Unlocking silence and rebuilding emotional control, equalling freedom. This will involve getting you to understand yourself from the foundations upwards.

Anxiety disorders:

involve excessive, uncontrollable fear or worry that impairs daily life, affecting nearly 30% of adults. Common symptoms include a rapid heartbeat, sweating, muscle tension, fatigue, and persistent worry. Causes involve a mix of genetics, brain chemistry, personality, and life stressors.

Depression:

is a mental state of low mood and aversion to activity. It affects about 3.5% of the global population. Common symptoms include persistent sadness, loss of interest in enjoyable activities, fatigue, sleep/appetite changes, and feelings of worthlessness or guilt; they often last most of the day, nearly every day, for at least two weeks and can also involve irritability, difficulty concentrating, and suicidal thoughts, affecting daily functioning.

How I can help

Understand conscious and unconscious thinking  

This involves identifying parts, understanding their positive and negative intentions, and fostering a relationship between the “Self” and these parts to unburden them.

Control instincts and emotions

Instincts are innate, inherited, and automatic behaviours directed toward survival goals (e.g., flight or fight response), while emotions are internal, conscious, and often learned feelings that signal changes in mood (e.g., fear or Joy). Instincts provide the action, whereas emotions provide the feeling and motivation. To control instincts and emotions, we must first work out which instincts are fighting each other and which emotion shows as the outcome. Once we have worked this out, we can then get to grips with secondary gain and self-sabotaging patterns. 

“Secondary gains are, as I describe, a special type of self-sabotage pattern. They can be quite a big obstacle to process. Secondary gains are sections of your mind that are conscious motivators that reward you in emotional or physical ways for holding onto your problems and blocks.” 

Link hormones and neurotransmitters 

Your emotions, instincts and mental states act as a "conductor," triggering the brain to release specific neurochemicals (e.g., endorphins, serotonin) or signals to glands to release hormones (e.g., cortisol, adrenaline). Trading can be very stressful, and when you are stressed, your body undergoes an immediate, automatic, and complex "fight-or-flight" chemical reaction designed to prepare you to face or flee from danger. This response is driven by the nervous system and the endocrine system, triggering the release of key hormones and neurotransmitters, including adrenaline (epinephrine), noradrenaline (norepinephrine), and cortisol. Cortisol, the primary stress hormone, acts on the brain to manage acute stress by boosting alertness and energy, but high levels can damage brain structure and function. It shrinks the hippocampus (memory centre), reduces prefrontal cortex function (impairing decision-making), and increases amygdala activity, which can intensify anxiety and fear. Creating all sorts of mixed emotions about how we really think and act.