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I had a rubbish childhood. Seriously. Really rubbish. You could play a winning game of bingo with the types of abuse I experienced. For many years that defined me. Outwardly I had a successful career as an International Call Centre Consultant. I easily spoke in front of hundreds of people. I advised large global organisations how to improve their business. I had a wonderful husband and, in time, an amazing daughter. Everything was perfect. Except me. I wasn't perfect. I was broken. 

Then one day my daughter started asking me if I was happy. No matter how many times I said "Yes" she kept asking. I decided I was not going to let my screw ups affect her. 

Someone told me about a Cognitive Hypnotherapist in Harley Street called Trevor Silvester who could help me in just a few sessions. "Ha!" I thought "Maybe that's true for other people but I bet he's never had anyone as screwed up as me"

Turns out it was true. By the third session I was answering "yes" honestly when my daughter asked if I was happy. She doesn't ask any more. 

I also decided I had to learn how to do this. It was as close to magic as anything I had encountered. I started on a course in Regents University in London. 10 months later I was a qualified Cognitive Hypnotherapist. 6 months later I went full time with my own practice in Dundee, Scotland. After another 6 months I also began to rent an office in Aberdeen. My 2000+ followers on Twitter started saying they wished we lived closer; they wanted my help. So I started doing therapy over Skype and Facetime. Why should geography stop people getting my help? I now have clients all over the world from Dubai to Brazil, to the USA, to all over the UK. 

I began to see a pattern with my clients. Things like the fight, flight, freeze response seemed incredibly out of date. It appeared that our subconscious was working on rules for survival that came from the caveman days. I realised that by clearing these rules out of the way I could clear my client's problems in a little as 2 to 3 sessions.  

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The Caveman Rules of Survival

Your brain needs a software upgrade. It’s still following rules for survival based on the caveman days. Read this book to discover why the rules are there and change your programming to live the life you want.

This is a fantastic book. It is simple, straight to the point, and offers great advice for people wishing to feel happy and get more in control of their lives Dr David Hamilton, Best Selling author


I enjoyed this book immensely; it offers sensible advice and says new things in an accessible way. All my research is geared towards helping us understand why we are as we are, and why we act the way we do, and “The caveman rules” clearly helps us to do those things. It could be as big as “Emotional intelligence”! Professor Trevor Harley, C. Psychol., FBPsSChair of Cognitive PsychologyUniversity of Dundee

"No psycho babble !!! Brilliant book and highly effective" Kerry Mathews

"A Haynes manual for your mind!" David Mitchell

 "It is remarkably jargon free, giving straightforward simple explanations for what are complex psychological situations." Robert Hill