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Just hold my umbrella while I have a midlife crisis.

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Just hold my umbrella while I have a midlife crisis. I have a client who recently said to me that they felt washed up and unable to compete. He is an industry leader in the entertainment business, however his particular area of the business is somewhat technical, and as a result he feels that the technology has moved, and he's been left behind. He worries that he'll be marginalized, fears the obscurity that all in the entertainment world have to battle almost daily, and sees this as a mid life crisis that will end his career.  To be yesterdays news is to be no news at all. In an act of desperation he found himself in a car showroom being sold a bright red sports car, in an effort to recapture his youthful glory. Hence the picture. Pictured beside the Ford GT, if you can draw your he car for one moment, is Bambie, one of our therapists specializing in psychology of mid life changes. She's working on her Phd at present, and supporting her sick baby brother in Prince

ADHD, Education and Children - How hypnotherapy can help.

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We see many children that struggle with ADHD. At Vancouver Hypnotherapy minors always work with a female therapist and we give particular care relating to the way in which the challenges are defined. While ADHD is a good description of a character trait, at Vancouver Hypnotherapy  we do not look at it as disease to be managed by a doctor. The reality is that some children simply learn differently. As a father of three, I have seen the challenges of our learning institutions rather than my children. I find it a little too convenient that in some cases educators who have no medical training whatsoever can label a child ADHD, while few will actually agree on a definition of the condition and fewer still work successfully with those same individuals. Placing a child who learns in a different manner in the care of a doctor, rather than a teacher, is something I simply do not understand. One of my children, when challenged by a teacher who trotted out the ADHD label, went from the sta