Blog Archives - Page 10 of 30 - Open Mind Hypnotherapy

My very dear friend and fellow Cognitive Hypnotherapist and Coach, Kirsty Hanly, used to be terrified of public speaking.  Through her own journey of therapy and coaching, a great deal of hard work and more than a little bit of walking into the unknown, she successfully overcame that fear. Over the last few years I have […]

The last six weeks have been… strange. I guess that’s normal?  Whatever ‘normal’ is anyway. When someone dies there is no normal.  Normal goes out the window. After the initial shock wears off and the funeral is over you have to return to real life and carry on as if nothing has changed.  People expect […]

It seems fitting, as I begin the second year of this project, that the first post falls today on International Day of Happiness. The theme this year is ‘Connection’. The team behind the movement (Action for Happiness) are encouraging everyone to make one positive connection with someone today; to reach out and make new connections […]

I saw this the other day and agreed so whole-heartedly with it that I knew I had to write about it. This week has felt long (and it’s only Thursday).  A seemingly endless round of clients and supervisions and emails and school drop-offs/pick-ups and, today, a poorly eldest daughter.  The stress of managing the online […]

At the end of January I posted a blog called ‘Don’t Wait’, following the death of my husband’s much-loved Nan after a short and intense battle with cancer. Little was I to know that just two weeks later my Dad was to very suddenly and devastatingly reach the end of his life as well, also a […]

I did it! A whole year of happy moments captured in photos and documented on my blog.  I wasn’t sure if I could keep up the commitment (I’m a serial project-starter-and-non-finisher), but I have – for 365 days. In the grand scheme of things I recognise that it’s a relatively un-life-changing project on a global scale, […]

It has been a week since the funeral. A week since I said goodbye. A whole month has passed since Dad was taken into hospital and placed into a medically-induced coma. And it’s been a month since I got the phone call telling me that he wasn’t going to wake up.  I don’t know where the time has […]

Half term and the lead up to my Dad’s funeral form the foundations of this #365happydays post. I have had such contrasting emotions over the last ten days – I thought I would have to dig really deep to find the happy moments.  Some were a little harder to find than others and some appeared right […]

This is perhaps the hardest post I’ve ever had to write so far.  I have a feeling there are even more difficult ones to come over the next few weeks and months.  But I have to start somewhere, so I’m starting here. Some of you already know what has happened.  Mainly because I’ve needed to rearrange […]

These last ten days have been a blur.  I’ve been on automatic pilot for most of the time – doing what I need to do but not really being engaged or feeling connected with much of it.  There will be a blog post at some point to explain what’s happened to those of you who don’t […]