Recently featured in Belle About Town on common phobias.
Most people don’t struggle because the fear is strong.
They struggle because they’ve lived with it for so long it feels normal.
That’s what really needs to change.
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#Phobias #Anxiety #MentalHealth
Just out in Hello Magazine.
Working with a journalist to help her overcome a lifelong fear of spiders.
Fear isn’t really about the thing itself, it’s about how the mind has learned to respond.
Change the pattern, and the response can change too.
Full piece here:
www.hellomagazine.com/healthandbea...
Watch a video on how to do it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxST...
Most people are already doing this every day,
A song 🎶
A smell
A thought 🧠
…and your state changes instantly.
That’s not random.
Most people are being controlled by it.
This shows you how to use it deliberately 👇
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#MentalHealth #Anxiety
Do you have a strange or unusual phobia?
Not the obvious ones.
Something that doesn’t make sense to others, but still affects your life.
We’re looking for people for a filmed documentary project.
No pressure. No forcing anything.
Want it gone? DM me.
#phobia #documentary #oddfears
I was asked to contribute to a piece on common fears.
What’s interesting isn’t the fears…
It’s the pattern behind them 🧠
Change the pattern, and everything else starts to shift.
Read more:
www.lifewithsonia.com/the-five-mos...
#Fear #Psychology #Mindset
"I don’t believe I can change my fear of spiders."
9 minutes later… she was holding one 🕷️
No scripts. No actors. Just real change, happening live.👉 Could you do this?
Watch here 👇
youtu.be/rohLaguMSjI
Nice to be featured in this piece on common phobias.
🕷️ ✈️ 🏔️
Most fears aren’t random.
They’re learned patterns.
Which means they can be changed.
Read here 👇
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Lancashire Times
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Cumbria Times
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North East Post
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📰 My comments on common fears have been featured across several regional publications.
The article explores why certain fears develop and why they can sometimes persist for years.
Yorkshire Times
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#Fear #Phobias #MentalHealth #Psychology
🌍 Face Your Fears is now available worldwide
🇬🇧 English
🇵🇱 Polish – Fobie Pokonaj Je
🇵🇹 Portuguese – Enfrenta Os Teus Medos
🇪🇸 Spanish – Enfrenta Tus Miedos
Fear shrinks lives.
Understanding it expands them.
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#FaceYourFears #OvercomeFear #Phobias #Anxiety
#Spiders. #Flying. #Heights. #Dogs. Enclosed spaces.
These are among the most common phobias, and they can quietly shape everyday life far more than people realise.
In my latest article for Psychreg.
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I was recently asked by Hello! Magazine to comment on reports that Queen Camilla has both a fear of flying ✈️ and a fear of needles 💉.
Both are extremely common fears.
Read the article here:
www.hellomagazine.com/royalty/8887...
#FearOfFlying
I was on BBC Radio Wales yesterday discussing unusual phobias.
The conversation started with Mark Williams and his fear of tea bags
Phobias can develop around almost anything when the brain links it with danger.
▶️ My clip starts at 1:35:27
🔗 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Nice to see Face Your Fears featured in another World Book Day reading list alongside a range of eclectic books.
Good to see phobias and anxiety getting a mention too.
#fear #phobia #anxiety
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Phobias are not random. They have a structure. 🧠
In this new video, phobia specialist Christopher Paul Jones reveals the 4 components that keep a phobia stuck:
youtu.be/jOa_WLGK750
Face Your Fears included in a curated World Book Day selection.
Fear quietly limits potential. Address it and everything shifts.
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Spoke yesterday on BBC Radio London with Raffaella Coleman on Sounds of the City.
The station reaches 612,000 weekly listeners.
We discussed why phobias follow a structure. Change the internal imagery, change the emotional response.
I come in at 1:14:07.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
If you want to stop Fear stop asking "Why" and start asking "How."
I break down the 7 steps to switching off fear in my latest video.
Watch here: youtu.be/DglDkkL6ncY?...
Phobias aren’t irrational.
They’re patterned. 🧠
I shared the 7-step system I use to dismantle fear at its root.
Fear has a recipe.
Change the recipe, change the response. 🧩
Article below.
checklists.co.uk/health/wellb...
Phobias aren’t irrational.
They’re patterned. 🧠
I shared the 7-step system I use to dismantle fear at its root.
Fear has a recipe.
Change the recipe, change the response. 🧩
Article below.
checklists.co.uk/health/wellb...
He saved his boss on 9/11.
the trauma controlled his life.
After working with phobia specialist Christopher Paul Jones online, Danny says he feels like “a different person” and has had his best September in 20 years.
He shares his full story here: youtu.be/_eNfzEAXOsk
🧠 Featured in Executive Support Magazine discussing how fear quietly limits careers through hesitation and overthinking, not failure.
Removing fear is not about confidence hacks, it is about understanding what drives the reaction.
executivesupportmagazine.com/removing-fea...
Recently featured in Technologgie writing about workplace stress and the fear patterns that affect behaviour at work.
From judgement to fear of mistakes, these issues show up more often than people
realise. technologgie.com/beating-work...
Fear at work is rarely about ability.
It is usually about learned patterns of thought and response.
I wrote about career fear and how it holds people back for Kent Business Radio.
www.kentbusinessradio.co.uk/career-fear/
one of the other standout moments for 2025,
Sunny day, beer garden full, and I turned up with Pogo the tarantula, followed by a camera crew filming
One woman went from terrified to holding it in about ten minutes.
A great moment, and even better to catch it on film.
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One of last year’s highlights was appearing on the Vanessa TV show.
Interviewed by Vanessa Feltz, alongside Sue Pollard of Hi-de-Hi! fame.
A reminder that so many fears are far more common than we think.
youtu.be/TFPt3pXU7N0
#tv #Vanessa
My book #FaceyourFears is featuring in a roundup of last-minute #Christmas gifts.
Which proves you don’t actually have to wait until January to start feeling different.
Can be a gift for someone else.
Or yourself. No announcements required.
neconnected.co.uk/last-minute-...
Join Noel McDermott and the Wellbeing Show tomorrow, Dec 17th at 9PM GMT with guest Christopher Paul Jones, Harley Street phobia expert and author of 'Face your Fears - 7 steps to conquering phobias and anxiety!
Watch live on Facebook & YouTube. 📺
“I spend Christmas alone because of my weird phobia”
A few years ago I worked with a woman whose fear of tinsel meant she spent several #Christmases alone.
So-called “weird” #phobias can quietly take over lives,
Featured in the Daily Mirror.
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