Hello and welcome to the Karma You podcast. This is your host, Chloe Brotheridge. I'm a coach, a

hypnototherapist, and I'm the author of The Anxiety Solution and Brave New Girl. And this podcast is all

about helping you to become your calmest, happiest and most confident self. So hello, hello, welcome to this episode of the Karma You

podcast. I am talking about a topic which is very close to my heart. I can't believe I haven't

actually spoken or done an episode specifically about this, but I'm going to talk about

hypnotherapy, which is my

specialism. It's how I started on this journey of helping people with their anxiety. So I'm

going to talk about things like how I first discovered hypnotherapy, how it helped me in those

early days, you know, over 10, 12 years ago now,

I'm going to talk about the common myths that very frequently come up when it comes to chemotherapy.

I'm going to talk about the benefits and just a few other things

that I think are really interesting that I think you're going to find interesting

about this topic.

So I first discovered hypnotherapy

a long time ago, actually. So the profession of hypnotherapy was in my mind from quite an

early age. I, when I was about 11 or so, I was having some, I can't remember what even the

health issue was, but my mom took me to see

this osteopath. And he was telling me, he was also a hypnotherapist and he was telling me,

he was telling me about how hypnotherapy works and how powerful it was. And this just planted a little

seed in my mind. And I didn't think about hypnotherapy again for a long time after

that. Then later, this was probably about 2009. I was on a yoga retreat. I was on a yoga retreat.

And another lady who was on the retreat was a doctor. She was a GP, and she was telling me about how she had trained

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