Angie towse
I didn't know I was living in a box until I stepped
out of it.
For over ten years I ran an award-winning music and culture PR agency, with offices in London and Berlin. From the outside, it looked like a great life. Inside, I was crashing every weekend, waking up tired after a full night's sleep, and quietly cutting back on everything that made life fun.
Then I became properly ill. There was pain, brain fog, and exhaustion so deep I sometimes struggled to hold a conversation. I tried doctors, diets, supplements, all of it, and I was close to stepping back from the business I'd built.
A friend suggested hypnotherapy. I thought it was for quitting smoking or getting over a fear of spiders. I gave it a go anyway, as a last attempt. And it changed everything.
Lighter. Clearer. Easier to move.
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Lighter. Clearer. Easier to move. 〰️
Getting well was the start. What surprised me was what came next. I'd been living by a set of rules I'd never noticed: what work had to look like, where I had to live, what a sensible life was. Once I could see them, I started stepping past them.
Now I live between London and Lisbon and work from wherever I am. I travel far more than I ever thought I could. I look after myself, and I still love a night of dancing. These days I wake up the next morning feeling great. Feeling well and enjoying life, is not longer a trade-off, and I feel good about both.
That experience is why I trained, first to Advanced and then to Masters level in clinical hypnotherapy, alongside NLP and coaching. Twenty years in music and events also means I know about ambition, pressure and the pull of always being on.
I'm not here to suggest anyone lives like me. Your box will look different, and you probably can't see all of it yet. That's what we find together. Then we work out what you want to do with all that space, and get you there.
Autopilot is brilliant, until it takes you somewhere you didn't choose.
It's how you drive home after a long day and barely remember the journey. But it only knows the routes it was given. When it keeps landing you in the same place (the yes before you've decided, the knot before the meeting), gripping the controls harder won't help. Giving it a new destination will.
NLP
Neuro-linguistic programming.
The part I love most.
Think of NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) as opening the settings on your phone. Most of us never look; we live with the defaults. But every default was set at some point, often years ago. The racing heart before you speak up in a meeting. The automatic "sorry". The picture of everything going wrong before you've hit send. Each one is a signal your mind sends your body, not only in words, but in images, tone and the feeling in your chest.
You've updated these signals before without noticing: a new route home after the office moved, your first week driving on the other side of the road, the colleague whose name used to tighten your shoulders and now just doesn't. NLP does the same thing on purpose, for the patterns you're ready to change.
Hypnotherapy today is a deeply relaxed, focused state where you're aware and in control throughout. In that state, old patterns are easier to update, so the changes we've worked on in conversation settle in at a deeper level.
It often feels like the most relaxed you've been in a long time. And however your mind works is exactly right for this. Some people see pictures, some hear words, others notice a feeling or simply know. All of it works.
Hypnotherapy
For much more than smoking and spiders.
Coaching
What keeps it all pointed at what you want.
Coaching keeps everything pointed at what you want, and makes sure it shows up in your everyday life. We start by getting clear on where you're heading, and we keep checking in on it as things change.
You're the expert on your own life. I bring the tools, the structure and a fresh way of looking at things, and you leave each session with something you can use straight away.