Flying without Fear  – Captain Keith Godfrey

Flying without Fear – Captain Keith Godfrey

The author was himself an airline pilot for many years. This book is essential reading for anyone who is afraid of flying. I can’t recommend it highly enough. It is written in a very straightforward question and answer style, and gives helpful and reassuring answers to those questions that you’ve always wondered about, but didn’t… Continue Reading

Allen Carr’s Easy Way to Stop Smoking

This book has helped millions of people to stop smoking. It gives lots of information, debunking a lot of commonly held myths about smoking (for example that smoking relaxes you – the chemicals in cigarettes in fact have the opposite effect!) without being patronizing, and doesn’t put undue pressure on you to stop. However after… Continue Reading

Mindless Eating by Brian Wansink

Mindless Eating by Brian Wansink

Mindless Eating refers to the small amount we under- or overeat without being aware of it. Like the programme of weight loss hypnosis used at Stockport Hypnotherapy, this approach is absolutely not about dieting. It’s about changing your habits in small ways, over the long term, to help you to lose weight gradually, and to… Continue Reading

Adore Yourself Slim by Lisa Jackson

Adore Yourself Slim by Lisa Jackson

Ignore the terrible title – this is a great book. Written by a clinical hypnotherapist,  “Adore Yourself Slim” brings together every tip, technique and trick that she herself used to lose three and a half stone (22kg), including effective, practical exercise tips (with illustrations, making them easy to follow), nutritional advice and straightforward recipes, and… Continue Reading

Overcoming Childhood Trauma by Helen Kennerly

Overcoming Childhood Trauma by Helen Kennerly

This book has been described as intuitively and insightful. It uses Cognitive Behavioural techniques to deal with the emotional problems which can arise from difficult early years, with advice on how to deal with stress and anxiety, anger, intrusive memories, mood swings, self destructive behaviour (including the urge to self harm). It gives a structured… Continue Reading

Mindful Manifesto by Dr Jonty Heaversedge

Mindful Manifesto by Dr Jonty Heaversedge

The manifesto is that “doing less and noticing more helps us to thrive in a stressed out world”. This book gives sensible, straightforward, easy to follow advice about meditation and relaxation to relieve stress and anxiety; the techniques are also used for pain management. Dr Heaversedge is a GP who noticed that there were no… Continue Reading