“If we hope to create a non-violent world where respect and kindness replace fear and hatred, we must begin with how we treat each other at the beginning of life. For that is where our deepest patterns are set. From these roots grow fear and alienation,—or love and trust.”
Suzanne Arms
Hi, my name is Irsha. My company name is Caring Therapies. I created this name as many people I came across or have worked with, used to say 'you are so caring'. So I thought I have people say it so often so I might as well call my company Caring Therapies. 1.Employment and experiences To tell you a bit about my background experience: I used to be an interpretor and a secretary for a law firm and also studied fashion in London. I then decided to move from London as life over there was hectic and people were rushing around and to many cars and too much traffic. I then choose to move to Nottingham. My kids were young at that time and when I had an opportunity and became a textile tutor in the community. I realised that my passion was more about helping the people in the community. So I decided to help out with different charity organisation. I helped homeless women and children living in refuges and talked to young teenagers who were in trouble in schools and worked with different schools and colleges. I also became a child line counsellor with the NSPCC and victim support volunteer. I then went on and worked for connections as a personal advisor. And also had the privilege of working with the elderly in their homes. .Why I became a hypnotherapist? What I found was that a lot of young and old people were under a lot of stress and I just wanted to find a natural cure for these stress symptoms, as waving a magic wand and wishing everyone’s stress would go away was not going to happen; so I studied hypnotherapy. After reading about Hypnotherapy and the potential it has to help us overcome many problems, I then decided to learn this skill and become a hypnotherapist; . I eventually qualified and became a member of the General Hypnotherapy Council. I really enjoyed the course and found it amazing how our bodies can relax by using techniques and positive affirmations. What really amazed me was the easibirthing training through hypnotherapy. How it can turn a pregnant woman’s life around in giving a safe comfortable and easy birth. So after completing and passing the course I became a member of the National College of Hypnosis & Psychotherapy and a qualified birthing practitioner. Whilst my speciality is easibirthing®, I have worked with a number of people with a variety of symptoms, and so I am confident and comfortable in helping treat different issues such as anxiety disorders, pain management, depression, smoking, and relaxation-related problems too, to name a few. Why I was so passionate and intrigued by easy birthing was a bit of my personal experience of life. I grew up in a family of 7, my mum had two twins. At that time I was very young and could not help hearing my mother’s pain in the next room. During training in easibirthing sessions I read about the fear of childbirth called tokophobia and many girls grow up with this fear of giving birth. Even though I was worried at the time of my pregnancy, I myself was fortunate to have 3 natural births. It was painful but I did not need any interventions of doctors drugs gas or caesareans; But what I wished for now is if only I knew of easibirthing then, I could have cherished those moments of giving birth. And would have been more calm, confident and in control. Grantly Dick Read’s cycle To explain in simple terms what a woman’s body goes through in pregnancy is to look at Dr Grantly Dick Read’s cycle developed in 1933 – after he conclude what was missing in easy comfortable birth was fear. What happens is fear causes arteries leading to the uterus to constrict pain and when there is no fear, the muscles relax. When a women is fearful and the negative messages received about birth are processed as real her body sends messages as its not safe to go into labour so the flight and fight mechanism of the body kicks in or when she is anxious and in fear the same thing happens, and so intervention is started which is the biggest reason for caesareans? I started off by volunteering; and some of the organisations I have worked for include Childline, Victim Support Nottinghamshire, Women’s Aid, and the Youth Offending Team, to name a few. Afterwards, I gained employment as a teaching assistant and textile lecturer, and part of the work meant going out to different homeless shelters and hostels, and working with pregnant teenagers, drug addicts, vulnerable adults, and teenagers with learning disabilities. My job as a textile tutor also meant that I had to go into the community (working with Asian women), utilising her language skills to reach out, communicate with, and teach. . After gaining a sponsorship from Nottingham Connexions, I was trained to become a personal advisor for teenagers and young adults, gaining qualifications in Career Guidance. And, being trilingual, I often work as an interpreter with ante-natal and mental health clinics After reading about Hypnotherapy and the potential it has to help us overcome many problems, I then decided to learn this skill and become a hypnotherapist; eventually qualifying with the General Hypnotherapy Council. Afterwards, I was drawn towards the specialist easibirthing® programme, as working with pregnant teenagers in the past meant that she had heard many of their fears and agitations, and an overwhelming one was painful labour. I thus decided to learn this skill so that I can bring more natural, easy, and pain-free childbirths to the community. The easibirthing® programme also attracted me because it meant I could bring together mother, father and baby in a more therapeutic bonding process. 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