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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tds1_07ifdk&rel=0 Summary: Filmed in his cold attic, Andy comments on the chapter about towards and away-from values, which looked at weight loss. He describes how some apparently towards goals are really about returning to the past, such as wanting to go back to who someone was before a traumatic event, and suggests this can mean..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymjuyiVr3IA&rel=0 Summary: Filmed in his attic, Andy comments on the chapter A Therapeutic Relationship. He questions what kind of relationship coaches, therapists and trainers try to form with clients, including the emphasis some place on impressing people and on being fully insured, and suggests that some practitioners need their clients more than clients need them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLe588WJogc&rel=0 Summary: Andy comments on The Television Set, a chapter he says is a fabrication combining several events into one person. It concerns an elderly man attending a service for older people with mental illness, where activities such as patting a balloon seem patronising, and looks at identity, the sick role and the idea that..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpMwKRLpHaA&rel=0 Summary: Andy comments on the Heaviness chapter of The Rainbow Machine. He discusses hypnotherapy for classic problems such as stopping smoking and weight loss, why these can seem simple for new therapists but are harder in clinical work, and the identity shift involved in becoming a therapist. He also gives his view that food..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIT2Pc5PgW0&rel=0 Summary: Filmed from Andy's new attic space, this video comments on the Problem Parts chapter. He discusses parts-based approaches in therapy, his concern that parts can be created by the therapist or other people, and how clients sometimes describe depression or anxiety as a separate thing that needs fixing. He also mentions that YouTube..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE6FmUPTB30&rel=0 Summary: Andy comments on the Critical Self-Talk chapter. He describes becoming aware of constant internal dialogue through meditation at around 18 or 19, the place of hate and self-directed hate, and how voice hearing relates to internal dialogue. He mentions a book he considers essential reading for therapists and invites viewers to suggest others.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDb-ToGVkqw&rel=0 Summary: Andy comments on the chapter Sarah The Dominatrix, about someone he worked with as a student in care work (not her real name), and reflects on the pressures of nursing and care environments. He talks about the intimate and sometimes embarrassing nature of nursing work for both patients and staff, and ends with..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl3uJks8_XQ&rel=0 Summary: Andy comments on The Long Stand, a very short piece in The Rainbow Machine made up of practical jokes played in the department store where he once worked. He uses it as a starting point to discuss stage hypnosis and hypnotherapy, in particular compliance versus an altered state, and says he remains unsure..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP3jJtN58-M&rel=0 Summary: Andy comments on the Bedwetting chapter of The Rainbow Machine, which describes strategies he has used as a therapist to deal with bedwetting. In this video he also talks about survivorship bias in motivational speaking and business, using a well-known book about finding meaning as an example, and a story involving panic attacks...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YKUAQ9y6H4&rel=0 Join this channel to get access to perks. Buy The Rainbow Machine: Tales from a Neurolinguist's Journal book. Summary: Andy comments on Patching Holes, a chapter about what he describes as a miracle he performed on a neurosurgical unit where he worked. He says it is awkward for him now, explains that correlation is..