Why Your Brain Thinks You’re Dying (And How to Update the Software)
Feel like you’re dying during a panic attack? It’s a subconscious glitch. Learn why your brain triggers fear and how hypnotherapy updates your software for growth.
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Anxiety-related posts from the Wellbeing Blog of New Empowered You by Olga Willemsen, hypnotherapist, RTT therapist, transformational coach.
Mental Health Diagnosis Overlap: What Genetics and Lived Experience Reveal
Mental health diagnosis overlap is common. Learn why anxiety and depression often coexist, what genetics really shows, and why labels rarely tell the full story.
Chronic Inflammation and Mental Health: How Hidden Inflammation Affects Your Brain
When most people think of inflammation, they imagine a swollen ankle or a sore throat. That kind of short-term inflammation is the body’s way of healing. But when inflammation becomes chronic—running in the background like a fire that never entirely burns out—it can quietly damage the body and, surprisingly, the brain. Researchers now know that chronic inflammation affects not only the heart, blood vessels, or joints. It also disrupts brain function and contributes to depression, anxiety, burnout, brain fog, and even dementia.
This article explores the connection between hidden chronic inflammation and mental health, what science says about it, and what you can do to reduce it.
Global Mental Health Statistics: The Hidden Cost of Mental Distress and the Case for Personalized Therapy
Global mental health statistics reveal an urgent, often overlooked crisis: nearly 1 in 8 people worldwide lives with a mental disorder. Conditions like depression, anxiety, burnout, and unresolved trauma significantly impact quality of life, work productivity, and physical health.
In this blog, we explore the most recent global and national mental health statistics, the long-term effects of trauma and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), the lasting impact of COVID-19, and the limitations of conventional treatments. Ultimately, we emphasize why personalized approaches, such as clinical hypnotherapy, are gaining relevance, particularly when mainstream methods fall short.
Creating Genuine Connections: 5 Insights from Freddy Jacquin on Combating Loneliness
Discover the insights of Freddy Jacquin, a renowned hypnotherapist, on creating genuine connections and overcoming loneliness.
Explore practical tips on fostering meaningful relationships and transforming how you connect with others.
How to Use Breathing for Wellbeing
Make the most of your breaths – discover how intentional breathing can help with stress and anxiety relief, weight loss, better focus, moods and resilience, and much more
How to Calm Down Quickly: 3 Effective Techniques
Sometimes emotions seem to take full control over you. But you can still influence them, calm down, and regain control using these three powerful techniques.
The Best Gratitude Practice
Neuroscience found that specific elements can make gratitude practice far more efficient than popular practices do. Such gratitude reduces anxiety and fear, increase positivity and motivation, reduce inflammation and increase brain ability to change.
How to Deal with Anxiety
Even if anxiety disorders develop in adulthood the real root cause of anxiety lays in your childhood.
