Quietly sat listening to our new cohort of students in Nottingham putting each other into a trance seems today to be quite poignant. It prompted me to reflect on my teaching journey.
Having realised that six years ago this was me. Taking that first step to join a new course and learn to become a solution-focused clinical hypnotherapist practitioner after becoming a mummy for the second time. At the time I had no idea where it would lead.
It becomes quite a privilege now to be part of the story in someone else’s choice to do this life-changing qualification. These people all showed up on the same day to change the way we look at mental health with the confidence to build successful practices.
Becoming a lecturer wasn’t on my radar. Neither was becoming a solution-focused hypnotherapist really. Someone else saw potential in me and just pointed me in the right direction. Sitting the course for the second time landed differently, I learnt again and cemented the knowledge even further and regained quite a buzz in my practice, feeling more confident about the potential this was going to bring.
Having realised that six years ago this was me. Taking that first step to join a new course and learn to become a solution-focused clinical hypnotherapist practitioner after becoming a mummy for the second time. At the time I had no idea where it would lead.
Looking to the future
Three years on, I’m still learning, tweaking sessions. And getting those belly bubbles that show up from time to time when we meet new people. But now I’m in control of that. And so my teaching journey continues. You see all through this process I’ve worked on myself, too. Managing my anxiety and negative thoughts so that I can feel confident to enjoy this path I am on. I’ve become the trees that move in the breeze, the river that overcame those particular rocks and obstacles, the picture that I chose to paint for myself. In that room, with that door, the very special room just for me. I still go there from time to time, just to reassess and for reassurance.
The funny thing about my story is that I never knew a single thing about hypnotherapy. A quiet nudge in the right direction allowed me to find a space in which I feel I truly fit. Now that is a perfect day. So solution-focused clinical hypnotherapy not only helped me and my mental health. But it also lead to where I am now. What a journey.
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