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Success Without a Degree?

sue@freedomfinders.co.uk — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:24:46 +0100

Success without a degree

A leading women�s weekly magazine is writing a feature about women who�ve made a success of their life without doing a degree.

We�re looking for a woman in her mid 30s to 50s, who had a child when she was young and and was unable able to go to university.

Despite this, did you go on to make a success of your life? Maybe you worked your way up the career ladder and went to start your own business?

It will be a very p [...]

Fear of Flying? Hypnosis & NLP Can Help!

sue@freedomfinders.co.uk — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:25:57 +0100

Using Hypnotherapy and NLP to Resolve Fear of Flying

Lets get one thing straight about fear of flying: just knowing the stats on how safe you are doesn�t make you feel safer!

I speak from personal experience, because it was having a fear of flying that got me introduced to NLP and hypnosis. I hated flying!

Flying is one of the safest ways to travel, so why do some people have such trouble with it, and what can be done to help?

Raw Fear

In my experience, fear [...]

SlimQuest Weight Loss Course: The Start of a New You!

sue@freedomfinders.co.uk — Fri, 28 May 2010 17:39:06 +0100

Fed Up of Dieting?

Have you tried to manage your weight by dieting and keep failing?

Then you might like to know my favourite saying: � if you always do what you�ve always done, you�ll always get what you�ve always got!�

This is the real basis of SlimQuest: if you are fed up of dieting, try another approach, one that helps you focus on what you want, and gives you practical tools to succeed.

Someone said to me �I don�t want to change my life�I just want [...]

NCH Code of Conduct

sue@freedomfinders.co.uk — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:51:09 +0100

Code of Conduct

National Council For Hypnotherapy.

Members in practice agree to the following rules of conduct:

1 . Professional Indemnity Insurance.

This is a prerequisite for any Hypnotherapist to practice and adequate cover must be maintained by the practitioner.

2. Relationship with the NCH

Hypnotherapists shall keep the NCH informed of:

changes to personal details, e.g. name, address, phone number, practise [...]

Are you running towards your goal or away from your problems?

sue@freedomfinders.co.uk — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:10:01 +0100

I went to a really good talk last week given by fellow Quest graduate Stuart Norman on �Happiness�.
So powerful was the talk, I have been singing �Happy Talk� from the film South Pacific every day in my head since!
He gave us a really good quote, made me think:
�Are you on a journey to happiness, or on a journey of happiness?�
We all like to have goals in life. Humans tend to like knowing where we are going. Goals about weight loss, money, career, and relationships, whatever we need t [...]

The Power of 3 and 7

sue@freedomfinders.co.uk — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:29:59 +0100

The Power of 3 & 7 in Marketing and Relationships

If you use networking groups to grow your business, then you may be aware of how you can turn up to meetings, month after month, and then suddenly, someone will turn to you and say, � What is it you do again? I really need that!�

Or if in your relationship you want something to happen and have mentioned it a few times, and your partner doesn�t seem to be listening. Then just when you begin to get fed up, they say �Oh [...]

EFT- yes it's weird, yes it works!

sue@freedomfinders.co.uk — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:03:41 +0100

EFT - yes it's weird, yes it works!

So, how are your New Year resolutions going? January is a long month, isn't it?

It's been a few weeks since Christmas, and all that turkey, spuds, pudding, more turkey.

You may know someone who's been trying to lose a few pounds in weight, you may even want to do that yourself.

Most people begin with good intentions...then the month drags on, life goes back to normal, and you forget why you were bothering.

And of course, bec [...]

SlimQuest in Burnham & Slough

sue@freedomfinders.co.uk — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:10:01 +0100

SlimQuest In Burnham & Slough

SlimQuest � the group weight loss course � has been running successfully elsewhere for a number of years, and is now running successfully in Burnham & Slough.

Next Course in Burnham Starts Tuesday Evening June 15th at 7pm: advance bookings only.

Full course dates:

June 15th

June 22nd

June 29th

July 6th

July 13th

Gastric Banding or Sort Your Head Out?

sue@freedomfinders.co.uk — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:15:29 +0100

Gastric Band or Sort Your Head Out? How to Stop Being Obsessed with Diets. Listen to my BBC Radio interview!

It�s new year again and the press is full of hints tips and good ideas on how to lose weight.

So it was refreshing to get a call from BBC Radio Berks, asking me to talk to Anne Diamond about �Are We Obsessed With Dieting� and should we get off the bandwagon?

The topic had been prompted by two celebrities who were getting divorced, him citing her ob [...]

Is Your Motivation a Slouch Potato?

sue@freedomfinders.co.uk — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:19:51 +0100

Is Your Motivation a Slouch Potato? 3 Key Strategies for Getting On With It.

Imagine if your motivation had a personality. It may be a happy, useful friend of sunny disposition, which bounces along with you in life�s adventures.

Or is it a slouch potato, lacking in energy, the only stretching it does for the TV remote.

For most of us, it�s usually a bit of both, and with busy lives, you may want a bit more of the bouncy one, but not know how to make this happen.

[...]

Can Do Tips For Emotional Health

sue@freedomfinders.co.uk — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:02:54 +0100

Can-Do and Tips to Maintain Emotional Health!

Our success in work and relationships depends on good emotional health.

Strong, positive feelings project outwards from us and when they do, life is easier, less stressful and we get more of what we want.

Here are some tips to help:

Every day, notice something that you are grateful for.

In work, this may be your work friends, or something you did well.

In [...]

Letting Go Of Past Mistakes

sue@freedomfinders.co.uk — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:16:23 +0100

Many people have things they�d rather forget.

In a career, this may be the new job that turned out a nightmare, or the missed opportunities for a life not applied for. Or the relationship from hell that it�s hard to get over.

The trouble can be when these former memories refuse to go away, and have an impact on life now, by either hanging around as bad feelings (loss, regret, hurt) or by manifesting as a lack of belief about self or inability to make the right deci [...]

'Women put their own needs second'

sue@freedomfinders.co.uk — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:13:40 +0100

Did you see this news story today?

A study has been done that shows that women put their own needs second, try to be superwoman in all aspects of their life, and end up stressed and suffering from mental health issues as a result.

I don't know how much this study costs but any decent therapist would tell you this for nothing!

The most common issue by far with women in business that I have seen is this very one.

Women talk of being pulled, stressed, no time for [...]

Lacking self confidence? What's that about?

sue@freedomfinders.co.uk — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:25:22 +0100

Some people say they are self-confident �most of the time�, and then come the �buts�; the part of their life they struggle with. This might be public speaking, with people that are close , or strangers.

So a very common issue is people tend to be ok with themselves, just feel differently when it comes to showing who they are to the rest of the world.

You know: � what will they think of me if I stand up and speak�, or � how will they feel if I go and do it�, or � no-one will like [...]

Is Your Child A Fussy Eater?

sue@freedomfinders.co.uk — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:00:47 +0100

Is your child a fussy eater?

A BBC news story today talks about how many parents mistake bad behaviour for eating disorders, and suffer nightmares at dinner time because their child refuses to eat.

I have experience of helping parents with children who can�t or won�t eat certain foods, and almost always the problem began with child refusing certain foods and mum or dad �giving in�: usually because of fear the child will starve unless they give them what they want.

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How People Get Stressed

sue@freedomfinders.co.uk — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:18:36 +0100

Stress seems like a fact of life for some of us. A feeling we live with, like being tightly sprung, or a permanent ache in the shoulders, neck or back.

Stress is the physical response to certain situations: overwork, feeling out of control, emotional tension within families, or grief.

So it�s not like a virus, that comes and goes without our intention, it is something that happens because of what is going on in our lives.

How can Cognitive Hypnotherapy, NLP or Life Coa [...]

Hypnosis and gastric band visualisation?

sue@freedomfinders.co.uk — Fri, 22 May 2009 16:11:47 +0100

Have you heard about the lady who lost over four stone using hypnosis to imagine she had a gastric band? It�s been in a lot of the newspapers lately.

I have been asked my opinion about this,and if I can do it, if it could �work� and what would be the pitfalls.

It�s not really up to me to comment about other hypnotherapists, however I can explain how I use Cognitive Hypnotherapy to help with weight loss.

We all eat for a reason � usually to surviv [...]

Your Beliefs and You, or How I Failed Maths 5 Times

sue@freedomfinders.co.uk — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:24:02 +0100

I�ll let you into a little secret- I failed my maths �O� level. Not just any old failure, this was the M&S of failures, - 5 times in all! Yes, I took the exam 5 times and got the same miserable fail grade each time.

I got quite good at failing it, really! Did the same exam paper (virtually) revised in the same way each time and made the same mistakes.

In NLP we call this �if you always do what you�ve always done, you�ll always get what you�ve always got�. Worked for [...]

Your Place in Time

sue@freedomfinders.co.uk — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 01:00:00 +0100

I was out last night in a noodle bar, and my fortune cookie said this:

�man is born to live and not prepared to live'

Seems we humans though do have an expectation that we should know how to live. When how can we, humans learn by living, inevitably we are programmed to move forward and age. Which is interesting, as I meet many clients who resist this programming.

Some people find themselves either in the past (either because of a loss, [...]