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Jane’s Journal

A place I can share my learning with you about various ways we can help ourselves in body and mind.

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What if our imagination is a tool that we can use to unmask more safely?

I work with many late diagnosed neurodivergent adults. 

For many of us this has resulted in years of masking to find more socially acceptable ways to present ourselves.

Many clients want to discover their authentic selves, but find this hard as rumination and self checking behaviours are so automatic. Many struggle to unmask with themselves.

However, what if our imagination can be the key to unlocking our authentic selves?

The body and brain learn how to keep us safe, and masking is a part of the survival process. To unlearn these safety behaviours can feel scary, so what if this happened in a safe way?

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ADHD, how do we manage our nervous systems, where does alcohol fit?🍷

Alcohol is given as a solution so often in our society.

To enhance enjoyment, celebrate success, drown our sorrows, take the edge off the day. 

For ADHD there is an additional challenge.

What if all these messages from society also show alcohol as an acceptable way to manage the shift from activated to rest, a way of coping with the noise in a busy mind. 

I help clients to see that activation is not just a state of mind for ADHD, but also how it impacts the nervous system in responding to this level of stimulation.

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Getting comfortable with being different.

Getting comfortable with being different.

Not easy when many of my clients have masked for so long. 

Our brains are wired to belong, be accepted in order to survive. 

So when we are told, or feel, we are different, it sets off alarm bells in our head at a young age.

We learn how to fit in.

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Autonomy and hypnosis for neurodivergence, being creative 🎨

Autonomy and hypnosis for neurodivergence, being creative 🎨 AuDHD and hypnosis are a wonderful combination for the creative mind. Today I enjoyed my favourite kind of hypnosis, which is collaboration on the script and the process itself. Many of us who are neurodivergent enjoy and need autonomy, so why not also have this in the creative process of developing the right hypnosis script for your mind. ☺️

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Is the route in for our neurodivergent selves the body? 🌱

Through my years of working with people, in many different fields, I find my practice more drawn to the physical self to give us knowledge and change. 💛

Neurodiversity is often talked about in relation to our racing minds, anxiety, overwhelm, emotion challenges, what of our physical state?

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Unmasking ADHD

Do you want to learn more about ADHD? Maybe someone close to you thinks they have ADHD or your child is on a waiting list for a diagnosis.

What should you do if you think you have ADHD? Where should you start?

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Looking for freedom from the pain and anxiety caused by IBS?

IBS can cause pain and anxiety. There are many who are suffering in silence with this condition, feeling as though they have to put up with the discomfort and worry. Hypnotherapy offers a real solution to this condition, recommended by NICE as one of the go to treatments.

Discover how hypnotherapy can help you find freedom from the ongoing anxiety and pain of this condition.

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“When someone has an instinct that they have ADHD, they are often right.”

The recent BBC Panorama programme has caused a damaging ripple effect for the ADHD community. It has made those adults who accessed an assessment privately feel wrong in some way and questioned the validity of their diagnosis. Many of us with ADHD also have other conditions such as autism and/or mental health issues. A programme made in this way is causing more harm to an already vulnerable sector of society. Women in particular are at risk of feeling unheard yet again as their experiences are brought into question.

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Feel the fear and do it anyway?

Fear and anxiety are powerful feelings we experience in our brain and our body. I have experienced anxiety throughout my life and I have found that understanding my triggers and the purpose of anxiety in us as humans, allows me to navigate life more easily.

Young people with ADHD/autism can struggle to verbalise what they are experiencing and as parents we often need tools to help them regulate their feelings and responses in life.

I am feeling my fear and doing it anyway by delivering a webinar to help enable parents feel more confident to support their ADHD/autistic child.

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I’m sorry I missed it

Being a parent is one of the hardest jobs in the world. I didn’t realise I was getting things so wrong. I made many mistakes with how I parented my 3 children, unaware they were all neurodivergent. I feel most sorry about how I missed that my 17 year old daughter was autistic and had ADHD. Had I known earlier, things would have been so much easier for us all. I would have done things differently. You can’t change the past, only learn from it and that is what I have done.

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Is stress keeping you stuck in unhealthy habits?

Many people try to break unhealthy habits but feel they are failing each day. This is because they are not addressing one of the major causes of unhealthy habits, stress. Learn my 3 step process that works for 90% of people and say goodbye to unhealthy coping mechanisms.

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Finding out I am autistic and have ADHD has changed my life

Many women are discovering they are autistic or ADHD, or both. Women seeking a diagnosis for both autism and ADHD has risen significantly in the last decade. This my personal account of why my life now makes sense and why it can be so easily missed in girls and women.

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Alcohol makes you more stressed

Dry January can be a time to reflect on your drinking habits and your relationship with alcohol.

This journal is designed to help you make future decisions about your alcohol consumption, including how alcohol can make you more stressed and risks of future alcoholism.

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