I hear that a lot. “I know it’s silly, but I can’t help it”. How can it be, that our logical mind can be so split from our emotional mind? For example, I might feel terrified at the prospect of having a needle put into my arm. I try to reassure myself with my logical mind. […]
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You don’t have to have been working in the health care world as a professional for long to know that research findings, ‘the evidence’ so called, is very important when it comes to how we practice as professionals. The NICE guidelines that refer to our areas of work have become like the Bible and should […]
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It was over 15 years ago that I stumbled upon the model of NLP, I had just come out of a period of deeply felt stress. Diane my late wife had been diagnosed with breast cancer, we were homeschooling 5 children under six years old and I was working 12 hour shifts 6 days a […]
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In the past at this time of year I have tended to get caught in something of a ‘goal setting’ trap. You know, that sense of frantic, simmering panic that if I don’t do something different things will be the same? Well, that way of thinking definately makes sense right? Doing the same things and expecting different results […]
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Sitting here now, reflecting, I ‘know’ something for sure, I have complete confidence in the absolute integrity of my own experience. That’s really the beginning and ending of all that I offer others through my writing and work…..but I notice something else, which creates enormous power for me….when it comes to my opinions on stuff, doesn’t […]
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I have over the years begun to see a pattern when it comes to how I learn new things, and here’s what I have observed; I first ask myself what is this new subject, skill, knowledge etc similar too, what do I know already that it is like? We as human beings have been evolving […]
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If wasn’t weight loss it was a tendency to drink too much or smoke (and now vape), or to become so irate about midwifery practice issues that I looked and sounded aggressive. Each of these areas of my life over the years has caused me and others pain, at times my life was coloured by […]
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It’s been a while now, years in fact, but I can remember it like it was yesterday, I found myself weeping, sobbing actually, sure, I was feeling a little tired and I did have a cold coming, but what had prompted my tears was a BBC Radio 4 interview, a midwife was talking about her […]
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As a birth professional you will already have a sense of how important the way you speak to clients is; in fact you have probably listened as woman after woman have told you stories involving the use of words and phrases by birth professionals, that have left the women in question feeling less than powerful […]
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You may not have heard of the film Money Ball, but you definitely know about the most recent review of maternity services called Better Births, The review was chaired by Baroness Julia Cumberlege. I know that many of us have high hopes that this report will be the catalyst that begins the process of transformation […]
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