Phoenix Holistic Health

09/01/2026

Google review Friday.
I have received another review from an ex-smoker, and I am always humbled to know I have helped someone get healthir and save so much money too!

You are a non-smoker after the first session!

09/01/2026

Another review that has recently come in, to help someone see their worth and value to the world.

08/01/2026

Why anxiety feels worse at night

Have you ever noticed how worries seem louder at night?

It’s not your imagination.

When the day quiets down, there are fewer distractions — so the mind replays what hasn’t been resolved.

An overactive nervous system turns bedtime into a battleground instead of a rest.

Hypnotherapy helps calm those patterns, so the mind can finally switch off.

07/01/2026

The Overthinker Gremlin never sleeps.
It replays every conversation.
It imagines every outcome.
It creates a thousand worst-case scenarios before breakfast.

This gremlin is fuelled by anxiety and driven by the need to stay one step ahead of pain, rejection, or regret. It believes that if you just think long enough, you’ll stay safe.

But all it really does is keep you stuck.

Thinking is not the problem. It’s the spiral that leads nowhere that drains you.

You’re allowed to slow down.
You’re allowed to act without knowing every outcome.
You’re allowed to feel safe in the present moment again.

06/01/2026

Most change fails because people try to think their way forward.

We’re often taught that if we can just understand something deeply enough, it will change.

So we analyse it.
We reflect on it.
We replay it in our minds, hoping clarity will create movement.

But most change doesn’t fail because of a lack of insight.
It fails because patterns aren’t run by thinking — they’re run by repetition.

Your nervous system responds to what’s familiar, not what’s logical.
You can know something isn’t helpful and still feel drawn back to it.

Real change happens when behaviour shifts first.
Small actions. Repeated experiences.
Enough evidence for the unconscious to register: this is safe now.

When behaviour changes, belief follows.
Not the other way around.

05/01/2026

Stopping smoking is often framed as giving something up.
But that framing alone can make change feel harder than it needs to be.
In my latest blog, I explore a different way of understanding smoking — not as something you must battle or sacrifice, but as a habit that was added at one point in life, and can be released when it no longer fits.
You’re not giving anything up.
You’re returning to being someone who doesn’t smoke.
When identity becomes clear, the habit has nothing left to attach to.
Read my latest blog on this below.

05/01/2026

05/01/2026

The Twelve Days of Christmas 🎄
Day 12 – Twelve Drummers Drumming

Lasting change isn’t a moment — it’s a rhythm.
What you return to daily shapes how life feels.

Carry forward what supports you.
Let the rest fall away.

05/01/2026

Your heart races. Your chest tightens. Your thoughts spiral.
You call it overreacting.
But your nervous system calls it protection.

At Phoenix Hypnotherapy, we don’t label you as “too sensitive.”
We work with the unconscious mind to teach your system that you’re safe now—so it can stop sounding the alarm.

Cheltenham, Gloucester & online.

04/01/2026

So I begin the year with a new training that I can’t wait to put this into practice with my clients.

The bunny protocol helping with children and adults alike with play aspects and associated ‘tools’ to help release unhelpful emotions and actions.

And the Swan helping with the parts within individuals that are running that behaviour - blending the two into one very powerful experience.

I am looking for 5 individuals to practice on for FREE 😊 my sessions are online.

Comment ‘bunny’ 🐰 if you want help to shift something
That is holding you back.

There are only 3 spaces left

I already have 2 children who have claimed a space 🌟

I am starting with 5 spaces but might open up more later this year.

03/01/2026

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.

03/01/2026

One of the biggest misunderstandings about stopping smoking
is the idea that you’re giving something up.

Giving up implies loss.
Deprivation.
Sacrifice.

And the mind resists that immediately.

But here’s a different way to look at it:

You’re not giving anything up.
You’re returning to being someone who doesn’t smoke.

Before smoking became a habit,
you were already a non-smoker.

Smoking isn’t who you are —
it’s something that was added later.

And when something is added,
it can also be removed.

This is why willpower alone struggles.
It tries to fight behaviour,
instead of shifting identity.

When identity becomes clear,
the habit has nothing left to attach to.

You’re not losing anything.
You’re stepping back into who you were
before smoking took up space.