Then I hit a big life event - a big loss.  I lost a parent and the world unravelled.  Life became a blur - work, eat, sleep, repeat. I was functioning but I wasn't LIVING.  I had walked around in a daze for 10 months and woke up one morning knowing that I NEEDED to change something, to feel better.  I was having flashbacks that would take my breath away, days melted into one - I was surviving, but not living.  My family had all gone through a traumatic experience, and I needed a way out before it completely consumed me.  Trauma is such a loaded word, but on reflection I was suffering from PTSD.  This is when I first found Hypnotherapy.  I saw a therapist who stopped the flashbacks in 1 session - I could breathe again.  I was amazed - nothing but words to help me feel better in one session.  In one hour, we rewired the trauma pathways laid in my brain in those darkest moments, and filled them with happier memories.  It was truly remarkable, and a huge turning point for me.  It was the start of me unwinding not only that trauma, but core beliefs and rules I placed on myself so that I could begin to truly live.  

After that first session I continued to work on my mind, my mental health.  I pulled out anxieties and fears I’d had for years and overcame them, I put boundaries in place where they never existed before, I built a deep understanding of everything that underpinned me as a person.  I realised that for the first time in my life, I was putting ME at the centre of my life.  And I began to LIVE and THRIVE!