Alasana Hypnotherapy

Alasana Hypnotherapy Clinical Hypnotherapist helping people create lasting change since 2017. Based in Gymea and online. Alasana Hypnotherapy® A safe space to be you.

Supporting anxiety, confidence, habits, smoking, alcohol, weight loss and personal growth. Alison is a Clinical Hypnotherapist and Psychotherapist and is a national Board Member of the Australian Hypnotherapists' Association. Hypnotherapy allows us to have conversation with your unconscious mind, embedding suggestions that will allow you to think, act and feel differently to how you do now. Every

thing you have ever heard, everything that you have ever experienced, everything that has ever been said to you, all gets stored in your unconscious mind. These develop into beliefs and patterns that have the power to rule your life. Hypnotherapy will allow you to release patterns, or beliefs, that no longer serve you in your life. We can help you to release negative emotions, weight, anxiety and depression, become a non smoker, stop addictive behaviours and start to lead your ultimate life.

12/08/2026

Lesson 2726: The Right Time Is When It Is No Longer Right for YOU

People often ask, “How do you know when it’s the right time?”

The right time to leave.
The right time to change direction.
The right time to close a chapter.
The right time to let something go.

Maybe the answer is simpler than we think.

The right time is when it no longer brings you joy.
The right time is when it is no longer right for YOU.

Not when everyone else understands.

Not when everyone agrees with your decision.

Not when you can guarantee what comes next.

And certainly not when staying has become so unbearable that you have no other choice. When the financial hole is so deep that you can not see a way out.

Sometimes something can still be good and no longer be good for you.

Something can have brought you enormous joy, purpose and connection and still reach its natural ending.

That doesn't erase what it gave you.

It doesn't make the years you invested a mistake.

It simply means you have changed.

We spend so much time looking outside ourselves for permission to make decisions about our own lives.

But perhaps the permission we are waiting for is our own.

If it no longer feels right for you, maybe that is enough.

And maybe that is exactly the right time.

Alison
Alasana, A safe space to be you ®

11/08/2026

LESSON 2726 BRAVE

Someone called me brave during the week.

Brave for making decisions based on what feels right for me.

Brave for standing up for what I believe is right.

It made me think about the word brave.

Because I don’t necessarily feel brave.

Sometimes I feel uncomfortable.
I AM STILL FEEL FEAR.
Sometimes I second guess myself.
WHST IF?
Sometimes I wonder whether it would be easier to stay quiet, keep going, or simply accept things as they are.
I HAVE BEEN DOING THIS FOR 2 YEARS.

But maybe bravery isn’t the absence of those feelings.

Maybe bravery is feeling all of them and choosing yourself anyway.

It is saying no when something no longer feels right.

It is speaking up when staying silent would be easier.

It is changing direction when the path you are on no longer feels like yours.

And sometimes it is disappointing other people rather than continuing to disappoint yourself.

Perhaps we don’t recognise our own bravery because from the inside, it simply feels like doing the thing we know we need to do.

But looking back, we realise how much courage it actually took.

Alison
Alasana, A safe space to be you ®

10/08/2026

LESSON 2725: SING IT LOUD

I was lying in bed last night watching The Shards, surrounded by all that fabulous 80s music, when Vienna by Ultravox started playing.

And instantly, I was somewhere else.

Isn’t it incredible how a song can do that?

A few notes and suddenly memories come flooding back. You remember people. Places. Moments. Maybe even a version of yourself you haven’t thought about for years.

And some songs simply cannot be listened to quietly.

Vienna is one of those songs.

You don’t just sing it.

You sing it really, really, REALLY loud.

So there I was, at about 9 o’clock last night, lying in bed and absolutely belting it out.

And it felt amazing.

There was no worrying about whether I sounded good. No wondering if anyone could hear me. No reason to tone myself down.

Just pure, ridiculous joy.

Maybe that’s something we need more of.

Those little moments when we stop thinking about how we look or sound and simply allow ourselves to feel good.

So when your song comes on...

Sing it.

And if it’s that song, sing it really, really, REALLY loud.

Alison
Alasana, A safe space to be you ®

10/08/2026

LESSON 2724: THE ASANA IN ALASANA

When I created Alasana in 2019, it was always about creating a safe space to be you.

Yoga became one expression of that.
Hypnotherapy was always another.

As the yoga chapter comes to an end, I’ve been thinking about the name Alasana and what it means to me now.

Asana can be translated as a comfortable seat.

For years, that seat was a yoga mat.

Now, perhaps, it is the chair in my hypnotherapy room.

During the week, a client returned after some time away. She sat down, settled into the chair and said,

“Ahhh. I feel like I am home.”

And I thought, there it is.

That chair has held so many people through so many different chapters of their lives.

People who were anxious.
People who were grieving.
People exhausted from holding everything together.
People ready for change.
People who simply needed somewhere they could put everything down for a while.

It is a big, warm hug in the form of a chair.

The yoga chapter of Alasana may be ending, but the meaning of Alasana isn’t.

The asana was never only about yoga.

It was about comfort.
Safety.
A place to exhale.
A place where you don’t have to pretend you’re okay.
A place where you can come home to yourself.

Alasana is mental comfort.

And there will always be a comfortable seat waiting for you here.

Alison
Alasana, A safe space to be you ®

09/08/2026

LESSON 2723 Ancient tales, modern times.

Sometimes we choose the symbol before we understand the story.

I have a tattoo of Hathor, the ancient Egyptian goddess associated with love, joy, nurturing and feminine energy.

Today I discovered her connection to Sekhmet.

In one ancient Egyptian story, Hathor becomes Sekhmet, the fierce lioness goddess. She is rage, protection and destruction.

To stop her fury, beer was dyed red to resemble blood. Sekhmet drank it, became intoxicated and eventually fell into a deep sleep.

When she woke, the rage had subsided.

She returned to the gentleness of Hathor.

And I sat there thinking.

How did I never know this?

Because it feels so much like my own journey.

There was a version of me who needed to be fierce.

She fought.
She protected.
She drank.
She woke up.
She survived.

And for a long time, intoxication was also part of my story.

But eventually, I woke up too.

Healing wasn't about destroying my Sekhmet so I could become Hathor.

It was about understanding why she existed in the first place.

The fierce woman wasn't the enemy.

She was the protector.

And underneath all that armour, the softness had always been there.

I already have Hathor tattooed on my body.

I think it's time Sekhmet joined her.

Alison
Alasana, A safe space to be you ®

06/08/2026

Lesson 2722 We do not have to stay.

Fear has a remarkable way of convincing us that we are responsible for holding everything together.

It tells us that if we let go, everything will fall apart.

But so often, we're not carrying reality.

We're carrying fear.

Fear of change.
Fear of the unknown.
Fear of what might happen, even when it probably never will.

The older I get, the more I realise that life keeps moving, with or without my worry.

People adapt.
New chapters begin.
And somehow, everything finds its place.
What once felt right may no longer be that!

Maybe the lesson isn't to hold on tighter.

Maybe it's to trust ourselves enough to let go.

Alison

Alasana, A safe space to be you ®

Lesson 2721 A "top up"One of my favourite messages to receive is from a past client."Hi Alison, I'm just not feeling lik...
05/08/2026

Lesson 2721 A "top up"

One of my favourite messages to receive is from a past client.

"Hi Alison, I'm just not feeling like myself. I think it's time for a hypnotherapy top-up."

My reply is always the same.

"Absolutely. A top-up is a great idea."

I love these messages because they tell me something important.

This person knows themselves.

They've recognised they're drifting before they've completely lost themselves.

We don't wait for our car to break down before we have it serviced. We don't only look after our physical health when something goes wrong.

Our minds deserve that same care.

Life changes. Stress builds. We all need a reset from time to time.

Looking after your mental health isn't something you do once. It's something you choose, again and again.

And I think that's one of the greatest acts of self-care there is.

Alison

Alasana, A safe space to be you ®

04/08/2026

Lesson 2720 After we let go!

There is a space between chapters that we rarely talk about.

The chapter has ended, but the next one hasn't quite begun.

It can feel uncomfortable.

We want certainty. We want to know what's next. We want to skip the waiting and get straight to the new beginning.

But perhaps the space between chapters isn't empty.

Perhaps it's where we catch our breath after everything we've carried.

It's where we begin to loosen our grip on who we were, before discovering who we're becoming.

It's where we grieve what has been, while quietly making room for what will be.

I've learned not to rush this space anymore.

Because every meaningful new chapter in my life has first asked me to sit in the unknown. To trust without having all the answers. To believe that even when nothing seems to be happening, something is changing within me.

The space between chapters isn't a pause in life.

It is life.

And one day you'll look back and realise that this quiet space wasn't standing still at all.

It was preparing you for everything that came next.

Alison

Alasana, A safe space to be you ®

Lesson 2719 Tied to tight!"I was holding on for dear life... but dear life was waiting for me to let go."That sentence s...
03/08/2026

Lesson 2719 Tied to tight!

"I was holding on for dear life... but dear life was waiting for me to let go."

That sentence stopped me.

So much of my life has been spent gripping tightly. Holding on to people, jobs, expectations, certainty, identities, and even pain. Somewhere along the way I convinced myself that letting go meant losing.

But what if the opposite is true?

What if the life we are desperately trying to protect is actually on the other side of surrender?

Not giving up.
Not walking away.
Not pretending it doesn't hurt.
Just allowing, being.

Loosening our grip enough to allow something new to arrive.

Every major turning point in my life has required letting go of something I thought I couldn't live without. And every single time, life didn't become smaller. It became bigger.

Maybe holding on keeps us safe.

But maybe letting go is what finally sets us free.

Alison

Alasana, A safe space to be you ®

02/08/2026

Lesson 2718 Living through a fear lens.

I have been thinking a lot lately about how fear quietly shapes the way we move through life.

Not the big fears. The everyday ones that become so normal you don't even realise they're there.

I remember going on holidays and insisting everything had to be packed the night before because checkout was at 10:00 am.

We had to be out by 10.

But why?

Who exactly was going to come knocking on the door at 10:01? What did I honestly think would happen if we walked out at 10:05? Were they going to arrest us? Charge us? Ban us forever?

Of course not.

Yet my nervous system genuinely believed there would be consequences.

That is what living through a fear based lens does. It convinces you that every rule is an emergency. Every deadline is a disaster waiting to happen. Every mistake carries a punishment.

You don't realise you're making decisions from fear because it feels like you're simply being responsible.

Healing has made me question these automatic reactions.

Not so I become careless or disrespectful of other people, but so I can ask a simple question:

Is this choice coming from wisdom... or from fear?

Sometimes the answer surprises me.

And every time I choose curiosity over fear, I reclaim another tiny piece of freedom.

Alasana
A safe space to be you ®

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