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Change your mind, change your life

Just under three years ago, Fiona Bay embarked on a series of 60 challenges â€“ all to be completed by her 60th birthday. That gave her 10 months. Each challenge had to take her out of her comfort zone either emotionally, mentally or physically. Now she has achieved those challenges and her life has changed – all because of hypnotherapy. Fiona has since set up her own Hypnotherapy Practice in Cookham and can help you change your life in 2016...

Fiona Bay is married with two children (both now grown and flown). They moved from Maidenhead to Cookham Dean in 1995, and into the village in 2007. They were married in
Holy Trinity Church and had always loved the village. 'I have always loved and appreciated
the way Cookham opens its heart to its residents, both long-settled and newly-arrived,' Fiona says. 'There is a genuine feeling of community spirit, with support networks available whatever your interests or needs.' And now Fiona has set up her business here – Fiona Bay Hypnotherapy. Here's her story:

'With a lifelong terror of spiders (on a scale of 1-10, I was probably an 11), an early challenge was to seek help to conquer my phobia. Incorporating a session of hypnotherapy, the treatment worked. I now calmly pick up spiders, and no longer do a spider sweep every night before bed!  

Thus cured, I made it my business to find out HOW hypnotherapy had succeeded in curing my phobia. After attending a one-day course (a mental challenge on my 60 list), I stayed and completed the entire Practitioner Course and began to practice. The following year, I went
on to gain my Advanced Diploma in Clinical Hypnotherapy and graduated early in 2015.  

   'At the age of 62, with a wealth of life experience – ups and downs – I have never believed so completely in anything. I know how the hypnotherapy course, incorporating training in cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), has helped me to change the way I think and feel about an event, and therefore the way I behave. My family and friends will bear witness to that claim.

   'I am now passionate about helping others to achieve their own desired goals. The best part
of my work is helping others to understand that we have within us the capacity to change our thoughts, feelings and beliefs, and thereby change our lives... We have only to believe in ourselves. That is where I come in. 
I very much look forward to meeting and helping people to understand and change their negative beliefs, thoughts and feelings about whatever it is that is causing them concern.'

 

Two thoughts Fiona says you should take into 2016:

 

THE MIND IS EVERYTHING. WHAT YOU THINK, YOU BECOME

 

'ONCE A PERSON IS DETERMINED TO HELP THEMSELVES, THERE IS NOTHING THAT CAN STOP THEM.'

(Nelson Mandela)

 

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