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It’s funny how sometimes people sat on a hobby horse miss the fact that the world has raced past them on a rocket. When I was Director of Ethics for the National Council for Hypnotherapy I worked with other like-minded people for about four years to rescind the rule that banned therapists from using client [...]

I guess a New Year blog from someone like me is supposed to be about setting goals and suchlike, and I’ve certainly gone down that road in the past, but I want to say something else this year. Not that I’m saying goals are anything but a good thing – in moderation; you could have [...]

After less than a year in the marketplace it’s brilliant news that the weightloss downloads developed by Trevor in collaboration with ThinkingSlimmer have had such an impact already. It’s particularly pleasing because the philosophy is all about forgetting diets and creating a healthier relationship to food. As a true lifestyle change it means the weight [...]

This is a blog that’s been sitting like a lead weight in my stomach. The shortest way to start it is just to say that we put Wilma to sleep. So many of you contacted me with messages of support following my last blog about our remarkable little pet that I knew I’d have to [...]

Our job as agony aunt and uncle on the Jeni Barnett show BBC London 94.9fm (apart from us hating that description) has been one of the new things of 2011 that we’re enjoying the most. I pinched myself on Sunday when I turned to my left during the broadcast and looked into the studio next [...]

Ten months ago I had a therapy session with a wheezy fat bloke. I’d been asked to see him by Sandra, the founder of Thinking Slimmer, who had contacted him after he’d been crucified in the press for suggesting that he should put on weight to get a gastric band operation that he had been [...]

I know it’s probably rare for a blog that usually focuses on therapy issues to turn into a health report on a little dog, but a lot of you have asked me for an update on Wilma, and this seemed a good way of doing it. And if you’re interested in the brain I think [...]

We’re very happy to have become Jeni’s resident Agony Aunt and Uncle – reducing it, rather than increasing it, we hope. The subject this time was anxiety, and Bex and Trevor share a Cognitive Hypnotherapy perspective on the issue, along with some tips on how you can take more control of your fears. The songs [...]

I got up to run a half marathon this morning.
By 6.45am I was in the fens, surrounded by a glorious morning. The wind had dropped – sometimes it takes the tail of a hurricane to make you appreciate stillness – and the air had the definite bite of Autumn. Not long now before a T [...]

There are days that punctuate our lives, and weddings tend to be one of them. They can also be opportunities to count your blessings, and to tune into the circle of life. Our second son got married last Saturday. The ceremony was conducted in Orleans House in Richmond, a beautiful location built by George II [...]