Tranquil Awakenings

In today’s episode of the Tranquil Awakenings Podcast, Debbie will be in conversation with Peter Wall, a retired hypnotherapist of 22 years, who during his career assisted individuals with many things including overcoming phobias and habits, his particular love being past life regression work.

During this conversation, Peter shares how he came to be a hypnotherapist, recalling tales from his career. In his retirement, he is now using the wisdom he has accumulated to continue to guide others in the form of writing books.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Everybody’s mind and thought processes are unique to them.
• Learning hypnotherapy helps in day-to-day life as well as being a fascinating profession.
• When opportunities present themselves, it is important to take them.
• The way we speak to ourselves, and others, impacts feelings and behaviours.
• We can use language in specific ways to get the outcomes we require.
• Hypnotherapy can be used to assist with phobias, breaking habits, addictions, public speaking and many other things.
• Past Life Regression can be used for exploration and curiosity, as well as therapeutically.
• You begin to feel much better when you learn how to create the thoughts you want and that serve you.

BEST MOMENTS

• “And you would have to deal with it totally different, so it was constantly challenging my mind and my abilities really.”
• “He said, ‘Oh, that's interesting. What do you know about hypnosis?’ I says, ‘Oh, mate, I've been fascinated. I love magic. I buy magic tricks to see how they work. I never use them. I like them to see how they work.’”
• “I was quite upset that I couldn't go, but then my wife said, ‘Well, just a minute, we've just had your latest payment in from the job centre and there's a note that, it's like an invoice type thing, you know, and at the bottom she says, I'm sure I've seen something. And it says there is a grant of up to 2, 500 pounds for further education.”
• “I always tell people when I meet them, you know, even when I'm just talking to them, I say, look, go and try to be a hypnotherapist. You'll love it.”
• “I speak to them in a different way in the morning. And they're actually eager to get up and go to school now, whereas they couldn't be bothered before.”
• “I can't worry about something I have no control over.”
• “Stop creating thoughts that you don't want. Create the thoughts that you do want, change every negative thought to a positive. And once you start living in a positive world, my God, it's so much easier.”

HOST BIO

Debbie is a seasoned therapist whose journey from being a primary school teacher to an adept therapist has been fuelled by her fascination with the intricacies of human nature. Equipped with advanced certifications in diverse modalities like hypnotherapy, neuro-linguistic programming, mindfulness, meditation, past life regression and many more she has honed her expertise to bring about transformative change.

As a full-time therapist and trainer, Debbie's driving passion is guiding others, as well as herself, towards their best selves. Embracing the concept of holistic beings, she firmly believes in addressing the mental, emotional, physical, social, energetic, and spiritual facets of well-being and healing.

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In today’s episode of the Tranquil Awakenings Podcast, Debbie will be in conversation with Heidi Dawson, a coach and therapeutic practitioner who works with both individuals and within the corporate world.

As part of what she does, she works alongside her team of horses to help others to heal and learn about themselves as they explore a range of different areas such as social and emotional development, mental health, wellbeing, leadership, and team development.

Heidi believes that horses are the epitome of emotional intelligence, being able to see into our souls; this allowing for authentic interaction, providing a safe space for individuals to explore who they are.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Horses and animals are adept at reading our energy.
• By tuning into our emotional intelligence and what our bodies are telling us, it can help us to find solutions and move forward.
• Being with the horses creates a safe space to explore emotions.
• Animals can communicate with us to show us what we need to know about ourselves and each other.
• We are all connected to one another energetically.
• We can influence our environment by working on ourselves.

BEST MOMENTS

• “Ironically it was a riding accident that, because I haven't really done anything with horses for many years apart from every now and again go through a ride with a couple of friends. And on this occasion, I had a hideous accident, ended up in being airlifted to hospital.”
• “They just see into our souls. And they require us to be authentic because they don't know how to be anything other than that. And they're the epitome of emotional intelligence as well.”
• “That's just something special to be around that kind of energy and what they need from us is for us to get out of our heads and work with our own emotional intelligence and listen to what our bodies are telling us.”
• “They can't do role play. They don't, it isn't on their agenda. They don't know how to do it. So, every interaction is completely genuine and honest.”
• “The horses were where I found my safe place, so I just used to ignore the horrid girls who were picking on me and just go and spend time in a field or a stable with a horse and I was as happy as Larry and they just create that safe space.”
• “We've got a great connection. And so, I kind of feel what they're showing me and what they're telling me, but, and I've always assumed it's just because I've grown to know them.”
• “And that's something that I believe very strongly, that on that energetic level, we are all connected and anything that I do in the here and now ripples out and affects, you know, completely everybody and everything.”
• “I think the main one for me is get out of your head and listen to what your body is telling you about the situations that you find yourself in and the relationships that you find yourself in. Really tune into those gut instincts and listen to your emotional intelligence.”

HOST BIO

Debbie is a seasoned therapist whose journey from being a primary school teacher to an adept therapist has been fuelled by her fascination with the intricacies of human nature. Equipped with advanced certifications in diverse modalities like hypnotherapy, neuro-linguistic programming, mindfulness, meditation, past life regression and many more she has honed her expertise to bring about transformative change.

As a full-time therapist and trainer, Debbie's driving passion is guiding others, as well as herself, towards their best selves. Embracing the concept of holistic beings, she firmly believes in addressing the mental, emotional, physical, social, energetic, and spiritual facets of well-being and healing.

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In today’s episode of the Tranquil Awakenings Podcast, Debbie will be in conversation with Emma Chandler, a bodywork practitioner who specialises in massage and yoga, looking at how the nervous system interplays with the muscles and joints.

Emma always had a passion for helping others, initially wanting to train as a nurse, however opting to study chiropractic’s. After suffering from a broken bone, she was re-directed into hands on work in the form of massage; adapting her practice to support the clients she worked with within the family therapy practice.

A big lesson for Emma has been to learn the balance between giving and maintaining personal boundaries, something which many of us have to learn how to navigate.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Yoga can be for anyone.
• Taking time to look after your body should be seen as a necessity rather than a luxury.
• The body is a complex system that can be impacted in lots of different ways.
• Having a safe and supportive space to explore your wellbeing can be transformational.
• It is important that people feel listened to and heard.
• Self-responsibility is an important aspect of healing.
• In order to help others, we can’t do the work for them. They need to be ready and willing to put the effort in.

BEST MOMENTS

• “I wanted to, like, practice yoga and even become a yoga teacher for a long time but didn't think that I would be able to do it.”
• “And I just took up the thing of studying it (yoga) and kind of fell in love with it and then started teaching it within the practice from a sort of functional perspective and movement perspective because that's obviously what we're all about.”
• “I think working within sort of like the spinal health and chiropractic clinic, it helped me see the body from sort of the nervous system perspective as well and how the joints and the bones work and how all the muscles really truly attach and move and everything.”
• “I was one of those people that thought that you know, you had to be a certain person to go and do yoga. You know, you had to be able to stick your leg behind your head and everything like that.”
• “And yoga is, it's about the movement. It's about the breath, but everybody is different, and everybody can adapt it and it literally is for everybody and can be for everybody.”
• “I think first and foremost, your true passion has to be about helping people.”
• “It's a hard journey, isn't it? It is hard, and sometimes you still, feel like,’ Am I doing the right thing here? Am I, or am I being mean?’”
• “You have your body for life, so you need to take care of it. Your body takes care of you. You need to take care of it.”

HOST BIO

Debbie is a seasoned therapist whose journey from being a primary school teacher to an adept therapist has been fuelled by her fascination with the intricacies of human nature. Equipped with advanced certifications in diverse modalities like hypnotherapy, neuro-linguistic programming, mindfulness, meditation, past life regression and many more she has honed her expertise to bring about transformative change.

As a full-time therapist and trainer, Debbie's driving passion is guiding others, as well as herself, towards their best selves. Embracing the concept of holistic beings, she firmly believes in addressing the mental, emotional, physical, social, energetic, and spiritual facets of well-being and healing.

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In today’s episode of the Tranquil Awakenings Podcast, Debbie will be in conversation with Laura, who holds women’s and men’s circles, giving individuals the opportunity to share their deepest thoughts, loves and fears within a safe space so that they can heal and grow.

Laura believes that through individual and group healing we also influence the timeline of the collective. In this upbeat episode, Laura shares that she feels there is lots of positive healing and transformation occurring on the planet right now and we can all do our bit by working on ourselves.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• An individual may benefit from healing at multiple different levels - mental, emotional, physical, social, energetic and spiritual.
• Circles are a safe place to hold space for one another to change, evolve, heal and grow.
• Having the support of others can help to encourage you to make positive changes within your life.
• The simplicity of being heard is very healing and really important.
• Societal expectations can sometimes be in conflict with our authentic selves.
• The healing journey is an ongoing process.
• Having a safe space to explore who you are can allow you to come to your own conclusions.
• We can change our timeline and that of the collective for the better.

BEST MOMENTS

• “I do try to kind of keep the mind, body, soul aspect, depending on a person’s personality, like where they'll resonate the most, you know, cause some people it will be with the body, they want to physically release something. Some people will be with the mind, so we can do like guided meditations and stuff, and some people are on a real, you know, spiritual level where it really is just a spiritual healing.”
• “I'm finding that at the moment I'm definitely attracting like the women who are already on a precipice of knowing I'm changing, I'm evolving, there's something more out there that I need to discover. Maybe just a little bit, feeling a little bit mundane, maybe in ordinary lives and stuff. So it's, it's women who are already intrigued, who are already interested in sort of I can move it to the next level or something like that.”
• “It fills you up and just to watch, you know, humanity, just make this leap forward in consciousness.”
• “But being in a space where you're held, where you're listened to, where you're not questioned, where you're not said, oh no you're wrong, don't say that. And it's just a sense of, like, unleashing something inside people that they just feel they're so empowered.”
• “I often wonder in society, what would society be like if we actually nurtured each other to be our own expressive, unique selves, rather than putting all of those confines and constraints on each other.”
• “We've got another aspect of ourselves over here, who is I'm called the wild person, the wild person that is saying, I'm not this person with the mask, I am this, I am that, I want to be free.”

HOST BIO

Debbie is a seasoned therapist whose journey from being a primary school teacher to an adept therapist has been fuelled by her fascination with the intricacies of human nature. Equipped with advanced certifications in diverse modalities like hypnotherapy, neuro-linguistic programming, mindfulness, meditation, past life regression and many more she has honed her expertise to bring about transformative change.

As a full-time therapist and trainer, Debbie's driving passion is guiding others, as well as herself, towards their best selves. Embracing the concept of holistic beings, she firmly believes in addressing the mental, emotional, physical, social, energetic, and spiritual facets of well-being and healing.

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In today’s episode of the Tranquil Awakenings Podcast, Debbie will be in conversation with Nicola Ellwood who is a Master Coach and NLP Master Practitioner.

From an early age Nicola discovered that she had the innate skill of communicating effectively with others; something which was nurtured within her professional career, as she acquired skills in personal and leadership development. Through this work she unearthed the transformational power of coaching, assisting people to move, progress and make the changes they want to make both personally and professionally, therefore enabling them to be their best self and reach their potential.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• High quality coaching can help you action your goals and realise your potential.
• Communication skills are important in all areas of life.
• When you make a commitment to yourself, you can make massive positive changes.
• When those at the top of an organisation are clear about their goals and work on themselves, that has a positive impact throughout the organisation.
• It is important that coaches have worked on themselves so that they can be at their best for their clients.
• Coaching can give you mental flexibility.
• We have the resources within us, coaching can help us access them.

BEST MOMENTS

• “I was asked to manage a team of coaches and that's where I discovered coaching. And, and I just loved it, and I thought, right, well, if I'm going to manage it, I kind of need to know the depth of it. I really want to know what it is that I'm talking about.”
• “When you're dealing with personal coaching, you're dealing with the person's life. So, if you're not skilled, competent, and flexible with the breadth of tools, techniques and the ability to be completely client centred, then you're doing your client a disservice, potentially, because you're muddying it with your lens or your experience or your world.”
• “Sometimes if you're quite people centred, you're quite externally validated.”
• “To have, you know, almost someone telling me that my instinct was right. It was the first time where I ever really tuned in and became more congruent with myself.”
• “I choose to work in the executive leadership space because my belief is if I can use who I am and if I can use my skills to help people, towards the top of the organization, then that's going to filter through the organization, it's going to affect more people.”
• “Many people come to me wanting to thrive, you know, believing, that presupposition that we hold, which is, you know, whatever we think we are, we are capable of so much more, you know, we're so much more than we think we are.”
• “I would say you already have it within you, whatever it is that you want, whatever it is that you think you need, you already have it. Ask yourself what you want and ask yourself a time when you've had it before because it's pretty likely that you've had it before. You have all the resources within you to be who you want to be."

HOST BIO

Debbie is a seasoned therapist whose journey from being a primary school teacher to an adept therapist has been fuelled by her fascination with the intricacies of human nature. Equipped with advanced certifications in diverse modalities like hypnotherapy, neuro-linguistic programming, mindfulness, meditation, past life regression and many more she has honed her expertise to bring about transformative change.

As a full-time therapist and trainer, Debbie's driving passion is guiding others, as well as herself, towards their best selves. Embracing the concept of holistic beings, she firmly believes in addressing the mental, emotional, physical, social, energetic, and spiritual facets of well-being and healing.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.