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

06/02/2026

The number people hijacked by their own memories often don't realise they have PTSD. The good news is we can help the brain to process the trauma and move forward.

What makes the Muss Rewind Technique appealing is its refreshing lack of drama. There is no expectation of cathartic sobbing, no heroic struggle, no requirement to “be strong.”

Rewinding implies control. This technique allows the brain to give the story a beginning middle and end and put it into past memory. It means events can be revisited without being relived. The mind can learn to press pause instead of panic.

With kindness
Angharad

04/02/2026

PTSD has a particular relationship with time. The past, rather than staying politely where it belongs, pops into the present whenever it feels like it. A sound, a smell, or an entirely innocent Tuesday afternoon can trigger memories and thoughts, often complete with emotions that did not get the memo about being historical.

This is where people started wondering whether the brain might benefit from a gentler way of handling life's replays. Enter the rewind technique, updated by Dr Muss for PTSD. It is remarkably practical, less like therapy and more like something you do to a lawnmower that won’t start. The basic idea is not to relive and re tell trauma in vivid detail, but to change how the memory is stored and accessed.

With kindness,
Angharad

02/02/2026

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is much more common than many believe. Often we consider it the preserve of war veterans or those who have survived near death experiences. PTSD results whenever something happens which our brain says no way that is far too horrific/dangerous to process and let into long term storage.

Past events then float around in the present ready to pop up at the most inopportune of times. Nothing is visibly broken, yet everything feels slightly on fire. It’s confusing, exhausting, and deeply unfair, like being chased by a bear that only you can see.

Stay with me this week, I am a PTSD specialist, and I will talk a little more about how we can process trauma and move forward.

With kindness,
Angharad

30/01/2026

The curious thing about calming the nervous system is how ordinary it looks from the outside. There are no dramatic transformations, just small shifts: shoulders dropping, breath deepening, thoughts slowing. Inside the brain, however, entire networks are changing their communication patterns in response to this newfound safety.

Lasting mental change rarely begins with force. It begins with the nervous system realizing it does not need to protect you quite so fiercely anymore. Once safety becomes familiar, curiosity replaces fear, flexibility replaces rigidity, and growth occurs with a surprising lack of drama.

With kindness,
Angharad

28/01/2026

Anxiety is not a personal failure, it is a nervous system trained by past experiences to expect danger. Fortunately, the nervous system also learns through repeated experiences of safety. Each calm breath, each moment of grounding, updates the internal prediction model from “something is wrong” to “this is manageable.”

Safety is not the absence of stress; it is the presence of regulation. A regulated nervous system can feel emotion without being overwhelmed by it. This is why learning to soothe the body increases emotional resilience more effectively than trying to eliminate uncomfortable feelings altogether.

With kindness,
Angharad

26/01/2026

Anxiety is a mental and physical state orchestrated by our nervous system to keep us safe in a dangerous world. If we are hyper vigilant to dangers then we will better avoid those dangers. It is a perverse irony really since anxiety itself feels so very unsafe.

I help people live without anxiety. So how do we do this? You cannot think your way into safety. The nervous system evolved long before language, logic, or inspirational quotes. It listens to everything, and physical cues are fundamental: breath rhythm, muscle tension, posture, facial expression. When the body relaxes, the brain follows.

Hypnotherapy will calm the mind and body and create the safe relaxed conditions so change can begin.

With kindness,
Angharad

23/01/2026

We often talk about dopamine, it is important - it makes us feel motivated and achieved. Dopamine likes action.

Serotonin makes us feel stronger and coping. It likes routine, good sleep, calm breathing and positive thinking

Oxytocin is associated with hugs. It is also released when we feel safe and understood. It surprises may to know that it increases when we are kind to ourselves.

Hypnosis helps gently reset the nervous system and we feel calm (a serotonin boost). Good therapy creates trust and we feel understood (oxytocin). In sessions we notice the small wins, work out where we want to go and start moving there (dopamine).

Once these three are flowing life will seem so much more possible.
With kindness,
Angharad

21/01/2026

Dopamine often gets blamed for bad habits. A quick hit from eating or drinking for example. But dopamine is a reward that acts like your brain’s enthusiastic intern shouting, “Ooo, that looks promising!”

Dopamine helps us when progress feels rewarding so in sessions we retrain some of those dopamine chasing habit. Noticing the small wins, clear goals, and suddenly motivation (dopamine) stops behaving like a distracted squirrel and we can move in a more considered positive direction.

With kindness,
Angharad

19/01/2026

We are often told to think positively in order to feel better. But sometimes life is simply not good so all this talk about positivity can feel a bit toxic. Positive psychology does not mean trying to force a happy mindset, it is about being able to notice and accept the difficulties and to work out what helps us through them. What works, or what we imagine might work.

Athletes visualize. Musicians imagine. Your brain can’t tell much difference between reality and imagination. So we imagine ourselves as we would like to be as we manage the difficult times. Hypnosis uses visualisation of preferred fixtures to rehearse the calm, confident version of us. ,So when life happens, the brain says, “Oh yes, we’ve done this, and I can.”

WIth kindness
Angharad

16/01/2026

Hypnosis, despite a colourful reputation, is simply a natural state of focused attention - the same one you slip into when binge-watching a series and suddenly realise it’s midnight. Neuroscience confirms this: your brain is wonderfully suggestible when relaxed and focused, which is where real change becomes possible.

From a neuroscience point of view, the brain is less like a fixed machine and more like an enthusiastic Labrador—trainable, curious, and occasionally prone to running off in unhelpful directions. Hypnotherapy works by calming the nervous system and guiding the brain to form new, healthier neural pathways. In short, we teach the Labrador where the path is, and it usually quite enjoys the walk.

With kindness,
Angharad

14/01/2026

One of the quiet joys of solution focused work work is watching clients realise their brains are not the enemy. Anxiety, habits, and fears are not signs of weakness; they are learned responses that once made sense. With the right conditions, the brain happily updates itself. It is, after all, an organ designed for survival, adaptation, and the occasional unnecessary worry about emails.

Neuroscience shows us that change does not require force—it requires the right state. Hypnotherapy creates that state. Solution-focused work gives it direction. Together, they help clients feel calmer, clearer, and more capable, without needing to analyse every thought they’ve ever had since 1997.

With kindness,
Angharad

12/01/2026

Being solution-focused means we don’t dwell on what’s broken. We look at what’s already working, even if it’s currently hiding behind anxiety, habits, or stress. When we focus on solutions, our prefrontal cortex perks up, our stress response quietens and change feels achievable.

Clients often say they feel lighter after sessions, this is not because they are physically lighter but because their nervous system has shifted out of survival mode.

When we feel safe, our thinking becomes more flexible. When it’s flexible, we can learn. And when we learn, habits and emotional patterns can change far faster than people expect.

With kindness,
Angharad

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