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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
06/09/2025
What If You Didn’t Need to Rehash the Story?
Hypnotherapy isn’t about digging up your past and analysing every memory.
It’s about helping your unconscious mind change how those memories are stored.
Because when something painful happens — especially if it caught you off guard —
your mind doesn’t always file it away like it’s over.
Instead, it stores it with a warning label.
And that label keeps showing up…
in your reactions, your worries, your habits.
Hypnotherapy helps remove the warning label.
Not by re-living it — but by creating a shift in how safe your system feels now.
And here’s the thing:
You don’t always need to find the exact root of a problem.
Sometimes just getting close enough is all it takes —
for those unwanted thoughts and patterns to come toppling down.
That’s how real change happens.
Quietly. Internally.
From the inside out.
06/09/2025
Your body listens to every thought you think.
That’s why anxious thoughts don’t just stay in your head — they tighten your chest, quicken your breath, and keep you on edge.
The same is true in reverse: calm thoughts can steady your body, even before anything outside you changes.
Hypnotherapy helps retrain that loop, so your body no longer reacts to every old alarm.
05/09/2025
Holding on to anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die
Anger can feel like it’s protecting you, but all it really does is drain you.
The person who hurt you may have moved on — yet you’re still carrying the weight.
Letting go isn’t about saying what happened was okay. It’s about setting yourself free so you can put that energy into the life you want now, not the pain you’ve already lived.
04/09/2025
Did you know…
🧠 Your unconscious mind doesn’t know the difference between real danger and imagined fear.
That’s why you can feel anxious—even when you logically know everything’s fine.
🧠 It runs about 90% of your behaviour.
Most of your emotional responses?
Patterns formed years ago—and never updated.
🧠 Your body responds before your brain finishes a thought.
That racing heart, tight chest or frozen feeling is a survival response… not a weakness.
What’s often misunderstood is this:
You can’t talk yourself out of anxiety when the pattern lives in your unconscious mind.
That’s why hypnotherapy works—it helps update those outdated responses safely and effectively.
Sessions in Cheltenham, Gloucester and online.
04/09/2025
You don’t need more willpower.
You need to work with the part of your mind that’s been running the show all along—your unconscious.
It’s the part that forms beliefs, triggers reactions, and holds onto outdated emotional patterns.
And it’s not trying to sabotage you—it’s trying to protect you.
Hypnotherapy speaks directly to that part.
So you can finally stop fighting yourself and start feeling free.
Sessions available in Cheltenham, Gloucester and online.
03/09/2025
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.
03/09/2025
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.
02/09/2025
Comfort Zone truth
Your comfort zone is the most dangerous place you can live.
Not because something bad happens there…
But because nothing happens there.
Every day you sit inside it, life stays the same.
Safe. Predictable. Small.
Growth isn’t comfortable.
But neither is regret.
01/09/2025
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.
01/09/2025
The Avoider Gremlin tells you to wait.
Wait until you feel ready.
Wait until the timing is perfect.
Wait until you’re more confident.
But that moment rarely arrives.
Instead, this gremlin pulls you away from the uncomfortable things. The conversation you don’t want to have. The decision you’re afraid to make. The thing you really want, but fear failing at.
Avoidance feels safe in the short term — but long term, it keeps you stuck.
You don’t have to do everything at once.
But you do have to begin.
Hypnotherapy helps by working with the unconscious blocks that keep you in hesitation.
Because progress starts with one decision: to stop avoiding your own life.
31/08/2025
Did you know your mind produces thousands of thoughts every day?
Some are useful.
Some are old habits.
Some are just noise.
But here’s the truth:
You are not your thoughts. You’re the one noticing them.
When you realise this, everything changes.
A thought like “I can’t do this” becomes just a thought, not a fact.
A craving or worry becomes something you can watch drift past, not something you have to follow.
The freedom isn’t in stopping thoughts.
It’s in noticing them… and choosing what to do next.
30/08/2025
Sometimes Healing Happens Quietly — Like It’s Working in Stealth Mode
People often imagine healing as a big breakthrough moment.
A dramatic release.
A sudden shift.
And yes, sometimes it looks like that.
But more often? Healing works quietly.
It’s subtle. Stealth-like.
It happens underneath the surface, even when you don’t realise it.
You might notice it days later when:
That situation that used to send you spiralling barely registers.
The thought that once kept you up at night loses its grip.
The craving or habit you thought about every day simply isn’t there anymore.
That’s because your unconscious mind is always at work — integrating, rewiring, and updating old patterns.
It doesn’t need fanfare.
It doesn’t need pressure.
It just quietly gets on with the job.
That’s the beauty of hypnotherapy.
You don’t have to “try harder” or force change.
Sometimes the most powerful shifts are the ones that creep up on you — the ones you only notice when you realise life already feels lighter.
So here’s the logic:
Healing doesn’t always announce itself.
Sometimes it moves in stealth.
And that’s still progress.
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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.
