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My name is Lesley Ford and I am the founder of Phoenix Holistic Health UK Ltd. I came into the holistic therapy world in the late 1990's when I was suffering from M.E. (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) within which I had a period of 2 years having to go shopping in a wheelchair as I had no energy to walk long distances, and after my GP told me that there was no specific treatemt for this condition and
the only options for me was to go on anti-depressants, I started to investigate how else I could help myself recover. My journey back to full health was a long one (9 years in total) as I was stubborn and would not listen to my body! I suffered from panic attacks, migraines, no or very low energy, attention deifict and I could only focus on looking at pictures, no text, and eventually a friend recommended I see a homeopath. was my reaction! I had no idea what that type of therapy was!! My first experience with my 'homeopath' was something I had never experienced before with any health professional, someone sitting there and listening to me for once, he took my 'full case' and worked out my constitutional remedy and my recovery started. My recovery took about 18 months to 2 years to become what I would say 'being fully back to normal' but each small step was attributed to Homeopathy, and as such, I decided to look for a short course to help my young family at the time whenever they became ill, alas there were none and all I could find was a 4 year part time course to become a Registered Homeopath, so I trained and qualified in 2005, I then went on to study my Post Graduate in Homeoapthy for another 2 years. I worked full time in another business role whilst still practising in a very part time capacity within my practice. It was in 2019, that I was made redundant from my full time business role and I decided that now was the time to launch my dream of my full time practice to help others. Phoenix Holistic Health UK Ltd was set up in December 2019 and I now also have added Coaching to my skillset, covering NLP, (Neuro Linguistic Programming, Law of Attraction, and EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique- also known as Tapping. I am happy to say that I now enjoy FULL health and have done so for many years now and am honoured by the fact that I am here to help others heal themsleves. When I was at my lowest health I had to give up my job and had very little finances to cope and having to find more money for holistic treatment seemed daunting at the time, and so, with that in mind, I have set up a monthly payment option for those that want the treatment but with flexibility on payment. BONUS- also included in the monthly payment plan is the basic 18 remedy kit (RRP 29.99) for you to keep at home , and comes to you after the first monthly payment has been received. You can also pay per treatment if you wish. Coaching 1-2-1 and mindset courses are available, please ask for more details, where I explore with you your limiting beliefs and values that are embedded in your subconscious mind and may have been holding you back from achieving your own dreams in your life. Wishing you a wonderful day and thanks for dropping by, if you would like to have an informal chat about how I can help you gain optimum health or a better mindset, then please do contact me for a free chat. Lesley Ford
25/04/2026
Your mind isn’t always giving you new information.
Sometimes… it’s just rearranging the same information in a way that feels more threatening.
Like a kaleidoscope.
You turn it slightly… and the whole picture changes.
Same pieces. Different pattern.
When anxiety is high, it can look like something is wrong…
when actually nothing has changed except the angle you’re looking from.
Most people try to fight the thought.
But that keeps you stuck in the same pattern.
The shift comes from changing the lens… not arguing with what you see.
So next time your mind jumps to the worst case, pause and ask:
What happens if I turn this slightly?
Same situation.
Different experience.
24/04/2026
Another one! 🎉
Dan came to me having tried to stop smoking more times than he could count. Sound familiar?
What changed this time? We worked with his unconscious mind to shift the pattern at the root, rather than just relying on willpower.
His words say it better than I ever could:
"Stopping smoking has been my biggest challenge for years now with many failed attempts. Your personalised methods and the structure of the process has helped me stop quite easily actually, which has been amazing."
If you've tried everything and nothing has stuck, this is worth a conversation. Drop me a message and let's chat. 💜
24/04/2026
You can’t logic your way out of a survival response.
You already know it’s safe.
But your body still reacts like it’s not.
This is what happens when the unconscious mind is still running a survival script.
You can’t logic your way out of it—
But you can rewire it.
24/04/2026
Have you ever read a message twice and immediately think something is wrong?
Or you say something in a conversation and spend the next hour replaying it?
Your mind isn't trying to make you miserable. It's trying to protect you.
But sometimes that protective instinct gets stuck, and what starts as a small uncertainty turns into a full spiral of worst case scenarios.
I've just written a blog about exactly this pattern, about why it happens, why telling yourself "it'll be fine" rarely works for long, and what actually helps.
It's one of the things I work with most in my Cheltenham practice and online across the UK, and once people understand why their mind does this, something often shifts.
Read it on the link below here 👇
If this sounds like someone you know, feel free to share it. 💜
22/04/2026
The Comfort Gremlin shows up when life feels heavy.
It says:
“Have something to eat — you’ll feel better.”
“Pour a drink — it’ll take the edge off.”
“Distract yourself — you deserve it.”
In the moment, it feels soothing. But long-term, it can become the very thing that keeps you stuck.
The Comfort Gremlin isn’t your enemy. It’s trying to protect you from pain — it just doesn’t realise there are better ways to find comfort that leave you stronger instead of drained.
At Phoenix Hypnotherapy in Cheltenham, Gloucester, and surrounding areas, I help people retrain the Comfort Gremlin — giving it a new role that supports real calm, resilience, and freedom.
22/04/2026
It started with a single thought —
“What if I fail?” — and straight away the whole body reacted.
The tight chest.
The shallow breath.
The restless night that followed.
That’s when it clicked:
It wasn’t “just in head.”
The body is always listening.
The moment you began changing your relationship with those thoughts, something shifts.
The signals soften.
The body starts to calm.
Because every thought is a message — and the body hears them all.
21/04/2026
A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor
Calm waters are comfortable, but they don’t teach you much.
It’s the storms that make you stronger.
Every challenge you’ve faced has taught you something about who you are and what you can handle.
You might not have chosen the waves, but you’ve learned how to navigate them.
And that skill — that strength — will carry you further than you think.
21/04/2026
Confidence isn’t built by thinking positively.
It’s built by showing your unconscious it’s safe to do "the thing.”
21/04/2026
You teach people how to treat you by what you allow
Boundaries aren’t selfish — they’re essential.
Every time you accept behaviour that makes you feel small, you silently tell the world it’s okay.
The truth is, you set the standard for how others treat you.
When you start raising that standard, everything changes — the people you attract, the respect you receive, and the way you feel about yourself.
21/04/2026
If you spoke to a friend the way you speak to yourself…
would they stay?
Most people don’t realise how brutal their inner voice has become.
Not because they’re weak — but because self-criticism slowly becomes “normal.”
You make one mistake → the voice says, “Typical.”
You feel tired → “Pull yourself together.”
You overeat → “You’ve ruined everything.”
You try something new → “Who do you think you are?”
If a friend spoke to us like that, we’d set a boundary.
But when the voice is inside our own head, we accept it as truth.
The logic is this:
Your unconscious mind listens to the tone you use on yourself — not just the words.
And that tone shapes behaviour, confidence, food choices, and emotional patterns far more than willpower ever will.
You don’t need to become relentlessly positive.
You just need to speak to yourself like someone worth staying with.
🎥 Watch this week's Lesley Logic to shift how you speak to yourself — and how you treat yourself.
20/04/2026
Self-trust is the foundation of everything.
If you’ve ever second-guessed yourself constantly, it’s not a personality flaw.
It’s often a nervous system response.
When you’ve been ignored, invalidated, or overruled repeatedly—
You stop trusting your instincts.
Hypnotherapy helps rebuild that internal compass so you can feel confident in your own decisions again.
19/04/2026
This week I have been talking about our own Boggarts - the gremlin in the mind from Harry Potter.......
Let me tell you about Sarah. 💜
Sarah had a job interview on Monday.
She'd prepared well.
She knew her stuff.
She was ready.
But on Sunday night…
The Boggart appeared.
"What if you freeze?"
"What if they don't like you?"
"What if you get it wrong and everyone sees?"
By 11pm she was convinced she was going to fail.
She hadn't even walked in the room yet.
That's not a lack of confidence.
That's not a personality flaw.
That's a brain doing exactly what brains do.
Writing the worst-case story.
Before the chapter's even started.
Sarah didn't need to be told to "just think positive."
She needed to recognise the Boggart for what it was.
A story. Not a fact.
She went to the interview.
She got the job.
Not because the fear went away.
But because she stopped treating it as the truth.
If your mind does this too…
you're not broken.
You've just got a very overprotective Boggart. 🧙♀️
This week's Lesley Logic is all about this see the link below
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My name is Lesley Ford and I am the founder of Phoenix Holistic Health UK Ltd. I came into the Holistic therapy world in the late 1990’s when I was suffering from ME (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) with a period of 2 years having to go shopping in a wheelchair as I had no energy to walk long distances, and after my GP telling me that there was no specific treatment for this condition and the only option for me was anti-depressants I started to investigate how else I could help myself recover. My journey to full health was a long one (9 years) as I was stubborn and would not listen to my body! I suffered from panic attacks, migraines, no or low energy, attention deficit and could only focus on looking at pictures - no text and eventually I was told by a friend to visit a homeopath- (What? who is that was my reaction) My first experience with my ‘homeopath’ I realised later was nothing more than a prescription for vitamins! But undeterred I found another homeopath and he took a ‘full case’ and my recovery started.
My recovery took about 18 months to 2 years to become ‘back to normal’ but each small step was attributed to homeopathy, and as such I decided to look for a short course to help my young family at the time whenever they became ill, alas there were none and all I could find was a 4 year part time course to become a Registered Homeopath, so I trained and qualified in 2005, I then went on to do my Post Graduate qualification for another 2 years.
Phoenix Holistic Health UK Ltd was set up in December 2019 and I now have Angelic Reiki therapy to add to my skills as a Homeopath and the wonders of healing.
I have am now also a practitioner of Gamma Mindset Technique, one of the first in the UK this helps an individual retrain their Gamma brain waves that controls the sub-conscious side of our minds. Our sub-conscious actually over-rides our conscious states, and this can be the reason people find themselves self-sabotaging their efforts on a daily basis. A good example of this that I use is when we go on a diet and we do well on it for about 6 weeks or so and when we can actually see a difference in our body shape, we start to make short cuts on the diet and don’t stick to the diet rules etc, this is self sabotaging as deep down you may have a belief that is stopping you attain what your conscious state wants, a belief that has been there for possibly many years. The Gamma Mindset Technique teaches you how to CHANGE this belief in a short mind exercise and allow you to achieve anything you want. It is a powerful technique and now endorsed by top brain surgeons and also Bruce Lipton - a top rated scientist and author.
I am happy to say that I now enjoy FULL health and have done so for many years now and love the fact that I am here to help others heal themselves. When I was at my lowest health I had to give up my job and had very little finances to cope and having to find more money for holistic treatment seemed daunting at the time, so I have set up a monthly payment option for those that want the treatment but with flexibility on payment.
Prices for monthly Homeopathic treatment currently are £22.50pm for at least 12 months with unlimited access to homeopathy consultations and at least 6 consults throughout the year. However, the first consult MUST be paid for and currently the price for this is £70, this involves a 2 hour session to discuss you as an individual and for me to find out ‘what makes you tick’. Allowing patients to pay me monthly has allowed them to have some financial freedom in their recovery to health whilst also allowing them to have the treatments they need.
