Creator of all things hypnotic. Publisher. Spell Weaver. Ambulatory wheelchair user. Everyday magic. Head of Publishing at Jump & Co Expert comment & features ✨
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We slip in and out trances all day, usually without noticing.
Self-hypnosis is choosing to go there on purpose. With or without a reason.
My latest Substack: Being Your Own Hypnotherapist. No visualising required.
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#SelfHypnosis #Hypnotherapy #Substack
Full moon. Fruition. A time for gathering in, giving thanks and saying out loud what has come to be.
So here is mine. I am now Head of Publishing at Jump & Co Publishing, working alongside our CEO Lisa Holley Palmer.
Publishing is not new to me. I could have decorated a room with rejection slips before I was first published. So, I know the pain and the joy.
Later I created and was the original publisher of the 6th Books imprint. Books have been woven through my life for ever.
This role feels like something I had been reaching for has landed right in front of me.
We have some amazing authors in the pipeline and I cannot wait for you to meet them and their books.
In this full moon post I share six ways to romance your muse:
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Happy full moon. May everything you have planted come to fruition.
#FullMoon #AmWriting #Publishing
We are almost a week into Sober October. How is it going for you?
Some people want to cut down because they might be frightened to just stop. Others want a clean break.
The audio session can help with either, so here is a gift from me for you.
Alcohol: Choose + Control is a hypnotherapy session designed to help you create space between the urge and the action. You choose, comfortably and in your own time.
It can help you to:
Feel calmer and clearer
Regain a sense of choice and control
Reduce unhelpful urges and inner conflict
Rest better and enjoy renewed energy
Relax without relying on alcohol
You receive the hypnosis audio, a 20 minute binaural music track and a guide with check-in prompts.
Listen as often as you please.
Your gift is here: barbaraford-hammond.com/sobe…
You are welcome to share x
#SoberOctober #JournoRequest #Hypnotherapy
Winchester is a city literally and metaphorically cobbled together.
The bumpity bump bumps are jarring and pain inducing, but it is still definitely worth visiting for a roll about the place.
Pain Awareness Month ends today.
However, for those with pain, nothing changes.
Which is why ~ Your Pain Management Toolkit ~ is there all year round.
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#PainAwarenessMonth #Winchester #ChronicPain
Shouty sparrows.
This is the pergola by the back door. Plants all over it and sparrows filling it.
There are so many and they all have an opinion.
I take it as the news being read out. The magic for the week ahead, delivered at volume, whether anybody asked for it or not.
Gossips, the lot of them. Same as the corvids.
#Sparrows #WitchVibes #MeditateInNature
Practical Magic Has No Rulebook
There are things I cannot do. I cannot pick the blackberries myself. I cannot just nip outside and put the bins out.
So Mick picked the blackberries. Then he made a most delicious crumble.
This is how a great deal of our life works. We look at what needs doing, what we would like to do and what is actually possible. Then we work something out.
Sometimes (usually) Mick does it.
Sometimes (rarely) I do it differently.
Sometimes we go out for lunch instead and I use my wheelchair and my outdoor crutches. Red ones. Of course.
Spells and tarot are the same for me. If you do not have an eye of newt (mustard seed made scary), use what you do have or use nothing except your intention.
If bashing your cards three times before a reading means something to you, wonderful.
What I do not like very much are silly made-up rules presented as ancient, unquestionable truths.
Tradition says, "This is something people have done."
Dogma says, "This is what you must do."
This week on Substack: Practical Magic Has No Rulebook
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#PracticalMagic #Tarot #Substack
It is Sleeptember, so here is a gift for you.
My Sleep Wind-Down is a one-page guide of small steps for the end of the day, from 60 seconds to 5 minutes, with a few more for when you are in bed or wake in the night.
Pick one or two options that you can achieve comfortably.
It is free on the Gifts page of my website: barbaraford-hammond.com/gift…
#Sleeptember #FreeGift #PainManagement #HypnoCoach
Available for expert comment, interviews and bookings.
Hypnotherapy. Self-hypnosis. Chronic pain. Sleep. Intuitive Tarot. Esoteric practice.
Plus the reality of life around disability and secondary pain. Ambulatory wheelchair user.
Prompt replies and quotes for journalists.
Press: [email protected]
Sessions, emailed readings and downloadable products for clients.
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Possible. Probable. Inevitable.
Through the summer I had ongoing health issues with my legs not working properly. My foot drop is getting worse, plus other stuff. Put those violins away.
In that time I worked on making sure my hypnotic meditation product and my pain management product are both as good as they can be. They are now ready to launch into the world.
I remembered writing about paths in my book, The Psychic Way, and followed my own advice. It is a bit like laughing at your own jokes.
However, it all still works.
Two paths:
Do nothing. Do something.
If this, then that.
There is also a short meditation for the moment you feel stuck or dithery.
I will list the idioms/metaphors that I came up with in the comments. Can you think of others?
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#Hypnotherapy #SelfHypnosis #Intuition #Meditation
Idioms/Metaphors that I came up with for my recent substack post: The path of least resistance A fork in the road The road less travelled The road not taken At a crossroads Off the beaten track Going down that road Taking the high road Leading someone up the garden path The straight and narrow A parting of the ways On the right track Blazing a trail Beating a path to your door Pick a path Please share others x
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looking for disabled parents to share exps of ableism in medical/social care systems. Was your pregnancy missed because the Dr didn't think you could be? Was your ability to parent questioned because of disability? Ableism by social care workers? #JournoRequest
Good Morning Witches, Non-witches, Everyone.
All the news, rumours and gossip from the birds.
Get your magic here 🪄🦅
Come to the woods but be prepared 👀
I cannot get to the woods so Mick goes for me.
But, really, is that a Demogorgon?
#StrangerThings #Woods #Voiceover