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Moving abroad is supposed to be the adventure. The thing that makes life bigger, more interesting, better. And it is. It's also, quietly and without much fanfare, one of the more relentless things you can put your nervous system through. Nobody talks about that part. The practical stuff gets covered (visas, schools, where to find a decent GP). What doesn't get discussed is the low-level hum of stress that comes from rebuilding an entire life from nothing. The social scaffoldi

Hypnotherapy gets a lot of credit it doesn't deserve. It also gets a lot of dismissal it doesn't deserve. The truth is somewhere in the middle and considerably less dramatic than either version. So here is what it can actually do, and what it can't, as honestly as I can put it. It's genuinely good at the stuck things. Habits and patterns that have been running on autopilot for so long you've stopped questioning them. Anxiety that fires before it's even worked out why. Sleep t

I didn't walk into hypnotherapy. I stumbled into it by complete accident, through a door I didn't know existed. It was an Alan Carr "Easy Way" stop smoking class. You might know the name from the book, the one that seemingly everyone's mum or uncle swears changed their life. The class was honestly a last resort. I'd tried other things, was running out of excuses, and turned up mildly cynical and fairly convinced that whatever this was, it probably wasn't going to work on me s

Let's get this out of the way immediately. No, I cannot make you cluck like a chicken. I mean, technically, maybe, if you were a very willing participant in a stage hypnosis show and the suggestion landed just right and you'd had a couple of drinks. But that's not hypnotherapy. That's entertainment. The two have about as much in common as a GP and a magician. (Both involve a human and some level of trust. That's genuinely where the similarities end.) The chicken thing is the

Nobody is bored anymore. Not really. Think about the last time you sat somewhere, doing nothing, with no phone in your hand. A waiting room, a queue, a train journey, and you just... sat there. With your thoughts. Like a person. Can't remember? Me neither, honestly. We have engineered boredom out of existence and I genuinely think it's one of the more catastrophic things we've done to ourselves. Every spare second is filled. Scrolling, streaming, podcasting, doom-reading the

Nobody tells you that starting a hypnotherapy business means becoming, almost overnight, a website designer, a copywriter, a bookkeeper, a social media manager, a photographer (badly, very badly), and also somewhere in there, an actual hypnotherapist. I went in knowing I was good with people. I genuinely am. I find humans fascinating, all of them, their stories, their quirks, the things they carry around. That bit I felt ready for. What I was not even slightly prepared for wa