I get emails every day from people looking for therapy to get to the underlying stress behind their health issue.

Some of these people have serious conditions while others are noticing the physical effects of stress for the first time.

An email arrived from someone who wanted help with his life-long under-active thyroid problems and I replied with the details of my programme. His reply the next day was indignant “I’d expect my thyroid to be fixed in 3 x 90min sessions at the most really.”

“The Secret” and the marketing around the Law of Attraction have been great in increasing awareness of the long reach of positive thinking – however, I believe they’ve left the most crucial bit out -namely, the need for positive action.

A caged bird can think about freedom and the big blue sky all she wants, but it’s not going to come unless someone opens the door of the cage or she finds a way to do it herself.

And even when the door is open, her wings need to be strengthened so that she can re-learn how to fly the long distances she’s dreamt of flying. She needs to learn how to land, how to swoop, how to hunt food, what to eat, what to avoid…

And so it is when you’ve been suffering from a physical or emotional illness – from thyroid problems to depression.

• Present: The issue needs attention.
• Past: The things that led to the issue occurring in the first place need attention.
• Future: Your ongoing behaviour, self-image and recovery needs attention.

Miracles certainly do happen – I’ve helped people change track, feel better, overcome problems they’ve suffered for decades. Many of these people noticed something change from their very first session – but there were also others who took a good few weeks before that shift finally came to tumble the rest of the blocks away.

Miracles do happen. I’ve seen them. But they’re not magic and they don’t happen from voodoo – they happened because my clients did the work.

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