27/12/2022
After many years working in various roles, I was very unhappy with my working life, I still hadn’t found my true vocation and
In 2007 I met a man who would ultimately change my life. This man was a hypnotherapist that I went to for smoking cessation. I had a bad cannabis habit and I had been trying to stop for quite some time with absolutely no success. Whilst I was speaking to him during our first session, I realised that he could help me with other issues that I had been trying to deal with via various other methods within the mainstream mental health care teams that the NHS provided at the time.
Whilst working with this therapist, he mentioned on more than once occasion that I would make a good hypnotherapist/counsellor myself, now this got me thinking, was this what I had been looking for? I had always enjoyed helping people, but I never considered myself the ‘therapist type’ whatever that meant.
So, with a little more thought, introspection, a bit of persuasion from friends and my therapist, I decided to give it a go. Shortly after that I signed up to the next course at a well-respected college ‘Royal Berkshire College of Clinical Hypnosis’ and my training began in earnest. I qualified and became a Clinical Hypnotherapist in 2009.
The college has recently been awarded ‘Hypnotherapy School of the Year 2022’ so just as I have, they have gone from strength to strength.
In 2017 I decided I wanted more of specialist knowledge of an area that I had a real personal interest in, so I volunteered at a local addiction specialist agency which led to an apprenticeship. I eventually qualified with distinctions as a Drug and Alcohol Recovery Worker moving into the Criminal Justice team as one of the lead workers.
So, for many years I had been working in many different types of jobs, doing work that I didn’t like and just like Mick Jagger I was thinking ‘I can’t get no satisfaction’ but eventually I found a job that I found fulfilling and it meant something to me, I could finally enjoy my life as well as my work.
It took me many years to realise that I wanted to help other people who struggled as I had, but I only realised this once I had been on my journey dealing with my own issues.
Once I had a handle on my own life, it dawned on me how good life can be, once you come to terms with who you are, what has happened in your past or what is happening to you in the present, you can then move forward to fully become the person you are meant to be.
After those milestones have been achieved and that’s no small thing, you can then make your life what you want it to be and not what life events may have made it for you.
I am now at a point in my life where I think I can be more effective working from within my own practice helping people as I have been for years, this is how Life’s Natural Balance came into being.
