Taking Back Control | @caroline-cavanagh | The Anxiety Alchemist

1 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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In this segment, hypnotherapist Caroline Cavanagh references Einstein's famous quote that a problem cannot be solved with the same consciousness that created it, using it to illustrate the core of her therapeutic approach. She explains that clients often remain stuck because they view issues from a single, entrenched perspective. By introducing new angles, awareness, or learning—through guided questioning and reframing—she helps clients see problems differently. This shift creates a sense of choice, restores personal control, and consequently reduces anxiety. The monologue emphasizes the transformative power of perspective change facilitated by hypnotherapy.

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There's a lovely quote of Einstein that's, you can't solve a problem with the same consciousness that created it. And that really means that if you keep looking at the same problem, you keep seeing the same thing. You need to change perspective, either look at it from a different angle or bring in some new awareness, some new learning. And that very much is my role as a hypnotherapist. You find, or my client should we say, you wouldn't be able to look at things in a different way because you're so used to looking at it in that way. Whereas I can sit there and go, yeah, but have you thought about this? Or have you wondered about it from this angle? And the amount of times people go, oh, I've never thought about it from that way. And as soon as you have seen it that way, you can never not see it that way again. And that gives you choice, and when you have choice, you're taking back control, and when you take back control, anxiety reduces.