Each week in May I've been holding an online class entitled 'Midweek Mindful Restorative'. This week's title, 'Story and Release', was to do with how we can know ourselves as thinking, story-making beings, learn to recognise how we hold beliefs that harm us and beliefs that heal us, and how we can go beneath this to know a different relationship to ourselves and to life. It’s a valuable exploration as the nervous system and all bodily processes respond to what we think and ho

This weekend I was sitting with my husband outside a Portuguese café in Camden Town, reflecting on something that is central to my work: the unconscious patterns we develop to protect ourselves and how, over time, they can begin to limit us. As we were enjoying our pastel de nata pastries, chatting and watching the world go by I noticed the London townhouse across from us had its windows bricked up. I knew that there was a window tax for many years in the UK, but not very muc

The Missing Link: The Unconscious Mind and Nervous System Regulation Often in the first few minutes of our first conversation , many of my clients tell me that that to some degree they consciously know what’s going on for them, but they still can’t change it. They most probably have spent time on Google, read self-help books and discussed things with friends. They’ve often tried journaling to work out the connections, they’ve perhaps done a movement practice, danced, had body

What if the answer isn’t more effort, but simply a new perspective? Creating Change Through Creative Spring Thinking Yesterday I spent the day at a creative workshop, with a focus on the emerging spring. What a joy it was to gather with people around a table, sharing objects and stories, listening and writing tales. We gathered things from the natural world, cut shapes out of coloured paper, wrote words and created collaborative books of poetry, sewing the spines to bind them

Cognitive Hypnotherapy - A Powerful Foundational Modality This is the first in a short series on the different modalities that I use when I work with my clients. Overall my work includes many different aspects, but I'm starting with Cognitive Hypnotherapy, as this is where my work with clients began many, many years ago, and the elements of this work (using hypnosis and so much more) are so foundational to everything else that I do. ___________________________________________

Book your Cognitive Hypnotherapy and Transformational Coaching Session Today. https://www.kirstymacdonald.co.uk/contact Are you creating the conditions for the lighting of the next candle, or is the wick dangerously close to burning out - leaving you in a darkened room? Did you already know that the spring awakening needs tending to? And are you ready and willing? There is mystery and possibility in the twilight hours of spring, so why not take a moment to pause and reflect o

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