MEET SHONA
"One of my greatest rewards in life is supporting people to find their spark again"
Hello, I'm Shona.
I believe that everyone has the power to resolve their own problems and create the life that they want.
First of all, I’d like to say a sincere welcome. Taking the first step on a healing journey takes courage. It means stepping out of your comfort zone to do something different, which is not always easy.
My intention for this course is to offer you tools that will empower you to overcome limiting beliefs, habits, and fears. Using techniques based on the latest advances in neuroscience we can create new neural pathways, rewiring your brain to a strong, confident, calm, and in-control mind. This will leave you feeling relaxed and positive about your future as you create the life that you deserve.
My Approach
As a Clinical Hypnotherapist and Psychotherapist, I specialise in Solution Focussed Therapy (SFT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Hypnotherapy, three wonderful forms of therapy that help you as the client to access your own potential to solve the problems in your life.
I found the Solution Focussed approach not only beneficial in my client work but also in my own life. It helped me to unblock resistance and self-doubt that had held me back for years. By envisioning my ‘preferred future’ I was able to create a roadmap to get me to where I am today, doing my dream job!
One of my greatest rewards in life is helping my clients take control of their lives, enabling them to make the changes to help them achieve their goals and support them to live happier and healthier lives.
My Background
I know what it is like to ‘not feel good enough’, to have a loud and obnoxious inner critic that makes you doubt your every move.
As we grow up and navigate the world and our place within it, we start to create stories to help us make sense of our life experiences. The stories that we tell ourselves are based on opinion, not facts, and this can cause us to become stuck in a space or a story that does not serve us.
When I was 6 years old, I was sitting in the school canteen with a group of older children and a boy next to me called the head teacher over to tell her that I yawned without covering my mouth. I remember at the time being shocked as I had not known that this was a ‘rule’, I was left feeling embarrassed and ashamed. I clearly remember thinking ‘I must be stupid’, everyone else knows this and I don’t. Unwittingly, from this point on, I started to gather evidence to support the thought that ‘I am stupid’ and it developed into a personal core belief. I tell you this to show you how a seemingly trivial incident can create a story, a narrative that we tell ourselves that impacts on our self-perception and unconsciously disempowers us.
Over the course of my childhood, I gathered many other unhelpful beliefs, such as ‘I am not good enough’, ‘I am weak’, and ‘I am unlovable’. I learnt to suppress the thoughts and feelings associated with these beliefs by self-soothing through food and wearing masks, whether that was make-up to look ‘good enough’ or repressing how I felt and pretending everything was okay - bottling up my anger, resentment, sadness and frustration.
For many years I was caught up in the mental illusions created by the mind, re-living old memories from when I was wronged or beating myself up about something I should have done, or not done. I was also often stuck in ‘victim mode’, feeling disempowered and as if I had little control over my life or how I was feeling or thinking.
The main thing that kept me trapped was fear. I feared being ‘truly seen’ and I did not trust myself. I believed that if people were to see me for who I was, then they would realise I was ‘not good enough’ and ‘unlovable’ and I’d be rejected. I was trying to protect myself but inadvertently I was depriving myself of the very thing I needed most, the experience of genuine acceptance, love and connection.
Over the past 10 years, through personal development and training in varying therapeutic practices, step by step, I have been taking back my power and speaking my truth. ,
My calling in life is to empower others do the same, by releasing the stories that no longer serve them and accompanying them on their journey to finding their spark. This is what makes me come alive. It is the driving force and intention behind the creation of this course.
Within this course I share with you the tools that have helped me to heal and transform my life.
Don’t let fear keep steering you off course.
I am not teaching from a place of knowing it all, far from it. We are all still on our journey, where learning never ends. We can use our struggles to help guide us in where we need healing, and step towards being a stronger version of ourselves with more clarity and focus towards what we need to live our happiest life.
I am here to walk you through the process, supporting you on your personal journey of self-healing and transformation. We will nourish your mind and feed it with what it needs to thrive.
You have always had the power to make positive change in your life, this course will help you to reconnect with that inner knowing to create the life you deserve.