'I am not what happened to me; I am what I chose to become' C Jung

When I first started this hypnotherapy lark, I would go to my 'day' job in intensive care, and actually feel people's pain. Their emotional distress became physically palpable to me. I would have to intentionally mentally switch off my 'joining the client' and put my detached, nursing hat back on.

As these days, I am full time in hypnotherapy, I am feeling more and more.

Does anyone else have this physical connection to their client's emotional state?

When I was little, I was rubbish at maths. I used to copy from the kid next to me in class.Except for money, and drug calculations, I still have a bit of a mental block about maths.

Today, I finally appreciated how numbers can make you feel!

I've been doing data entry on my patients' questionnaires in order to feed back to the commissioners and board, and to the doctors who refer these patients to my service. And having crunched those numbers, I can see in an unb

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That person's comments have really made me quite sad. How someone can put their own needs for money over the needs of the person who is afflicted by IBS.

The most beautiful thing about the NHS is that people can receive thousands of pounds of treatment/care without paying any more into the system than they would have if they'd required no care at all.

So many of the people I see in my job simply couldn't afford to pay for what the NHS is providing them with; free

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Today, I got some new referrals for my clinic. Interesting, challenging. Yay! Or so I thought.

Then came a comment from a dr who didn't want to do the blood tests as recommended (not entirely sure why).

And then came the information that another dr wanted to know why 'we' had employed a hypnotherapist (note scorn), and not a district nurse.

The fun response is because DNs don't know anything about hypnosis as a rule. The real re… Continue

Well, what a wonderful time it is!
One of my patients got the job I future paced them through the interview of (after them being convinced they'd not get it)!
Another said my treatment was 'absolutely brilliant'.
Someone else has reduced their medication down to a third of what they were on before they first saw me.

Oh, and my headrest arrived last Thursday, the engineers came to install the lightswitch today, and, most excitingly, my name is now on the clinic room door!… Continue