Clearmind with Hazel

Clearmind with Hazel ACCPH accredited Mindset coach helping women stuck in overthinking & self doubt rewire their mindset, feel calm & finally move forward with confidence 💫

13/06/2026

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12/06/2026

A year ago today this popped up on my memories and honestly... I had to stop and watch it twice.

Because the message? Still hits exactly the same.

We are only born with two fears. Fear of loud noises and fear of falling. That's it. Every single other fear you carry - the fear of failing, of being judged, of not being enough, of getting it wrong - you learned it.

And anything you learned, you can unlearn.

That's not a motivational quote. That's neuroscience.

That's how your brain actually works.

What got me though wasn't just the message. It's how different I look. How different I feel watching it back. A year of doing the work on myself and it shows - not just on the outside but in the way I hold myself, the way I speak, the way I actually believe what I'm saying now.

If you're sitting in a fear right now that feels completely real and completely permanent - it isn't. It was taught to you. Probably a long time ago. By someone who was also just trying to make sense of the world.

You don't have to keep carrying it.
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08/06/2026

Rainy Saturday. Event to get to. Hair with absolutely no interest in cooperating.

I have this thing where I believe my hair looks better straight. I've straightened it for years because of it. Didn't even question it until this morning when I was standing there with a hairdryer and realised the rain was going to win regardless.

Can't control the rain. Straightening it would have been completely pointless. Curly sue it is.

And then I caught myself. That belief about my hair. How long have I been doing that on autopilot without ever actually questioning whether it's even true?

How many of us are doing that in bigger areas of our lives?

Anyway. As I always say there's no such thing as a problem, just something you haven't found the solution to yet. So when you're overwhelmed and can't see the wood for the trees try this.

Get a piece of paper. Write down the problem. Then write down every possible solution. Or if that feels too big, just split the page. What's in my control. What isn't. Then focus everything on the left column.

Curly hair. Sorted.

What's your version of this today?

07/06/2026

For years I thought confidence came first.

Then I'd take the action. Then I'd put myself out there.
Then I'd believe in myself.

Turns out it was the other way around.

The plot twist was believing in myself before I had all the evidence.

That's when everything started to change. 💫

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03/06/2026

Ted needed an operation.

He's not a dog to me. He's my family. And finding that out this week on top of everything else would once have completely floored me.

Sweaty palms. Stomach in knots. Waking up at 3am running through every worst case. Snapping at anyone who came near me. Catastrophising until I'd convinced myself everything was falling apart.

That was me. For years.

This week I got quiet instead. I wrote down what I could actually control. Made a plan. Took one small step and then another. And stayed calm enough to think straight.

Not because life got easier. Because I did the work so that when life gets hard I don't lose myself in it.

Me spiralling changes nothing. Me staying grounded changes everything.

That's not a quote on a wall. That's a Wednesday in my actual life.

If you hold it together on the outside but completely unravel on the inside when things go wrong, that's not a character flaw. It's a pattern. And patterns can change.

Link in bio.💫

02/06/2026

A colleague stopped me in the office today.

Ten years we've worked together. She knows what I do. And completely out of nowhere she just said it.

"You are unrecognisable. You're so calm. You don't look dark anymore. You even stand taller."

No prompt. No conversation leading up to it. Just an honest observation from someone who has watched me for a decade.

And I cried. Because I know exactly who she's talking about.

The version of me who was running on empty and calling it ambition. Who looked composed in every room and was completely somewhere else in all of them. Who kept going because stopping felt like failing.

That woman worked so hard. She did everything right. And she was exhausted right down to her bones.

This is not about becoming a different person. It's about finally becoming yourself. Without the noise. Without the patterns. Without the weight of things you've been carrying since you were young enough to not even realise you picked them up.

That shift is real. It's visible. And it's not just for me.

If you are reading this and something just shifted, thats your sign.Link in bio.

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