RTT
Tell Yourself a Better Lie
Her book about the RTT method. It shows how the stories we tell ourselves shape our lives, and how to edit those stories to change your life, with exercises you can do at home.
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Marisa Peer and Rapid Transformational Therapy
The therapist who created RTT, the method at the heart of my sessions: her main ideas, why RTT works the way it does, and her books.
Who is Marisa Peer?
Marisa Peer is a British therapist, speaker and author who has worked with clients for more than 30 years. Combining what she found worked best from hypnotherapy, psychotherapy, neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), she developed Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT), and later founded a school that trains RTT practitioners around the world.
I trained in her method and use it in my RTT sessions. Her message is simple and powerful: most of our problems grow from one painful belief, that we are not enough, and that belief can be changed.
Marisa Peer's main ideas
These ideas run through her books, talks and the RTT method itself.
I am enough
Peer teaches that the deepest wound most people carry is the feeling of not being enough. Her best-known practice is to write “I am enough” where you'll see it every day, like on your mirror, and say it until it feels true.
Your mind does what it thinks you want
Your mind is always trying to protect you and give you what it believes you want, based on the words and pictures you give it. Give it new instructions and it follows them.
Words and pictures matter
Phrases like “I'm dying for a cigarette” or “this is killing me” are heard literally by the mind. Choosing kinder, clearer words changes how you feel and act.
Make the unfamiliar familiar
The mind is drawn to what is familiar and resists what is unfamiliar. Change sticks when the new behaviour starts to feel familiar and the old habit starts to feel strange.
Moving toward pleasure, away from pain
The mind moves away from what it links with pain and toward what it links with pleasure. In RTT we deliberately link pain to the old habit and pleasure to the change.
Feelings follow thoughts
The way you talk to yourself shapes how you feel. Change the inner story, and the feelings follow.
Tell yourself a better story
Many of the stories we tell ourselves (“I'm not lovable”, “I always fail”) were formed in childhood and aren't true. You can choose a more truthful, more helpful story.
How an RTT session works
RTT is designed to get to the root of an issue quickly, often in one to three sessions. This is the shape of a session with me:
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Free call and intake
We talk about what you want to change, and you complete a short form so I can prepare.
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Hypnosis
I guide you into a relaxed, focused state. You're aware and in control throughout.
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Regression to the root
Your mind takes us back to a few scenes connected to the issue, often from childhood. We look at what you decided about yourself then.
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Understanding and release
As an adult, you see those moments differently. The old belief loses its emotional charge.
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Transformation
I install new, empowering beliefs that fit who you are now.
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Your 21-day recording
You get a personal recording to listen to every day for at least 21 days, so the change becomes familiar and lasting.
Marisa Peer's books, and what each one is about
If you read one, read Tell Yourself a Better Lie; it explains RTT in her own words. I Am Enough is the gentlest place to start.
Self-worth
I Am Enough
The book behind her “I Am Enough” movement. It explores why so many people feel not enough, and how three simple words, repeated daily, can begin to change that.
Confidence
Ultimate Confidence
A practical guide to self-esteem and confidence: how to build self-love and self-worth, quiet the inner critic and feel good about yourself every day.
Weight & eating
You Can Be Thin
Her approach to weight: rather than dieting, it shows how to change your feelings and associations around food so healthy choices become natural.
Ageing well
You Can Be Younger
Peer's ideas on how mindset, beliefs and lifestyle affect how we age, and how to use the subconscious mind to feel younger.
Fertility
Trying to Get Pregnant (and Succeeding)
A supportive book on reducing stress and limiting beliefs while trying to conceive, to be used alongside medical fertility care.
RTT is a complementary therapy. It can work alongside medical or psychological care, never in place of it.
Experience RTT for yourself
In a free 20-minute call we'll talk about what you'd like to change, and whether an RTT session is the right next step.