Kettering and Oundle Hypnotherapy

12/09/2025

Interesting review of research into the effect of emotional suppression and its affect on physical symptoms; in this case IBS.

Most people will have some experiencing of how their emotions can affect their physical wellbeing.

In this study, those that used a type of talking therapy designed to help reduce emotional suppression, reported significant reduction in their physical symptoms (68%) after three weeks. This was in comparison to those that focused just on relaxation.

Unsurprisingly, it demonstrates how important it is to consider how our psychology and physical health are intertwined and not as separate influences.

The results of a new study strengthens the role of emotional suppression in the pathogenesis of Irritable Bowel Syndrome, a common functional gut disorder. It is time to make psychological therapy central to treatment.

11/09/2025

Burnout from stress is the result of the circumstances demanding more than we can mange at the time.

Stress doesn’t have to be a negative thing. The most important thing is to know how to manage the stress as a cause of burnout, or prevent burnout happening in the first place.

Find out more how Hypnotherapy can help with stress and burnout, and book a free initial consultation, at www.ketteringhypnotherapy.com or call/text David on 07429 522 723

08/09/2025

Many people use the word anxiety interchangeably with worry and stress. It’s perfectly reasonable for a person to experience worry and stress, but anxiety is very different.

Anxiety comes from inside the mind, rather than external events. Anxiety is an emotional response that is extreme and disproportionate to the circumstances.

In contrast, worry and stress are related to external circumstances, and are often easily explained.

Ask yourself: Are my concerns understandable given the circumstances I am currently experiencing?

What can be done? The mind needs to processes, understand and clear away the emotion that has accumulated over-time leading to anxiety, and this is where Hypnotherapy can help.

Find out more and book a free initial consultation at www.ketteringhypnotherapy.com or call/text 07429 522 723

04/09/2025

The demands of the situation are greater than our perceived ability to cope

What does this tell us?

Stress is not simply about the demands of the circumstances it's about whether we believe we can cope with those demands.

This helps explain why one person may find it difficult to deal with stressful events while another copes with the same circumstances comparatively easy. They perceive their ability to cope differently.

How we think about stressful events influences how we cope.

Hypnotherapy can help you learn relaxation as well as address unhelpful ways of interpreting events that can make you more vulnerable to stress burnout.

Free initial consultation for all. www.ketteringhypnotherapy.com Call/text 07429 522 723

Exploring Human Psychology, Hypnosis, Personality and Wellbeing.

01/09/2025

Sometimes we all need a gentle reminder that things will get better! Check in on your friends, family and love ones. Just a simple text message might make a huge difference to someone you care about. 💙

01/09/2025

The Diathesis-Stress Model suggests that a someone may develop a particular emotional problem as the result of an interaction between a predisposed vulnerability and stressful life events.

Suffering with one anxiety problem may make you more vulnerable to developing another.

Growing up, we accumulate many many experiences and they create a pressure within our mind understood with an infantile interpretation. The experiences make us vulnerable to life stresses.

Analytical Therapy (Hypnoanalysis) aims to reduce the accumulation of those childhood experiences by thinking through them as an adult.

The emotions they felt at the time can be released and it can now be processed as an adult.

With less accumulated psychological rubbish, we are less vulnerable to developing nervous disorders even when life stresses increase.

Find out more and book a free initial consultation at www.ketteringhypnotherapy.com call/text 07429 522 723

29/08/2025

One way to understand anxiety is to think of it as ‘free floating tension’. Accumulated emotional tension inside a person’s mind is projected onto something else.

Stress and anxiety are different, they have different causes.

Stress the result of external pressures, whereas, Anxiety creates the same feelings and symptoms but originates from inside the person’s mind.

The anxiety within a person’s mind needs to find an outlet. The symptom acts as a ‘pressure value’ for the anxiety (the inner stress).

Find out how Hypnotherapy can help at www.ketteringhypnotherapy.com Call/text 07429 522 723

27/08/2025

An individual’s mental health is experienced in the present but is influenced by the past, and informs future behaviour.

Analytical approaches to Hypnotherapy view the symptoms as an outward expression of past behaviour.

The symptoms are what is happening in the present, but are reflections of past experiences and the effect they had on the individual.

When we approach understanding mental health in this way, we accept that symptoms are not the root cause of the problem.

Find out more at www.ketteringhypnotherapy.com call/text 07429 522 723

20/08/2025

I think it is a fair assumption to say that worry and guilt are often a problem because they are the only emotions that we cannot ‘put anywhere’.

Usually, when we feel an emotion, positive or negative, we make sense of it by projecting it onto a situation or person. We feel happy or sad for someone or something and as a result we have a way understanding why we feel that way.

With guilt, we find it very difficult to do this.

Consider that a person can feel happy for you, or sad for you, but they cannot feel guilty for you; all they can do is hold onto it.

Find out how Hypnotherapy can help and book a free initial consultation at www.ketteringhypnotherapy.com call/text 07429 522 723

19/08/2025

Imposter syndrome is where an individual doubts their accomplishments and abilities and these are converted into a fear of being exposed as a fraud.

Interestingly, this still happens when there is plenty of evidence to the contrary.

When we feel this kind of imposter syndrome, we failing to have any internal acknowledgment of our own achievements, something which is characteristic of those suffering from anxiety, and unsurprisingly, low self-esteem.

Of course, this makes it difficult for the individual to be accepting of compliments or to sell themselves well, whether at work or in their social life.

Find out more about how Hypnotherapy can help and book a free initial consultation at www.ketteringhypnotherapy.com or call/text 07429 522 723

By not seeking promotion, Julie never risked failure. Viewing her chronic self-doubt as a defence mechanism helped her challenge it

15/08/2025

Consider someone experiencing a serious car accident, a broken relationship or the loss of someone close to them.

Our way of coping is to rationalise them and make sense of the experience, which is usually achieved through social support.

We talk about it with our friends and families, and this process of sharing the problem helps to halve it! We think about it, talk about it and make sense of it.

Hypnoanalysis is a unique analytical therapy which works under the doctrine of cause and effect. For every effect (symptom) there has to be a reason (cause) as to why the person is finding it difficult to let go.

Find out more an book a free initial consultation at www.ketteringhypnotherapy.com call/text 07429 522 723

Exploring Human Psychology, Hypnosis, Personality and Wellbeing.

13/08/2025

“I know what happened and yet I still can’t get past it!”

This one comment describes the purpose of analytical therapy and why it's important to address the emotional impact of trauma.

It is not enough to understand that something upsetting happened, we have to fully understand how it felt at the time and why we interpreted events in that way.

Book an free initial consultation at www.ketteringhypnotherapy.com or call/text 07429 522 723

Exploring Human Psychology, Hypnosis, Personality and Wellbeing.