Understanding School Anxiety and How the Butterfly Bridge Program Can Help If you've found this page because your child is struggling to attend school, I want you to know you're not alone. Many families experience the worry, guilt and uncertainty that school...

Why It Matters   Running a business can be rewarding… but it can also be exhausting. This is Why It Matters to engage in Self-Care for Business Owners. As a business owner or entrepreneur, you’re often balancing everything.  Such as clients, finances, marketing,...

Can Hypnotherapy Work If You Can’t Visualise?   I’m one of those people who can’t visualise images in my mind. No pictures, no scenes, no mental film. Can Hypnotherapy Work If You Can’t Visualise? I’ve benefited hugely from having Hypnotherapy despite having...

Anxiety, Workplace Stress, Sleep and Lifestyle Support Hypnotherapy for Men can help in so many ways. When feeling life pressures, Men still “find it difficult to confront things” as one of my clients stated in his testimonial. Hypnotherapy helps release male anxiety,...

How to Build Healthy Habits for Long-Term Success   There has been a rapid rise in 2025 in the number of people using GLP-1 medications for weight loss. In this blog, I explain how I support your weight loss journey on GLP-1s (such as Ozempic®, Wegovy®, and...

I've designed the Butterfly Program for Transformation and Growth, to get to the heart of what will bring you the most calm and peace. To restore your daily life back to what you see as a sense of stability and ease. Unlock a brighter, more empowered you. Helping you...

My Personal Story March marks Endometriosis Awareness Month, and in 2025, the theme is ‘Endometriosis Explained.’ To contribute to this awareness of Endometriosis Symptoms, Diagnosis and Self-Care, I share My Personal Story of Living with Endometriosis. Above all,...

How It Helps You Recharge and Refocus How Relaxation Helps You Recharge and Refocus through The Power of Hypnotic Relaxation. In our busy lives, stress, anxiety, and overwhelm have become all too common. In other words, our minds are constantly overloaded with...

Creating Lasting Habits and Making Change Hypnotherapy and New Year’s Resolutions can work together. As the New Year begins, many of us set resolutions aimed at self-improvement. Whether it is losing weight, getting fit, quitting bad habits, giving yourself some time,...

How Loneliness Affects Our Mental Health The Silent Struggle of Loneliness is often perceived as a temporary feeling. Something that can be overcome with socialising or distracting ourselves with activities. However, the impact of loneliness on our mental health is...

I’m going to tell you a story. One about the trials and tribulations with finding My Favourite Wellies.   Let me take you back to 2008 when I got my first dog. Bramble, a little Border Terrier puppy full of life and mischief. I certainly had my hands full as my...

Spending time outside provides us with the Positive Effects of Nature. Being in Nature helps me to clear my mind, come up with ideas, and put things into perspective. However, there was a time when my negative thoughts consumed me. In other words, I didn’t appreciate...

When we get moving and exercise, not only are we helping our physical health, Moving More Helps Our Mental Health. Moving can help reduce stress and anxiety, and improve our sleep. I’m not suggesting everyone should sign up and join a gym. I know all too well, that...

  Following previous blogs, I’ve talked about the Importance of Positives and How to Self-Care. In this blog I highlight another side of my business, and explain the benefits of Therapeutic Massage for Self-Care. Massage is so much more than just a special treat,...

Snowdrops Leave Winter Behind is a perfect analogy as we see the resilience in the plant. The bulbs grow flowers each year, even after the harshest of Winters. I’ve always loved Snowdrops; I even had a glass one as a child. To me, their delicate beauty is like...

In our Hypnotherapy sessions we talk about the Importance of Positives to help us move forward. I explain the five Positives and the neurotransmitters that are important to good mental health and Wellbeing. The Five Positives Positive Thoughts Helps us move away from...

Do you feel the Winter Blues? Find everything is a challenge in the darker days? Your answer may be Hypnotherapy for Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). On the morning of writing this blog, it was a dull, wet and windy day. I had to force the dog out of the door,...

Firstly, there is the bit you know About Me on my website. However, I’m going to share how I’ve always shown The Caring Side of Me in giving to others. Why tell my story? Not only am I currently digging deep into me and my business through Shelley’s Brand Compass...

I’m going to quash some of the common Misconceptions and Myths about Hypnotherapy. Many people are sceptical about Hypnotherapy due to the false Myths out there. In conversations with others from when I started training, people have made general comments about their...

Did you know that you have the options of experiencing sessions either in person or as Online Hypnotherapy. Both are as beneficial as each other. Since the pandemic, we have learned that working online, can be 100% as effective as when I see clients in person. Being...

To determine whether Hypnotherapy is the right therapy for you, it’s important to know How Many Hypnotherapy Sessions Will I Need? Different therapies have different timescales; therefore, I like to offer some guidance, so you know what to expect.   The...

Fear of flying is common, usually occurring from a bad experience. Ivy had Hypnotherapy for fear of flying. I hope you enjoy her story of how the sessions helped her overcome the fear. [video width="940" height="788"...

When looking for a Hypnotherapist in Northamptonshire it is important to choose the right one. Making sure your therapist is accredited should be your first concern. There are so many courses available for people to ‘re-train’ in many different therapies. Currently,...

In this blog I share my story of how Hypnotherapy Helped my Birth Trauma. June is Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Awareness month, so it seemed fitting to share our story. My Pre-Natal experience I had a relatively easy pre-natal experience considering I was an older...

The theme for Mens Health Week 2023, focuses on our Health and the Internet. The development of the ‘minicomputers’ in the palm of our hand, can have a detrimental effect on our Health. However, it’s not just men who are affected by this lifestyle; women, and children...

I was asked if I would give a talk to the Kettering Parkinson’s group. So, it got me thinking How to Help Parkinson’s Anxiety? Hypnotherapy won’t prevent or stop the progression of Parkinson’s disease. However, it might help stave off early symptoms of the disorder....

How can we recognise the Emotional and Behavioural Signs of Stress in ourselves and others? I will explain the signs to look out for, and Ways to Calm the Body and Mind.

How do we know when we are struggling with Stress? Read on and I will explain the Physical Signs of Stress.

The reasons behind Why We Dream and Sleep have been studied for centuries.   A History of Dreams and Sleep   Pre 20th Century As early as 162AD when Galen, a Greek physician, was one of the first physicians to observe the brain. He understood that sleep clears...

  A client said in her testimonial “I’ve been working with Jo to decrease my “stress bucket”! And it’s really working. “         So why a Stress bucket? When we have a visual that we can relate to, we can easily make sense of the meaning....

We’ve heard a lot about Wellbeing and Self-Care since the Pandemic. In this blog I will give you some guidance on How to Self-Care. What is the difference between Wellbeing and Self-Care? Wellbeing This is important to our mental health. For more information and tips,...

Bereavement goes in the cycle of grief, affecting people in different ways. There is no ‘normal’ way to grieve. There is no set timeframe to the cycle of grief. Significant dates such as Christmas, birthdays, or hearing the news of someone else passing, can trigger...

When looking for some Men’s Mental Health Support, Hypnotherapy may be the answer you’ve been looking for. As a Clinical Hypnotherapist, I’ll Support You to Become the Person You Wish to Be.     Finding it Difficult to Confront things?   As one client...

Choosing a Hypnotherapist near Kettering to help you is a big decision. The Therapist and Therapy need to be THE right, comfortable choice, for you to gain the most from the therapy. There is a huge choice of therapies out there so let me introduce myself and a little...

If you Can’t Get to Sleep night after night, this will have a detrimental effect on your Mental and Physical Health. In this blog I will explain the health implications of when you Can’t Sleep and give some Tips to aid a Good night Sleep. Why Do We Sleep? So, Why Do...

So, Why Do We Sleep? Sleep plays a fundamental part in our overall general health. Life throws many stresses at us which disrupt our sleep patterns, causing us to get poor mental and physical health. Why Do We Sleep? As we sleep, we: Repair and rebuild cells to fight...