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January 28, 2023 Slavka Craig

Past Life Regression – individual and collective awakening

Past life regression – individual and collective awakening Since the pandemic, I have noticed a shift in the way that more and more people have become interested in past life regression sessions. Many people started questioning their lives...

March 28, 2020 Slavka Craig

Why I’m Switching To Online Therapy

Obviously, the Covid-19 situation is affecting all of us and the advice around it is updating all the time. My professional governing bodies have suggested that all therapy appointments should be conducted online for the foreseeable future and...

March 3, 2016 Slavka Craig

Negative patterns of thinking and behaviour

So much of our lives are governed by cycles, habits and patterns. We may have learned how to do something in a certain way when we were younger and never stopped to consider that there might be other ways of doing it. When that involves mundane...

February 13, 2016 Slavka Craig

Stress

We live in a fast-paced society and we have come to accept stress as a normal part of our lives. Stress in small doses can actually be beneficial as it can motivate us, improve our memory function, drive us to do things and make us perform better...

February 7, 2016 Slavka Craig

Therapy – how many sessions to fix….?

As a therapist, one of the questions I’m most often asked is, ‘how many sessions will it take to fix…?’. Unfortunately, the best answer I can give you would be, ‘how long is a piece of string?’. Entering therapy is a...

February 7, 2016 Slavka Craig

PTSD: What is it and how can hypnotherapy help?

Post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD is often associated with military personnel, who can end up suffering with it due to the nature of their work. During World War I, the condition was not recognised or understood. Soldiers suffering from it...

February 2, 2016 Slavka Craig

Anxiety

I’m often asked what’s the most common condition that people seek my help for and the answer is anxiety. I thought it might be useful to give a little more insight into what can be a debilitating condition. Anxiety can take different forms; it...

July 14, 2014 Slavka Craig

Self-confidence versus self-esteem

I am writing this on the plane on my way back to bonnie Fife in Scotland after my holidays. Reading (yet another, I can’t help it) book on hypnotherapy has sparked an idea for this blog, the topic of which I feel is rather pertinent. One of...

March 17, 2014 Slavka Craig

Treating Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) with Hypnotherapy

Irritable bowel syndrome is a fairly common disorder of the digestive system and can involve diarrhoea, cramps, constipation and bloating, though symptoms may vary from person to person. It can be unpredictable and painful, causing a negative...

March 17, 2014 Slavka Craig

Nail biting hypnosis

Nail biting is one of those habits that is so common in both children and adults. I know this only too well because I was a nail-biter from a very early age. Children often copy the behaviour of their parents, until it becomes automatic within...

February 23, 2014 Slavka Craig

‘Martyr Syndrome’ or Compassion Fatigue Causing You Stress? Part 1 | Hypnolight Hypnotherapy

I looked at his grey skin and protruding cheekbones as he slumped into the sofa. He had lost weight and looked permanently exhausted. He worked crazy hours, running after everybody, his body was shutting down and he was telling me that his family...

December 20, 2013 Slavka Craig

Resolved to quit resolutions? Hypnolight Hypnotherapy on how to keep New Year resolutions.

Here we go again. That time of the year is looming when many of us make New Year resolutions. There is something about it, isn’t there? It feels nearly obligatory to make a resolution, just because everybody else is at it. It’s a new social...