Heidi Bell Psychotherapy and Clinical Hypnosis Practitioner

02/09/2026

It's OK to do less,
When you're dealing with more

31/08/2026

Everyone has baggage. Your current position in life depends on how you choose to deal with it.

31/08/2026

Joyful dance starts again next week. Please come along, it's free, very inclusive, everyone welcome

30/08/2026

19/08/2026

Stay in your lane people. Your boss doesn't actually like it when you shine.
Take your breaks and go home to you children who do appreciate you🥰

14/08/2026

Some people we know have problems with boundaries, they are often also empaths, people who are highly attuned to how other people are feeling.
This behaviour/skill is often picked up in childhood, growing up around an unpredictable adult.
Whether you're conscious of it or not, this unpredictable adult presents enough of a risk to you that you have had to become hyper- attuned. Basically every move they make, or don't make, has some implication for yourself.

Because of this, other people make not like that these empaths notice, and pay particular attention to anything in the room that is not OK. It's a travesty really that instead of being able to focus on and enjoy the little things and the beautiful people. We tend to pick up the messy ones, always trying to lesson the burden and fix the broken. Because that's where the risk is. And that's why empaths always feel like crap 🫢
It also means that attention to things 'not ok' makes them targets in the workplace, sometimes the best intentions are misread as threats and your best efforts to repair something they don't want fixed gets labelled as 'doesn't work well with others'

Look after yourselves out there ❤️

07/08/2026

You were taught that singing is a talent, something you either have or you do not. Science says something different: singing is a biological mechanism, one that does something inside your body almost nothing else can.

Much of this research comes from Dr. Daisy Fancourt at University College London, who studied what actually changes in the blood and saliva of people when they sing. She found that singing triggers three separate biological systems at once: endorphins, your natural painkillers; oxytocin, the bonding hormone that lowers stress; and immunoglobulin A, a frontline part of your immune defense. Three systems, switched on together, by your own voice. And singing is not just loud talking to the brain, it engages regions tied to emotion, memory, and reward differently than speech, so the same words, sung, travel an entirely different path. Think of your body like a pharmacy: most activities unlock one medicine at a time, while singing opens three at once, all free, no prescription required.

Ancient traditions seemed to know this long before the lab confirmed it, from Gregorian chant to Sufi devotional singing to healers across cultures who used the voice as a primary tool. One honest note, though: most strong studies use group singing in controlled settings, and solo everyday singing has fewer large trials, but across all of them, singing consistently improves mood, lowers cortisol, and activates immune markers.

So use your voice today, and it does not need to be good, your body responds to the act, not the quality. Five minutes, one song, or even a hum, which stimulates your vagus nerve directly.

REFERENCES:

Fancourt et al. (2016). Singing, immune function, and stress hormones. Ecancermedicalscience.
Kreutz et al. (2004). Singing, immunoglobulin A, and cortisol. Journal of Behavioral Medicine.
Dunbar et al. (2012). Singing, endorphin release, and social bonding. Evolutionary Psychology.

06/08/2026

Anyone who knows me will know I'm still practicing these myself🤣🤣🤣