Sean Harris

Sean Harris Many of my clients only need 2 x 90 minute sessions to achieve this. (Smoking ,Simple Fears. and some traumas only one session is needed .

Through Advanced hypnotherapy & Rapid Transformational therapies I Globally specialise in helping people in their personal & business lives rapidly overcome their problems for good in 4 hours or less ! Hello and welcome

I"m Sean Harris and I offer a friendly , caring service, where I help people rapidly, effectively and permanently remove their problems and positively change their lives for the

better. I guarantee all my clients will experience some sort of change as soon as their first session

My approach is unique and I work direct and fast, keeping therapy simple. There are no pre-written scripts , or swinging pendulums , and relaxation is not necessary to go into hypnosis. Utilizing the best methods and techniques from Advanced Hypnotherapy with the latest rapid transformational therapies (Including EMDR, Havening, NLP ) ,together I help you identify and deal with the root cause of your problem so that you can get the lasting results you desire. Each session is completely tailored to you , maximizing your chance of getting 100% success. You will receive 24/7 support inside and outside the therapy room and catch up chats in between sessions. When I’m not working with clients internationally on zoom and at my venues in Northampton and Central London, I run online workshops podcasts and training courses, as well as delivering presentations, group talks , appearing on BBC Radio and working with corporate. I've seen so many people change their lives using my the methods I work with, and I'd love for you to experience this too. Therefore i provide a free no obligation 15 minute chat on the phone ,

Best wishes

Sean 07858 112643



Trainings & Qualifications
I have purposely studied with some of the best trainers in the world, some of which are the creators of the latest revolutionary therapies. General Qualification Hypnotherapy Practice (GQHP)
Master Hypnotist (D.M.H)
Diploma in Clinical Hypnotherapy (D.Hyp)
Diploma in Behavioral science
Diploma in Cognitive Hypnotherapy (Dip CHyp)
Diploma in Erciksonian Hypnotherapy
NLP( Neuro-Lingusitic Programming ) Master Practitioner (CMNLP)
Psy Tap Practitioner
EMDR Practitioner
TFT (Thought Field Therapy ) Algo Level: MCPA BTFTA
TFT Advanced Level: MCPA BTFTA
Havening Practitioner
TFT Voice Technology - VT (Master Level)
EFT Practitioner
Diploma in Counselling
Reflective Re Patterning Practitioner
NLP Time line Practitioner
Advanced Weight Control & Hypnotic Gastric Band specialist
Advanced Smoking Cessation specialist
Sports NLP Master practitioner
Diploma in Sports Hypnotherapy
Fully qualified Sports Mind factor Coach for all sports. I am registered with the international institute of professional hypnotherapists and the General Hypnotherapy Standards Council (GHSC) , General Hypnotherapy Register (GHR) which are recognised as the the UK’s largest and most prominent organisations within the field of therapy . I am also a member of the College of Medicine

Beyond Reprocessing: Unleashing Lasting Change Without Formal Trance:How my approach taps into your brain’s natural abil...
27/08/2025

Beyond Reprocessing: Unleashing Lasting Change Without Formal Trance:

How my approach taps into your brain’s natural ability to heal, rebalance, and transform for weeks, months, or even years after a single session...

We all want lasting change freedom from anxiety, self-doubt, or patterns that hold us back, but true transformation goes far beyond willpower or conscious , logical effort. That’s because much of what shapes our thoughts, feelings, and behaviours lives deep within the subconscious mind, a part of the brain that doesn’t respond to logic or reason.

Our lives are like a ball of knotted string each unprocessed experience is a knot tightening the threads. My role is to help gently untie these knots, freeing the string so it can be used for what it’s truly meant for: creating a smooth, vibrant path forward.

My approach combines the latest neuroscience with natural conversation to gently guide your brain through two powerful processes: reprocessing and rebalancing. Remarkably, this happens without formal trance or hypnosis.

Reprocessing is the brain’s ability to revisit and update emotional memories and beliefs stored in the subconscious. Early distressing experiences, especially from childhood, can become “stuck” because the brain was overwhelmed and unable to fully process the associated emotions at the time.

When these memories are gently activated in a safe and supportive context, the brain enters a state where it can change the emotional charge and meaning attached to them. This process is known as memory reconsolidation. During reconsolidation, the brain briefly makes stored memories malleable and open to modification before storing them again with updated, healthier associations.

This neural flexibility allows the brain to weaken outdated fears, limiting beliefs, and emotional pain, creating lasting shifts in how you feel and respond.

Rebalancing however simultaneously, refers to restoring the nervous system’s capacity to regulate itself effectively. Prolonged stress or trauma can cause the nervous system to become dysregulated, remaining in a heightened state of activation often described as “survival mode.”

A dysregulated nervous system struggles to return to a calm, regulated baseline, which impacts emotional stability, cognitive clarity, and physical health.

Rebalancing helps shift the nervous system out of this persistent stress response and back toward equilibrium. This process supports improved regulation of emotions, better stress resilience, and overall well-being.

Together, these processes allow your brain and body to heal rewiring and restoring themselves to support healthier thoughts, feelings, and behaviours.

All emotional struggles and limiting beliefs we face today originate in early childhood. During those years, our brains and nervous systems are highly sensitive, absorbing everything about how safe and supported we feel.

When a child experiences distress,neglect, trauma, fear, or overwhelming emotions the brain can become stuck in a heightened stress state, locked on constant alert. The nervous system learns to stay activated in “survival mode,” scanning for threats even when none exist.

Normally, the brain processes emotional experiences to help us adapt and grow. But intense or prolonged distress can block its natural ability to reprocess and rebalance. Painful emotions and limiting beliefs then remain frozen deep in the subconscious, shaping how we respond to life long after childhood ends.

These unresolved patterns impact adult life in ways we often don’t recognize:

• Anxiety or fear that feels disproportionate may stem from early feelings of being unsafe.

• Self-doubt and low self-worth can be childhood scripts undermining confidence today.

• Relationship /Work difficulties often arise from unhealed attachment wounds.

• Physical symptoms like chronic tension or fatigue can reflect unresolved stress held in the body.

Since these distress patterns were never fully reprocessed, the nervous system remains dysregulated trapped in reactive states rather than balanced ones. This creates persistent struggles cycling without clear cause.

Therefore Reprocessing and rebalancing are interconnected. While reprocessing updates the emotional and cognitive “software” of the brain by modifying subconscious memories and beliefs, rebalancing repairs the physiological “hardware” by restoring nervous system regulation.

Together, they enable the brain and body to heal from past distress and create new, adaptive patterns that support healthier thoughts, emotions, and behaviors

What’s truly remarkable is that this ongoing neural plasticity means transformation continues long after the session ends. Your mind and body keep reprocessing and rebalancing naturally for weeks, months, or even years. This ongoing neural rewiring deepens and expands the shifts as you move through life.

As old emotional burdens lift, you’ll discover new clarity, improved relationships, fresh perspectives, and growing alignment with your authentic self. This is the real power of change subtle, natural, and lasting.

My approach doesn’t rely on scripts, force, or deep trance states. Instead, it empowers your brain to do what it’s built to do: recognize what no longer serves you and rewrite itself, creating transformation that lasts a lifetime.

Sean Harris 07858 112643

26/08/2025
Why You Keep Fighting the Person You LoveHere’s what no one tells you:Most couples aren’t really fighting about money, c...
26/08/2025

Why You Keep Fighting the Person You Love

Here’s what no one tells you:

Most couples aren’t really fighting about money, chores, or who's
right.

They’re reacting to unhealed emotional wounds, from childhood that silently shape how they love, trust, and connect.

Every person carries emotional baggage from early life: memories of feeling unseen, unloved, rejected, or unsafe. These wounds live in the subconscious, quietly influencing your thoughts, behaviors, and emotional responses.

You may find yourself:
• Struggling with trust, even when you want to open up
• Pleasing others at the cost of your own needs
• Fearing abandonment or rejection, leading you to cling or
push love away
• Guarding your heart due to past hurt and unmet needs

When your partner unknowingly triggers these wounds, you stop responding as the adult you are and start reacting as the hurt child inside, trying to stay safe.

This can look like:

• Shutting down
• Yelling or blaming
• Withdrawing or over-pleasing
• Escaping into unhealthy behaviors, Over drinking, smoking, binge
eating, or emotional numbing

Meanwhile, your partner, carrying their own buried pain, reacts in their protective way.
This creates a cycle: Two nervous systems in survival mode, stuck in a loop of triggers, disconnection, and hurt.

How I Help You Break Free:

This isn’t talk therapy or surface-level advice.
I use Advanced Transformational Therapies to work directly with your subconscious mind, where these emotional patterns, limiting beliefs, and painful memories are stored and run.

Together, we’ll uncover and clear the real root of your
relationship struggles:

• Unearth childhood experiences shaping your emotional
responses
• Release stuck emotions like fear, guilt, shame, and sadness
• Rewire limiting beliefs like:
“I’m not enough,” “I can’t trust,” “I have to please to be
loved," " Its all my fault" , "I dont deserve to be loved" etc

You will..

• Respond with self-awareness instead of reacting on autopilot
• Take responsibility for your emotions without blame or guilt
• Meet yourself, and your partner with compassion and clarity
• Listen , Understand, Accept yourself

When Both Partners work with me PowerfulTransformation Happens Fast:

• Fights shift into calm, connected conversations
• Walls come down; empathy and trust grow
• Resentment melts into mutual understanding
• You stop fighting the past and start creating your future

Relationship Benefits You’ll Experience Together

❤️ Stronger Emotional Connection
You’ll feel truly seen, heard, and understood.4
🗣️ Improved Communication
No more walking on eggshells, just honest, open dialogue.
🛡️ Trust & Emotional Safety
A space where both of you can be vulnerable without fear.
🌿 Less Conflict, More Peace
Triggers lose their power, and arguments fade.
🔥 Deeper Intimacy
Emotional healing unlocks more closeness,both physically and emotionally.
🌱 Shared Growth & Resilience
You become a team, stronger together through life’s ups and downs.
🤝 Authentic Partnership
Supporting each other’s healing journeys creates true balance and respect.
💖 Renewed Love & Appreciation

With the old pain released, you rediscover why you fell in love.
This Is Healing at Its Deepest Level
Subconscious. Lasting. Life-changing.

If you’re ready to stop fighting and finally reconnect on a soul-deep level…

I’m here to guide you both through this powerful transformation.
Sean 07858 112643

The Hidden SaboteurWhy You Can’t Fix Your Life Until You Work With Your Subconscious MindYou can know exactly what your ...
26/08/2025

The Hidden Saboteur

Why You Can’t Fix Your Life Until You Work With Your Subconscious Mind

You can know exactly what your problem is, why it started, and who or what triggered it , and still not be able to change it.

You can be self-aware, insightful, emotionally intelligent and still sabotage your relationships, resist success, or repeat cycles that exhaust you. You might be doing everything “right” on the surface: therapy, journaling, goal-setting, meditation. And still feel stuck.

That’s not because you’re lazy, broken, or unmotivated. It’s because you haven’t brought your subconscious on board and whether you like it or not, that’s the part of your mind running the show.

Your subconscious is like a silent operating system beneath your awareness. It stores every belief, pattern, emotional memory, and association you’ve picked up mostly from childhood, often unconsciously. While your conscious mind can reason and plan, your subconscious controls the autopilot: how you react, what you attract, and what you ultimately believe you’re allowed to have.

This is why you can understand your abandonment issues and still choose unavailable partners.

Why you can want to be wealthy, but subconsciously associate money with guilt or danger.

Why you try and stop negative emotional, habitual behavioural problems but cant and if you do another one then starts

The subconscious doesn’t care about your goals. It cares about keeping you safe.
And "safe" to your subconscious doesn’t mean happy it means familiar...Alive!

If you grew up around conflict, then peace feels unfamiliar.
If you were praised only for achievement, rest feels unsafe.
If love was inconsistent, you might chase intensity instead of intimacy.

And so, every time you try to change, grow, or break a pattern, your subconscious pulls you back toward the emotional gravity of your past. This isn’t sabotage out of malice , it’s protection based on outdated programming.

And here’s the bombshell: You can’t think your way out of it.
The subconscious doesn’t speak the language of logic. It speaks in emotion, repetition, and experience.

So how do I help you ?

By yourself keeping that logical mind at bay we use specific therapies such as Hypnotherapy, Neuro Linguistic Programming , EMDR, Conversational Hpnosis etc, that all work direct with your subconscious to access memory stored in the body. Therapies like these bypass the thinking logical mind and allow you to actually feel and repattern the emotional root and self limiting beliefs that have created , triggered and are now running your problem(s) . Once these are reprocessed Rapid lasting change takes place. This can literally be life changing for so many

Therefore the truth is, you don’t need more willpower.
You can’t fix your life by fighting what’s beneath the surface.
You fix it by working with your subconscious mind as itsnot your enemy.
It’s the part of you that never stopped trying to protect you.
To keep you Alive!

Free Discovery 15 minute no obligation phone chat
Sean
07858 112643

Why Love Starts So Beautifully, Then Breaks YouWe don’t fall in love because everything is right, we fall in love becaus...
25/08/2025

Why Love Starts So Beautifully, Then Breaks You

We don’t fall in love because everything is right, we fall in love because something finally feels familiar. That early spark, the butterflies, the magnetic pull that feels impossible to resist… it’s not just chemistry. It’s recognition. Something in your nervous system lights up, whispering, “This is what I’ve been waiting for.”

At first, it’s beautiful. The way they look at you. The attention. The connection. You feel chosen, seen, heard, maybe for the first time in your life. You think, “This must be love.” But what you’re really feeling is relief. A sense that the deep emotional hunger you’ve carried for years is finally being fed. Not with food or validation, but with someone’s presence. Their desire. Their consistency.
But that hunger didn’t begin with them.

It began years ago back in childhood when your emotional needs weren’t fully met. Maybe you were loved but not emotionally attuned to. Maybe you were safe but not truly seen. Or maybe you had to perform, please, or shrink yourself just to be accepted. So, you learned to carry that emptiness, that longing. And when you met your partner, it felt for a while like the void had been filled.
That’s the trap.

Because love built on unmet needs eventually exposes itself.
The moment your partner stops giving you what your past childself depended on, the attention, the affection, the reassurance , the relationship shifts. You stop feeling safe. The ground beneath you cracks. And you begin to react, not as the adult you are, but as the wounded child you were.

You may shut down. Get anxious. Withdraw. Control. Over give. Or pick fights you don’t understand just to get some kind of emotional response. Anything to feel connected again. Anything to feel like you matter. And the pain of not getting that? It’s unbearable. Because it’s not about the present. It’s about everything you never got in the past.

And your partner, carrying their own emotional history, begins to do the same. What once felt like love now feels like war, two nervous systems stuck in survival mode, triggered and tangled, each trying to protect itself from pain.

It’s not because you’re broken.
It’s because your relationship has become the mirror for your deepest wounds.

This is the point where most couples come undone. They think they’ve fallen out of love. But the truth is, they’ve hit the core wound that brought them together in the first place. And unless they go inward, they’ll keep repeating the same pattern with someone new.

Ask Yourself This:

• Are you seeing your partner because you genuinely love who
they are?
• Or are you seeing them through the lens of what you want
them to give you?
• Love, attention, safety, validation, purpose?

If it’s the latter, it’s not love.
It’s a coping strategy.
It’s your past unprocessed childhood looking for a parent in your partner.And eventually, that pressure breaks the connection.

Real Healing Starts Within
Real healing doesn’t happen by fixing your partner or walking away, it happens by meeting yourself.

By working with your subconscious mind, identifying, removing and positively changing the beliefs, stories, and emotional patterns that have shaped how you give and receive love.

This is why surface level advice such as counselling etc dont work.
Conscious Communication tools, date nights, and reading relationship books can’t rewrite the subconscious.
To truly change your relationship, you have to change the emotional blueprint beneath it.

That’s what subconscious healing does.
It reaches the root. It allows you to release the shame, fear, guilt, and abandonment you’ve carried for years. It helps you stop reacting from the child who felt unloved and start responding as the adult who knows their worth.

And When Two People Do This Work…
Something powerful happens:

• Arguments slow down and become conversations
• Defensiveness softens and melts away
• You stop needing to be right and start wanting to be real
• You naturally feel safe and more seen than ever before
• Trust begins to rebuild naturally, through understanding
• Walls come down and intimacy deepens
• Love becomes more stable, honest, and grounded
• You love from a place of choice, not need
• Both partners take responsibility for their healing and support,
not for saving one another

If your relationship is struggling, don’t assume it’s failing.
It may be trying to wake you up to show you the parts of yourself still waiting for your love and attention.
Because the truth is…
Love doesn’t fall apart. It reveals.
And once it does, you have a choice:
Repeat the pattern or finally heal yourself

Sean 07858 112643

Poor hypnotherapists with no regression training keep clients trapped in a cycle of temporary fixes , never reaching tru...
20/08/2025

Poor hypnotherapists with no regression training keep clients trapped in a cycle of temporary fixes , never reaching true healing:

Approximately 70% of my clients come to me after working with multiple other therapists, often with little to no lasting results. Increasingly, I’m also seeing clients who have previously worked with other hypnotherapists. These individuals often believed their issues had been resolved, only to find that the same problems resurfaced months or even years later, sometimes in more severe forms.

In many cases, while the original behavior or symptom may have subsided temporarily, new and related issues developed in its place, which now also require intervention. Why ?.....

Many people turn to hypnotherapy to help with issues like anxiety, smoking, overeating, or fear. And often, it works for a while. The problem fades, confidence grows, life improves... but then, weeks or months , a year later, the issue creeps back in. This is a obvious sign that the root cause was never truly addressed.

Hypnotherapy can be incredibly effective at relieving surface level symptoms. But if the unprocessed memory that caused the issue isn’t reprocessed in the correct way , the mind will find another way to express it. The symptom may disappear temporarily, only to re-emerge in a different form, anxiety turns into insomnia, confidence fades again, or unhealthy habits return.

Take social anxiety, for example. A client may feel more confident after four or five sessions, but the progress doesn’t last. Why?

Because beneath that anxiety might be a childhood memory of humiliation, a deep belief like “I’m not good enough,” or a fear of rejection that was formed long ago and never healed. Until those underlying beliefs are uncovered, understood, and transformed, the subconscious programming remains active , running quietly in the background and sabotaging progress.

The subconscious mind is incredibly powerful and protective. It creates beliefs in childhood to help us survive emotionally. If you were constantly criticized as a child, your mind may have decided, “If I stay quiet and invisible, I’ll be safe.” If you were abandoned or neglected, it might have concluded, “Don’t trust anyone. Stay distant.” These internal rules helped you cope back then, but they become limiting and damaging later in life. And they won’t shift just because someone tells you, “You are confident now.”

Here’s the hard truth: too many hypnotherapists are not trained correctly and especially not in regression therapy, which is one of two of the major techniques in a professionals hypnotherapists tool box. Many rely solely on scripted suggestions given by their trainers or downloaded from the internt or generic visualizations. These may offer temporary comfort, but they don’t reach the root. Clients are often sent away temporairly feeling good but without addressing the real cause, this change doesn’t last. When the training lacks depth, so do the results.

There are clear signs the root wasn’t reached: the issue returns in another form, emotional connection during trance was weak, or the client couldn’t even identify why they felt the way they did. In some cases, clients are flooded with affirmations that sound nice “You are enough,” “You are safe” but they don’t land, because the subconscious still believes the opposite.

True transformation happens when a well-trained hypnotherapist helps the client access the original wound, feel and release the emotion tied to it, and reframe the belief that was created in that moment. From there, new empowering suggestions can be installednot just layered on top of pain, but built on a clean foundation.

This is the difference between temporary relief and lasting change. Real hypnotherapy doesn’t just suppress symptoms , it transforms them. But without proper training, especially in regression many, practitioners only scratch the surface hoping that something they do will stick with the client .

And unfortunately, many hypnotherapists are graduating from short, superficial certification programs that prioritize scripts over skill. This isn’t just a training gap — it’s a disservice to clients who are genuinely seeking healing.

If hypnotherapy hasn’t worked for you in the past, it doesn’t mean you can’t be helped. It just means you may not have worked with someone who had the right tools. The issue alot of the times isn’t you, it’s often the method, and the training behind it.

Lasting change isn’t magic. It’s a process and it requires depth, and the skill to guide someone to the root.

If you would like to find out how i can help me feel free to contact me to discuss

Sean 07858 112643

The Paradox of Familiarity: How What Feels Safe Can Keep Us Stuck.We are born with only one truth, the familiarity of th...
18/08/2025

The Paradox of Familiarity: How What Feels Safe Can Keep Us Stuck.

We are born with only one truth, the familiarity of the womb. Everything after that is a search to recreate it, even when it harms us.

From the moment we take our first breath, we are thrown into a world of unfamiliarity. Bright lights, sudden cold, strange sounds, it’s all new. But before that moment, there was only one experience we truly knew: the womb. Warm, rhythmic, dark, enclosed. In the womb, everything moved in cycles, in repetition, in patterns that never broke. It was the only home we had, the only world we knew, and it became our first and deepest sense of what “safe” feels like.

We are not born with knowledge. We are not born with words, love, security, with opinions, or with beliefs. We are born with only one thing: familiarity. And it is that first experience of sound, movement, temperature, and containment that teaches us what to trust. The womb is the original version of comfort, and once we leave it, our bodies and subconscious minds spend the rest of our lives trying to find it again.

As we grow, whatever environment surrounds us, whether stable or chaotic, loving, or neglectful becomes our new familiar. The tone of our parent’ voices, the way emotions were expressed or avoided, the rhythms of daily life these early impressions are not judged by whether they are good or bad. They are simply known. And what is known becomes safe, even if it hurts.

This is where the paradox begins. If we were raised in an environment of love, consistency, and care, we learn to seek and recreate those patterns. But if we grew up in unpredictability, rejection, or pain, we still absorb those as normal. As adults, we unconsciously gravitate toward people, situations, and dynamics that echo those early imprints not because they’re healthy, but because they’re familiar. And to the mind shaped by survival, familiarity feels like safety.

This is why we find ourselves stuck in patterns we don’t understand. We repeat relationships that wound us, sabotage opportunities that might expand us, or resist change even when it promises growth. The truth is, we aren’t clinging to what makes us happy, we’re clinging to what we know. Because what we know makes us feel in control. It gives us a story to live inside, even if that story is suffocating us.

And here’s the deeper truth: even the good can become a cage. A loving, structured upbringing can create a fear of disruption. Too much predictability can make risk feel intolerable. Sometimes the comfort zone isn’t toxic, it’s just too tight. Growth asks us to stretch into what we haven’t felt before, to step into the unknown. But the body remembers the safety of the womb, and anything that doesn’t resemble it can feel like a threat.

We are not chasing joy. We are chasing familiarity. And until we recognize that what feels safe might not be safe, we stay asleep to the patterns that hold us back. The work of waking up is the work of seeing the difference. It’s the courage to ask: does this feel right because it’s good for me or just because it’s what I’ve always known?

Familiarity is not the enemy. It gave us our first sense of peace. But it becomes a prison when we let it define our limits. Real safety the kind that leads to healing, expansion, and freedom often begins where familiarity ends. And sometimes, the most loving thing we can do for ourselves is to step beyond what feels safe and walk toward what is true

Break Free from what’s familiar that’s keeping you stuck for good, and live a more confident,, happier, healthier successful life.. I Can Help You!

Sean 07858 112643

Think You Had a Good Childhood? Think Again...Feeling lost, alone is at the heart of every problem, when a child’s funda...
14/08/2025

Think You Had a Good Childhood? Think Again...

Feeling lost, alone is at the heart of every problem, when a child’s fundamental need for connection and safety goes unmet, emotional struggles begin, often unnoticed beneath a seemingly “normal” childhood.

Walk into any therapy session of mine , and you’ll hear a familiar story: client sits down, explains their struggles with anxiety, low self-worth, people-pleasing, smoking , addiction, Weight issues and then casually adds,

“But I had a good childhood, my problem didnt start from there ”

As a global therapist, I have learned to pause here, not to challenge the client’s memory, but to question the lens through which they’re viewing their past.

Because if you’re struggling in adulthood, it didn’t come out of nowhere. In fact, all of your emotional patterns were formed between birth and age seven, during the most sensitive and impressionable stage of your life.

From the moment a child is born, they are biologically programmed to look up to their parents, their mother and father as their sole protectors and sources of safety. This born need to rely on for protection means that when a child feels rejected. alone or isolated, it triggers a fundamental fear,the fear that underlies all emotional, behavioural and habitual problems.

Even if nothing “terrible” happened, that doesn’t mean your childhood was emotionally healthy.

The truth is this: all people have emotional problems. No one escapes childhood without absorbing limiting beliefs, emotional conditioning, or relational patterns. Some adapt by overachieving, others by shutting down. Some become caretakers, others become controllers. The coping strategies differ, but the emotional imprint is universal.

Most adults reflect on their childhood through logic:

“My parents worked hard.”

“They gave me everything I needed.”

“They weren’t abusive.”

These are rational thoughts, and they might even be true. But children don’t perceive the world through reason, they feel it. They don’t interpret emotional absence as, “Mom was stressed,” or “Dad didn’t know how to express himself.”

They internalize it as:

“I’m not good enough.”

“I must of done something wrong "

“It’s not safe to be myself.”

"Something wrong with me " etc etc

To truly understand your childhood, you must view it not through your adult logic, but through the emotional lens of the child you were.

One of the most common ways people avoid emotional truth is through cognitive bypassing. It sounds like:

“My parents did their best.”

“It wasn’t that bad.”

“They didn’t mean to hurt me.”

“Other people had it worse.”

These statements are all logical and they help us stay emotionally safe by keeping us out of touch with the deeper truth: we were hurt. Not always in visible, dramatic ways, but in subtle, chronic ways that shaped our self-worth, attachment style, and emotional regulation.

Cognitive bypassing is a defense mechanism. It protects you from pain. But it also protects you from healing keeping you stuck , blocking anything the therapsit is trying to do

If you’re still stuck in patterns that don’t serve you, it’s time to move beyond explaining your childhood and start feeling it.
Between the ages of 0 and 7, a child’s brain is in a highly suggestible, emotionally absorbent state. They’re not just learning how to walk or talk they’re absorbing emotional patterns, relational dynamics, and beliefs about themselves and the world.

These core imprints don’t come from what your parents said. They come from what you felt over and over again.

Was love consistent or unpredictable?
Were emotions welcomed or shut down?
Did you feel safe to be fully yourself—or did you learn to adapt, shrink, or perform?

Even in homes with no overt trauma, emotional neglect, perfectionism, conditional affection, and lack of validation quietly shape the nervous system and subconscious beliefs.

And all of it starts with parents. All parents have problems. That’s not a criticism, it’s a reality. Most parents carry unhealed wounds of their own. They may have loved you deeply and done their best, but if they never dealt with their own emotional patterns, they likely passed them on unintentionally but powerfully.

This isn’t about blame. It’s about clarity. When you stop defending your parents’ choices and start witnessing how those choices affected you, everything changes.

The truth is, we’ve normalized emotional dysfunction because it’s so widespread. Many people believe unless there was violence, addiction, or obvious neglect, their childhood was “fine.” But trauma isn’t just what happened to you. It’s also what didn’t happen for you.

It’s the love you didn’t feel. The safety you didn’t have. The words you needed but never heard.

So if you’re asking yourself, “Why do I feel this way when nothing bad happened?” the answer might be this:

"Something important didn’t happen"

People talk about their issues in my therapy, telling me what they think the problem is. But consciously, they often don’t know why they feel this way. And that’s because the conscious mind, the thinking, rational part, was shutdown during the original distressing moment. When the nervous system goes into fight, flight, or freeze, the brain doesn’t record logical memory, it records emotion.

You might not remember the moment your needs were dismissed. Or when you learned it wasn’t safe to cry. Or when you had to become the “easy” child to avoid upsetting a stressed parent. But your body does. Your nervous system does.

And your adult self is still operating under those old survival patterns.At the core of all emotional struggles is a younger version of you who felt stuck.

Not necessarily traumatized in the dramatic sense, but overwhelmed. Alone. Misunderstood. Unseen. And without the adult support or emotional presence that would have helped you process it.

That’s how deep emotional wounds form, not always through trauma, but through distress that had nowhere to go.
My Therapy helps you go beyond the surface. It helps you get to the root of your problem and reprocess those experiences where the child within you never got closure. Who never got to speak. Who had to make sense of pain with the limited tools of a developing mind.

When you reconnect and reprocess , the child then finding safety, compassion, validation, you begin to rewire your nervous system. You soften the inner critic. You stop reacting from old fear and begin responding from new clarity.

You stop living the life you built to survive. And you start living from who you really are with the raw confidence you was born with.

So if you're struggling and still believe your childhood was “normal” or “good,” ask yourself this:

Are you remembering it with adult logicor are you willing to feel it through the child’s heart?

Because all people are still carrying emotional imprints from childhood, shaped by environments that didn’t meet their needs, even if no one meant to cause harm.

Your parents had their own trauma. Their own blind spots. Their own pain.And unless they healed it on a subconscious level , they passed it down. That’s not your fault.

But if you want freedom, it is your responsibility.
You don’t need to stay stuck in patterns that were never yours to begin with.

You can break the cycle.

You can feel again.

You can finally become who you were before you learned to be what others needed.

And it starts not with blame, but with truth.

Sean 07858 112643

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