Resources

Two audio practices you are welcome to download and use as often as you like, and a book if you want to go further. The downloads will also add you to my monthly newsletter, which you can leave at any time.

Rewire the Moment: a guided visualisation

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.

Turn Down the Volume: a guided meditation for easing sensations

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.

The Safety Signal

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.

If you would like to talk

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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