There are certain groups of people who can be identified as being more 'at risk' of experiencing stress, as well as life events.  These are the external factors which can lead to stress.  There are also a number of internal factors.  The good news is Butterfly Effect Coaching can help with both!  The 'at risk' groups are considered to be:

• Working Mums (for which the impact can spread to the children)
• City Dwellers
• Divorced/Widowed or Single people
• Carers
• Business Owners
• Farmers
• Students

The external factors which can be the causes of stress include:

• Financial Worries
• Unhappy Relationships
• High Pressured Jobs
• Serious Illnesses (for yourself or within your family)
• Traumatic Experiences
• Retirement (surprising to those yet to retire no doubt!)
• Upbringing
• Lack Of Social Network
• Phobias
• Low Self-Esteem

It is really important to pay attention to your stress signals and start doing something about it.  In the long run, if you frequently ignore the signs that you are experiencing stress it will start to have a major negative impact on your life and your health.  In the long run, stress can leave you more vulnerable to anxiety and depression, having rewired your brain to the stress response.  In the short term, chronic stress affects your immune system, nervous system; it can increase your chances of heart attack and infertility, stroke and cancer.  It can also speed up the ageing process.  So with all of that in mind, for your sake, and for the sake of your family and loved ones, when would now be a good time to do something about it...?

What Can You Do About Stress?

The first thing you need to do is look at the areas of your life which are causing you stress and see what you can do to limit those.  This can be easier said than done, as sometimes it is difficult to see the wood for the trees when you are so entrenched in a situation that you cannot see a way out, or a way of improving that situation.  This is where having the services of an impartial Life Coach will help you.  I will empower you to find the ways in which you can manage your situation, remove unnecessary stresses and improve your circumstances, as we work together to achieve mutually agreed improvements.

The second thing is look internally and consider whether you have wired yourself to feel unnecessarily stressed in certain situations.  To illustrate what I mean I often use the following example of the difference between a lucky person and an unlucky person:

The unlucky person falls down a flight of stairs and breaks his leg and thinks to himself "I can't believe this, I've broken my leg.  This is the sort of terrible thing that always happens to me.  What have I done to deserve this?!  I'm so unlucky"

The lucky person falls down a flight of stairs and breaks his leg and thinks to himself "I can't believe it, I've fallen down a flight of stairs and I ONLY broke my leg.  That could have been so much worse, I'm so lucky"

In the exact same situation one person feels very upset and depressed, and another chooses to see the good in the situation and feel happy about it.  Many people suffer from negative self-talk where we constantly look for (and find) the negatives in situations.  There will always be some circumstances in life which cannot be changed, and when the circumstance cannot be changed, the remaining option is to change the way you feel about the circumstance.  Again, this can be easier said than done, and this is another area that I can help.  There are a few ways in which I can help, with some practical exercises I will encourage you to do in your own time, and I am a qualified Hypnotherapy Practitioner.  My face-to-face clients can have a 20 minute hypnotherapy intervention within their hour coaching session each time should they choose to.  My telephone and E-Coaching clients can purchase MP3 recordings to use in their own time.  They can choose between a general hypnotherapy recording for a specific subject, or one tailored to their own personal needs.

What is Hypnotherapy?

Hypnosis is very safe, it cannot be done against your will and you will be aware of what is happening.  You will have experienced states of trance regularly throughout your life; when driving without thinking about it, watching films, sitting in meetings etc...

As your Hypnotherapy Practitioner I would help to guide you into a relaxed state, and then make positive suggestions directly to your subconscious mind for new behaviour or feelings in a given situation.  The subconscious mind is very obedient, but sometimes repetition can be required to reach the desired state.  Ad hoc top up sessions may also be required.  As the causes and effects of your stress and anxiety can be very wide reaching, you may benefit from specific hypnotherapy sessions for any of the below goals:

• Giving Up Smoking.
• Weight Loss
• Public Speaking
• General Reduced Stress, Anger Or Anxiety
• Overcoming Phobias
• Improve Confidence
• Self Healing
• Panic Attacks
• Finding Lost Things
• Thinking More Positively
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome
• Overcoming Blushing
• Examination Nerves
• Financial Success
• Obsessive Compulsive Behaviour
• Nail Biting

Hypnotherapy is also available on a stand-alone basis.   To enquire or book please email

" When the session was completed and I went home, I felt a wave of joy and pleasure sweep over me and for several days afterwards I was on a 'high'" Jeff, Rayleigh

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