Cover of Cut the Crap and Feel Amazing by Ailsa Frank

Cut the Crap and Feel Amazing

Ailsa Frank provides you with the knowledge and tools you need to take control of your life and ensure that it follows a more positive direction - work, relationships, health, finance, finding love and more.

Paperback · Published by Hay House

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“A dip-in, no-nonsense guide to shedding habits that are holding you back.”

Marie Claire Magazine

Description

Have you ever felt stuck or unmotivated about life? Are there things you want to do or dreams you want to achieve, but you don’t know how to get started or how to reach your goals? In Cut the Crap and Feel Amazing, experienced hypnotherapist Ailsa Frank provides you with the knowledge and tools you need to take control of your life and ensure that it follows a more positive direction. It is the direction in which you want it to go. The techniques described in this book will help you to cut out the negative habits in your life and make improvements where they are needed: work, relationships, health, finance, finding love and more. Making regular small changes to your mindset will enable you to make bigger changes in your life. You don’t need to know your whole life plan, you just need to focus on one small thing to get yourself started. Cut the Crap and Feel Amazing offers a helping hand to get you on track and keep your life moving forward in a positive direction.

Easy to read, effortless to navigate with chapter summaries, step by step tips and motivational techniques to make you more successful with an 'I can do it' attitude. Written with common sense guidance, client stories and great anecdotes to help you see how you too can get into the AMAZING zone. Experienced hypnotherapist Ailsa Frank provides you with the tools you need to be able to take control of your life.

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About the book

Published in the UK in 2017 by Hay House, Cut the Crap and Feel Amazing is Ailsa Frank’s practical guide for readers who feel stuck, unmotivated or unsure how to begin changing their lives.

The book explores negative habits and everyday pressures across work, relationships, health, money, finding love, parenting, stress and loss. Its central approach is to begin with one useful change, build a more positive mindset and keep moving in the direction you want your life to take.

Chapter summaries, step-by-step tips, motivational techniques, client stories and anecdotes make the paperback easy to revisit when a particular part of life needs attention.

Areas explored

  • Releasing fears, worries and rigid negative thinking
  • Improving relationships, parenting and communication
  • Building motivation, confidence and a sense of accomplishment
  • Managing stress, health, habits, money and debt more constructively
  • Moving forward after heartache, bereavement, divorce or loss
  • Creating a life that feels more positive and personally meaningful

Inside the paperback

  1. Get into the AMAZING zone Rise above negative thinking and encourage your mind to look for constructive solutions.
  2. SMILE Use smiling to strengthen positive feelings and the AMAZING-zone mindset.
  3. Cut the crap and let go of worries Loosen repetitive thoughts, anxiety and trapped feelings about the past.
  4. Choices and decisions Make everyday decisions that place life on a more positive course.
  5. I can do it Replace limiting, rigid thinking with motivation and action.
  6. Money and wealth Make more constructive use of money.
  7. Debt Understand how to take greater control of debt.
  8. AMAZING money stories Examples and techniques intended to encourage more positive financial thinking.
  9. Relationships Understand other people and build greater harmony with partners, colleagues and friends.
  10. Relationship rules Use simple principles to support more positive relationships.
  11. Stress, rest and relaxation Regain perspective on stress and make room for rest.
  12. Health Support wellbeing and manage health issues more constructively.
  13. Addictions and obsessions Examine habits involving alcohol, food, gambling, shopping, smoking, technology, work and other compulsions.
  14. Heartache, bereavement, divorce and loss Move the mind forward after loss and begin seeing a positive future.
  15. Finding love Move on from the past and reconnect with your true self.
  16. Parenting Communicate with children in ways that support a lasting relationship.
  17. Cut the excuses and feel at home in your life Let go of excuses and become more selective about what belongs in your life.

Reviews of the book

“Packed with simple ways to beat stress, meet your goals and generally feel good.”

Health & Fitness Magazine

“The knowledge and tools you need to head in a positive direction.”

Woman’s Weekly Magazine

“The book kick-started my journey to joy.”

Michelle Reeves

“Long-term fretting can play havoc with your health.” The feature drew on ten tips from the book.”

Amanda Riley-Jones, Bella Magazine

“Loved the book’s simple techniques for rising above drama and negativity and reframing the past as useful learning.”

Michelle, Bod for Tea

“Very clearly set out, easy to read and logical,” with practical encouragement to stop making excuses and begin taking action.”

LifeIn Magazine book reviewer

“My favourite technique was the book’s “I can do it” mantra for approaching tasks that initially feel overwhelming.”

Destination Delicious book reviewer

“Combination of positive language, creative visualisation and practical choices that make the reader feel accountable and able to act.”

Penny, Go Lightly

“Techniques spanning money, health, relationships, parenting and other everyday problems.”

Mahesh Sowani

BBC Radio Surrey interview about the book

Listen to Ailsa Frank’s BBC Radio Surrey interview from 16 February 2015

About Ailsa Frank

Ailsa Frank is a hypnotherapist whose work combines a compassionate, direct approach with the AMAZING-zone technique. The book draws on the methods, client experience and practical guidance developed through her work.

“This is the book I have wanted to give clients for the past ten years. But, until now, it didn’t exist.” (Ailsa Frank)

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