stopped thinking ‘what’s the point’ and started thinking ‘I can change things, life could be better’ – they felt more powerful.

We call this your Sense of Power and Control over your Experiences, or SPACE, for short. The more powerful, confident beliefs you hold about life, the stronger your sense of power and control, the more stable your mental health is.

And the whole thing is built on beliefs. Not facts, not reality, just beliefs.

What’s a belief? It’s just a thought you keep thinking. That’s all. Not something fixed or hard-wired, just a thought you keep thinking.

You have a choice: you can choose to develop strong psychological foundations.

Do you recognise any of the unhelpful beliefs below?

✴️ I have always felt like this so I always will
✴️ I’m not worth it
✴️ I can’t do it
✴️ I didn’t get that job so I am a useless person
✴️ I shouted at my children so I’m a bad parent
✴️ I always crumble under pressure
✴️ My mum has depression so it’s inevitable that I will too
✴️ I can’t do anything to change my perspective

Can you see how these beliefs come from a position of powerlessness?

Becoming aware of your thoughts and beliefs is the first step towards changing them.

Time to get out your notebook and spend some time noting some of YOUR limiting beliefs – try to find ten. What effect do you think these beliefs will be having on your life?

Why not share a couple in the comments below? If you’re thinking them, we know you’re not the only one.

Don’t worry – we know this is a lot to take in, and for many people change is scary or uncomfortable. If you want some encouragement, visit our YouTube channel to see videos of people JUST LIKE YOU who changed their lives using The Thrive Programme.

Coming up on Friday, we’ll be exploring some of your limiting beliefs so you can ‘get out of your own way’ and fast-track your journey to thriving.



simon@learn-to-thrive.co.uk
07789600199

31/03/2020

A little over forty years ago, two psychologists ran an experiment in a nursing home.

They wanted to see if they could reverse the effects of institutionalisation on the elderly residents i.e.feeling powerless, with no control over their lives, little hope and positivity. One group of OAPs were encouraged to take more responsibility for themselves - in order to increase their sense of power and control - and the second group were left to rely on staff taking care of them.

The experiment was very simple: both groups were given a pot plant. The ‘responsibility’ group were taught how to water and look after their plants, whereas the other group’s plants were looked after by the staff.

The results were profound!

The group that had spent time watering and caring for their plant felt and acted very differently to the other group… they were happier, more positive, took more exercise, joined in more activities in the home with the staff and generally experienced improvements to their general sense of wellbeing. The most striking thing was that - over the next eighteen months - 50% less of the responsibility-group had died.

When people think in a more powerful way, they feel more powerful, more in control. When people take part in activities that make them feel more powerful, they learn to think in a more powerful way.

On a very basic level, this is what your mental health is based upon - how powerful and in control you feel.

The more powerful and in control you feel, the better your thinking, beliefs and attitudes will be. You feel more in control of your emotions, more able to deal with the pressures and hurdles in life, you’re happier and more positive, and you put more effort into looking after yourself.

There are dozens and dozens of experiments like this one - all with very similar results...

What this experiment shows is - contrary to popular belief - you actually have a choice about your mental health. It’s not pre-determined; it’s not set in stone; it’s not written in the stars; it’s not dependent on things “going your way.”

Every day, YOU can make choices that make you think and feel better. You do not have to feel anxious or stressed.

This may be news to you.

Think for a moment of someone you know who is always buoyant and cheerful. Someone positive and resilient who makes the best of every situation, and bounces back from problems and adversity with apparent ease.

Contrast them to someone you know (this could even be you) who feels quite anxious, stressed or prone to bouts of low mood.

The difference is not what happens ‘to' you. The difference is how you respond to things. If you respond to what life throws at you in a powerless way, you WILL feel overwhelmed, and your mental health will suffer.

If you respond with helpful, powerful thoughts, you will feel calm and optimistic. The Thrive Programme is about taking responsibility to learn the skills that make this easy and automatic for you, and accepting that you have a choice over how you think and feel. You've probably never been told this before, and just let your thinking go unchecked; mistakenly believing that you've always been like this and it can't be changed. In fact you CAN change - once you take responsibility to do so. The choice is yours, and now is the time. Whether you're seven or seventy (or a hundred and seven) now is a great time to invest time and energy in learning to thrive.

A plant or animal is said to be thriving when it is growing, developing and being as successful as it can be within its environment. We have seen thousands of people choose to learn to thrive. They have taken responsibility for their thoughts and feelings, and taken the time to develop self-awareness and the necessary skills. It takes practice, for sure, but it’s not difficult.

Children can learn these skills just as easily as adults and OAP’s in nursing homes...

When we hear the phrase ‘mental health’, it can bring to mind ‘mental illness’: But, mental health is a spectrum. Poor mental health leads to depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, a strong desire for control and so on. Mental WELLNESS, on the other hand, encompasses positivity, resilience, optimism and a sense of calm, even in times of change.

How are you feeling today? How do you rate your mental health? Are you prone to bouts of sadness or moments of panic? Do you wake up feeling stressed, already worried about what the day might bring? Is your mood unpredictable and prone to changing at the drop of a hat, in response to something happening? Or, do you feel calm and stable? Do you wake up feeling calm and positive, unfazed by the ups and downs of life?

It’s helpful to imagine a spectrum: -5 at one end, all the way to +10. Take a moment to consider how you are feeling. Minus 5 is down and depressed; 0 is ‘Ok’ and +10 is where we all want to be: optimistic with unshakeable confidence that you’re living your best life and have the skills and resources to manage anything and everything. Where would you place yourself on this spectrum?

If you’re feeling bold, why not share your number in the comments below?

We don’t just want people to overcome mental health issues (move from say a -3 to a + 4) - we want everybody to learn how to thrive (+9 or 10).

On Wednesday, we’ll set to work on building the strong psychological foundations you’re going to need as you stop letting life just ‘happen to you’ and instead start ‘happening to life’. Until then, spend some time paying attention to your thoughts… are they positive, powerful and calming?

PS Congratulations! The simple fact you’ve read this post shows you’re already taking responsibility and have made the choice to improve your mental health.

That’s great news!

simon@learn-to-thrive.co.uk
07789 600199