New Year’s Resolution?
It’s that time of the year when the self-help writers tackle the topic of New Year’s Resolutions. How to make them and keep them. A couple of decades back someone thought of something new to add and wrote about the value of NOT making a resolution. claiming that making the resolution was a setup for failure. I suppose I fall into the camp of not making resolution, not so much out of a worry about failure, but rather, it’s a safe way to be a nonconformist, and for all my mild-mannered sweetness, there is a...
Read MoreMountain Top Experience
There is a look, a moment captured on the face of a client, when I know there has been a break though and healing. Often following that look comes a deep silence, almost as if the wiring in the brain is being worked on and no words need be formed. This happened repeatedly last week and so it is on my mind now. There are some sessions where progress is made or something is revealed. Those sessions are quite necessary in the process of healing. But then there are the sessions where you know that the client has...
Read MoreThe Beast
The Beast My client, I’ll call him Andrew, first came in with a goal to gain healthier eating habits. We’ve been working together for some time now on what motivates him and his behaviors and how to live his life as authentically as possible. In a previous session, we had done Parts Therapy—a therapeutic modality that calls out the conflicting parts of the personality, gives the different parts a voice, and then my job is to mediate a solution to the problem. Andrew’s parts, the part that motivated him to...
Read MoreLetting Go of Shame and Guilt
I’ve been on this self-help/healing path for a long time now– decades. So when something shifts, an idea that’s been percolating for—oh three or four years—finally solidifies, it’s pretty exciting. Last week, Thursday night to be exact as I was brushing my teeth, something started to shift within me. It felt a bit like the old Tetras game when you watch all the pieces sort themselves out. Using self-hypnosis, I’ve been able to isolate the emotions that compel me to overeat, but there has been a...
Read MoreI Don’t Know What I Need, But I Need Something
I don’t know what I need, but I need something,” she said when she called a couple of weeks ago to make an appointment. This client has been on a dedicated path towards becoming her authentic self for several months using hypnotherapy. Originally she’d come to see me to deal with relationship issues and lose some weight. So far she’s lost twenty pounds, and though she is coming to see herself in a new way, at times, the rest of the world isn’t quite handling the transformation. I know this place of...
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