Stressed 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 MoreHypnotherapy, Weight Reduction, and Surrendering
I’ve been thinking for some time that I should blog about my own journey using hypnotherapy for weight reduction, but have hesitated because, frankly, I haven’t been losing weight. In fact, despite the fact that I baked only one kind of cookie over the Holidays and gave them all away, I ended up with a kitchen counter full of holiday treats and indulged with abandon. So that I don’t scare away every prospective weight reduction client right from the start, let me say now that I have clients who have...
Read MoreThe Power of an Idea
“What’s the most resilient parasite? An Idea. A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules.”—Inception Sometimes our ideas seem to get lost or mixed up inside of us. We know the kind of person we’d like to be—a thin, healthy, nonsmoking, confident, successful, outgoing person. But the reality we experience can be far different than that idea. The movie Inception has really inspired me, validated for me in a sense, the idea that we are...
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