Thought Compass
@thoughtcompass.bsky.social
Navigate your thoughts to embrace your full potential. I specialise in helping you overcome performance anxiety, limiting beliefs, and shame. Let’s rewrite the script and unlock your best self. www.thoughtcompass.co.uk #Hypnotherapy
That voice saying you're "not creative enough"?
It's the same voice that's been gatekeeping your joy since childhood. Time for new management.
It's the same voice that's been gatekeeping your joy since childhood. Time for new management.
November 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
That voice saying you're "not creative enough"?
It's the same voice that's been gatekeeping your joy since childhood. Time for new management.
It's the same voice that's been gatekeeping your joy since childhood. Time for new management.
Your breathing is a conversation between your conscious and unconscious mind.
Change the conversation, change the experience.
Change the conversation, change the experience.
November 16, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Your breathing is a conversation between your conscious and unconscious mind.
Change the conversation, change the experience.
Change the conversation, change the experience.
The green room of readiness – you've been waiting there longer than the performance requires.
Sometimes the show starts when you walk through the door.
Sometimes the show starts when you walk through the door.
November 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The green room of readiness – you've been waiting there longer than the performance requires.
Sometimes the show starts when you walk through the door.
Sometimes the show starts when you walk through the door.
How would it be if you stopped waiting for external permission to want what you want?
If you just … gave it to yourself?
If you just … gave it to yourself?
November 15, 2025 at 8:01 AM
How would it be if you stopped waiting for external permission to want what you want?
If you just … gave it to yourself?
If you just … gave it to yourself?
Cognitive behavioural hypnotherapy works with both the story (CBT) and the nervous system response to that story (hypnosis).
Treating the whole picture.
Treating the whole picture.
November 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Cognitive behavioural hypnotherapy works with both the story (CBT) and the nervous system response to that story (hypnosis).
Treating the whole picture.
Treating the whole picture.
The part of you that feels like it doesn't belong?
It's often the part that's most authentically you, trying to find its place.
It's often the part that's most authentically you, trying to find its place.
November 14, 2025 at 8:01 AM
The part of you that feels like it doesn't belong?
It's often the part that's most authentically you, trying to find its place.
It's often the part that's most authentically you, trying to find its place.
Creativity as recovery: every time you make something, you remember you have agency.
That you can shape your world, even in small ways.
That you can shape your world, even in small ways.
November 13, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Creativity as recovery: every time you make something, you remember you have agency.
That you can shape your world, even in small ways.
That you can shape your world, even in small ways.
Your thoughts aren't facts – they're interpretations of facts.
And interpretations can always be … well, reinterpreted.
And interpretations can always be … well, reinterpreted.
November 13, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Your thoughts aren't facts – they're interpretations of facts.
And interpretations can always be … well, reinterpreted.
And interpretations can always be … well, reinterpreted.
Stage directions for shame:
Enter quietly. Sit for a moment. Notice what it came to tell you.
Exit without taking up residence.
Enter quietly. Sit for a moment. Notice what it came to tell you.
Exit without taking up residence.
November 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Stage directions for shame:
Enter quietly. Sit for a moment. Notice what it came to tell you.
Exit without taking up residence.
Enter quietly. Sit for a moment. Notice what it came to tell you.
Exit without taking up residence.
The nervous system doesn't understand irony. When you rehearse failure in your mind, it prepares for actual failure.
Rehearse success instead.
Rehearse success instead.
November 12, 2025 at 8:01 AM
The nervous system doesn't understand irony. When you rehearse failure in your mind, it prepares for actual failure.
Rehearse success instead.
Rehearse success instead.
There's a particular exhaustion that comes from performing readiness instead of just beginning.
Beginning is its own form of readiness.
Beginning is its own form of readiness.
November 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
There's a particular exhaustion that comes from performing readiness instead of just beginning.
Beginning is its own form of readiness.
Beginning is its own form of readiness.
What’s all the rush?
The mind is quick to call us lazy, stuck, or behind when progress doesn’t show up fast enough.
But not everything moves on a deadline—and not everything should.
The mind is quick to call us lazy, stuck, or behind when progress doesn’t show up fast enough.
But not everything moves on a deadline—and not everything should.
November 11, 2025 at 9:01 AM
What’s all the rush?
The mind is quick to call us lazy, stuck, or behind when progress doesn’t show up fast enough.
But not everything moves on a deadline—and not everything should.
The mind is quick to call us lazy, stuck, or behind when progress doesn’t show up fast enough.
But not everything moves on a deadline—and not everything should.
CBT doesn't tell you your feelings are wrong.
It helps you trace them back to the thoughts that created them, then gives you choices.
It helps you trace them back to the thoughts that created them, then gives you choices.
November 11, 2025 at 8:01 AM
CBT doesn't tell you your feelings are wrong.
It helps you trace them back to the thoughts that created them, then gives you choices.
It helps you trace them back to the thoughts that created them, then gives you choices.
The scripts about what's possible for people like you – they were written by people with different circumstances than yours.
Time for a rewrite.
Time for a rewrite.
November 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The scripts about what's possible for people like you – they were written by people with different circumstances than yours.
Time for a rewrite.
Time for a rewrite.
Your inner artist doesn't need permission from the outside world.
But it needs attention from you.
But it needs attention from you.
November 10, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Your inner artist doesn't need permission from the outside world.
But it needs attention from you.
But it needs attention from you.
Hypnotherapy research shows it works by accessing the same brain states you enter naturally during daydreaming or deep focus.
Science meeting ancient wisdom.
Science meeting ancient wisdom.
November 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Hypnotherapy research shows it works by accessing the same brain states you enter naturally during daydreaming or deep focus.
Science meeting ancient wisdom.
Science meeting ancient wisdom.
The voice that says you're "too much" – check where you learnt that.
Usually from people who couldn't hold space for their own intensity.
Usually from people who couldn't hold space for their own intensity.
November 9, 2025 at 8:01 AM
The voice that says you're "too much" – check where you learnt that.
Usually from people who couldn't hold space for their own intensity.
Usually from people who couldn't hold space for their own intensity.
That feeling of being an imposter in your own life?
It's usually the sign you're closest to who you really are underneath all the adaptations.
It's usually the sign you're closest to who you really are underneath all the adaptations.
November 8, 2025 at 4:01 PM
That feeling of being an imposter in your own life?
It's usually the sign you're closest to who you really are underneath all the adaptations.
It's usually the sign you're closest to who you really are underneath all the adaptations.
Your breathing changes before your thoughts do.
The nervous system speaks in sensations first, words second. Start there.
The nervous system speaks in sensations first, words second. Start there.
November 8, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Your breathing changes before your thoughts do.
The nervous system speaks in sensations first, words second. Start there.
The nervous system speaks in sensations first, words second. Start there.
The mask you wear to belong – it works until it becomes so comfortable you forget you're wearing it.
Until it starts feeling heavy.
Until it starts feeling heavy.
November 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The mask you wear to belong – it works until it becomes so comfortable you forget you're wearing it.
Until it starts feeling heavy.
Until it starts feeling heavy.
Creativity as medicine: making something reminds your nervous system that you have agency.
That you can shape your world, even in small ways.
That you can shape your world, even in small ways.
November 7, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Creativity as medicine: making something reminds your nervous system that you have agency.
That you can shape your world, even in small ways.
That you can shape your world, even in small ways.
CBT shows you that between what happens and how you feel about it, there's a thought.
Change the thought, change the feeling.
Change the thought, change the feeling.
November 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM
CBT shows you that between what happens and how you feel about it, there's a thought.
Change the thought, change the feeling.
Change the thought, change the feeling.
The stories we tell about why we can't – they're so convincing because they've had years of rehearsal.
Time for some new material.
Time for some new material.
November 6, 2025 at 8:01 AM
The stories we tell about why we can't – they're so convincing because they've had years of rehearsal.
Time for some new material.
Time for some new material.
Your nervous system doesn't distinguish between imagined rejection and real rejection.
Both get the same fight-or-flight response.
Choose your imaginings wisely.
Both get the same fight-or-flight response.
Choose your imaginings wisely.
November 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Your nervous system doesn't distinguish between imagined rejection and real rejection.
Both get the same fight-or-flight response.
Choose your imaginings wisely.
Both get the same fight-or-flight response.
Choose your imaginings wisely.
That version of yourself you're trying to become?
They're not in the future. They're here now, waiting for you to stop performing and start being.
They're not in the future. They're here now, waiting for you to stop performing and start being.
November 5, 2025 at 8:01 AM
That version of yourself you're trying to become?
They're not in the future. They're here now, waiting for you to stop performing and start being.
They're not in the future. They're here now, waiting for you to stop performing and start being.