For me everything that Lina did was completely new, and… well incredibly wacky. I remember her telling me about a therapy she gave which was called rebirthing…

I would pop along to her studio once a week, and we would have lessons. My English lessons are, I suppose, pretty normal, I try not to be too boring and I try to be entertaining…

Paul McKenna may well have got me into doing hypnosis and EFT and different things, but I first came into the weird and wacky world of alternative therapy a couple of years earlier.

I’ve lived in Italy for a long time now, and so for quite a lot of things, what’s on TV for example, I’ve pretty much lost touch. I remember though I first got to here about Paul McKenna through my brother who told me about him; after which I saw some of what he did on Youtube. I found it fascinating I must admit…

I wasn’t brought up to go to church, or to believe in God or anything, and so if anyone were to ask me now if I believed in God or anything else, I’d probably have to say no.

And so back to Andy… Rob’s Hypnosis VIP | Youtube | Facebook | Twitter | Amazon | iTunes | And so back to Andy. As I was saying I had been popping along to his place regularly over the weeks, normally of a morning, and I was enjoying it all immensely. Chatting about all sorts …

I mentioned previously the problem of translation [ did you know that the first Christian holy book was written in Hebrew? And from there it was translated into Latin?

Because of working calendars and what with one thing or another, the classes in a group of adults didn’t materialise, and I ended up going to Andy’s flat for what would best be described as informal chats.

Confirmations Rob’s Hypnosis VIP | Youtube | Facebook | Twitter | Amazon | iTunes | So, we went to church. And it was good. We met lots of interesting people, and felt to be part of it all. And the children grew. And grew. So when our oldest Connie got to about 13, it seemed …

Kids Rob’s Hypnosis VIP | Youtube | Facebook | Twitter | Amazon | iTunes |   As the kids grew a little older, we thought that some kind of church would be a good idea. There is an English speaking Anglican Church in Lugano, and so we thought we would pop along to suss it …

After the Christmas holidays things went back to normal as they always do; work, children, rushing here and there etc. etc. I did notice however, that Don P was often missing mealtimes at the Mrs P household…

Mrs P’s son GL was a kind and generous boy of about 27 at that time, and was just a ‘good’ guy. He also did a lot of work for the church, helping Don P and helping out teaching bible studies to the kids of the church.

We were living in this old house on three floors on the lake, which was in really a beautiful position, but it had thick walls and was hard to keep warm in winter…

Y was from Morocco, and worked as a delivery man, delivering drinks and things to bars and restaurants around the area. He came from a large family who were farmers in Morocco, and sent money back each month to help support them…

After a few months uncle G also came to stay at the Mrs P household: uncle G was an elderly man, in his 90s, widowed and living alone. He had no children, and didn’t get on with his next of kin…

Christening Rob’s Hypnosis VIP | Youtube | Facebook | Twitter | Amazon | iTunes |   And so after about 3 months that Phil had been born, we went about asking Don P to perform the ceremony. Even if I had the normal um and ahing about my non conformism to the Catholic faith he …

Mrs P. lived with her husband GC. and son GL. and a Moroccan lodger Y. Every mealtime the long table was always full, and there was also Don P. who was the local priest; and so as some kind of civic duty she fed and watered them all, including the priest.

A couple of years later, just before my son Phil was born, we moved from where we were living in the mountains of Switzerland to just across the border to Italy, to a house right on the Lakeside.

Don W. was described by some as a whiskey priest, meaning one who had been drawn to the priesthood by the easy life rather than any true conviction. A rumour which had gone around at one time was that he had been famed for having once broken an ankle whilst jumping from an upstairs bedroom window on the arrival home of an absent husband.

When my daughter was born, it seemed natural she should be baptized in the Roman Catholic Church. In Italy everyone is more or less, plus from my own personal experience, things are more difficult once you are older