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Solution focused hypnotherapy allows you to increase your well being in a short space of time. If yo

07/09/2026

September is a good time to notice what is working. Perhaps a child walked into school without holding your hand. Perhaps they spoke to someone new. Perhaps they came home and told you one good thing about their day. Perhaps you successfully located the PE kit before the morning deadline, which frankly deserves its own certificate.

These small moments matter because confidence is built from evidence. When children notice themselves coping, they begin to develop a more useful story about who they are. Realising that they (and we) can be nervous and still do things. They can have a difficult day and recover. They can ask for help.

With kindness,
Angharad

04/09/2026

Parents can find themselves carrying the emotional weather forecast for the entire household. If a child is anxious, the natural instinct is to become anxious on their behalf, producing the remarkable spectacle of two nervous systems worrying about each other.

Sometimes the most helpful response is surprisingly calm and ordinary: acknowledge the feeling, listen without immediately fixing it, and then return to the next small step. “You're worried about tomorrow. I understand. Let's get your bag ready and then have some tea.” The message is powerful: feelings are allowed, and life can continue alongside them.

With kindness,
Angharad

02/09/2026

Children often experience the unknown more intensely than adults realise. A new class, a different teacher or simply walking through the school gates after a long summer can feel enormous when you are small.

Rather than trying to remove every worry, parents can help children discover that they are capable of handling it. Questions such as

What might make tomorrow a little easier?
What helped you last time?”

gently move attention away from catastrophe and towards coping.

The aim isn't to convince a child that nothing difficult will happen. It is to help them recognise that difficult things can happen and they can still manage them. This is a much more useful superpower.

With kindness,
Angharad

31/08/2026

September has a remarkable ability to upset the applecart after a long summer break. For children, the return to school can bring excitement and nerves in equal measure.

The useful thing to remember is that the brain doesn't need everything to be perfect to feel safe. We benefit from familiar routines, manageable expectations and the reassurance that whatever happens, there will be another morning.

With kindness,
Angharad

28/08/2026

Sometimes life can be incredibly tough. There are plenty of people I work with who have struggled to see the point in anything and I am so impressed that they are reaching out to get help.

Sometimes I work with people as they process the grief and trauma of loved ones who have reached this point and taken their lives. People often find themselves replaying conversations, searching for missed signs, or wondering if one different sentence might have changed everything. It's a profoundly human response, but it is also a heavy burden to carry.

The truth is that the mind has an extraordinary talent for rewriting history once we know the ending. Looking backwards, everything can appear painfully obvious. Living forwards, it almost never is. Compassion for ourselves, as much as for others, is often the first step towards healing.

With kindness,
Angharad

26/08/2026

Over time noticing the little good things in our days strengthens our ability to recognise safety, pleasure, connection and progress. The good things don't necessarily become bigger but our ability to see them becomes stronger.

A five-minute walk can still be just a five-minute walk, but suddenly you notice the trees, the breeze, the dog looking extremely pleased with himself, and the fact that your shoulders have dropped an inch.

With kindness,

24/08/2026

The human brain evolved to spot the unusual, the threatening and the potentially important. It is far more likely to announce, “Something is wrong!” than, “Excellent work, everyone, the afternoon light is rather lovely.”

We can experience ten perfectly pleasant moments and remember the one awkward conversation with astonishing detail. This isn't a personal failing. It is simply the brain being an ancient survival machine operating in our modern world.

Deliberately noticing small good things gives the brain a fuller account of what is happening. You don't have to pretend difficult things aren't there. You simply begin collecting evidence that life contains more than problems.

Noticing the warmth of a cup of tea
The sound of rain
Sunlight on a wall
A friend's laugh

There are hundreds of lovely little things every day if we train our brain to notice them.

With kindness,
Angharad

21/08/2026

Perhaps the most important thing about learning to calm the mind is not to turn it into another task. We will all miss so many small good things. Everyone does. We'll rush through lunch, forget to notice the sunset, stare at our phones while someone tells us a story, and occasionally spend twenty minutes worrying about something that never happens. That is being human.

Meditation isn't about becoming permanently calm and observant, it's about noticing when we've wandered and returning, without giving ourselves a lecture, to the present.

The same applies to life. We notice, we miss it, we notice again. And somewhere in that gentle repetition, we become a little better at recognising that even on difficult days, there is usually something quietly good happening right in front of us.

With kindness,
Angharad

19/08/2026

One of the benefits of meditation is that it teaches us to notice rather than immediately react.

🤔A thought can be observed without being treated as an instruction.
🥹A feeling can be felt without becoming the day's entire agenda.
🧐A difficult moment can be given a little space before we decide what it means.

This small gap between experience and response is valuable. It is where choice lives.

With kindness.
Angharad

17/08/2026

We know meditation is good for our happiness levels. Unfortunately we tend to overcomplicate it, thinking it means an empty mind and complete serenity. In reality, it is often much more ordinary, simply noticing that your mind has wandered for the fifteenth time and gently bringing it back to what is happening right now is a meditative practice.

The brain has never shown much enthusiasm for being empty. It prefers lists, memories, worries, unfinished conversations and the occasional completely inexplicable thought about a sandwich from 1997. So we are training attention rather than trying to empty the brain. The mind is a bit like an errant puppy constantly being brought back to heel.

With kindness,
Angharad

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