The Toilet Anxiety Episode
Toilet anxiety is a common issue that can cause a lot of distress. It that doesn’t get talked about enough and in this episode, we explore what it is and what you can do about it if it’s an issue…
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Peace of Mind 10 Minute Meditation
Peace of Mind 10 Minute Meditation. A simple but beautiful meditation taking you to the core of who you really are. It’s a wonderful meditation to add to the anxiety and stress healing series to help you heal from the…
Anxiety & Stress Healing Program Introduction
An introduction to my new incoming 10-week Anxiety Healing Program which is also great for depression too. This is a holistic approach which focuses on the bigger picture of anxiety which could you help heal your anxiety from the inside…
Want Help for Your Porn Habit?
Since that video went viral on Tik Tok and as it’s still gaining attention in the mainstream, media, hundreds of people reached out asking for help, told me their stories and asked me to point them in the direction of…
Zen in Ten Minutes Meditation Podcast
Feel like Zen in Ten with this deeply relaxing podcast.
Mini Health Anxiety Meditation
A mini health anxiety meditation for those that have listened to the How to Beat Anxiety Podcast and the longer version of the Health Anxiety Meditation Podcast. Reduce, manage and transform your health anxiety with these powerful podcasts.
Health Anxiety Meditation
A deep transformative meditation for health anxiety which follows on from the How to Beat Health Anxiety Podcast. Relax and train your mind to help reduce, manage and move on from health anxiety.
How to Beat Health Anxiety
Health anxiety can rob you of your health and reduce your quality of life. This podcast is here to help anyone struggling with health anxiety and who wants to take back control.
Tame Your Monkey Mind ABC Process
What is a monkey mind? I like this term which originates from Buddhism as it describes accurately how the mind can feel like an overexcited, agitated monkey charting non-stop as it swings from branch (thought) to branch (another thought) without…
Anxiety & Stress Antidote Meditation
An anxiety & Stress antidote podcast for those days when you need to calm your nervous system down.
Winter Proof Your Mind against Anxiety, Stress and Depression!
Winter-proof your mind with these simple but effective lifestyle changes.
Anti-Anxiety 10 min Body Scan Meditation
An anti-anxiety10 minute body scan meditation, helping you to reduce your cortisol levels, inflammation and overactive limbic system. Give your body and mind a chance to heal.
No Ordinary Gratitude Meditation
This is no ordinary powerful gratitude meditation challenge which could change your mind and change your life. Perfect for inner conflict and personal growth
Top Ten Ways to Beat Anxiety
If you are serious about beating anxiety then this podcast is for you. It contains my top ten tips you will need to do to help anxiety move on.
True You Transformation MMF 21
Transform into the true you with this simple but powerful podcast session. We all get a little lost at times where we don’t feel ourselves, struggle or forget what we are truly capable of. This not just a reminder of…
Self Care – COVID-19 Special
Your tips and advice for coping with the COVID-19 Lockdown. A huge thank you to anyone who sent me their suggestions!
Focus Meditation MMF Session 20
Heal your anxiety, stress and train your mind to focus with this simple, deep and relaxing meditation.
The Truth About Your Negative Thoughts? MMF Session 17
Is this the truth about your negative thoughts? Life is too short to have a mind full of negative thoughts taking up too of your time and energy. Retrain your brain to see your negative thoughts for what they actually…
Relaxing Positivity Boost MMF Session 19
Relaxing Positivity Boost! Mindful Mental Fitness Session 19 A gentle healing session for anxiety, stress and depression by relaxing your nervous system, releasing endorphins and boosting your neurochemistry.
Part 2: The Truth About Your Negative Thoughts? MMF 18
Part 2: Is this the truth about your negative thoughts? Let’s add a little twist! Life is too short to have a mind full of negative thoughts taking up too of your time and energy. Retrain your brain to see…
The Truth About Your Negative Thoughts MMF Session 17
Is this the truth about your negative thoughts? Life is too short to have a mind full of negative thoughts taking up too of your time and energy. Retrain your brain to see your negative thoughts for what they actually…
Intentions Podcast Transcript
This is the script I loosely used for my Intentions Podcast which is now available to listen to here, Spotify and iTunes. Wow, The world has changed so quickly, and we are all having to adapt to our new lifestyles…
COVID-19 Self Care Plan
As we are adapting to the new way of living that COVID-19 has brought us, it’s more important now than ever to have a self-care plan in place to keep our mental and physical health levels high. I think this…
My Self-Care Guide 2020
There is no doubt that winter can put pressure on our nervous systems due to a few factors. The cold, wet weather is dominating this year, party season, Christmas, low sunlight levels, increased alcohol, junk food binges, financial pressures, and…
Stop Anxiety & Panic Attacks
This is a transcript version of my Stop Panic Attacks Podcast which you can find here or on iTunes and Spotify Panic and Anxiety attacks suck; they are terrifying and come out of nowhere and leave you feeling totally out…
What is Anxiety Rebellion?
Anxiety loves you to obey its rules, and it can be subtle, blatant, and ferocious in making sure you stick to what it thinks is best for you. Life feels a struggle, negative patterns of behavior keep repeating, and your…
Your Chemistry Needs You
When was the last time you did something that was an actual act of self-love, care, compassion, or kindness for yourself? “I used to..” It is a sentence many a client has begun with before telling me about something that…
What I didn’t Know About Anxiety Part One
What I didn’t know about anxiety and what changes I began to make to help it heal.
What I didn’t Know About Anxiety Part One
What I didn’t know about anxiety and what changes I began to make to help it heal.
Brain Boosting
Here is a wonderful little brain boosting exercise you can explore for a few minutes and then I will tell you what some of the positive effects of doing this are. I would read through this exercise and do it…
Why Aren’t We Happier?
With our living standards in general never being better I am often asked; why is it that mental health issues are now so common and on the increase? I believe the answer is actually quite simple: We are overloading our…
Boost your Self Esteem and Confidence with Brain Training
Boost your self-esteem and confidence with this simple but powerful brain training exercise. “I am not good enough, I am unlikeable, ugly and I don’t belong”….I didn’t know it at the time but my mind was slowly being programmed with…
Waking up to Summer
I have just come back from a lovely cool swim in the sea off Brighton beach on what must be one of the hottest days of the year. The beach, as usual, is very busy and the water is full…
The Challenge
I want you to take up a challenge for this week. This week has been an incredible week for many of my clients who with some coaching took a step outside of their comfort zones and began achieving some of…
Park Run Prescription
The sound of beeps from smart watches and phones firing up their exercises apps marks the end of the 5k Brighton and Hove Promenade Park Run and the race is on. The beat of the feet is almost hypnotic as…
Do you want to feel more Motivated?
“ I feel guilty if I sit down and do nothing,” is something quite a few clients tell me as they struggle with various forms of relaxing. Yet sitting down and relaxing is one of the most productive things we…
Mental Health Injury
“It still hurts,” he said twisting his wrist slightly at me to show me the swelling which had greatly reduced but was still an issue. My friend then went through the list of proactive approaches they had been doing to…
Out of Control
As my heart raced I clenched my fists trying to control the incoming panic attack which was threatening to take me over. I could feel my skin becoming hot and prickly and the knot in my gut get hard and…
Turn me Off
The constant stream of intrusive negative thoughts from an over active mind not only feels exhausting it can make you feel like you are going mad too. Distraction doesn’t work, challenging the thoughts is too tiring and trying to get…
Not Good Enough?
The reality is quite simple really. If you keep indulging in the tricks of the mind which hold you back from getting what you want in life then someone else will simply come along and take what could have been…
“I’m Struggling.”
When clients tell me they are struggling with a certain area of their life whether it be career, health or relationship goals, they are often surprised at a possible answer as to why they are failing. They will deny this…
Mindfulness
Mindfulness is simply switching your awareness from thoughts focusing on the past or future to what is happening in the present moment. You can become mindful in the present about feelings, emotions, thoughts, taste, touch, smell and what you can…
5 Truths about Personal Training
It’s easy to have the wrong idea about Personal Training so guest blogger Sam Foster from Miss Fit explains what PT can really be about. What’s it really like working with a personal trainer? Being forced to exercise until…
I’m not good Enough
“I’m not good enough.” “Everyone is better than me.” “Why is everyone else more confident than me?” I think it’s easier for our self worth to take a battering now than maybe any other time in our history. We are…
Top 5 Mistakes made with Anxiety (updated)
Here are the top 5 mistakes people make with anxiety: 1. Trying to fight it 2. Trying to distract yourself from it 3. Trying hard to get rid of it 4. Having a go at yourself about it 5. Feeling…
Wake Up to Self Sabotage
It’s that time of year for a life change as the New Year brings in a symbolic fresh slate yet most of you know that despite best intentions you will give up, not bother and simply avoid what you really…
Tell Children they are Fat?
“I believe it is time for a few tears and tantrums. Hard news hurts.” – Katie Hopkins. Outrage and debates raged this week due to Katie Hopkins blog and appearance on This Morning as she explained to readers and viewers…
Stoptober Success!
Stoptober is here again and for many of you your minds will lie to you in order to get you smoking again after a few hours or days of trying to say goodbye to cigarettes. The reason it will do…
Panic Attack Help
If you have ever had a panic attack then you know just how terrifying it can be as well as feeling utterly powerless when it begins to sweep in. What is happening on a basic level is somehow the Limbic…
Limbic Training
It’s easy to see why people will do anything not to feel any negative or uncomfortable feelings. It doesn’t feel nice and as we are creatures of comfort the natural reactive response is to try and distract ourselves with something…
Get Running!
How many of you wait until you feel in the mood to exercise? Or even find yourself excitedly wanting to get fit but find that motivation disappearing quite quickly? It can be frustrating to have fitness goals or just…
Goal Setting Doesn’t Work
“You need goals,” we are all told if we want to achieve or be more successful in life. “Without goals you will fail.” The answer to life seems to be goal setting but why are we so terrible at…
Motivation Perspective
The Paramedics were doing their best to save someones life on a bus today. I didn’t stop and gawk at what was happening, I just silently hoped they made it and carried on home. This was another reminder that we…
The Power of You
At the centre of you is one heck of a powerful person. Clear and focused, Relaxed and calm, Resilient and resourceful, Confident and strong, Able to see the bigger picture, Opportunistic and able to see the potential in what is…
Faking Perfection
“I feel worthless.” “Everyone is better than me.” “Why is everyone else more confident than me?” I think it’s easier to feel more worthless now than maybe any other time in our history. We are bombarded with so many altered…
Top 5 Mistakes with Anxiety
Here are the top 5 mistakes people make with anxiety: 1. Trying to fight it 2. Trying to distract yourself from it 3. Trying hard to get rid of it 4. Having a go at yourself about it 5. Feeling…
6 Harsh Realities of Weight loss
1. Scooby Doo? Have you been conditioned like a dog to wanting cheap crappy chocolate treats? Remind yourself you are not a dog and if you really want something to make yourself feel good then choose something that reflects your…
IBS Toilet Trap
Where’s the loo? The fear of not being near a toilet can be overwhelming for some people especially if they suffer with IBS. The thoughts about what will happen if there is no loo nearby can become obsessive and frightening. …
Stop Smoking Now
Ok, let’s do this, at present your mind is probably tricking you into believing you can’t stop smoking or at least will find it too difficult to let it go. Here are the facts: You could stop smoking right now…
Personal Training
“I would never have thought about coming to see someone like you,” he said shuffling uncomfortably in the chair as he made his confession. “I thought people who went to therapists were weak and just needed to pull their socks…
Crafty Perfection
“I just want to it to be perfect,” Carrie moaned. “I want my book to not get these types of reviews!” I had looked at the reviews on Amazon and some people have been quite critical to say the least. …
Ramblings On The Mind
Whatever you blame yourself for. Whatever you feel guilty about. Whatever you beat yourself up over. I want you to know something. It was not your fault. We don’t have freewill as proclaimed by some. Your brain evolved the way…
Personally Deluded
“I take everything so personally,” my new client said. “Can you help me become more confident and not so paranoid when it comes to what people think of me?” “Do you think we are all judging you?” I asked. “Yeah,…
Getting over Yourself
Let’s make it quite clear even though it may seem a little harsh at first. Not many if any are that interested in you. So if you do happen to be in any social situation which you feel we are…
Caveman Control?
Well it’s not about control which does appeal to anxious people but it’s more about how do we influence and work with the caveman. Especially when he is being too horny, anxious, angry, stressed or indulging in bad habits which…
Your Horny Caveman
Your Horny Caveman Why do some people find it so hard to practise safe sex or even remain faithful? Good intentions can go out the window as soon as someone feels horny. This powerful sexual urge can get people indulge…
The Power of Yes
The word NO has quite a devastating effect on the mind. (Apologies for what reading this word has done to you). This powerful word when spoken, thought about or read releases dozens of stress producing chemicals in the brain which…
Health Anxiety
It’s very common to worry about and feel anxiety about health issues, but what can you do when it gets out of hand? “It’s cancer,” my mind whispered to me. “You could have cancer,” it continued. “What then?” it asked. …
I’m not Good Enough
“Phew I’m tired..maybe I should slow down, I wish this run was over, I don’t think I can do this, how long is left to go?” My first run after a few weeks break is always a tough one and…
Anger, Stress and Anxiety Management
One thing some clients are surprised by is how angry they come across, the anger within influenced their thoughts and behaviours and they just accepted this as part of their normal behaviour. They often wonder what other peoples problems are…