Matthew Tweedie Hypnosis

Matthew Tweedie Hypnosis Anxiety & Binge Eating Specialist In Adelaide. I am a Clinical Hypno Psychotherapist. I use a combin

24/08/2026

Every problem you carry is doing a job for you. It has to be, otherwise you would have let it go by now.

This is what we call secondary gain. The hidden benefits to having a problem. And it is one of the most overlooked forces in human behaviour.

On some level, everyone has it. The part of you that gets something from staying stuck. Attention. Sympathy. A reason to not try. A shield from expectation. And none of that makes you wrong. It makes you human.

If you subscribe to being your most powerful and magnificent self, then you subscribe to cause and effect. We are the creators of our universe. Conscious creators, or unconscious creators. And the unconscious ones are the ones that run the show without your permission.

Secondary gain is an unconscious limiting decision. One that prevents you from being, doing, or having exactly what you want. The problem isn’t just the problem. The problem is the payoff you didn’t know you were collecting.

I worked with a client who had built a successful life. Financially thriving. And yet during the lockdowns he ended up with a rare heart condition. It robbed him of his independence. No driving. Barely working. Daily tasks became monumental. And somewhere along the line, a decision was made. He became so committed to showing people he was suffering that he became worse.

That is the power of the unconscious mind. It will always move toward what it believes is true, even if that truth is destroying you.

So I wonder. What is your problem doing for you? And what would happen if it no longer needed to?

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22/08/2026

Depression is not what we think it is. It is not a broken brain. It is not a chemical accident. At its root, it is a gap. The space between what you expected and what actually showed up. The shortfall between the story you told yourself and the reality you found yourself in.

That gap is not just psychological. It becomes neurological. It becomes physiological. The body responds to the absence. The nervous system reads unmet expectation as a threat. Cortisol rises. The limbic system tightens its grip. And your unconscious mind starts to agree with the disappointment. It believes the shortfall is who you are.

But here is the thing. Disappointment is made of expectation. And expectation is made of imagination. Which means the same machinery that creates the gap can create something else. Alignment. Ease. A nervous system that feels safe enough to let hope back in.

So I wonder if you can look at your own expectations. Not to judge them. Just to notice them. Because the gap you feel is not a measure of your worth. It is information. An inner message. And when you bring the unconscious mind into the conversation, the shortfall can begin to dissolve.

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19/08/2026

Retroactive jealousy is rarely about the other person. It is almost always about a story the unconscious mind is holding onto, a story that says something is missing or threatened within you.

When we trace that feeling back, past the images and the thoughts, we find the root. We find old unresolved emotions that are simply looking for somewhere to land.

Your mind will always project what it has not yet processed. That is not a flaw. That is a signal. And the great news is those signals can dissolve quite rapidly once the unconscious mind sees a new way forward.

No long drawn out digging through the past. No reliving the pain. Just a quiet meeting with the part of you still stuck there, and a gentle process of letting go at the level where it all got stored.

The relief is sustainable because the change is happening below the surface. At the level where the belief was originally formed.

I wonder if you have felt that. The moment a big reaction suddenly has no charge. The story is still there, but the weight is gone. That is what is possible.

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14/08/2026

The mind doesn’t always react to what’s happening now. Sometimes it reacts to a memory the body never forgot.

Retroactive jealousy can feel intensely present. The fixation loops. The rumination feels impossible to break. But the trigger is rarely the person or the imagined event. The trigger is older. It often comes from the imprint period, between the ages of one and seven. A moment when you didn’t receive the attention you needed. A feeling of being overlooked, not chosen, not enough.

That experience lives in the unconscious mind and in the nervous system. Years later a thought, a picture, a story about someone from your partner’s past activates it. Suddenly the limbic system sounds the alarm. Cortisol rises. The body reacts as if the original wound is happening again.

But it isn’t. The original wound already happened. What’s repeating is the inner message that said you weren’t enough.

That message can change. It can be met with awareness, with neutrality, with a felt sense of safety in the body. Hypnosis and NLP work with this directly. Not by forcing logic onto the feeling, but by allowing the unconscious mind to update its interpretation.

I wonder if you can feel the difference between past and present in a memory. The past is complete. The present is where new experience becomes possible. When the nervous system settles, the fixation loses its charge. What’s left is not a threat. Just a wound that was waiting to be seen.

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11/08/2026

You know how it goes. High performers, the ones who seem to have it all together, often have the messiest inner world. They’re winning at work, but struggling with habits they can’t break. Drinking. Smoking. Overeating. And they think it’s a discipline problem. So they try harder. They shame themselves. They make promises they can’t keep. But here’s what I see. It’s not a willpower issue. It’s a nervous system issue. When your body is stuck in a chronic stress response, it craves things that bring temporary relief. That’s not weakness. That’s survival. So you reach for the bottle, the cigarette, the food. Not because you’re broken. Because you’re trying to self-soothe. The real shift happens when you re-regulate that nervous system. When your body feels safe, the cravings lose their grip. The habits fall away. Not through force. Through alignment. And that’s when problems you thought were permanent start to dissolve. I wonder if you’ve ever blamed yourself for something that was actually your system just trying to cope.

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05/08/2026

When your inner answer is yes, other people’s histories are just stories. Old moments become neutral facts. But when that answer is uncertain, the unconscious mind goes looking for proof. And it always finds something.

Retroactive jealousy is rarely about the past. It’s about a self worth that needs stabilizing. A core belief that says I need to watch for danger.

The past is fixed. Your interpretation of it is not. And when self worth begins to shift, so does the mind’s fixation.

I wonder if you can remember a time when what you believed about yourself changed how you saw everything else.

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03/08/2026

High performers will tell me they can’t find balance. They’ll say there aren’t enough hours, too many demands, that something has to give. And I get it. But when we actually sit down and look closely, it’s rarely about the clock. It’s about what’s driving you underneath the surface.

Your values are the deepest unconscious drivers of your behaviour. They dictate what you move toward, what you avoid, what feels meaningful, and what feels like a threat. They are the architects of your decisions. So when your conscious mind says “I want balance” but your unconscious values are wired for relentless achievement, there’s a conflict. And that conflict doesn’t show up as a thought. It shows up as exhaustion. As resentment. As that nagging feeling that you’re winning at things that don’t matter.

With NLP and hypnosis, you can actually elicit and reprogram those values. Not by talking yourself into a new belief. But by working directly with the part of your mind that runs the show in the first place. And here’s the thing. When you make even the slightest tweak to a value hierarchy, once it’s properly elicited and aligned, the entire structure of your life shifts. Not because you tried harder. But because your nervous system and your unconscious mind finally agree on the direction.

All of a sudden, the things that used to feel like problems are rapidly in the past. The balancing act becomes less about managing time and more about being in alignment with what matters most to you. When your values are congruent, the pull between doing and being dissolves. And flow state becomes the natural baseline, not the exception.

I wonder if you’ve been trying to solve a time problem that’s really been asking you to look deeper all along.

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30/07/2026

Because somewhere along the line, a decision got made. Maybe consciously, more often not. This is what relationships are. This is what love looks like.

Maybe you watched mum and dad. Maybe an aunt or an uncle. And you took in the whole thing. The tension, the silence, the exchanges that everyone seemed to treat as normal.

Through a child’s eyes there’s no wisdom available to reject any of it. No part of you standing back going, this isn’t right, I won’t be carrying this one forward. You just absorbed it. And now it plays out, quietly, in your everyday life, without you ever choosing it.

Which is actually the good news. A pattern you didn’t consciously build is a pattern that can be undone. Usually far quicker than people expect.

Comment below if this one hits home.

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28/07/2026

Self-worth is the quiet agreement you keep with yourself. And when that agreement breaks, self-sabotage steps in to fill the gap.

So if you’ve ever set a goal and watched yourself fade out of consistency, it’s not laziness. It’s not discipline. It’s a mismatch between what your conscious mind wants and what your unconscious mind believes you deserve.

You wouldn’t break a promise to a friend. But to yourself? Somehow that’s easier. And that tells you something about where self-worth lives in your nervous system.

When the limbic system holds a pattern of unworthiness, the body will find ways to prove it right. Cortisol rises. Flow state disappears. And the inner narrative loops.

But here’s the truth: self-worth isn’t something you earn. It’s something you uncover. And when you do, the sabotage loses its grip.

I wonder if you can remember a time you kept a promise to yourself and felt something shift.

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23/07/2026

Self-worth isn’t something you’re born lacking. It’s installed. Somewhere between zero and seven, a decision was made. A limiting belief locked in. It wasn’t safe to take up space. It wasn’t worth pushing for what you wanted. Fear got woven into the nervous system and the pattern ran on repeat.

But here’s the thing. A belief is just software. And software can be updated. Surgically. Cleanly. The unconscious mind doesn’t know the difference between a belief you chose at three years old and one you choose right now.

So what if that old program could be uninstalled? What if you could shift from “I’m not worthy” to “I am worthy” at the level of the limbic system and the vagus nerve? That changes more than your thoughts. It changes your whole reality.

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