About Cath Lloyd
Do you feel as if you are hitting a brick wall when communicating with yourself and managing big, painful and difficult change in your life?
Are you struggling to be heard because big barriers are in the way, making it painful to be open and honest with yourself?
Is this making you feel exhausted, anxious, and have you lost your lust for life?
It's not a good place to be in, is it?
I experienced similar symptoms when in 1987 my dad revealed he was going to undergo gender reassignment treatment. I felt lonely. I didn’t know anyone else whose Dad wanted to be a woman. I tried to ignore all the challenging thoughts and feelings for many years but the burden of all this was making them impossible to carry on any longer.
I finally had to start looking within myself. I had to start being totally honest with myself. I had to put my hand on my heart and go back to basics. So that I could learn and understand why I was thinking and feeling the way I was.
We are taught that listening to others is one of the most important things we can do.
In actual fact, the most important thing you can do is learn to listen to yourselves.
Listening to yourself will help you work out why you are thinking and feeling the way you are, so that you can then understand your triggers and your behaviours.
Doing this finally allowed me to come to the end of my bereavement cycle of change and loss for my Dad and finally see Joan for who she really was.
A huge relief washed over me. I felt a lightness in me that I hadn't felt in many, many years and I could then, appreciate that my Dad was still there, but in a different exterior and that felt amazing.
Life can throw you a series of curve balls; you can either fight it, take flight, freeze or fawn. However, continually learning about yourself will develop your resilience so that you can function, even in horrendous situations.
Developing good coping mechanisms will build your resilience so that you can come out the other side with a smile on your face, feeling the sunshine on your face and hear the birds again.
Learning to listen to myself, and understand myself whilst practising self-honesty really supported me in 2017 when our son had a near fatal mountain bike accident when he broke his neck and left him with life changing injuries.
When I look back at my crippling anxiety and stress that I felt with my Dad's decision, I am now thankful.
Thankful for two things:
1. As emotionally painful as it was at the time, I am thankful that I had experienced it and learned how to manage it successfully, helping me get through the even greater emotional pain I felt when our son broke his neck. If I could get through one, I knew I could get through the next.
2. That my Dad had been self-honest and finally lived being his authentic self and being true to him/herself has allowed me to live my authentic self.
This made me learn and understand my thoughts and feelings, which translated into learning more about my physical self. Listening to my body and what the emotions, thoughts, feelings and aches and pains mean, I knew I could heal myself through our son's accident, year in hospital and adjust more easily to our son's new life and come out the other side as a whole and happy individual and family.
How I Can Support And Help You With Your Anxiety And Emotional Pain.
Now, as an NLP Clinical Hypnotherapist, I can offer you an even more effective healing process that will support you through your rollercoaster ride of emotions of life. You will be able to tap into your coping mechanism using the ones that best suit you and the situation you are in right now.
Shoving your difficult thoughts and feelings into the back of the closet of your mind is only a temporary fix. One day, when you least expect it, the safety catch on your closet won’t be able to take the pressure any longer. The door will burst open and all that stuff will escape, probably at the most inappropriate time, making it very difficult to fix.
If you continue to ignore the warning signs, you will experience not only mental health issues, but this could eventually lead to physical health problems. However uncomfortable it might feel, it is important to act now. The sooner you start to address the problem, the sooner you can walk out the other side of this period in your life with a smile on your face, leaving the anxiety in the past where it belongs. You will be a stronger person mentally, emotionally and physically with more resilience for the next rollercoaster ride life might throw at you.
What Next?
The decision is yours:
Do you want to stay a slave to the issues, your anxiety and your emotional pain? Or do you want to be in control of your life with greater inner strength and the knowledge that you could handle life with confidence and vitality?
Are you ready to start making this change today?
Let's talk. Book an 'Untangle Your Mind' call today.
We can start to chat about the imbalances, the anxieties you are thinking and feeling and how you would like your life to be different.
Remember you are not alone.
Your life is your choice.
Choose the best way,
not the easiest way.
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