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Mastering the Art of Self-Hypnosis for Personal Growth
Self-hypnosis is a powerful tool that many individuals are beginning to embrace for personal development. It offers a unique approach to enhancing mental well-being, improving focus, and achieving personal goals. Whether you seek to reduce anxiety, improve confidence, overcome insomnia or ease chronic pain conditions, self-hypnosis can be an effective method.

Laura McKenna
1 day ago4 min read
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Practical Strategies to Build Self-Confidence
Building self-confidence is essential for leading a fulfilling life. It impacts our ability to take risks, embrace challenges, and pursue our goals. In a world filled with uncertainties, self-confidence serves as a mental armour, empowering us to face adversities head-on. In this blog post, we'll dive into some effective strategies that I use with clients that can help anyone develop a stronger sense of self-confidence.

Laura McKenna
May 64 min read
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How Hypnotherapy Can Transform Your Mind and Body
Hypnotherapy helps individuals connect with their inner selves, fostering self-awareness and emotional healing. This can lead to various positive outcomes, such as improved self-esteem, resilience, and stress management techniques.
Clients often learn mindfulness techniques during their sessions, helping them stay present and aware rather than becoming overwhelmed by stressors in their lives. This awareness can lead to better decision-making, healthier habits, and more fulfi

Laura McKenna
Apr 285 min read
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Understanding the Journey to Discover Your Past
Exploring your past life can offer numerous benefits. People often seek this journey for therapeutic reasons, to resolve pain or trauma from previous experiences that may impact their current lives. A deeper understanding of oneself can lead to healing, personal growth, and improved relationships.

Laura McKenna
Apr 224 min read
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Understanding Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
Irritable Bowel Syndrome is a challenging condition, but hypnotherapy offers a promising complementary approach to traditional treatments. By addressing the gut-brain axis, reducing stress, and promoting positive behavioural changes, hypnotherapy can significantly improve the quality of life for IBS sufferers. If you’re struggling with IBS, please get in touch to discuss how my 6-week programme combining hypnosis and CBT could help you.

Laura McKenna
Jul 5, 20242 min read
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Understanding Health Anxiety
Health anxiety goes beyond the normal concerns about one's health and can significantly impact a person's daily life. People with health anxiety may exhibit behaviours such as frequent doctor visits, seeking multiple medical opinions, and engaging in excessive health-related research. These actions, while driven by a genuine fear of illness, can lead to heightened stress levels and a reduced quality of life. Hypnotherapy can help.

Laura McKenna
Feb 1, 20242 min read
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How to Keep a New Year’s Resolution
Do you remember your resolutions from last January? Did you stick to them? If you did, then very well done. If not, you are by no means alone. By January 17th (actually known as ‘Ditch New Year Resolutions Day’ by the way) only around one in ten of us will have stuck to our intentions. So, where are we going wrong? How do we keep a New Year's Resolution and achieve our goals?

Laura McKenna
Dec 28, 20234 min read
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Navigating the Festive Season: Overcoming Social Anxiety at Christmas
If you find yourself struggling with social anxiety during Christmas, you're not alone. Her are some practical tips and insights to help you navigate and overcome social anxiety, allowing you to truly enjoy the magic of the season.

Laura McKenna
Dec 1, 20233 min read
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Empowering Recovery: Helping People Overcome PTSD through CBT and Hypnotherapy
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a complex mental health condition that can have a profound impact on those who experience it. However, there are effective treatments available to help individuals regain control of their lives and find healing.

Laura McKenna
Oct 30, 20232 min read
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Unlocking Inner Peace: How Hypnotherapy Can Provide Help for Anger Issues
For many individuals, anger issues are closely tied to anxiety, creating a destructive cycle that can be challenging to break. This blog post explores how hypnotherapy can be a valuable tool in helping individuals manage and overcome anger issues rooted in anxiety.

Laura McKenna
Oct 22, 20233 min read
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Building Emotional Resilience: A Guide to Thriving in Life's Challenges
Emotional resilience is not a trait you're born with; it's a skill that can be developed and strengthened over time. By practising self-awareness, positive thinking, problem-solving, and seeking support when needed, you can build emotional resilience that will serve you well in all aspects of life.

Laura McKenna
Oct 1, 20233 min read
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Releasing Your Phobias With Hypnosis: A Path to Fearless Living
Fear is a powerful and innate human emotion. It can serve as a vital survival mechanism, keeping us alert and ready to respond to threats. However, when fear transforms into an irrational and overwhelming phobia, it can severely hinder our daily lives. The good news is that hypnotherapy offers a unique and effective approach to release phobias, allowing you to live fearlessly. In this article, we'll explore how hypnosis can help you conquer your phobia and regain control over

Laura McKenna
Sep 5, 20233 min read
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How to Stop People-Pleasing
It's not easy to break the people-pleasing habit, especially if it's something you've been conditioned to do since childhood. People probably know you as the person to ask for help as they know you'll always say yes. So, what can you do to gently start backing away and making more time for yourself? In this blog, I list my five top tips for overcoming the people-pleasing habit.

Laura McKenna
Oct 3, 20224 min read
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Shift That Anxiety
I think there's a lesson for us all there. Sometimes, when that anxiety is really biting and you can't settle to anything, it's not as easy as taking a few deep breaths and meditating. In fact, many people tell me they really find it hard to meditate when the anxiety is at its worst. So, it's important to have a few other tricks up your sleeve.

Laura McKenna
Nov 1, 20214 min read
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Coping with Panic Attacks
Panic attacks are extremely frightening to experience. They are also unpredictable and can seem to happen anywhere...

Laura McKenna
Dec 29, 20203 min read
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Beating the Winter Blues
Symptoms such as lethargy, depression, overeating, irritability, sleep disorders and generally feeling down and anti-social can all be signs of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). We feel our mood slump as the days get shorter and darker, the cold sets in and all the seasonal bugs start attacking. However, we don’t have to give in to those feelings of depression and despondency. Here are my top tips for staying healthy and happy until the welcome warmth of spring returns.

Laura McKenna
Dec 1, 20204 min read
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7 Signs of Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
When you think about anxiety and what that would look or feel like, you might imagine someone shaking, sweating and looking tense or nervous. However, anxiety doesn’t always show itself that way. So, I’m going to look at seven less obvious signs of generalised anxiety disorder (GAD). If you’ve been experiencing one or more of these symptoms, you may actually be suffering from GAD and just not realised it.

Laura McKenna
Sep 1, 20203 min read
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5 Ways to Reduce Stress at Work
At the end of the day, think about what you achieved and what went well. Focus on that. Anything you didn’t get time to do can now wait. So, just make a note of what needs doing tomorrow and then leave it at your desk and switch off.

Laura McKenna
Jul 31, 20203 min read
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The Power of Positive Language
You listen to yourself all day long. Imagine that you are constantly hypnotising yourself because that's what's happening. You can either encourage yourself and build yourself up or you can knock yourself down and eventually fail, just because you have convinced yourself that it's a fact. Is it time to start making some changes and turn that inner critic into a cheerleader?

Laura McKenna
Jun 28, 20204 min read
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Returning to Life After Lockdown
With many adults going back to work and children preparing to return to school, many people are feeling quite anxious about what the...

Laura McKenna
Jun 4, 20205 min read
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