Sonia Ribeiro

A Little About Me

I'm Sonia

I have spent the last years studying RTT® with the intention to open up my own practice. I graduated in 2022 with flying colours in all my exams, which enabled me to gain two certificates: Rapid Transformational Therapy Practitioner and Certified Hypnotherapist.

Since then I have worked with people in different areas: depression, anxiety, addictions, lack of self-love, lack of confidence, abandonment fears, not feeling good enough for a relationship, trauma and a few other areas.

All of these subjects are very close to my heart, either because I have experienced them myself first hand or someone very close to me, and watching them and not being able to do anything felt like the worst feeling, a feeling that my inner child knew so well: helplessness.

One of the hardest lessons I had to learn in life is to have the courage to ask for help when needed. A lot of the times we simply get told to simply brush our emotions and thoughts under the carpet, but this does us no favours. In fact, it causes us to repress our pain and keep having to relive it over and over this time round in silence. Your voice is one of your most powerful assets, use it because you deserve to have someone listen to you and allow you to speak about what you have going on internally.

Studying the mind is a never-ending process, but the result is always the same, what you feed your mind and the words you use towards yourself are what creates your reality. Often we think that we have resolved, what I like to call a pattern, when in fact all we are doing is avoiding situations that trigger that pattern leading us to believe that actually what we thought was a problem no longer exists - until reality hits us in the face and we feel we go two steps backwards.

This has been my life for many years, letting limiting beliefs and emotions control me. I was not living, I was just being a program directed by my thoughts and feelings and not even realising this was the case. Life is about experiencing, learning, growing, but when we don't go within and work with ourselves we simply do something that we all do very well: stay in our comfort zone or simply say "this is just life".

Sonia Ribeiro

One of my triggers was addiction, more specifically alcohol because since I can remember as a child my Father was drunk day in and day out, the days he didn't drink were the most blissful. It amazed me how a drink could make a person become something you never want to see.

Watching your Father hit your Mum and not being able to do anything about it, hearing the noises, smelling the alcohol in the house - these were my trigger points for all my relationships. I tried to find someone who would not drink, be controlling, be aggressive and guess what - failed!

We can only attract into our lives what we have going inside mentally and emotionally, until these patterns are not healed or at least worked on, you will find yourself experiencing similar events or living in fear and not fully experiencing life as it should be.

Going within is challenging, but it is one of the most rewarding experiences one can have, for when changes happen inside the world outside changes with you and what once was a pattern becomes a lesson learned and completely loses its power over you.

This is when the magic begins!