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Recently, I had the pleasure of training practitioners on the new Gentle Birth Pregnancy and Post-Natal Massage Course. 

This course is specifically designed for practitioners wanting obtain practical knowledge on to support women through pregnancy and labour, although the treatments can be used for treating multiple conditions throughout a women’s life.

Creative Healing treatments target organs specifically challenged during pregnancy.  They get to learn how the body works and how to actively instigate appropriate treatments that will relieve a mother of her discomfort.

They are also encouraged to work under supervision at Gentle Birth Centres during their training. This gives them ample opportunity to practise their techniques and in doing so become confident gentle birth practitioners.

Needle phobias can be very challenging especially if you need to have a course of injections as was the case when a delightful 13-year-old boy came to me and who was extremely afraid of needles.

From my experience I have learnt that phobias and fears do have a rational source and therefore, I pay exquisite attention the minute aspects of how the person has coded their symptom information. In this case when I asked him what made him afraid of needles, I found out that he was not frightened of it being painful when he got the injection rather that he was afraid that the needle would break off inside him.

He was extremely anxious that once broken off the needle would travel to his heart and kill him. Luckily, he came to see me at a GP’s practice where I had access to needles and so when showed him that it was virtually impossible to break the needle, he was able to relax for the hypnosis. He went on to have the who course of treatment without any further problems sit the needle phobia.

I had the pleasure of presenting two one-hour workshops for carers in Wood Green, North London. Stress is one of the most difficult problems to overcome because most of the carers are family and cannot get away from their caretaking roles, sometimes not even for a few hours and therefore learning strategies that would help them cope would be ideal.

It was only a brief introduction as time was limited however, they were able to get a sense of what an integrated mind-body approach would look like when coping with stressful situations.