Strategies for Storms and Other Times When Your Normal Strategies are Gone April 28th 2025 Basic NLP Istarted drafting this during the red weather warning for Storm Éowyn. In the nearly six years I’ve lived in the Wild West (of Ireland) I’ve... Continue reading...
Chunking Up and Down with Time, Colour and More January 27th 2025 Basic NLP Ilove the NLP way of chunking up to connect with the big picture and chunking down for more detail. In this column, I’m sharing an... Continue reading...
Let Yourself Imagine the Identity You Barely Dare Dream Of October 23rd 2024 Basic NLP When you imagine a happy, fulfilled Future You beyond what you normally allow yourself to imagine, what springs to mind? STOP IT! Don’t immediately talk... Continue reading...
Do You Ever Reach a Goal Only to Immediately Backslide? July 28th 2024 Basic NLP I’ve loved the (neuro)logical levels since first training in NLP nearly two decades ago. I just made a mini series of videos about them (available... Continue reading...
Are You Working Against Yourself? April 28th 2024 Basic NLP People keep forgetting the toll the past few years has taken on so many. Many keep putting ridiculously high expectations on themselves, forgetting that their... Continue reading...
We Have All the Resources We Need – Even When Going From 1 to 11 Cats Overnight January 15th 2024 Basic NLP One of the presuppositions of NLP is that we have all the resources we need (or we can create them). These resources can be internal... Continue reading...
When Deleting, Distorting and Generalising Exacerbates Pain October 26th 2023 Basic NLP We all know we need to delete, distort and generalise the gazillions of bits of information and sensations flying at us all day, every day... Continue reading...
Reframing AI July 28th 2023 Basic NLP When I was chair of BACP (the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy) Coaching, I used to attend occasional meetings where several coaching bodies got... Continue reading...
New Self-care Strategies for Better Balance April 28th 2023 Basic NLP Ithought I had self-care and Self care (that highest, wisest, truest, wildest, most miraculous part of yourself) pretty well figured out. I’d done so much... Continue reading...
Giving Feedback and Setting Boundaries January 26th 2023 Basic NLP Attempting to see everything as information and to not argue with reality helps me take some of the charge out of heated situations, especially when... Continue reading...
Identifying and Releasing Unworkable Strategies October 28th 2022 Basic NLP I’ve been doing an enormous amount of inner child work lately. I’ve been doing it for decades (trauma therapist = occupational hazard), but never as... Continue reading...
Are You Afraid to Change Direction July 28th 2022 Basic NLP When we use all our senses and honour our capacity for flexibility, we stop judging ourselves for letting new information or sensations adjust our course. Continue reading...
Strategies for Life from Yoga and Gardening April 28th 2022 Basic NLP In yoga, there’s an expression about how you are on the mat being how you do everything. The idea is to encourage a greater awareness... Continue reading...
Welcoming Feedback January 28th 2022 Basic NLP I’ve been thinking a lot about failure recently because, apart from one element of my work (the freelance journalism) involving more rejection than many other... Continue reading...
Sensory Acuity October 28th 2021 Basic NLP Can you imagine back then if we’d known how long things would drag on for? As we learned to live in a very different way,... Continue reading...
Overcoming Resistance July 28th 2021 Basic NLP By reframing the focus to a far better formed outcome of balancing the blood sugars to help balance the hormones and minimise the symptoms, I... Continue reading...
Celebrating Life's Milestones April 28th 2021 Basic NLP When did you last take the time to celebrate an enormous accomplishment? What about a smaller achievement? How about all the little steps on the... Continue reading...
Moving from Digital to Analogue January 28th 2021 Basic NLP In NLP, we talk about analogue as being on a spectrum. Imagine the hands slowly moving around the clockface, step by step. On the other... Continue reading...
Deleting Distorting and Generalising for 2020 Vision October 28th 2020 Basic NLP As babies and infants, we quickly learn to delete, distort and generalise as we take on board more of the world. If we didn’t, life... Continue reading...
What helps you feel resourceful July 28th 2020 Basic NLP There are many things I can’t do. I’m not a parent so I have no idea how most of y’all manage to keep growing souls... Continue reading...
