Letting 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...
Read MorePower
A theme has arisen the last couple of weeks in my hypnotherapy sessions, in my own life and in the lives of several of my friends—the confronting of the nature of our true power. When I first put up flyers around town announcing my regular office hours I included “fear of success” as an area that can be helped with hypnotherapy. One client told me that this caught her eye and she wondered if she’d read it wrong—fear of failure, certainly is what I must have meant. We might admire Oprah, but do we really...
Read MoreStressed Out
Recently I read a Slate article addressing the reasons behind the epidemic of stress and anxiety, particularly in the lives of college students. The author of the article, Taylor Clark, disputes the claims that it is our bad economic times and the dearth of jobs awaiting young adults once they graduate. Instead she offers three reasons of her own for the escalating anxiety in our county, and I am thinking she is onto something. The first reason she gives is the lack of human contact. With our facebooking and...
Read MoreResolutions
The question came up today at a gathering of soul sisters: Anyone making resolutions? We all sort of looked around at one another and it was pretty clear what we were all thinking—resolutions, smesolutions, yada, yada…. A saying is often quoted in relation to hypnotherapy: How do you get someone to think about an elephant? Tell them not to. How do you fail at a resolution? Make one. So after the short conversation on resolutions (no one had any), we moved on to setting goals for the year. We didn’t get very...
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