The Stress Prohibited Summit Blog Series: Kristy Kilcup
The Stress Prohibited Summit Blog Series:5
This week it is time to put another one of the fabulous contributors to The Stress Prohibited Summit in the spotlight. With such a wealth of valuable information and insights shared, it made perfect sense to create a blog series, so this exceptional advice could be recorded and used by many more of you in the future. Welcome to blog number five!
Kristy Kilcup
Kristy specialises in helping her clients overcome struggles with their health, sense of self-worth and self-confidence, through various scientific methodologies such as Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Hypnotherapy, Stress Management, and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
"I understand how fear, anxiety and stress can seemingly show up and take over. Sometimes it sneaks up on you by slowing you down, making you extra cautious and aware, while other times it immediately stops you in your tracks.”
As a transformation coach and hypnotherapist, she helps her clients understand the root cause behind the fear, release the parts of them that no longer want to experience the anxiety, and adopt new coping strategies.
She has worked with clients who have experienced a range of trauma, helping them to break free of their armour and the old protective mechanisms that no longer serve them. Her ultimate aim is to shed light on how to close the gap between fear and action, reducing the time her clients spend living with anxiety.
Kristy has experienced her own episodes of anxiety, with panic attacks so frequent and intense that they would sometimes start while she was sleeping, waking her up. Overcoming this has armed her with a wealth of knowledge and top tips to help you to overcome your anxiety too:
Kristy’s top tips
1. Pay very close attention to your physiology. How you feel will help you realise if you have been emotionally triggered so you can take control of your responses
2. Step back and assess where these feelings originated along your timeline. Understand that your feelings (aka emotional triggers) are not the result of that particular moment. You have an attachment to an event that occurred in your past, and it's that past event that you need to link to your current emotional state. In doing so, you can recognise that the reason why you are so sad, frustrated, or angry is not because of the present moment but because of how you felt in the past. That awareness gives you the power to diffuse the intensity of your feelings felt in the present moment.
3. Identify that you get to control your emotions' ‘intensity volume’, thereby controlling your emotional response. Now that you recognise you have been triggered and why your feelings are so intense, you can focus on breathing, calming down and taking rational action rather than an irrational reaction to the situation at hand.
Tools, resources and links
Kristy offers fantastic tools to help her clients overcome the feelings of fear, shame, guilt and remorse that has them feeling overwhelmed, scared, alone, and anxious.
She helps her clients understand fear and anxiety, providing them with real experiential exercises to participate in, allowing them to feel what happens when they work through an issue that stirs emotion. This gives them access to a new set of tools so that when they are suffering, they can implement what they have learned.
Watch Kristy’s intervention FREE on the Stress Prohibited Summit platform:
Contact Kristy on Facebook, Instagram, or over at her website, to learn more about how she can help you.
Kristy also offers a free hypnotic transformation audio recording here.
*While this is the most amazing gift, it is not a good resource for those with epilepsy and psychosis as it can induce seizures or symptoms of psychosis."