He explains how he persuaded the surgeon, Neil, to agree to do one of the earliest clot retrieval operations in New Zealand.

It seemed to take a while, like nobody was rushing, nobody was panicking, and, um, it's a bit disconcerting really and, uh, but obviously they were doing their stuff and she had a brain X-ray and different types of things.

And, um, uh, we weren't told that much but, and, and just enough what they were doing.

But, um, eventually, uh, the young doctor on duty said that, um, she happened to mention in passing that they were looking at giving her an operation.

And she went away and, and rung, um, Neil Anderson, who was the neurologist on duty, and she came back and said that, uh, they're not gonna give her an operation.

And so my son Andrew was with us, and it wasn't too hard to work out that if they were thinking of giving her an operation and now they weren't going to, um, uh, she was a bit of a cop case.

So we asked what would happen if she didn't have the operation, and they said well, they'll wheel her out into a ward and leave her there.

... otherwise.

You know, we hear a lot of kind of CBT thrown around and hypnotherapy, you know, so how do kind of CBT and hypnosis and coaching work together for you?

Yeah.

So they're a lovely blend, actually, because CBT provides the techniques to help change people's thought processes.

It helps to challenge any negative thoughts that they may have.

It's kind of like the map of the brain and how we think and behave, really.

We are all expectation machines in the sense of we're cognitively always predicting what's going to happen next.

Sometimes we predict positively, sometimes we predict negatively, and it's all to do with your lived experience.

So how does it help?