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A complimentary approach to stress, anxiety, depression and PTSD

10 May 2017 / Leave a Comment / Hypnotherapy, Life Skills / By Steve Gardiner / Change / 2 minutes of reading

Doctors now accept the value of alternative & complementary treatments. There is a new perspective that understands the body is not just a mechanical device, but rather incorporates the role of a mind and spirit. Our environment, being the Mind, the body and our physical location all play a part in both our physical and mental wellbeing. Medicine alone cannot ensure our health. Complementary therapies such as hypnosis can prove invaluable to enabling a person to live life free of mental and physical pain!

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Break free from what’s strangling you?

1 May 2017 / Leave a Comment / Coaching, Life Skills / By Steve Gardiner / limiting beliefs / 3 minutes of reading

We all carry baggage! Baggage from the past! Things we can’t seem to let go of, that ‘pop up’ whenever we try to move forward. These fears create anxiety, stress even depression. The emotions create strangle the joy out of living. What is strangling you? When are you going to ‘let it go?’

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Are you addicted to drama?

23 January 2017 / Leave a Comment / Coaching, Life Skills / By Steve Gardiner / long term anxiety / 3 minutes of reading

Drama seems to follow some people around! Always a problem with work, or the kids, or medical or finances! Drama, Drama, Drama! These people seem to attract it! If this is you, perhaps you are addicted to the adrenaline of drama!

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Righteous Anger

16 January 2017 / Leave a Comment / Coaching, Life Skills / By Steve Gardiner / habits / 2 minutes of reading

Is your anger justified? Are you angry in the protection of yourself or others! This protective anger is often called righteous anger! You have a ‘right’ to be angry in the circumstances. We need to be able to ‘access’ righteous anger’ to defend and protect those who cannot protect themselves.

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Domestic Violence leads to Domestic Violence

22 August 2016 / Leave a Comment / Life Skills / By Steve Gardiner / hypnosis, long term anxiety, The Richards Trauma Process / 2 minutes of reading

Domestic Violence is abuse! Unfortunately, This aggressive behaviour is getting worse! Children who grow up witnessing domestic violence are more likely to become violent themselves. As many as
275 million children worldwide are exposed to violence in the home. What can we do to stop the violence?

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Value Yourself

1 August 2016 / Leave a Comment / Coaching, Life Skills / By Joslyn Gardiner / limiting beliefs, Values / 3 minutes of reading

Values, good service, and ‘fair exchange’ are the cornerstones of any business. Natural therapists often undervalue themselves and the service they give and the change they bring to their clients. This reflects a lack of confidence in either themselves or self-worth. There is a mis-conception by ‘New World therapists’ that they must gift their skills to the world. Its time to change that belief! Money is exchanged for service given. The more organised and valued the service given, the greater the reward. Lets start adding value to Natural and alternative therapies.

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How to eat an elephant

23 May 2016 / Leave a Comment / Life Skills / By Joslyn Gardiner / 1 minute of reading

When we are dissatisfied with our lives, when our lives are filled with stress, anxiety and depression there comes a point in our lives where we realise that we have to change. One of the biggest problems is that when we look at what we want to change it becomes too much and overwhelms us.

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Be grateful for what you have

9 May 2016 / Leave a Comment / Life Skills / By Joslyn Gardiner / 1 minute of reading

I was listening to a cd the other day when the speaker said be grateful for what you have and work with it. After reflection I thought that it was a very true and profound statement. How many of us ignore what we have to live in the past and the future. In our rush

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Living Your Life with Purpose

1 February 2016 / Leave a Comment / Life Skills / By Joslyn Gardiner / 2 minutes of reading

I sometimes get clients who come to me and say that they feel demotivated, they procrastinate and they sabotage themselves. This tells me that they are living their lives according to their lowest values. When you are living your life to your highest values you will not feel demotivate, will not need to procrastinate and

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Family support and Depression

11 January 2016 / Leave a Comment / Life Skills / By Joslyn Gardiner / 1 minute of reading

I have just returned from Malaysia and in my travels and talking with people depression seems to be a lot less than in Australia. There is a gene for depression and it seems that this gene is more prevalent in Asian people than in people with a European background. When we examine depression it is

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