SOLUTIONS FOR THE MIND

Jennifer Austin is a hypnotherapist who specialises in skin conditions. Today, she talks about the emotional and mental toll that chronic skin conditions can take. Jennifer discusses her own challenges with her skin, including losing her job and how she found hope and built a new life with the help of Solution Focused Hypnotherapy when nothing else seemed to help. She gives some fantastic insight into the ways she helps her clients and some invaluable tools that can be used to tackle the itch and break the scratching or picking cycle.This episode explores how chronic skin conditions can shape identity, sleep, confidence, relationships, and work, and why treating the emotional load matters as much as the physical symptoms. As well as sharing her professional approach, Jennifer also talks about and her own experience with eczema, topical steroid withdrawal (TSW), and recovery.

Do you find you are constantly in a battle with your diet, never sure what is working or how to find a good balance? We talk to Holly Stone - expert in disordered eating and food issues and find out what hypnotherapy can do to support changes in behaviour, but more importantly, changes in the way you think and feel about food and nutrition.She tells us what some types of disordered eating behaviours look like and how although not always an area for concern, can lead to an unhelpful relationship with food and body image, which ultimately keep you trapped and feeling dis-satisfied and constantly striving to change how you look and feel.You can find qualified solution focused hypnotherapists who are members of the AfSFH and can support you at www.afsfh.comIf you are concerned about any of the issues discussed in this episode you can find more information about eating disorders https://www.beateatingdisorders.org.uk/We urge you to visit your GP if you are concerned with your weight or behaviours around food. It is important that you have appropriate support from professional services if you have a low weight or moderate to severe disordered eating.