Challenges: Doing Something New
Hypnotherapist and Coach Simon Pimenta shares ideas about following your passions, dreams and goals, and looks at what’s stopping you taking that first step.
A Week in Time Management
Life Coach Daniela Fleckenstein contributes this thought provoking article on Time Management: Let’s get straight to the point: Time-Management is little about managing time, as that is really always the same and pretty much the same thing everyday, by the minute – learning to be better at Time Management; is to learn to manage yourself …
Overcoming Excessive Anxiety and Worry
Hypnotherapist Simon Pimenta shares strategies for understanding and overcoming anxiety and worry. Are you a worrier? I used to be a worrier. I was really good at it. If it were an Olympic sport, I would be in Team GB. However I learned
Having Trouble Sleeping? Free Sleep Strategies
There are a number of factors that may affect sleep. If you have sleep problems, it is important to discuss this with your Doctor, in order to exclude a number of possible causes,
Good Habits For Self Esteem and Confidence
Habits. We all have them. Some good: brushing our teeth twice a day, washing behind our ears. Some not so good: smoking 20 cigarettes a day, beating ourselves up when we make a mistake- something I used to be very good at (the beating myself up, not the 20 a day habit).
Sue had Agoraphobia
When Sue came to see me back in 2007 she hadn’t left the house for 18 months, suffering as she was from agoraphobia, anxiety, panic attacks, low self-esteem.
Do you suffer from Low Self-Esteem?
I used to have low self-esteem. I didn’t feel good about myself; I had poor self-image. I would place more importance on the opinions of others than my own opinions. If someone said, ‘That shirt doesn’t suit you’, I would assume that they were right. I would talk to myself in destructive ways and would think negatively. …
Gary Husband: Flying Phobia Update
Back in February, Musician Gary Husband kindly posted about a having hypnotherapy session with me that helped him resolve a flying phobia (read post here). Gary sent me this picture, showing how comfortable he now feels about flying! Gary is sitting on the right.
We have approx 60,000 thoughts a day. How many are useful?
In order to build self-esteem, it is crucial to pay attention to the way you talk to yourself. We talk to ourselves constantly. It has been estimated that:
Gary Husband on Flying Phobia
In no more than one consultation with Simon I was able – for the first time in at least two decades – to step onto a plane completely sober and conquer previously near totally incapacitating fear while taking a flight. I had no confidence something like that could have ever been possible. In addition, with …