hypnowithdean

One of the things I am quite clear about with clients is that listening to the trance between sessions is important. It is not simply something nice to do if you have the time, and it is not there just to help you relax for twenty minutes. For me, it is part of the therapy itself. The work we do in a session can help you think differently, understand what is happening and begin to create change, but that session may only last an hour. What happens during the other six days of the week matters...

There is a question I have started to think about more and more when I find myself going back over something that happened in the past: if I am going to tell this story, either to myself or to somebody else, is telling it going to help me now or in the future? If it isn’t, why am I telling it? I like the question because it does not tell me that I should forget the past, pretend something did not happen, or excuse people who may have hurt me. It is much simpler than that. It asks me to think...

\ For a long time, I used to say that I hated Newcastle. I said it quite easily and, at the time, I genuinely believed it. I moved away in my early twenties purely because of work. It was a career move and that was the reason I left, but at the same time I was happy to be going because of some of the things I was leaving behind. There had been family fallouts and difficult situations going on around that period of my life, and although they were not the reason I moved away, they certainly...