Tiffany Armitage

25/08/2025

Research showing the serious physical impact of anxiety on our health. 💔

Risk of cardiovascular disease was 41% higher in women who experienced stalking and 70% higher in women with experience obtaining a restraining order, compared to women without these experiences, according to a new Harvard Chan School study.

15/08/2025

Starting today!!😆 Coffee and Connect Plymstock ☕️ 11:15-12:45 in Plymstock Library

We are very excited to have a new Coffee and Connect location and hope to see as many of you as possible!

10/08/2025

Big smiles from Lisa and I today as we teach Module 5 – all about helping clients beat their fears and phobias 🐕✈️🎤

It’s such a rewarding topic to teach, and our students are already getting stuck into the techniques that can make such a huge difference in people’s lives.

31/07/2025

📘 🧠💤
HG College have just released a free online course exploring the science behind dreams. It offers a fascinating look at what modern research tells us about why we dream, the role of REM sleep, and how our unconscious mind processes experience.

An excellent resource for anyone working in mental health, coaching, or personal development — or simply curious about the inner workings of the dreaming brain.

🧠💤 Highly recommended!
https://www.humangivens.com/college/why-do-we-dream-free-online-course/

30/07/2025

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The power of 7:11 breathing...

On our Human Givens College training courses, we teach a technique known as 7:11 breathing, because it’s the most powerful technique we know.

Here is how you do it, and it is as easy as it sounds:
Breathe in for a count of 7.
Then breathe out for a count of 11.

If you can, breathe in and out through your nose, not your mouth.

Make sure that your diaphragm (tummy) swells out when you breathe in and collapses again when you breathe out. If your chest and shoulders are going up and down, that is shallow breathing, which you want to avoid when panicky.

If you find it easier, breathe in to a count of 3 and out to 5, or whatever suits you best – as long as the out-breath is longer than the in-breath.

Continue in this way for 5-10 minutes – or longer if you have time – and enjoy the calming effect it will have on your mind and body. An added bonus of 7:11 breathing is that the very act of counting is a distraction, helping take your mind off worrying concerns.

The 7:11 breathing technique has been used for thousands of years throughout the world.

https://www.hgi.org.uk/resources/delve-our-extensive-library/resources-and-techniques/7-11-breathing-how-does-deep

21/07/2025

A great article, with some avenues you can filter into practicing self hypnosis.

I find sceptics often make the best clients of hypnotherapy - they listen to the science and try it out, and as it works they really make it their own!

Forget the swinging pocket watches, scientists are now praising hypnotherapy as a powerful tool to fight mental and physical pain.

15/07/2025

People are often surprised (doubtful even!?) at the 'make you laugh' or 'feel better after just one session'! Therapy doesn't have to be gloomy and it's a wonderful thing to be able to use tools that help people feel better, even before they leave my therapy room!

The human givens approach to psychotherapy and counselling helps people feel better and move on in their lives as quickly as possible. At its heart is the understanding that, when a human being’s essential emotional needs are met well and their innate mental resources are used empoweringly, they will be emotionally and mentally healthy.

What makes this approach different from others is that its therapists look to see what is missing in clients’ lives, with the aim of helping them find ways to better meet their needs and get their lives working again.

It is a practical, forward-focused approach, which concentrates on mastery of skills and understandings that people can use to move on in their lives, instead of focusing on what went wrong in the past.

Research findings show that it leads to significant improvement, usually in between one and six sessions.

Clients also gain greater resilience against future setbacks, as they understand what maintains emotional health and have practical ways in which to do so.

Find your nearest HG therapist: www.hgi.org.uk/find-therapist

04/07/2025

Highly recommended course by Dr Sarah Mckay: In Her Head: Women's Brain Health & Neurobiology Training | 14-17 November 2025

Coinciding with the publication of the second edition of "The Women's Brain Book: The Neuroscience of Health, Hormones and Happiness", In Her Head (IHH) is back for 2025.

IHH is a continuing professional development training created to deepen your expertise in women's brain health and neurobiology across the lifespan. It's for coaches, therapists, educators, mental health and well-being practitioners who work with girls and women.

IHH includes podcast-style short lectures, reading, live Zoom training, and juicy group discussions to consolidate learning and share tools, strategies, and professional knowledge.

Improve and broaden your knowledge and competence in women's brain health and neurobiology. IHH is PD training created for coaches, therapists, and mental health and wellbeing practitioners who work with girls and women.

24/06/2025

I’m doing 3 live in-person talks next week.

MILTON-KEYNES (Chrysalis Theatre) on Monday 30th June

LEICESTER (Sue Townsend Theatre) on Tuesday 1st July

BIRMINGHAM (The Glee Club) on Wednesday 2nd July

I’m speaking on ‘HOW THE MIND HEALS THE BODY’ - sharing about the placebo effect, how belief impacts the body, meditation, visualisation, and how to target visualisation practices to help facilitate recovery from injury and illness.

You can check them out on this link: https://drdavidhamilton.com/speaking-events/

20/05/2025

Causes of Poor Sleep:
It is extremely common to find that when people are experiencing heightened levels of emotional distress, they also have problems with their sleep. People who are depressed are likely to be oversleeping for hours and hours and still waking up exhausted. People who are anxious may experience insomnia or broken sleep and, because they aren’t getting enough REM sleep, there isn’t enough opportunity for their emotional arousal to discharge, resulting in them carrying their worries from one day into the next.

However, there are other causes of poor sleep. Poor sleep can be caused by lifestyle factors or a lack of ‘sleep hygiene’– a person’s behaviour in relation to sleep. Because we compartmentalise, people will often fail to notice the connections between what they do during their waking time and the health of their sleep.

In some cases, poor sleep can be the root cause of the problems – poor sleep leads to emotional problems, which then exacerbates the poor sleep and the whole thing continues in a cycle.

Overcome Sleep Issues:
Human Givens therapy helps restore natural sleep patterns by addressing underlying emotional issues, improving sleep-related habits, and enhancing the client’s self-awareness. It also builds up a stock of life resources, equipping clients with powerful tools to maintain their physical and emotional health into the future.

Find your nearest HG therapist:
https://www.hgi.org.uk/find-therapist

16/05/2025

10/05/2025

✨Been enjoying the BBC podcast History of the Brain 🧠 — short 15-minute episodes on how we’ve come to understand the brain and the mind. Pretty fascinating stuff. 🤯🧠✨

Listen to the latest episodes of A History of the Brain on BBC Sounds.