Blossom Hypnotherapy

04/03/2026

Wednesday Wellbeing

Welcome to March’s Wednesday Wellbeing. This month I’m focusing on how you can harness the gentle power of hypnosis to help your wellbeing.

There are a lot of myths and misconceptions about hypnotherapy. Probably the most common one is that hypnosis involves losing control.

It’s understandable people think this. Many people remember hypnosis with Saturday night TV shows, where the hypnotist puts audience members to 'sleep' and makes them do outrageous things. Or they’ve watched Netflix series about hypnosis which have very little basis in reality.

Hypnotherapy in real life is nothing like that. Hypnotherapy is a form of talking therapy where the hypnotherapist uses hypnosis to help you embed the work you’ve been doing in the session. Hypnosis is a calm and gentle way to help you to improve your focus and harness the power of your imagination to help you to see, hear and feel what the changes you’re trying to make would be like in your real life.

You can't be hypnotised unless you want to be, you remain aware and in control, and you can move and talk throughout.

Using self-hypnosis, you learn to manage your thoughts, self-talk, and beliefs so that you can live a more effective, engaged, and meaningful life.

My role as an accredited and experienced Hypnotherapist is to work with you to achieve all this - it's what links the hypnosis and the therapy together.

If you’d like to know more about hypnosis and hypnotherapy, I’ve written a blog that explains it.
https://www.blossomhypnotherapy.com/how-can-hypnotherapy-help-me/

27/02/2026

A quick Friday thought on rejection and how by looking at rejection differently we can improve how we cope with it and teach our nervous system that rejection isn’t something to be feared.

Rejection comes hand in hand with getting out of your comfort zone and it’s a big part of running your own business or getting a job. Getting comfortable around facing rejection can help you to thrive as you face life’s challenges.

And it helps with and

25/02/2026

Wednesday Wellbeing

This month I’ve been focusing on ways to improve self confidence. Everyone wants to feel confident, but sometimes in life it can take a knock. It’s normal for confidence to ebb and flo throughout life, and sometimes you may need a helping hand to feel like the old, confident you again.

Did you know hypnosis is a powerful tool that can help you with your confidence?

Learning self hypnosis is a simple way to improve your self confidence. It’s easy to learn and allows you to experience helpful thoughts and images as if they are real. Hypnosis can help you to learn to change your self-critical thoughts and to respond in new and helpful ways.

Using self-hypnosis, you can learn to imagine yourself belonging and feeling successful. This helps you to think, feel and act as if you do. In the long term, it can help you to banish feelings of not being good enough and replace them with more helpful beliefs.

If you’d like to try hypnosis for yourself, I offer a free self confidence hypnosis recording that you can download and use https://www.blossomhypnotherapy.com/

23/02/2026

I’m always thrilled to receive feedback from my clients.

As a therapist I usually check in with my clients three months after the end of our work together to see how they’re doing. I love to hear how they’re getting on and it’s a great feeling when clients check in down the line to give me up dates.

It was a random meeting with Steph at a local yoga class that led us to reconnect three years down the line after working together. She mentioned the lasting changes she’d made and very kindly offered to make a video sharing her experience.

Thank you so much Steph for sharing your time and experience so generously. https://www.facebook.com/steph.godliman

Steph talks about her lasting results three years after finishing my Making Peace with Food and Living Mindfully Group Programme. She talks about the result...

20/02/2026

A quick word on shoes and confidence. For me, confidence is like a pair of comfortable shoes, providing the support to move freely through the world and do all the things I want to do in life.
If this resonates with you, find out more about how to let go of people pleasing and feel free and comfortable to be yourself. https://blossomhypnotherapy.com/working-with-me/from-people-pleasing-to-inner-confidence-group-programme/

18/02/2026

Wednesday Wellbeing

I spotted this at the checkout in Waitrose. I’m not sure why what is a normal human experience needs a magazine. I can’t help but feel that if you’re anxious and seeing this, it’s only going to make you more anxious. To me, even the image seems designed to create anxiety.

The other side of the coin to anxiety is confidence. The more confident you feel in situations and about your ability to cope, the less anxious you become.

Is there something you can do, no matter how small to help you feel more confident? Just taking one small action can help you to feel better.

11/02/2026

Wednesday Wellbeing

Today, I’m sharing with you the story of one of my clients who grew in confidence as we worked together.

Nancy (not her real name) is a married 34 year old advertising executive. When she first came to see me, Nancy was struggling with feeling she wasn’t good enough at whatever she did. She felt that whatever she did, it wasn’t enough so she constantly pushed herself to do more.

It was affecting her at work and consumed her time and energy when she was at home.

Nancy would be in meetings all day, doing her best to try and please others. She felt she had to respond to messages and emails immediately. And, because she felt the need to prove herself she was taking on more and more work.

She would spend her days comparing herself to others and feeling that she was lacking. This worry made it difficult for her to focus and complete tasks. She would work in the evenings and weekends to try to keep on top of things. Her worry about not being good enough at work led her to cancel plans with friends and she was withdrawing from the things she enjoyed.

Nancy felt she was losing confidence in her ability and work was taking over more and more of her home life.

As we worked together, Nancy gradually began to feel more confident about her ability at work. As she let go of judging herself, she began to find work easier and more enjoyable. She found it easier to focus and to complete tasks and had less need to work throughout the night to keep up.

Over time, Nancy began to realise what she was contributing and the positive impact her work had on her colleagues and the company as a whole. As a result she felt able to put in place boundaries between her work and home life.

We worked together to help Nancy to understand that she didn’t have to be perfect at everything to be good at her job. She began to reach out to her colleagues and discovered that she wasn’t the only one who felt like this.

09/02/2026

What having a blood test taught me about the power of the group and how many heads are better than one.

05/02/2026

This is for you if you’ve been thinking for a while “I want 2026 to be different”. Maybe you’re exhausted and burnt out from juggling demanding professional roles with a busy, pressured home life and coping with life transitions. You may even have started to notice resentment coming in for those who are having an easier ride.

My from people pleasing to inner confidence programme takes you from anxious to courageous. I help you to go from worrying about what other people think to feeling calm, confident and in control of your life without feeling guilty for saying no or letting anyone down.

If this strikes a chord with you, please check out the details or get in touch with me. I only have three places left.

https://blossomhypnotherapy.com/working-with-me/from-people-pleasing-to-inner-confidence-group-programme/

04/02/2026

Wednesday Wellbeing

Welcome to a rather wet February. This month’s Wednesday Wellbeing is all about confidence and what you can do to improve yours. Confidence is one of those things that can ebb and flow over time. But there’s ways to feel more confident. And posture is one of them.

It’s been shown that confident posture has positive effects on our hormones. Positive posture sends images to the brain, which in turn informs the body how it feels. If you want to feel confident, you need your posture to send that message to your brain.

Simply imagine having sensations of confidence and practice feeling them in your body. Concentrate on feeling your feet on the ground, your spine erect and your body relaxed and open. Add in a smile, as a way of telling yourself you feel good. And see if you can notice the difference.

Feeling more confident can help you to act more confidently.

I was reminded of this at a recent networking meeting, when myself and another 5 foot 2er were in the same place at the end of the meeting, breathing a sigh of relief as we kicked off our heels. And our conversation - “oh that’s a relief, my feet hurt but I feel more confident in heels.”

What do you think? Are heels worth the confidence boost?

28/01/2026

Wednesday Wellbeing

Here’s my final post for January on ways to let go of people pleasing behaviours and to become more confident.

So much of what we do and how we respond is automatic. We don’t think about it and we don’t realise we’re doing it . Its the same for the way we communicate and how it can be easy to get into the habit of automatically saying yes, agreeing or subtly putting ourselves down when we don’t want to.

I’m a big fan of using technology to help you where you can. Harnessing the right tech can help you to realise when you’ve slipped into people pleasing and even change it for you. I love the Google Chrome extension called Just Not Sorry? Every time you write emails using phrases such as, “I’m just,” “I think,” or “I’m no expert,” it rewrites it for you. And by doing that it’s gradually rewiring your brain so that you don’t people please by default.

Added to that, the person reading the email receives a clear message from you so you don’t end up agreeing to things you don’t want to do.
You can check it out here.

Chrome extension that warns you when you write emails using words which undermine your message