Open Door, New Path
If you’ve watched the reality TV show Intervention, you know there comes that crucial moment in each story told when the addict must decide—will they get help or not? Usually, it seems, they do. Every now and then, they refuse. As I write today, I am thinking of someone I care about standing at just such a crossroads. Within the next 24 hours this person is in a place where simply saying “yes” could mean the difference between life and death. We are hopeful, but also doubtful. Partly, it is because this...
Read MoreTrusting the Body
In Mindfulness Meditation we practice focusing the mind, bringing it to a still point and through a gentle patience, holding it there. In time, what we notice is expansiveness. Lately, in my hypnotherapy practice I’ve been focusing on two new programs, learning them, really thinking about them and working with them. One is HypnoBirthing®, which I have just completed all the work to become a certified practitioner, and am offering my first group class this coming April 22-May 20. The other is the HypnoGastric...
Read MoreNew 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...
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