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Here’s what you need to know to overcome emetophobia, health anxiety, OCD, agoraphobia…control never kept you safe. You ...
26/11/2025

Here’s what you need to know to overcome emetophobia, health anxiety, OCD, agoraphobia…control never kept you safe. You were safe regardless 🧡

My DMs are open if you want guided support.

Just 2 months ago, Becki had a great life, only she was carrying the weight of emetophobia around with her. It was all s...
25/11/2025

Just 2 months ago, Becki had a great life, only she was carrying the weight of emetophobia around with her. It was all she knew. She’d had it as long as she could remember.

Her goal:
* to not think about sickness before every decision she makes. To be able to embrace life without anxiety or fears. To fully enjoy activities, eating out, socialising, travelling without fear.

Catching up with her today was like talking to a different person. Self-assured, confident, clear-headed, in control emotionally. What a transformation, and just in time for her travels which she’s super excited about now that she doesn’t have to carry that extra weight of emetophobia around with her 🌟

20/11/2025

After 37 years, Doron is emetophobia-free 🧡

Comment “link” and I’ll give you access to the full video jam-packed with everything he did to overcome it.

19/11/2025

Doron overcomes emetophobia after battling it for 37 years…

He’s not just learned to cope with it or got better at suppressing it - he doesn’t have it anymore, so there’s nothing left to manage.

Doron wants to share his story to help others know how to access effective help.

If you’re ready to experience life without emetophobia in it, comment “help” and I’ll DM you with the first step.

19/11/2025

Emetophobia-free after 30+ years of struggling 🌟

In July, Doron was totally debilitated by chronic nausea - unable to go out, signed off work, desperately searching for a way out.

Well, he found it. Just 3 months later he is over it. Back at work, socialising, with not a sick-related thought in sight. How?

Comment “me please” and I’ll send you the link to this interview where he shares what he did and how he did it. This episode is jam-packed with insights, knowledge and inspiration if you’re currently struggling.

10/11/2025

Hey, you…no, not the overthinking, striving you…I’m talking to the soft, scared, beautiful part of you who needs a hug.

I know what it feels like to keep going, keep pushing yourself, keep ‘doing’, and yet still feel like you’re falling short. I know how loud that inner voice can be - the one that says, “You should be further along by now.” “You know what to do, so why can’t you do it?” “Other people can do it, why can’t you?”

That inner you - the part of you that feels small, anxious, or unseen - deserves love. It deserves compassion. It deserves patience and understanding.

Here’s the thing: none of this is your fault. You didn’t choose to think in this way. You didn’t deliberately sign up for self-judgment or constant pressure to perform. You learned this pattern to protect you - created it at a time to try and feel safe. It’s not your fault.

You can offer yourself forgiveness. You did your best. You have always done your best. You can never ask for any more than your best.

And you can begin to wrap yourself in patience and kindness instead of criticism. You can look at yourself through a loving lens - a lens that sees you as more than enough. A lens that allows you to be human, doesn’t expect you to be perfect at everything, and gives you permission, patience and space to learn.

Freedom doesn’t come from ‘fixing’ yourself. It comes from treating yourself with the same compassion you extend to others. By holding your own hand through your own storms. By choosing to love the part of you that has been most desperate for it. 🧡

🏷️ Save this for the days you need a reminder. And DM me “enough” if you’re wanting a helping hand. This is what I teach my clients 🌟

07/11/2025

If you’re struggling with emetophobia, OCD, agoraphobia, health anxiety…it’s likely you’ve been anxious for a while (months, years, decades) and you will have tried so hard to ‘fix’ it.

But what if - through no fault of your own - your clever, analytical, problem-solving thinking habits that work so successfully for ‘outside’ problems, are actually the key driver that keep you stuck?

Quite often, the trying hard - the effort - the problem solving - the fixing - the pressure - the judgement - the managing of it - actually becomes the cause. 🤯

How many of these ‘fixing’ traps do you fall into?
👉 Treating anxiety as a problem that needs solving every day.
👉 ‘Doing’ things to try and achieve calm (breathing techniques, meditation, “self-care”
👉 Putting pressure on yourself to not feel anxious, scared, stressed
👉 Judging yourself harshly when you do
👉 Trying to find ways to fix how you feel

Well let let me tell you about the rule of opposites. The backwards law. The law of reversed effort. Where less effort is more. Where anxiety isn’t fixed or managed, it’s just not created in the first place. Where it feels easy, not hard. Simple, not complicated.

Feeling calm isn’t actually something you have to work hard for. It’s your natural baseline - it’s the place you come home to - the state that exists in the absence of the fight.

What if you stopping trying, stopped putting effort in, stopped doing, fighting, managing, ruminating…and let go. Let yourself come back to calm. What if nothing is wrong? And nothing is wrong with you? Nothing needs fixing. There are no problems to solve - simply experiences to experience.

Can you feel your chest lightening? Your jaw unclenching? Your stomach relaxing? Your mind clearing? That’s what happens when you give your nervous system permission to settle.

Tell me how does that feel?

28/10/2025

If you’re struggling with anxiety right now, you need to know this: thoughts and emotions are not facts, they’re just information about how you’re currently thinking 🤓

Just because you think something like:
“I’m not safe.”
“I can’t handle this.”
“Something awful is about to happen.”
- doesn’t make it true.

And just because you feel anxious, doesn’t mean something is wrong.
It just means your thinking made your body react as if it was.

You see, your brain doesn’t fact-check your thoughts - it just thinks in accordance with your beliefs.

👉 The emotion is real.
But the story behind it might not be.

Save this post to remind you how to fact-check your thoughts and feelings:

Remember:
💭 thoughts are not facts
😏 emotions don’t reflect the reality
❓ask yourself, where’s the evidence? (‘what if’ thoughts and emotions are not evidence 😜)
🫶 remind yourself, “nothing bad is happening. My body is just reacting to my thoughts.”

You can stop getting tricked by anxiety by stopping seeing it as the truth and starting treating it like data.

✨ Thoughts are just suggestions.
✨ Feelings are just feedback.

You get to decide which ones deserve your belief.

27/10/2025

Every time you avoid something you find hard - a journey, a place, a feeling - you send your brain a powerful message:

“I can’t handle that.”

It feels like safety, but it’s really training your brain to fear it even more next time.

Avoidance doesn’t protect you - it actually tricks you into thinking and believing that you can’t cope.

And the more you repeat it, the stronger that belief becomes.

But you know what? Confidence is learned the exact same way - just in the opposite direction.

Every time you face something rather than avoid it, however small, you update your evidence:

“I can handle it. That was hard but I can do hard things.”

That’s how you grow your confidence - one brave step at a time.

✨ Every moment you avoid, you’re training fear.

🧡 Every moment you act, you’re training freedom.

Which are you training today - fear or freedom?

21/10/2025

🌟 Sam overcomes emetophobia and agoraphobia 🌟

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Learn to Thrive with Lucy

The Thrive Programme is mental health training that teaches people the skills and resources to fully overcome mental health issues and learn to thrive. Based on over 30 years’ clinical experience treating thousands of people around the world, and is thoroughly research-backed and evidence-based. Quite simply, it teaches you how to completely re-wire how you think, feel and behave.

Thriving people have a skillset that makes them more robust, resilient and confident...they feel powerful and more in control of their lives...they are less prone to stress, anxiety and depression. Thriving people find it easier to resist social pressures, take more responsibility for their physical and mental health and live a more positive and active life.

The programme is simple, accessible and affordable for all ages aged 8 upwards. It takes around 6-8 weeks to complete and contains everything you need to overcome your mental health symptom and learn to thrive.