5 ideas for Habit Stacking How are we almost half way through February already?? Last month I jumped on the predictable theme of New Year Resolutions and gave you a few ways to get started with the hope that being accountable, keeping it simple and looking back on...
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3 top tips for 2024
TOP TIP No. 1 FOR 2024 Make yourself accountable if you want to make a change. Firstly apologies for not sending out a Christmas blog, I came down with the dreaded lurgy a few weeks before Christmas. I would like to report though, that because of making...
5 ways to deal with feeling overwhelmed
ARE YOU feeling overwhelmed? As I write this blog, it's about 5 weeks to Christmas, that's roughly 40 days. Not that I mean to panic anyone, but time is a-ticking. If you are at all like me, then every year I think I'm going to be more organised, more on the ball,...
3 Lessons in life
Lessons Learned I have been back from my solo holiday in Spain, walking the last 115k of the Camino de Santiago for a few weeks now, and just like the terrain it wasn't without it's ups and downs. But I think I can definitely say the ups outweighed the downs by...
Stepping out of your comfort zone
Feel the fear and just do it This is quite literally what I will be doing at the end of September - feeling the fear, stepping out of my comfort zone and just doing it! And seeing as it's the only thing I can think about at the moment (even when I'm supposed to be...
Why do we keep saying sorry?
Do you feel you apologise even when you haven’t done anything wrong? Find out why we say sorry so often and what you can say instead.

ABOUT AMANDA
My name is Amanda Thoden van Velzen, I am a Solution Focused Hypnotherapist, NLP and EFT practitioner based in Cranleigh, Surrey.
I am a qualified, accredited Solution-Focused Therapist, Clinical Hypnotherapist and Psychotherapist. I received my training at the award-winning Clifton Hypnotherapy Practice founded by David Newton, one of the most experienced and renowned practitioners in the UK.