Get a good night’s sleep – at last!
“The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to,” lamented F. Scott Fitzgerald, and anyone who has spent restless nights wrestling with the frustration of not being able to fall asleep, stay asleep, or sleep until the desired waking time, might be inclined to agree! Somewhere between 13 and 33% of…
5 reasons to think twice before taking sleeping pills
“Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together,” wrote Thomas Dekker. Yet for too many people in the modern world, that chain is stretched to – and often well past – breaking point. People who suffer from depression, arthritis, asthma, back problems, diabetes, obesity and just plain stress have an increased…
5 reasons to think twice before taking osteoporosis drugs
The broken bone business is lucrative, but what’s in it for patients?
Making Your New Year’s Resolutions Stick
The term New Year’s Resolution has come to mean ‘a promise that you break a few days into the New Year’! But there is a way to make commitments to yourself that you can really stick with. First, if you haven’t already downloaded my free action guide, ‘The 5 Steps to Breaking Bad Habits‘, please…
How childhood trauma changes the brain… and how EFT and Matrix Reimprinting heal it
It’s a truism that childhood experiences continue to influence our emotional reactions and behaviour, even when we’re ‘all grown up’. And it’s also common wisdom that people who suffered traumatic events in childhood are more likely to experience psychological distress as adults. But until quite recently, no one really knew how events that happened to…
Fighting with your partner is bad for your health… unless you choose the right words!
Using hostile words in an argument isn’t just bad for your relationship, it’s bad for your health – and your partner’s too! But choosing the right words can end the conflict sooner, and reduce the levels of body chemicals that promote cancer, heart disease, type 2 diabetes and arthritis, in both of you. Every couple…
‘Depressed’ or just going through a rough patch – have you been misdiagnosed?
2 June 2014 In the last couple of weeks, I’ve had several interesting conversations with clients who have a history of mental health diagnoses such as depression and anxiety. In each case, the client has expressed some doubt over whether their diagnosis was accurate, and consequently, whether the treatment they were prescribed – usually an…
Is it safe for you to lose weight?
What am I talking about????? Being overweight is most definitely unsafe: it raises your risk of type 2 diabetes, many types of cancer, degenerative arthritis, depression, and a host of other nasty conditions. So how could losing weight possibly be unsafe? Well, there are many profoundly unsafe ways to lose weight (such as high-animal protein…
Weight loss: the inside (your head) story
Weight loss. It’s really simple in theory: just eat less and move more. But it’s a little more complicated than that in practice! Recently I saw two clients in one day, both struggling to lose weight, for whom what was going on in their heads about weight loss was far more significant than what was…
Understanding – and beating – food cravings
Food cravings – those bouts of intense, seemingly uncontrollable desire to get hold of and eat a particular food, are one of the most distressing roadblocks encountered by people who want to lose weight and maintain healthy eating habits. According to US research, nearly 100% of women and 70% of men report experiencing food cravings…