• Smoking
• Drugs
• Alcohol
• Nail Biting
• Trichomania
• Gambling
• Other

A habit or an addiction could be viewed as a mechanism of self soothing or self medicating to deal with emotions and thoughts that overwhelm and a person cannot cope with. Are you ready to get your life back on track? The most important thing to begin your change, is that you are doing this for yourself.

What is your desire level to quit?

The main ingredient to being successful is your desire level to change and quit. The desire is your want to change, not the  emotional triggers that have kept you using or in that habit pattern of behaviour and thinking. Ask yourself; ‘Where do I sit on the desire scale to quit my habit or addiction?’ Rate it on a 1 – 10 scale. One being the least and 10 being the most desire you have to quit? When rating yourself, know that a desire level over a 7 is a good indication that you are ready to quit. If you rated under a 7 ask yourself:

“What is my reason to keep doing this to myself?”

“How does that make me feel?”

“Am I ready to deal with these feelings?”

If you are not ready to quit and would like help to get you to a point you are ready, your program can include pre-quit  preparation sessions.

Whether you view yourself  having a habit or an addiction, we work together to create a strategy that is individually tailored to you.  It takes into consideration the emotions behind any behaviour and thought patterns that contribute to your pattern of use.

The length and timing of your sessions takes in consideration:

• Safety and resourcing
• Resolving underlying emotional issues.
• The time frame of the brain to rewire new behaviour patterns.
• Enhancing associated positive emotional benefits of living life free.

The aim is mastery of yourself – Taking Charge of Your Own Change

The number of sessions required is dependant on the type of habit and or addiction. The following is a guide only.

– E.g. General Habits 3-4 sessions
– Smoking:  Programs vary from 1 – 6 sessions depending on desire to quit & other issues.
– Alcohol:  6 – 12 sessions
– Drug Dependency:  12 or more sessions

• Sugar Cravings
• Overweight
• Underweight
• Virtual Gastric Banding
• Anorexia
• Bulimia

Most people know what to do, but just can’t find the willpower or motivation to commit to changing their eating habit patterns.

Weight management is the management of:

• Calories in Vs calories out,
• Energy in Vs energy out,
• Water in Vs water out,
• What goes in Vs what is eliminated.
• It’s about working with the laws of nature. There is no avoiding it.

There are strategies when put into place that makes your body sing. Swapping foods that are not aligned with your body type with foods that work for you, makes a huge difference to the ease of releasing those extra kilos.

It is not just about food. What are you really eating? What’s eating you up? Is it safe to be slimmer? Why use food as a mechanism to control things in your life that you feel you can’t control?

By resolving underlying subconscious emotional issues and creating a new beneficial pattern of behaviour that is aligned with health and wellbeing, your body naturally changes to become the size and shape you want it to be.

You become in charge of your change, therefore you feel healthier, happier and more motivated to live your life based on health and wellbeing.

So no more Yo Yo dieting. Switching to a health and wellbeing lifestyle instead of dieting means there is no start date and no end date. That outdated dieting model is where old lifestyle habit patterns may sneak back in. No more!

As a general guide the number of sessions you require are usually between 4 -6 sessions.

• First session: Two hours; its information gathering, hypno-set up and where we get you
  started.
• Second session: One week later for 1 hour – focus on any emotional issues that may be
  contributing to holding onto the weight.
• Third session: Two weeks later
• Four plus sessions: Three – four weeks later

All sessions time frames are arranged based on an individual’s needs.

Fertility: It is important to acknowledge the importance of the mind/body connection in the process of conceiving. The subconscious mind is the holder of belief systems, thought patterns and coping strategies. The body is the holder of emotional memory and stress responses to past experiences, that may influence the ability to conceive.

Your mind is incredible and has the power to overcome those things we over focus on that get in the way when trying to become pregnant.

When our body is under stress it releases hormones that include cortisol and adrenaline to prepare us for the fight, flight, freeze and faint response as if we are in danger. Continued release of these stress hormones tells the body that the time is not safe to conceive a baby.

Sometimes we hear or experience something that is negative to us on a subconscious or conscious level that may produce a thought and an undesired emotional response. Like a mouse on a wheel, emotions create thoughts, which creates more emotions and around it goes. This compounding of thought and emotional responses may create a habit response that may have an impact upon fertility.

An Israeli study on women undergoing IVF showed an increased conception rate of women who had hypnosis compared to those who did not. Working with the subconscious mind offers an
opportunity to release stresses stored in the body so that the body’s potential to conceive is increased.

Hypnosis can assist in the release of blocks, unhelpful belief systems and undesired emotion problems that may impact upon the body’s natural ability to conceive. General guide of 4 – 6 sessions.

Birthing with Hypnotherapy – For a more comfortable and calmer birthing experience. In the modern world it was realised through observing the birthing practices of women in many Asian and third world countries that birthing itself was not normally a painful event. Whereas the western birthing model over the last century or so has made it more of a medical process that has disengaged women from their natural instincts and intuition that uses the body’s natural innate abilities tobirth naturally.

Thank goodness that is changing. There is still a way to go as birthing as the language associated with birthing may produce an unconscious response associated with the survival mechanisms of fight or flight that may create stress, fear and tension. So many times have I heard from mums to be, that as soon as she told others that she was pregnant all the negative pregnancy and birthing stories were regaled. Fear created tension and tension created pain.

Hypnosis incorporated as part of a woman’s birthing plan, can assist to connect to the innate natural abilities of their birthing body for a natural approach to a safe, easier and more comfortable birthing experience.

Since 2012, after being trained in The Mongan Hypnobirthing Method it has been a privilege to work with women and their partners to give the best opportunity to experience the joy of natural birthing that creates the most nurturing bonding experience with their baby.

The 2-hour six session program includes:

• Knowing and enhancing your birthing plan
• Understanding the mind / body connection for birthing
• Resourcing, so that you can be comfortable & at ease through pregnancy & birth
• Releasing associated birthing fears and enhancing the positive power of the mind
• Breathing, relaxation, visualisation and ultra-deepening techniques for various stages of
  birthing
• Enhancing the mother and partner experience and the partners role in birthing
• Self-hypnosis

We all have experiences that create memories which are stored in various interconnecting regions of our brain as short-term or long-term memory. The more information is used or repeated, the more likely it is to be retained and stored in long term memory.

Psychological trauma can be defined as an experience or events that involve actual or threatened death, serious physical harm of self or to others. One of the most effective ways people often cope with an overwhelming event is dissociate from that event. It is a mental process that disrupts and disconnects the functions of identity, memory, thoughts, feelings and experiences.

There are varying degrees of trauma. Little trauma’s are events that you may not even remember or seem insignificant at the time. Then there are more complex traumas that result in significant emotional responses and thoughts that are triggered and compounded over time. The compounding of triggered responses often can impact upon a person’s ability to live a life free of fight, flight, freeze and faint responses such as anxiety and depression.

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) may develop after a person had been through an intense ordeal where physical harm or life or safety was threatened to themselves or others. As a result a person may have feelings of fear, helplessness, shame, terror, anger, anxieties, depression & other emotions associated with persistent frightening thoughts, memories and day/nightmares.

You can rewire your brain and body’s responses to take back control and live life as you deserve to live it … happy and fulfilled.

The environment you grow up in and the subsequent life experiences create a map by which you live your life and form the relationships you have with others. Whether a relationship is a friendship, love interest, work, business or general interactions with others, we respond from the map of the world we created. Often this is created from early childhood experiences. As a result overtime, undesired patterns of behaviour, thoughts and emotional responses can impact upon your life and those in it. It is time to take responsibility for yourself, to change any unresolved issues and accumulated emotional baggage.

Let’s work together in a safe non-judgemental environment to create a relationship with yourself that you like and enjoy living with. Then you will begin to attract people into your life that are deserving of you.

We will:

1. Looking at subconscious mind programming and associated emotional issues due to past experiences that have created pain, disappointment, lack of confidence, lack of trust and unhappiness.
2. Create a greater understanding & knowledge of yourself so that your relationship with others is healthier and balanced.
3. Resourcing by giving you the tools that you can use in everyday life that builds a more confident and empowered you.
4. Finding trust again.
5. Working with couples to find common ground to rekindle the friendship and love that reshapes the relationship.
6. Working with single people who are looking for love and a partner to share their life.
7. Breaking up is hard to do. Releasing with the utmost care and bringing about healing that takes into consideration you, your partner and if any, your children.
8. Understanding what an unhealthy and healthy relationship looks like.
9. Rewiring the brain and creating new neural pathways that leads to new positive healthy ways of responding to situations.
10. Bringing it all together to create a healthier, happier confident you in the relationship you have with yourself and others.

Easing the Anxious Mind.

The course consists of six weekly sessions for children and adults. The time frame of the course is organised based on individual needs.

Children: After school and during school holidays.

Adults: During the day and / or evenings.

Creating a Great Relationship with Yourself.

Can you answer the question? ‘Who Am I?’ A clue is that you are not, the life roles you play, e.g. mother, husband, friend, daughter, son. By discovering ‘Who Am I”, by ‘Being Who I Want To Be’ as a starting point is a spring board to feeling more comfortable and confident living in your own body. The flow on is creating healthier, happier relationships with others and being true to yourself in the life you lead.

Compassionate Tapping – First Aid 4 The Soul (Commencing 2019)

This six week course, 1 – 1.5hrs once a week or a full day workshop is a combination of two powerful healing techniques that can bring about major changes and profound healing at a very deep level.

The aim is to give you a resource that empowers you to take control of any underlying issues that may result in overwhelming emotions, thoughts or physical discomforts. It places you in the driver’s seat of being able to heal yourself so that you can enjoy your life in health and wellbeing.

The course is designed into two Phases.

Phase One: Foundation Course
Phase Two: Advanced

Suicide Prevention and support services for those experiencing some form of trauma:

24hour / 7 days a week services.

Lifeline Australia:
13 11 14
www.lifeline.org.au

Beyond Blue:
1300 22 46 36
www.beyondblue.org.au

Suicide Call Back Service:
1300 65 94 67
www.suicidecallbackservice.org.au

MensLine Australia:
1300 78 99 78
www.mensline.org.au

Kids Helpline:
1800 55 18 00
www.kidshelpline.com.au

Services for Non emergency events:
Headspace:  1800 65 08 90
www.headspace.org.au

Gundiitjmara Health Clinic:
3 Banyan Street, Warrnambool
03 5564 33 44

• Anxiety
• Depression
• Cancer & Chronic Diseases
• Pain Management

It is said that life happens while you live it. Therefore, the issues that arise are many and varied. If life creates issues that results in undesirable thoughts and emotions we can work together to change that.

*Anxiety * Stress *PTSD * Birthing * Fertility *Fears * Grief *Sadness *Depression *Life Issues *Relationships * Confidence * Memory *Motivation *Relaxation *Cravings * Sexual Issues *Negative Self Talk *Body Image *Athletic Performance * Exam Stress * Bulimia *Anger *Guilt *Food issues *Sleep Issues * Self Esteem *Emotions *Habits *Gambling *Trichotillomania *Smoking *Impotence *Phobias *Weight Management *Spiritual Issues *ADD *ADHD *Obsessions *OCD *Chronic Disease * Cancer *Physical ailments *Chronic Fatigue etc…

Over the years I have worked with many age groups from children as young as three to adults in their 90’s. People of all abilities and disabilities. All have had issues that interfered with
their ability to enjoy life and live it without impediment. The main criteria for being successful is that you want to make changes and you are making those changes for yourself.