Sally Potter Hypnotherapy and Retreats

30/08/2025

To me it feels so important that grief is acknowledged. It’s a big, often overwhelming emotion that can feel scary to share. Often though, as Just Ask Jayne says, a small recognition can be comforting and even healing.

💜 National Grief Awareness Day 💜

Grief can feel overwhelming and isolating. I know how alone it can feel when you’re carrying it quietly, and how much it helps to be able to speak openly about it.

Even small gestures, a conversation, a shared memory, or simply being listened to can make a world of difference.

Today, let’s acknowledge grief, give ourselves permission to feel it, and remind those around us that no one has to face it alone.

29/08/2025

Nature as Medicine

Have you ever felt your shoulders drop as you walk in the woods, or your breathing slow when you are beside the sea?🌊

That’s not just a feeling—it’s nature working on your nervous system. Research shows that time outdoors lowers stress hormones and restores emotional balance ⚖️

At our retreats, Dartmoor’s wild landscapes, as well as the woodlands, rivers and oceans nearby are an active part of the healing process. 🌿

Where’s your favourite place in nature to feel calm?


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21/08/2025

✨ Hypnourish©️✨ — Where calm meets vitality.

My signature blend of hypnosis, gut-friendly nourishment, rest, nature, and neuroscience.

Calm your mind 💭 and calm your ‘second brain’ 🧠 Because when you nourish both, everything changes. 💚


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Our next retreat begins on 27th November, or contact me for bespoke and 121 options

20/08/2025

As summer softens into autumn, nature reminds us that change is part of life’s rhythm. 🍂

Just like the seasons, our lives shift—sometimes gently, sometimes suddenly. Retirement, career transitions, children leaving home… these moments can bring a sense of loss as well as new beginnings.

This November, our Healthy Minds Retreat will explore Loss and Grief in all its forms.

What changes are you moving through as the year turns? Take a moment to notice the season you’re in now. 🌿


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12/08/2025

What is stress? How does it create anxiety?

Stress and anxiety are the most common reasons people come to see me for hypnotherapy. Most often, people tell me that they want to feel fully themselves again -

☺️Free of worry

😊Free of overthinking

😊Able to enjoy their lives

😊Feeling comfortable in their own skin

You can read more about stress, anxiety and how I can help in the article below. If you would like to chat about how I can help you, and find out how to get a free initial consultation, please schedule a Tell me More call via the link in the article.

Learn how stress leads to anxiety and explore effective relief methods with Sally Potter's hypnotherapy and retreats in South Devon.

04/08/2025

The Neuroscience Academy with Dr Sarah McKay is in full swing this week with the start of the Brain Coach Bootcamp. As an alumni of the academy, I’m going to be diving back in for some juicy neuroscience conversations and learning.

Each of Dr Sarah’s courses is packed with up to date, evidenced and researched information about our brains 🧠. What I love is the calls full of experts from across the world all ignited by sharing this knowledge with their clients and colleagues to improve wellbeing.

As well as the Brain Coach Bootcamp, I can highly recommend ‘In Her Head - the neuroscience of the female brain ( I’ve got you, ladies) and the ‘Neuroscience Coaching Network’

Neuroscience Courses for Professionals, Coaches, and Curious Minds. Looking for trusted, evidence-based neuroscience courses? Whether you're after professional development in neuroscience and brain health, practical brain-based strategies to use in your workplace or coaching practice, or you're simp...

22/07/2025

This week I’ve got a beautiful vase of flowers from my garden in my therapy space. It smells sweet with honeysuckle and budlia.

28/06/2025

I’ve been quiet here for a while. It’s been busy behind the scenes, and when I’m focused on a project and busy in different ways I find it rather overwhelming to think about what to share on social media. I end up sharing nothing!

Here’s what’s been happening-

😊I’ve completed the third of Dr Sarah McKayscourses in applied neuroscience. The Neuroscience Coaching Network is a brilliant collaboration of coaches from all over the planet. We spent the last 12 weeks learning together and then creating new neuroscience based coaching tools. I was delighted to work with Susan Lynch and Leigh Campbell-Wan to create a tool to help people ‘ be better at stress’ . More to follow!

😊I’ve been very busy with one to one clients. We’ve been working on all sorts of things including trauma, fears and phobias, IBS, allergies, grief, anxiety as well as some business coaching and personal growth.

😊family life has been busy. We sadly lost some hens in May, so we only have three now. If you usually catch up via Live from the Hen House - we will be back!

😊I have expanded my WhatsApp Community. This is an invitation-only space where I offer ongoing support and connection to anyone who has connected with me through my work - therapy, retreats or mini retreats. If this is you and you didn’t receive my recent emails inviting you to join, please drop me a DM to request the link x

😊I’ve been growing veggies, doing some great networking, looking after my mum, keeping fit and seeing friends. I’ve been to Albania, donated blood, sung in the woods, celebrated the solstice, walked my dogs, been to the Eden Sessions and swum in the ocean.

😊There are two retreats in the planning for this year. September and November. Both are on my website if you’d like more information. The November one is selling fast. Please book a call if you’d like more information.

😊I’m full with therapy clients now until towards the end of July. If you’d like a call, please head to my website, and we can arrange an appointment for a few weeks time.

Congratulations if you made it to the end!!

I’d love to hear from you about what you’ve been up to!

Discover hypnotherapy, retreats, and wellness courses with Sally Potter in South Devon. Explore personalised plans and memberships for mental health and relaxation.

05/06/2025

Maybe you don’t know about the work I do with The Filo Project?

Find out a little bit here

At The Filo Project, many of our employees find that their roles fit flexibly alongside other commitments, whether that’s part-time work, volunteering, family responsibilities, or personal projects. If you’re considering applying but wondering how a role with us might work around your existing l...

28/05/2025

Please join me this morning at 9.30 for a half hour of relaxed reset.

Midweek Mindset Reset - Fourth Wednesday at 9.30am
Wednesday, 28 May · 9:30 – 10:00am
Time zone: Europe/London
Google Meet joining info
Video call link:

13/05/2025

This Mental Health Awareness Week is all about celebrating community, and how it supports our mental health and wellbeing. Communities connect, support, and give us a sense of belonging and purpose. From local to global, online to in-person, we all need community. What's yours?

I'm inviting you to join me tomorrow evening (Wednesday 14th May at 7.30pm) for a FREE online journaling session.

I have a growing community of Healthy, Happy people who meet for reset sessions, journaling and retreats. Please join us tomorrow and find out how you can access personal support for your mental wellbeing for less than the price of a coffee every week.

Link to join is in the comments

30/04/2025

Are you in need of a little TLC?

My May Mini Retreat is for you. A half day of calm, with good company and expert-led activities. These are always popular, and I have a maximum of 8 spaces (two already taken!)

There's more information on my website or in the event May Mini Retreat on this page.

https://sallypotterhypnotherapyandretreats.com/about-retreats/may-mini-retreat