The Tanglewood Practice

We’d like to share some exciting news with our clients and friends: At the beginning of this year, our Clinical Hypnotherapist Jo Perry took over The Observatory Practice in Plymouth! Jo trained at the Observatory Practice, and has been working, teaching and supervising there ever since, along with working at The Tanglewood Practice with Ann.…

“You’re too sensitive” and “I don’t have a filter” are just two of the wholly unacceptable phrases that passive aggressive people use to upset/control other people.    Ask yourself why a person feels the need to make any remark that will upset you, if they feel that you are sensitive?   What exactly is their motive here?   The people…

First of all, a very happy New Year to you! Wishing you all a healthy and successful 2023 from Ann and myself at The Tanglewood Practice! I’d like to share some exciting news for 2023 with my clients, students, supervisees, colleagues and friends: I am now the proud new proprietor of The Observatory Practice in…

The first step in ensuring that our reasonable needs are being met, is to acknowledge that our own reasonable needs are EQUAL to everyone else’s.   Our own reasonable needs are not more important than others, but they are certainly not less important. Everyone has the right to their own opinions, values, and beliefs.   We do not have the right…

Obsessive thoughts are a common symptom of feeling stressed, anxious or depressed. If the primitive, emotional part of our mind feels that we are in danger, it will naturally want to keep drawing our attention back to whatever it perceives to be the problem. So if we are feeling anxious about our overdraft, or a…

January can be a difficult month for some people. The excitement (or stress) of Christmas is over, and there still seems to be a LOT of winter left before we see signs of the spring again. It can be all too easy to fall into a slightly lethargic, melancholic or depressed state.  Depression is a natural…

Many people have struggled during the last year with healthy eating and lifestyle choices. Putting on weight has been an unfortunate, but often inevitable, consequence of living through a global pandemic and several lockdowns. Solution-focused hypnotherapy is a positive and effective way to regain control of your relationship with food and lifestyle choices.  Many people trying to…

As we emerge from lockdown, and a very difficult year, many people are experiencing anxiety, either for the first time, or in a more severe way than ever before. The following helps to explain what anxiety is, and why we can feel the way we do. Anxiety and anger are our natural self-defense responses to situations…

Just posting a quick update here about my maternity leave… As some of you may already know, I have been on maternity leave since the end of January. I had my beautiful baby girl a week later, and fortunately we had a few weeks with friends and family before lockdown began! I had planned to…

Do you put everyone else needs before your own because you think that everyone else’s needs are more important than yours? Do you say “Yes” as a habit because you need to feel needed?  Are you yearning for validation and approval from others?  Do you think other people will think you are lazy, uncaring, or…