SOLUTIONS FOR THE MIND

Jennifer Austin is a hypnotherapist who specialises in skin conditions. Today, she talks about the emotional and mental toll that chronic skin conditions can take. Jennifer discusses her own challenges with her skin, including losing her job and how she found hope and built a new life with the help of Solution Focused Hypnotherapy when nothing else seemed to help. She gives some fantastic insight into the ways she helps her clients and some invaluable tools that can be used to tackle the itch and break the scratching or picking cycle.

This episode explores how chronic skin conditions can shape identity, sleep, confidence, relationships, and work, and why treating the emotional load matters as much as the physical symptoms. As well as sharing her professional approach, Jennifer also talks about and her own experience with eczema, topical steroid withdrawal (TSW), and recovery.

Do you find you are constantly in a battle with your diet, never sure what is working or how to find a good balance? We talk to Holly Stone - expert in disordered eating and food issues and find out what hypnotherapy can do to support changes in behaviour, but more importantly, changes in the way you think and feel about food and nutrition.

She tells us what some types of disordered eating behaviours look like and how although not always an area for concern, can lead to an unhelpful relationship with food and body image, which ultimately keep you trapped and feeling dis-satisfied and constantly striving to change how you look and feel.

You can find qualified solution focused hypnotherapists who are members of the AfSFH and can support you at www.afsfh.com

If you are concerned about any of the issues discussed in this episode you can find more information about eating disorders https://www.beateatingdisorders.org.uk/

We urge you to visit your GP if you are concerned with your weight or behaviours around food. It is important that you have appropriate support from professional services if you have a low weight or moderate to severe disordered eating.

Despite an ever-increasing variety of things to help us manage our lives better, for many of us, life just seems to get more and more complicated.

Solution Focused Hypnotherapist Katie Churms of Songbird Hypnotherapy talks about some of the things we can do to cope better with ‘the juggle of modern life’.

In this episode we talk to Jessika Sheppy, an expert in neuro-rehabilitation, we discuss her work with life-changing brain/spinal injuries and chronic pain conditions. She explains how she utilises the power of the imagination to make significant improvements both physically and psychologically and create unexpected outcomes for her clients. She gives advice on managing chronic pain and explains how you can start to use the power of your mind to change your own life.

For many neurodivergent children the world is overwhelming and can feel unsupportive, school based anxiety and EBSA is increasing with many children struggling to stay in schools and parents left feeling lost in the system. AfSFH Host Emma Naughton talks to Nicole Hall a Clinical Solution Focused Hypnotherapist who specialises in working with neurodivergent children and shares some of the challenges that children are facing, but more importantly the incredible benefits of focusing on their strengths and special interests to improve confidence and self belief, reduce anxiety and increase resilience, and offers some invaluable tips for parents. We cover ADHD, Autism, EBSA, selective mutism, bringing play and drawing into conversations, special interests, gratitude journaling and lots more.

Brian Noon, CEO of the Association for Solution Focused Hypnotherapy explains what's going on in your brain when anxiety becomes overwhelming, and provides some hints and tips on how to manage it better. 

Sally Hare talks to Chair of the AfSFH, and head of the MYCaW research project into the efficacy of Solution Focused Hypnotherapy, Jane Fox.

Sally Hare talks to Solution Focused Hypnotherapist, Supervisor and Lecturer, Mel Cook, about her personal and professional experience of living with ADHD, her late diagnosis, and how the solution-focused approach supports those living with ADHD so well. Find out more about Mel at https://melaniecookhypnotherapy.com/ 

Lead researcher Emma Treby of Inspired to Change discusses how Solution Focused Hypnotherapy helped members of the Northumbria Police force with anxiety and depression. Find out more at https://inspiredtochange.biz/blogs/the-effectiveness-of-solution-focused-hypnotherapy-in-a-uk-police-force/

Julie Taylor and Marcia Eden from www.hypno4children.co.uk discuss with Sally Hare how effective Hypnotherapy can be for children and young people. They explain what strategies work well at different ages, and offer two relaxation breathwork exercises for you to try at home.