Hypnotherapist’s Marathon Tribute

Over fifteen years ago, Tracey Barraclough first discovered hypnotherapy when she visited a local hypnotherapist for help with her headaches and anxiety.  Almost immediately, she felt less anxious, calmer and more relaxed and her headaches stopped as she became less stressed.

Tracey lost her mother, grandmother and great grandmother to ovarian cancer and lost her father to a rare cancer.  When she discovered she had inherited the BRCA1 gene which increases the risk of cancer, Tracey chose to have a genetic test.  The test confirmed she had an 85% chance of developing cancer.  After much deliberation, the Yorkshire lady chose to have a hysterectomy and double mastectomy to reduce the risk.  She didn’t want her children to go through the same experience she had with her parents.  It was a tough time, but she found hypnotherapy was a great help with her anxiety and fear.  As far as Tracey’s concerned, cancer research saved her life and hypnosis got her through her ordeal.

Six years later, Tracey qualified as a hypnotherapist herself with the Leeds-based Northern College of Therapeutic Hypnosis (NCTH) and she works to help others with their own traumas.  In December, she was appointed to help the NCTH as an Assistant Lecturer in hypnotherapy and is currently shadowing Senior Lecturers.  Tracey really enjoys giving talks and seminars on hypnotherapy

Now, Tracey does everything she can to raise money for Cancer Research UK and in three months time, she will be running in the London Marathon for the first time.  She has run several half marathons before, but this time she’s going for the big event and is featured in the Bradford Telegraph today appealing for sponsorship.

Anybody who would like to support Tracey in raising money for Cancer Research UK can do so online