A short practice for shifting an automatic response before you walk into a situation that usually triggers it: a difficult conversation, a crowded room, a phone call you have been putting off.
Your brain makes split-second decisions based on what has happened before. Those decisions can be updated, and updating tends to work better when it is practised from a settled state rather than in the middle of the moment itself. This practice gives you somewhere to do that.
🎧 Ten minutes. Use it when you want to feel steadier about how you respond.
A ten-minute practice for pain that has outlasted whatever originally caused it, using visualisation to work with how the brain interprets and produces the signal.
Before you listen: this is for persistent pain that has been investigated, not for pain related to a medical emergency or a fresh injury. If you are unsure, speak to your GP first. Do not listen while driving or operating machinery.
🌿 Find somewhere quiet, get comfortable, and let it unfold.
My book, about the conversation that goes on between the brain and the body underneath persistent physical symptoms: why symptoms can be entirely real without a structural cause, and what it takes for a nervous system to stop treating the body as dangerous.
It is not free, and it goes considerably deeper than the practices above.
Practices are useful, and there is a limit to what they can do on their own. If you would like to talk about what has been going on, the free initial consultation is a conversat aion about you, with no obligation to book anything afterwards.




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