Are You Experiencing Anxiety?
Anxiety has become an all-too-common part of modern life. From work stress and family responsibilities to the fast-paced nature of the world, anxiety can easily take over, leaving us feeling overwhelmed and trapped.
While many people turn to traditional coping mechanisms like medication or talk therapy, one increasingly popular and highly effective approach is hypnotherapy.
So obviously as I'm a hypnotherapist, this is my tool of choice for helping people alleviate and overcome anxiety.
But how does hypnotherapy work when it comes to managing anxiety, and why is it so powerful?
The Subconscious Mind: The Key to Healing Anxiety
At the core of hypnotherapy’s power is its ability to tap into the subconscious mind. Unlike traditional talk therapy, which operates on a conscious level, hypnotherapy allows you to access deeper layers of your mind—where anxiety often takes root.
When we experience anxiety, it’s often due to old programming within the subconscious that triggers a fight-or-flight response. Perhaps you learned as a child to react with fear in stressful situations, or maybe there were traumatic experiences that heightened your brain’s sensitivity to stressors. These old patterns are ingrained in your mind, running on autopilot every time you face a perceived threat.
Hypnotherapy works by rewiring your brain’s response to these stressors.
How Hypnotherapy Rewires the Brain
During a hypnotherapy session, you enter a state of deep relaxation. In this calm, focused state, your subconscious mind becomes more receptive to suggestions, allowing the hypnotherapist to bypass the critical, conscious mind. This opens the door to reprogramming the automatic responses that trigger anxiety.
Through hypnotherapy, we can:
Identify the root cause of your anxiety: The subconscious mind holds onto past experiences that may be triggering your anxious feelings. By accessing these memories, you can understand what is really driving your anxiety.
Reframe limiting beliefs: Often, anxiety is driven by irrational fears or negative beliefs like “I’m not safe” or “I can’t handle this.” Hypnotherapy can help you replace these beliefs with more empowering ones, such as “I am safe” and “I can manage whatever comes my way.”
Calm the nervous system: Hypnotherapy helps rewire your nervous system to respond to stress in a calmer, more balanced way. Rather than slipping into fight-or-flight mode at the first sign of stress, your brain can learn to respond more mindfully and with greater ease.
Embed new, empowering patterns: Once the subconscious mind is free of old patterns, we can introduce new, positive coping mechanisms for handling stress. These patterns can create a sense of calm and control in situations that previously triggered anxiety.
Long-Lasting Effects: Why Hypnotherapy Works
One of the reasons hypnotherapy is so effective for managing anxiety is that it creates long-lasting change. Rather than just treating the symptoms, it addresses the root cause of the issue at a deep subconscious level.
Many people find that after hypnotherapy, they can move through stressful situations with a newfound sense of ease and confidence.
Hypnotherapy also gives you the tools to continue managing anxiety long after the sessions are over. Self-hypnosis techniques, for instance, can help you quickly calm your mind and regain control during stressful moments.
A Powerful Tool for a Calmer Future
If you’re tired of living with anxiety and want a lasting solution, hypnotherapy may be exactly what you need.
By rewiring your brain’s response to stress, it’s possible to break free from the cycle of anxiety and reclaim a sense of peace and control over your life.
Whether you’re struggling with generalized anxiety, social anxiety, or situational stress, hypnotherapy offers a safe and effective path to healing. It’s time to take the first step toward a calmer, more empowered future.
If this sounds like what you're needing, I'll look forward to supporting you with hypnotherapy.
You can book a discovery call here!
How Our Past Affects Us Today
We often hear that childhood experiences shape who we become as adults. But what does that really mean? How can healing childhood wounds transform our lives today, even decades later?
The truth is, many of the struggles we face in adulthood—whether it’s social anxiety, unhealthy coping mechanisms, or relationship issues—often have deep roots in our formative years.
In this post I wanted to share four examples of how healing childhood wounds can have a profound impact on our current lives and how RTT can achieve this for people.
1. Social Anxiety: Breaking Free from the Fear of Judgment
Imagine feeling crippling anxiety in social situations—whether it’s walking into a crowded room, attending a work event, or even engaging in casual conversation. This can stem from childhood experiences where you may have felt unworthy, judged, or rejected. Perhaps you were teased by peers, or maybe you grew up in an environment where you weren’t encouraged to express yourself freely.
These early experiences can lead to a deep-rooted fear of judgment and rejection, which shows up as social anxiety in adulthood. But by healing those childhood wounds, you can break free from this limiting belief. When we address the root cause of social anxiety—often a belief like "I’m not good enough" or "People won’t like me"—and replace it with a belief that you are worthy of acceptance, confidence in social situations naturally grows.
Through therapies like Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT), we can access and heal the moments in your past that planted those seeds of self-doubt. As a result, you’ll begin to approach social situations with a calm, grounded sense of self-worth.
2. Numbing Out with Alcohol: Releasing Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms
For many, turning to alcohol (or other substances) becomes a way to cope with stress, loneliness, or unresolved pain. This habit of numbing out can often be traced back to childhood trauma or emotional neglect. If, as a child, you weren’t given the emotional support to process difficult emotions, you may have learned to suppress or avoid them altogether.
In adulthood, that avoidance can manifest as unhealthy coping mechanisms—such as excessive drinking—to numb emotional pain or discomfort. The problem is, numbing doesn’t heal the underlying wound; it only masks it temporarily. By healing the childhood wounds that created the emotional void, we can begin to develop healthier coping mechanisms.
Through RTT, we can uncover why you turn to alcohol in the first place and identify the emotions that have been left unresolved. When you release the emotional weight from your past, you’re no longer driven to escape through unhealthy behaviors. Instead, you can process emotions in a healthy, productive way, free from the need to numb out.
3. Lack of Confidence at Work: Rewriting the Story of Unworthiness
Do you ever feel like you’re not good enough at work? Maybe you hesitate to speak up in meetings, or you downplay your achievements, fearing you don’t deserve recognition. This lack of confidence can often be traced back to messages you received in childhood. Whether it was from parents, teachers, or peers, if you were told—directly or indirectly—that you weren’t smart enough or capable, those beliefs likely stuck with you.
As adults, we carry these limiting beliefs into the workplace. They show up as imposter syndrome, hesitation, or an unwillingness to take risks. But by healing the wounds of feeling "not enough" in childhood, you can rewrite the story of your worth and this can help you today!
RTT helps you access the subconscious beliefs that are holding you back. By revisiting and reframing past experiences where you maybe felt inadequate, we can replace those beliefs with empowering ones. You begin to see yourself as competent, worthy, and capable of achieving your goals at work. Over time, this newfound confidence will allow you to shine in your career, unburdened by the self-doubt of your past.
4. Relationship Anxiety: Letting Go of Fear and Insecurity
Many people struggle with relationship anxiety—whether it’s fear of abandonment, constant worrying about a partner’s feelings, or difficulty trusting in love. These anxieties often have their roots in childhood. If, as a child, you experienced inconsistent love or felt emotionally unsafe, you may have developed a deep fear of being abandoned or rejected.
In adult relationships, these wounds show up as anxiety and insecurity. You might worry your partner will leave or struggle to trust their intentions. By healing the childhood wounds that created this fear, you can begin to experience relationships with greater security and trust.
RTT is especially effective in addressing relationship anxiety because it helps you revisit those childhood experiences where you first felt unsafe or unloved. When you process and heal these wounds, your mind no longer clings to the fear of abandonment. Instead, you can approach relationships with more calm and confidence, knowing you are worthy of love and secure in the relationships you create.
The Power of Healing Childhood Wounds
Each of these examples shows how childhood wounds can shape our adult lives in profound ways. Whether it’s social anxiety, unhealthy coping habits, lack of confidence, or relationship struggles, these issues often have deep roots in our early experiences.
But the incredible thing is that healing those childhood wounds can change everything. I've seen it again and again in my clients and colleagues' clients, as well as in myself!
With the right tools and guidance, such as through Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT), you can heal those old wounds, release limiting beliefs, and create new, empowering narratives that allow you to thrive in every area of your life.
If you’re ready to explore how healing your past can transform your present, I invite you to learn more about how RTT can help. It’s never too late to heal—and the changes you experience can last a lifetime. Have a read about RTT here and visit some of the results from actual people here.
What Are Money Blocks?
Money blocks are limiting beliefs or attitudes that we have to do with money, wealth and success. I've found in my work as a hypnotherapist, that these blocks are often subconscious and that means that whilst we are definitely being affected by them, we are often not fully aware of just how, or what to do about it!
Many people feel that they aren’t achieving their full potential. What can be really frustrating is when we know that we are holding ourselves back and getting in our own way. We consciously want & desire success, but often we have deep-rooted beliefs at an unconscious level, that cause us to feel blocked from moving forward.
These beliefs can cause fears that hold us back from really ‘going for it’ and shining in our career and life. They can include a fear of failure or a fear of success and what others will think and feel if we achieve great things.
Deep down there can also be feelings that we’re not worthy or deserving of a successful, happy life and these limiting beliefs can stop us before we even begin! Negative beliefs directly about money and wealth can also cause us to unconsciously sabotage our own success.
How Do These Limiting Beliefs Form?
Limiting beliefs are normally created in our subconscious minds when we’re very young. We pick up and absorb information from our environment, our parents and other people around us, when our subconscious minds are wide open. We then make decisions and form beliefs, but without the benefit of our conscious, rational, logical minds. These beliefs can be negative and positive, but it's the negative ones that become limiting.
The analytical conscious mind, which filters and rationalizes information, begins to develop later in a child’s life (between the ages of 5-8 years of age), but up until this time, the subconscious is literally like a sponge, soaking up all information it comes into contact with.
This is why what you say to a young child is so important. Support, love and encouragement can literally shape a child’s self worth and character at such an early age, because everything the child sees, hears, feels and experiences, is stored in the subconscious. Much of this mental content or ‘programming’ will remain and can influence our decisions and actions throughout our life.
So How Do We End Up With Negative Beliefs About Money?
If you experience issues with money, either not earning enough money, not keeping hold of it once you’ve got it, or having an underlying worry about never having enough or losing what you do have, ask yourself what beliefs you picked up as a child.
You could be running the same patterns you learnt early in life. Do you remember hearing any of the following statements being said about money?
“Wealthy people are selfish and greedy.”
"It's wrong/greedy to want more than just enough."
"If you earn more than x they may be jealous."
“It’s superficial to want money.”
“Rich people are always alone and unhappy.”
“If you have money others will just take it, so what’s the point of making it.”
“If you earn good money most of it goes on taxes anyway.”
“Don’t ask me for money, do you think it grows on trees?”
“Money is the root of all evil!”
"Wealthy people are not intelligent."
Or maybe you observed your parents or others around you when you were little and decided that you have to struggle to make money or there’s never enough or you have to work so hard even to just to pay the bills.
There may also be some beliefs about self-worth and money. Do you ever catch yourself thinking that you're not experienced/confident/good enough to ask for more money, a promotion or to really promote your services in business?
Or you might say: "I'm really bad with money." or "I hate looking at my bank statements and I avoid managing my money."
Does any of this resonate with you?
Self-Sabotage May be Happening Without Us Even Being Fully Aware of it!
All of these limiting beliefs can cause us to sabotage our success or earning ability, because our thoughts and beliefs affect the way we feel and the way we feel leads to our behaviours (our actions or sometimes inactions).
Because what we do or don't do out in the world informs our results in life, it's true to say that our thoughts affect our results - the outcome.
This is a powerful thing because when we change our beliefs, we change our thoughts. When we change our thoughts we change our actions and behaviours. By changing our actions we change the results we get in our lives!
The Good News: You Can Change Your Beliefs!
In hypnotherapy and Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT) we communicate directly with the subconscious mind and we can identify a block that is holding us back and find out when and why it started. This understanding is incredibly liberating and healing, because we realize that the belief is no longer valid, and it was most probably someone else’s belief anyway and not ours to begin with!! This knowledge allows us to LET GO of the belief and we are free to choose a positive alternative that supports us.
Here's what a couple of clients said about their RTT experience and the effects it's had on their lives:
Lack of Confidence & Money Blocks in New Business:
"I have recently had the pleasure of meeting Becca Teers, this lady is a fantastic Hypnotherapist. I had some underlying issues that needed sorting as I felt that they were holding me back, so I had a session with Becca this week and I must say I was in total awe, to be honest I didn’t know what to expect, not only did I feel a big shift deep within my subconscious, I also got rather emotional and had some massive realisations. The proof came afterwards and it seemed like the recording I received kicked in even though you can’t explain it with the normal conscious thinking mind. I’m positive these deep barriers I had have now disappeared, it’s amazing, I believe in Hypnosis and Becca has the most amazingly soothing calming voice, which really helps. I was impressed with her professionalism in conducting the RTT therapy. I would definitely recommend some sessions with her. Thank you so much." - Kim
Money Blocks & Anxiety Around Dealing with Finances in Business:
"The RTT was so powerful, the experience itself was incredibly intense, hard work but in the best possible way. Becca made me feel very safe. I first noticed a change the next day although its been cumulative. The week after I noticed that I was dealing with issues that I would usually find very stressful but I wasn't finding them stressful! A huge change! It's like a major issue in my life that affected my everyday has dissolved. It's not just improved, its no longer there. I am amazed. It's hugely reduced my stress!" - L.S.
So to sum up, many of us have limiting beliefs about money, but when we become aware of the pattern and where it comes from, the root of it, we can absolutely heal it and make massive shifts in our lives!
I've seen it happen many times now. I love guiding my clients on this journey too!
If any of this resonates with you and you want to chat to me further about removing your own money or success blocks book a discovery call here!
Read more about RTT here!
