We’re joined by another fantastic guest today - Consultant Nurse, Mindfulness Teacher and Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapist, Slee Parish!

Slee heads up True Thoughts therapy and alongside her incredible NHS 40+ year career as a Consultant Nurse, she’s also a Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapist (and Denise’s supervisor during her training!) and a Mindfulness teacher. Slee focuses on problematic thoughts and how they can be reframed to help achieve your health goals. Not only this, she also joined forces with Alex James (also a CBH & mindfulness teacher) to create nhsinmind.co.uk - a hugely successful initiative during COVID to help front-line staff with their mental health during the COVID-19 crisis.

You can find Slee at https://www.truethoughts.co.uk/

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We’re here today talking to Slee all about one of our favourite subjects: how to change habits for long term health!

• What does Slee normally do to help a client change their habits

• Needing to become aware of a habit and the value of a habit diary

• Eating instead of quenching our thirst and addressing eating habits

• Dopamine and eating habits

• Why taking incremental steps to a bigger habit change habits works and how to do it

• How to use mental rehearsal when you’re making a habit change

• Adding in coping statements when you’re mentally rehearsing and going through habit change

• Slee’s technique of freeze, breathe, examine and exchange when you’re about to engage in an unhealthy habit

• How mindfulness helps habit change and how to stay in the present moment

• How Slee integrates her practice in her NHS work and personal journey with habit change

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