The Real Stories of Retired Athletes
Talented filmmaker Sofija Korf has been following our brilliant author Hazel Gale around for an Instagram documentary #afterwewin. Hazel’s book FIGHT explores how while training as a competitive boxer and kickboxer, Hazel Gale developed anxiety issues that led to emotional and physical burnout. Discovering cognitive hypnotherapy not only helped her back on the road to health, but […]
Making Magic From Monsters
One of the most frustrating things about self-sabotage is looking back and wondering what the hell came over us. How do we get a grip on a problem that – like a monster materialising from the shadows of the mind – seems to come out of nowhere? In her book FIGHT: Win Freedom From Self-sabotage, […]
Every Day We Have A Choice
Hazel Gale, author of FIGHT, cognitive hypnotherapist and former kickboxing world champion is sharing with us the 5 life-changing things she learned being a therapist. 5. Every day can be a good day Bring all these points together and you get this: At any moment, on any day, we always have a choice in how […]
All Emotions Are Useful
Hazel Gale, author of FIGHT, cognitive hypnotherapist and former kickboxing world champion is sharing with us the 5 life-changing things she learned being a therapist. 4. All emotions are beautiful and useful I battled with fear for a very long time. So much so that my body started to break down — I burned out from the exertion […]
Acceptance of Others = Acceptance of Yourself
Hazel Gale, author of FIGHT, cognitive hypnotherapist and former kickboxing world champion is sharing with us the 5 life-changing things she learned being a therapist. 3. Everyone is doing their best Perhaps the most wonderful gift that therapy gives is tolerance. No, “tolerance” isn’t the right word. What I mean is “love”, no matter how cheesy […]
Manage Your Mood – It Starts With Awareness
Hazel Gale, author of FIGHT, cognitive hypnotherapist and former kickboxing world champion is sharing with us the 5 life-changing things she learned being a therapist. 2. We are beings that think, not beings that are thought Contrary to how it can seem, happy people are not happy because they just don’t have negative thoughts. Their […]
Five life-changing things that I learned from working as a therapist
Five life-changing things that I learned from working as a therapist Working as a therapist is a transformational thing. In connecting with client after client, and in watching them overcome their own mental demons, this job (re)teaches me on a daily basis how to live a freer, closer and more satisfying life. Over five posts […]