This week's podcast and Happy Appy theme is self-care.

This week we talked to Transformational Coach Liam Hand about self-care, why it's so important and what self-care techniques he uses with his clients and himself to look after his clients and his own mental health and wellbeing.

Liam describes himself as a transformational coach, aiming to help people change, release what has been holding them back, and move towards their true potential.

His focus is on helping people to release fear and anxiety as quickly as possible and to build real confidence and self-esteem. To make huge, rapid shifts in their mindset and to discover resilience by accessing their own inner resources.

Liam uses a combination of coaching and therapy, combining hypnotherapy with other fast techniques and strategies such as TFT (Thought Field Therapy) tapping and a variety of coaching approaches from NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming).

Liam talked about always keeping things as simple and as practical as possible, his view is that 'simple gets done' so finding simple techniques and strategies are the most effective way for people to incorporate them into their routines. When it comes to self-care, he feels consistency is more important than the length of time you practice.

You can find out more about Liam on his website: www.liamhand.com and @liamhandcoaching on Instagram and on Facebook: Liam Hand Coaching.

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