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Is workplace stress affecting your health?
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According to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), 526,000 workers in the UK suffered from work-related stress, depression or anxiety in 2016/17, and 12.5m working days were lost as a result over that period. A survey of 3,000 workers conducted … Continue reading
Is losing weight a struggle?
A lot of us are overweight to some degree, or simply unhappy with our bodies. Social media is the place where we compare our lives and bodies to those of strangers, and cashing in on this dissatisfaction, the diet industry … Continue reading
Is health anxiety harming you?
Do you worry that you have a serious, undiagnosed medical condition? The number of people in the UK suffering from health anxiety is rising. Many of us are guilty of Googling a symptom when we have a cold or worrying … Continue reading
Sticking to your resolve…
How are you progressing with your New Year’s resolutions? According to a survey conducted by health insurance company Bupa in 2015, 66% of you will have thrown in the towel already. Making changes towards a healthier lifestyle is the most … Continue reading
Anxiety and depression: Are you getting effective help?
A new international study published in the journal Depression and Anxiety suggests that 90% of people who suffer from anxiety or depression don’t receive proper treatment. Commissioned by the World Mental Health, the research described the treatment gap in anxiety disorders … Continue reading
Is your acid reflux medicine damaging your health?
Hypnotherapy can help You might have noticed after the excesses of Christmas that you developed a bad case of heartburn. Left unchecked heartburn can progress and become acid reflux or GERD, illnesses which cause stomach acid to move up into … Continue reading
Experience a royal childbirth
Back in 2013, it was widely reported that the Kate Middleton delivered Prince George using hypnobirthing techniques and the media has gone into overdrive speculating that she will again use hypnobirthing to help deliver the third royal baby due in … Continue reading
Not feeling the Christmas spirit?
It’s known as ‘The Most Wonderful Time of the Year’ but for many it’s filled with anxiety and depression. The festive period can intensify feelings of loneliness, increase financial worries and put pressure on people to have the “perfect” Christmas. … Continue reading
Live phobia free with hypnotherapy
Most of us are frightened of something. Around 2.4% of adults in the United Kingdom have a medically diagnosable phobia, according to a recent NHS survey, that’s around 1.3 million people. The NHS says: “A phobia is an overwhelming and … Continue reading
Hypnotherapy provides effective pain relief
Around 30% of the UK live with daily, chronic pain, that’s around 28 million people according to research carried out in 2016. For most of these sufferers, opiates are offered as the main treatment for their pain.) In America opiod prescriptions … Continue reading