Finally Free Therapy

20/07/2024

*Request for help for a friend who has some health challenges*

A friend of mine has had a very challenging health diagnosis, and some treatment that has not worked, gone wrong and or been incorrect.

She's just messaged me, in a very distressed state, and so we had a good chat.

Left with very limited options on the NHS side, she has been recommended to get some treatment in Southampton for a week, with a well renowned alternative therapist, by someone who achieved excellent results.

The challenge:

She needs help to travel from St Helens (near Liverpool, North West UK) to Southampton for treatment, and to travel back after approximately one week.

Due to her medical condition, she needs ideally accompanying, or at least GUARANTEED help lifting cases and medical items on and off trains at St Helens (or probably Wigan), at the Birmingham change, and at Southampton, plus assistance to get them to her hotel, then the same on the way back, approximately a week later.

An alternative might be for someone to be able to drive her from St Helens to Southampton and back , although that might mean having to stay in Southampton for the week, or travel back and return a week later, or maybe two (or more) different people.

She's not asking for financial help for her travel, treatment and accommodation, although obviously this will take up someone's time and potentially THEIR travel or fuel costs which would have to be covered somehow.

So I'm putting this out there to see if anyone can either

Coordinate to help her load at St Helens , unload transfer and reload potentially at Birmingham , then unload at Southampton, then repeat a week later,

Or

Offer transport (car etc) from St Helens to Southampton, and then return trip a week later.

She's going to be pretty dependant during the travel, with lifting cases on and off, so she needs a guaranteed offer / solution.

No dates arranged yet, as dependant on ensuring travel can be arranged.

Anyone got any ideas of who could help (individuals or charities or other)?

16/07/2024

Leadership...

"My definition of leadership is communicating to people their worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves. ". Stephen Covey.

I was once again recently publicly described, very kindly, as an "inspirational leader".

I have led teams and groups in the IT world, but also large groups of coaches, and therapists ... and dare I say it - 'healers' too. Worldwide, mostly virtual via zoom, sometimes face to face too.

I tend to see things a little differently that some people, due to my own adverse childhood EXPERIENCES (ACE) , and the development of both an empathetic AND survival-istic perspective.

ACEs shape all of us to some degree or other. In fact all childhood experiences, especially between birth (well 2, depending on your viewpoint) and seven, shape our beliefs about ourselves and the world around us.

They impact our friendships, romantic relationships, work relationships, parenting style and career.

I found a nice article from Stephen Covey about leadership the other day, and thought I'd share an extract and link to the full article, for anyone who might be interested ...

"Q: What makes a great leader?

A: My definition of leadership is communicating to people their worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves.

Q: You often say that leadership is a choice not a position. Can you elaborate on this?

A: Because of the definition I use for leadership, the ability to become such a leader is a choice that any person can make; any parent or grandparent, any teacher, any coach, any co-worker, and friend. When I speak throughout the world, I often ask audiences,

“How many of you had someone in your life that communicated your worth and potential so clearly that it profoundly influenced your life?”

Inevitably over half the people raise their hands. I walk around the room and ask them to share their experience with how it happened, who did it, the impact that it had upon them, and if they, too, are making the choice to do the same with other people. People often become very emotional when they talk about the parent, the coach, the teacher, the formal leader, the friend, the neighbor, or the relative who really became very close to them and communicated to them their worth and potential. This is always an inspiring experience."

https://web.archive.org/web/20110723000458/http://www.stephencovey.com/blog/?p=6

I guess MY question is :

Are WE inspired, AND perhaps more importantly so, INSPIRING, leaders?

A: My definition of leadership is communicating to people their worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves.

22/04/2024

Introduction to Internal Family Systems (Therapist, Coaches & Healers)

Are you a therapist, coach or healer?

Do you find that your clients seem strongly resistant to change, despite your best efforts with existing therapy methods?

Does it seem that no matter how determined and committed they appear, part of them seems to just keep sabotaging them?

Maybe you can recognise these patterns in yourself sometimes too - you are determined to get something done, yet time slips away, or other things become more important?

This one day introduction to Internal Family Systems will provide an overview, and the basic tools of Internal Family Systems, for you to use alongside, or even in place of, your existing coaching and therapy methodologies, to enable clients to get past these often highly resistant "parts" of themselves (and or ourselves) .

By the end of the day, you will:

1. Understand PARTS theory and it’s development as a non-pathologizing therapy
2. Understand the IFS model, and terminology including the 6 Fs and the 8 Cs
3. Understand components of the IFS model, and how to identify and utilise them
4. Understand the IFS method, and basic outline of an IFS session
5. Experience core elements of the IFS model, and how to use them
6. Understand how you can utilise IFS stand alone or alongside other modalities
7. Gain an awareness of more advanced IFS techniques and aspects

Course duration: approximately 6 hours
Dates and time: Sunday 28th April 2024 - 09:00 to 16:30 UK BST

Waiting list available for Saturday 27th April -
Message me for details

n.b. due to some interested parties being in other time zones, I will likely run a USA time friendly course, and potentially an Australia time friendly course day, subject to minimum 4 people per course.

Investment: £ 99 including bonuses.
( £10 per person* referral fee available )

More details available from
Glen Collinson, Finally Free Therapy ( IG:finallyfreetherapy )
+44 (0)7832 987810
Glen.collinson@finallyfreetherapy.com

16/04/2024

Calling all Therapists, coaches and healers.

Introduction to Internal Family Systems (Therapist, Coaches & Healers)

Are you a therapist, coach or healer?

Do you find that your clients seem strongly resistant to change, despite your best efforts with existing therapy methods?

Does it seem that no matter how determined and committed they appear, part of them seems to just keep sabotaging them?

Maybe you can recognise these patterns in yourself sometimes too - you are determined to get something done, yet time slips away, or other things become more important?

This one day introduction to Internal Family Systems will provide an overview, and the basic tools of Internal Family Systems, for you to use alongside, or even in place of, your existing coaching and therapy methodologies, to enable clients to get past these often highly resistant "parts" of themselves (and or ourselves) .

By the end of the day, you will:

1. Understand PARTS theory and it’s development as a non-pathologizing therapy
2. Understand the IFS model, and terminology including the 6 Fs and the 8 Cs
3. Understand components of the IFS model, and how to identify and utilise them
4. Understand the IFS method, and basic outline of an IFS session
5. Experience core elements of the IFS model, and how to use them
6. Understand how you can utilise IFS stand alone or alongside other modalities
7. Gain an awareness of more advanced IFS techniques and aspects

Course duration: approximately 6 hours
Dates and time: tbc likely to be a Saturday or Sunday daytime, 10:00 to 16:00 UK BST
n.b. due to some interested parties being in other time zones, I will likely run a USA time friendly course, and potentially an Australia time friendly course day, subject to minimum 4 people per course.

Investment: £ 99 including bonuses. ( £10 per person* referral fee available )

More details available from
Glen Collinson, Finally Free Therapy ( IG:finallyfreetherapy )
+44 (0)7832 987810
Glen.collinson@finallyfreetherapy.com

25/03/2024

Are / did / have you experienced ongoing traumatic events, especially between birth and seven years old?

These could include actual or threat of, or perception of verbal, physical and or s3xual violence or abuse, emotional and or physical abandonment, lack of safety or support, isolation.

If so, there is a possibility that you have developed complex PTSD as a result.

Do any of the above symptoms sound familiar?

The trauma (the SUBCONSCIOUS mind and body reaction to the event(s)) often remains unprocessed, trapped within not our conscious, logical mind, but deep in our subconscious.

If any of the above resonates, and you want to change how your life is now and for the future , as a result of the beliefs, habits and patterns we formed all that time ago, and what we tolerate and suffer, message me or book a free 30 mins no obligation informal chat to find out how you can improve your life.

24/03/2024

Does this resonate with anyone out there?

Sometimes, some things, the only people who really understand complex PTSD, are those who suffer from it, and battle it every day....

19/03/2024

TICKET WANTED

Does anyone have a spare, or no longer needed ticket to the Bruce Lipton event in Manchester, UK on 20th June 2024?

I couldn't book initially, due to work commitments, and now it's sold out.

TIA

14/03/2024

Very glad to be back on Laura Ordile ,podcast again - on The Change Gang.

I couldn't share the post directly, but will drop the Spotify link, and it's also on other platforms like apple and YouTube too 😊

18/01/2024

Been quiet on here for a bit, dealing with some stuff.
If you want to know a bit more about me, check this out :

A podcast I did back in December with Laura Ordile

Change gang podcast on Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1F9sfPEqg1pW97s1EvHxOn?si=48J9q5oLRWmgw5BEiyBXRw

02/01/2024

Is every new year, just the same?

You sent goals...
Maybe you use SMART to make them more viable?
Maybe you even use the other critical element that some do.

You probably don't use the missing link, that is the one thing that no matter how determined, no matter how strong you feel, no matter how solid your goals are, will ALWAYS completely derail you, every time...

If you are reading this and it sounds familiar,maybe we need a chat, to see if we want to work together.

New deep reset programme version 2 starts soon.

Now with the missing link...

Message me now, to find out more and secure one of the limited places on group programme.

If you want to work with me one to one, I have 3 slots left to work with me for a life changing 8 sessions starting Jan 2024.

07/12/2023

Free training - read below

If you feel:

Stuck
Not enough
Different / disconnected
Unworthy / can't have certain things or feelings

then register for my free live, interactive training session this Sunday 10th December 2023.

I'll be covering

Get clarity on your current issue
Live walk through of a free tool to help
Get clarity on how you want things to be different
Understand what's happening now
Four F's
WHY you have this issue
Re evaluate your issue with new insight
What you can do to solve the issue

Follow me, and message me for the zoom link.

Please share with as many people as possible, so they can benefit from this session.

29/11/2023

For some, Christmas is an exciting, happy time.

For many of us though, it's a time of loneliness, isolation, perhaps a feeling of failure and or loss after divorce or separation.

For others it's a painful reminder of the contrast between what we perhaps experienced, and the "norm".

It can leave many of us dreading Christmas holiday period, and all the reminders.

If this resonates with you, message me "Christmas" and let's have a chat about how we can change your current reality and future.