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Beyond Stress Management: How Meeting Your Emotional Needs Can Reduce Chronic Stress and Build Resilience

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Beyond Stress Management: How Meeting Your Emotional Needs Can Reduce Chronic Stress and Build Resilience

"Are you managing stress... or just surviving it?

After years of working with people experiencing chronic stress, I've realised something important: most stress management advice treats symptoms, not causes.

My latest article explores how the Human Givens model reveals why traditional stress relief often falls short - and how targeting your specific unmet emotional needs can create lasting change instead of temporary relief.

If you've been doing 'all the right things' but still feel stuck in the stress cycle, this post might offer a different perspective.

What I cover: The 9 emotional needs that drive wellbeing (and stress when unmet); How to map stress management techniques to your specific needs; A strategic approach that goes beyond symptom management.

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Beyond “Fight or Flight”: Rethinking Stress

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Beyond “Fight or Flight”: Rethinking Stress

Beyond “Fight or Flight”: Rethinking Stress
This post challenges common misconceptions about stress by explaining how our nervous system responds to everyday demands—not just danger or crises. Discover the difference between healthy, energizing stress and harmful, chronic stress, and learn why your beliefs about stress shape your daily experiences and wellbeing. Gain practical tips for recognizing and managing stress more effectively in your professional and personal life.

How Gut-Directed Hypnotherapy Can Help You Master the Low FODMAP Diet

How Gut-Directed Hypnotherapy Can Help You Master the Low FODMAP Diet

Struggling to stick to the low FODMAP diet while managing a demanding career? You’re not alone. This article explores how gut-directed hypnotherapy can make the low FODMAP diet journey easier, more sustainable, and even more enjoyable. Discover how this science-backed approach boosts motivation, reduces food-related stress, and helps busy professionals follow the diet without sacrificing mental clarity, social life, or career momentum.

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Why Your Gut Symptoms Aren’t Just Digestive — They’re a Nervous System Issue

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Why Your Gut Symptoms Aren’t Just Digestive — They’re a Nervous System Issue

IBS is a condition rooted in disrupted communication within a part of your nervous system called the gut–brain–microbiome axis.

This article explains what that axis is, how miscommunication leads to symptoms — and how therapies like gut-directed hypnotherapy and cognitive behavioural therapy can help restore balance.

If you’ve been searching for a clear, science-backed explanation for why relief has been so elusive — this might be what you’ve been looking for.