Sarah Marks Hypnotherapy

08/06/2026

If you're fed up with anxiety holding you back from living your life, then solution-focused hypnotherapy could be for you.

What I love about solution-focused hypnotherapy is how gentle yet effective it is. We won't delve into trauma; we focus on the future and how you want to feel and what you want to achieve.

If there's something you want to do and anxiety is stopping you, then please know that it doesn't have to be that way. I've worked with clients who have made phenomenal progress in just a few weeks, achieving things they didn't believe were possible.

If you've had enough of anxiety holding you back and are ready to take back control of your life then book your free initial consultation with me using the link in my bio/

05/06/2026

When those anxious feelings start to rise, reaching for your phone as a distraction can feel good in the moment, but it could actually make anxiety worse later on.

👉 When we distract ourselves from uncomfortable thoughts, we're telling our brain that it was right to be fearful. We know logically that thoughts on their own aren't dangerous.

👉Distraction can make those thoughts worse. It's like being told not to think of a pink elephant, chances are, a pink elephant is exactly what comes to mind! The harder you try to stop thinking about something, the more intrusive that thought becomes.

👉Relying on distraction prevents you from discovering effective ways to self-soothe.

Instead of reaching for your phone, try...

⚡️Voicing your fear. Talking out loud about what your fearful of can help put it into perspective.

⚡️Anxiety lives in the future, so bring yourself back to the present with a grounding technique such as finding 5 things you can see, 4 things you can touch, 3 things you can hear, 2 things you can smell and 1 thing you can taste.

⚡️Box breathing can be a great way to calm your nervous system. Breathe in for 4 counts, hold for 4 counts, breathe out for 4 counts, hold for 4 counts.

28/04/2026

🚘 Driving Anxiety 🚘

Does getting in the car to drive fill you with dread? Do you play worst-case scenarios about the drive over and over in your head? Do you feel exhausted after driving because you’ve been so anxious? Or have you hung up your car keys for good? Deciding that the anxiety driving causes is no longer worth it.

I know how frustrating it is.

I’ve worked successfully with many clients who have found driving terrifying. They may have never really enjoyed driving, and that anxiety has built over time, or it may be a sudden onset of anxiety that they didn’t see coming. However, it presents itself, please know that you are not alone. It’s a common cause of anxiety, particularly, in my experience, for women.

Some clients have actually come to me for completely different reasons, and it’s only when we start working that we realise there’s a fear of driving. Our brain naturally wants to avoid things that make us anxious, and so for some, it can be easy to reason their way out of driving rather than accepting the fear and the effect it’s having on their life.

“Well… the bus is convenient”

“Well… my partner loves driving anyway”

“Well… I don’t need to go to the big out-of-town supermarket, I can walk to the local one”

All of a sudden, life can get pretty small.

Am I going to help you become a world-class rally driver? No. But that’s not the aim. The aim is to get you living life the way you want to.

Imagine being able to get to work in your own car, driving out to the big supermarket or jumping in the car to visit a friend, all without fear, without really even thinking about it. It just becomes part of your day.

Solution-focused hypnotherapy is a gentle yet incredibly effective form of therapy for helping people to combat driving anxiety. If you’d like to learn how, please message me, and we can book in a free initial consultation.

23/04/2026

So how do you change the way you see things? How do you begin to focus on all the good things in your life?

✨You start small✨

Each day, take just a few minutes to write down a couple of good things. Things that have made you smile. Things that have made you feel accomplished. It might be:

- A text from a friend
- Enjoying a warm cup of coffee
- Sorting out that junk drawer
- Updating your CV
- Taking 10 minutes to start that book you’ve been wanting to read
- Getting your ideal parking space

There are no rules. It’s just whatever you feel has been good for you.

By writing them down, we engage numerous parts of our brain to help us remember those good things and the positive feelings associated with them.

Try for the next seven days to write down what’s been good and see what difference it makes to you.

22/04/2026

Has anxiety been in control, telling you what you can or can’t do for months? Maybe even years?

One thing I hear from clients over and over again is that they wish they’d sought support earlier. Many people believe that anxiety is just a phase that will pass if they ignore it. Some don't feel that they deserve support.

If anxiety is stopping you from living your life, then how long are you willing to wait? Wouldn’t it be better to regain control and start living your life now?

Solution-focused hypnotherapy is a gentle yet highly effective therapy that enables you to regain control so that anxiety isn't making your decisions for you.

If you are done with anxiety having the ultimate say in how you live your life, then use the link in my bio to book a free initial consultation to learn how solution-focused hypnotherapy can help you today.

20/03/2026

When we feel stressed and overwhelmed our brains want to focus on the negative things in life, it thinks that by doing so it’s keeping us safe. However, changing our focus and noticing the positive things can, over time, help us to feel calmer and happier. A simple way to do this is to write down a few things each night that have made you happy during the day and they don’t have to be big things. Some things I’ve written down this week include:

- Folding a pile of washing that’s been sitting around for way too long
- Coffee & chat with a good friend
- The sun! Oh, the sun ☀️
- Receiving a great update from a client

Even on the worst day, there will be something that’s been good. It may just take you longer to recognise it!

Practice makes perfect. The more we do this, the more we’re training our brain to look for the positives and the easier it will be to notice them.

And it you’re a stationery addict like me then it’s also a great excuse for buying a new notebook!

Give it a try or save this tip as a reminder to look for the positives when life feels overwhelming.

11/03/2026

04/03/2026

When you’ve been experiencing anxiety for a number of years it can be difficult to see how your life has been defined by it. We can start to justify saying no to social engagements, job promotions or anything that makes us feel uncomfortable. Whilst anxiety is exhausting to live with it can feel easier to live with it rather than the unknown discomfort of tackling it.

But what would you be doing if you weren’t carrying that heavy burden of anxiety? What would you be saying yes to? What would you be experiencing? Who would you be spending time with? What would you be doing?

Who could you be?... What could you achieve?...

Let’s inspire each other. Drop in the comments something you’d love to do that doesn’t seem possible right night now.

24/02/2026

So, 2026 didn’t exactly start with a bang! It was more of a gentle ease into the New Year, but I’m incredibly grateful to have been able to give myself a slower start. Health anxiety is a tough one to deal with, as we often take our health for granted until it’s compromised. Health anxiety is often caused by our brain trying to fill in what we don’t know, and of course, catastrophising – overthinking the worst possible scenarios. Being diagnosed with hypothyroidism and prescribed treatment gave me an immense sense of relief! Of course, I’m not pleased to find out I have a chronic condition, but what I do have is an answer and a plan to feel better.

What’s helped me immensely over the last few months is my training as a solution-focused hypnotherapist. Understanding why my brain was making me feel anxious, and more importantly, what I needed to do to regain control, made the process much easier to deal with.

This year, I’ve also been working with a number of new clients who really leaned into the process of solution-focused hypnotherapy and have made phenomenal progress in a relatively short time.

I absolutely love supporting people to regain control of their anxious brains, feel calmer and more confident. Planning to fill the rest of 2026 with doing just that 🥰

29/01/2026

When people come to see me for support with anxiety they’ve often been experiencing it for a long time. Some say they thought it would disappear if they ignored it. Whilst others didn’t believe anything could help them and it was something they’d have to learn to live with. But what all my clients have in common is that they are ready for change. They’re tired of anxiety dictating where they go, who they see, what they do.

They want to regain control and solution-focused hypnotherapy is a gentle yet effective form of therapy that can help them do just that.

We work faster than some other therapies, and so within just weeks, clients report feeling happier, calmer and more confident.

If you’ve spent January wondering whether now’s the time to seek support, then don’t let another month go by where anxiety is controlling your life.

Take the first step towards regaining control by booking a free initial consultation to learn how solution-focused hypnotherapy could help you. DM me for the link to book.