🎶 Helping music lovers reclaim the joy of live music after tinnitus. 20 years in, I know the fear—but I also know the way back.
Let’s turn the volume up on life! 🎧✨ https://linktr.ee/thetinnituscoach Tinnitus warrior for over 17 years! Helping others to claim their life back from tinnitus with coaching, mindfulness and/or CBT.
28/07/2025
Hands up if you've noticed that your tinnitus seems to get way louder at night than it has been during the day.
Yep, me too!
This can be one of the most challenging aspects of tinnitus. Just when we’ve climbed into our jim-jams and snuggled under the duvet, BAM! tinnitus cranks up the volume like an after-party DJ. But why does this happen? And what can we do to make bedtime easier?
Sometimes clients send me lovely emails that make me grin from ear to ear. Like this...
07/07/2025
Shhhh!!!
After 3 days of stupendous rock and metal at SOS Festival I am giving my ears a well-deserved break from music. Normal service will resume tomorrow. Until then... shhhhh!!
04/07/2025
In the UK, the recommended safe limit for noise exposure is 85 dB over an 8-hour period. However, because sound levels increase on a logarithmic scale, every 3 dB increase (which is a doubling of sound) halves the amount of time you can safely be in that space.
This means that at 88 dB, only 4 hours is considered safe, and at 91 dB, it drops to 2 hours. By the time you reach 100 dB – common at music festivals – your ears can begin to suffer damage in just 15 minutes.
At a typical festival:
General crowd noise: 90–100 dB
Main stage area: 100–110 dB
Front row near speakers: 110–120 dB
Exposure even on one occasion to unsafe levels of sound without protection can cause noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL), a condition that is often permanent. This shows just how easy it is for this to happen at a one-off festival, it doesn’t have to be long-term exposure over months or years.
Of course, using hearing protection at festivals and taking breaks from the noise are things you can do to protect your ears. Book in with for a chat about custom hearing protection.
26/06/2025
The night’s loud. The damage is silent.
In our world—late nights, packed dancefloors and endless shifts—hearing loss creeps in fast. 1 in 6 already live with it. It’s not just about volume—it’s about staying connected to the moments, people and sounds that make this life worth it.
Psst, there's a draw to win £30, which might help with that credit card bill!
15/06/2025
I really enjoyed explaining what woolly mammoths have to do with tinnitus at the recent support group at Tinnitus UK Charity. There were loads of excellent questions, and we had a great chat about so many aspects of tinnitus that the group find challenging.
If you're in Sheffield, this is such a lovely group. The support group takes place in the evening, and they offer a cracking brew with biscuits.
Just spent the morning vinyl hunting in the amazing and I have never seen two more appropriate records for a tinnitus coach 🤣
13/06/2025
What a cracking way to end the week! So chuffed with this lovely testimonial from a coaching client who finished their sessions yesterday 😍
04/06/2025
If you want to know what woolly mammoths 🦣 have to do with tinnitus then come join me at the Sheffield support group this evening to find out!
10/05/2025
Ever had your tinnitus play an utterly random sound out of the blue?
Me too. One night this week my tinnitus decided to serenade me with the ping ping ping of a bicycle bell.
Like a drunken DJ my tinnitus often chucks unexpected noises into the mix it plays me, but after almost 20 years of tinnitus this sound was a new one for me.
And of course it happened just as I was trying to fall asleep 🙄
So what did I do?
🎵First off, and most importantly, I did not panic. I reminded myself it's not unusual for people's tinnitus to make random sounds. The surest way to get a sound to stick is to get anxious and upset over it. Instead, responding calmly gives the best chance of our tinnitus returning to its baseline (which it did).
🎵 Then I used my mindfulness training to disengage from the pinging bell, and refocus on the sensation of my in-breath and out-breath.
🎵Then I fell asleep.
That's it. It sounds simple. But I was able to manage my thoughts and emotions, choose a calm response rather than a panicky reaction, and refocus my attention so easily only because of my mindfulness training. The sort of mindfulness training I can offer you.
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In 2005 I woke up one morning with complete hearing loss in one ear, and tinnitus. Neither disappeared.
I found hearing loss much easier to cope with than tinnitus. There is a lot of help out there for hearing loss, from lip reading classes to lipspeakers, captioners, hearing aids and amazing transcription apps.
Tinnitus is another matter completely. Most of us have been to Ear Nose and Throat consultants only to be told we just have to live with it. Yes, there are pills, potions and devices out there that might give us some help (sadly they haven’t worked for me and don’t for many of us), but currently there is no cure.
I found my hope in mindfulness. It might not have cured my tinnitus but it has given me back my life.
Tinnitus no longer rules my life, it’s simply a part of it. I don’t stress about it, worry about how I can live with it, or hark back to those days before it became a permanent feature. I accept it and live with it.
Every day, through mindfulness, I renew my commitment and determination to living as full a life as I can even with tinnitus. And it’s turning out to be an awesome life!
