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12/22/2025

Monday's Motivational Message.
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Whether it is healing, learning or progress, none of these are LINEAR in their development.
As a hypnotherapist, helping people through their blocks, or reversing their self induced, post hypnotic suggestions, towards a more deliberate and desired outcome, one of the largest contributors to a person's progress is their own self-doubt. And to be clear, this is not just a theraputic occurrence, it exists in our everyday lives, adding to our catalog of goals we gave up on, our defeated dreams, which didn't happen.

I want to share with you that perspective alters our mindset, which shifts our interpretation of reality. I know each and everyone of you reading this can relate this to your lives. So something unachievable remains so until it doesn't. Learning to ride a bike, back in my day their were no training wheels, just a shirtless Dad holding on to the back seat for stability, running alongside yelling peddle, peddle. After the 4 or 10th time kissing the concrete, you start to question if this is really meant for you or even possible. Our achievements are built on the rubble of our failures. Plain and simple.

As we near the conclusion of this spin around the sun, ontop this hurling rock, make the commitment to self, that you are most certainly deserving of a fuller life experience. There is one fundamental fallacy which has held you back from enjoying your goals or dreams, ... the fear of failure. Unfortunately, we have been conditioned to see failure as a negative, instead of a contributing factor in our development.

See above, perspectives.
I look forward to your questions or comments. If you are interested in changing your mindset, feel free to DM me.
Be well

12/19/2025

Fridays Feeling.
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In a world that has gone bonkers, a society which is crumbling and a culture which is l upside-down, stop robbing yourself from your precious experiences. Chasing the smoke and mirrors of imagined threats or unchangeable travesty, serves absolutely no purpose to enrich your life.
Your mental health and emotional well-being, should be a priority, you should be a priority.

As a mental health professional and a emotional well-being coach, self care is one of the best gifts you could bestow to your general health.

You are always worth the effort.

Be well

12/17/2025

Wednesday's Wisdom.
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Fun fact of our functionality: our brain remembers insults and threats for up to 20 yrs, studies show, and compliments are retained for only mere weeks at best.
Here is the thing, sticks, stones will break the bones and words matter. Knowing that one of the basic tasks of our brains is to perpetuate survival, insults are a form of threat, veiled or not and therefore take a more serious role than compliments which are non life threatening. Each activates a different area of the brain and for compliments, it is the pleasure center, which although enjoyable is not a part of the survival hierarchy.
Recognizing threats, much higher.

Much like going to the gym, if leg day is 4 times a week and arms are a half day, we know what is developing quicker. Combined with the actual mass and complexity of the muscles in the legs compared to arms naturally leans to legs being used more frequently and as part of our mobility, and arms not as much. Compliments are the emotional arms of our mind, more attention, and higher activation levels keep a better balance and flexibility.

It will always start with you, how and what you accept in your thoughts and environment, filters to how you are customizing your emotional balance.
Stinkin thinking perpetuates the amygdala, which as a part of the survival structure of your brain, doesn't require a lot of stimulus to become active whereas our ability to accept a compliment is at best hindered and usually re****ed, so repetitive experiences are necessary.

So now you know.
Use your new found tidbit wisely

Be well.

12/15/2025

Monday's Mindset.
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I find it ironic that there is still a push from some mental health practitioners, to attack or obliterate anxiety in their adverts as if it is the enemy within to be conquered.
To be blunt I hold no Ph.D. or post graduate degree in the psych sciences, I am but a simple hypnotherapist who has helped people over 20 yrs with their version of emotional imprisonment.
Although annoying, and even for some diabilitating, anxiety is that Overbearing, but still loving and caring relative that just won't shut up, or quit being over protective.

Some helpful points I have learned over the years; no one was born with anxiety, so it stands to reason that it is a learned response. As a learned response it can also be moderated to something more useful, through many different avenues of treatment. Like having a tantrum when we were much younger to get what we wanted, and learning quickly that the behaviors efficacy didn't last for very long, most of us learn a different approach to self achievement of goals.

Anxiety is never the enemy looking to harm the person. It is the overprotective, highly stimulated part of us, created out of an interpreted need to protect from any future embarrassment or unprepared scenarios. That is the functionality of the "what ifs" and the power behind " Oh My Gawds" , to shine the biggest spotlight on future events and situations, to make certain you are fully prepared for all contingencies.

Having anxieties, is evidence to your higher creativity and ingenuity. I chuckle when I interview anxiety clients about establishing more creative ways to cope with their emotional Defcon 4 status, and they confess they are not that creative or imaginative, or better yet, they probably can't be hypnotized. Good Sir/Madam, you are living in a eyes open hypnosis, accessing scenarios which have never happened before, in previous similar situations, hold a certain aspect of absurd rationale actually happening in the future, to such a degree of realism that you can trigger the hard wired fear response for survival. I am very confident you are indeed creative enough.

You are not stuck, and there is nothing wrong with you.

Be well.

12/12/2025

Fridays Feeling
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A gentle reminder that sometimes being the apex, evolved monkey of the tree sometimes isn't always advantageous. I do so like the translation of the word torment, from Seneca, as I firmly contend that both depressed and anxiety states are serious forms of emotional torture.
Although many animals share our capacity of memories, it is only humans who can revivify with such potency an event complete with emotional playback, to drastically change their physiology, and with many, over and over again.
To my knowledge we are the only ones in the kingdom whose ability of imagination can become so creative and powerful that it literally will illicit the four fear responses in spite of their being no actual threat.
Yea evolution!
What do you say we take the next step down Darwin's ladder and move beyond such nonsensical things like appendix' and anxiety.
I can't help with the appendix but we can certainly tackle the other effectively so you can enjoy your beingness even more completely.
Feel free to share questions or comments.
Be well
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12/11/2025

Thursdays Therapy.
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I suspect there are studies showing what energy is required to stay in a positive mindset or keep in a negative one, similar to the number of muscles required for a smile vs frown, but I am just going to rely on your common sense for now. From both life experiences as well as the Therapy chair, everyone of you who are reading this can identify with your experiences with another person who is determined to be a wet rag, party killer negative Nelly or Ned. For every compliment they have 3 insults or complaints at the ready, for every possible solution or remedy, they counter with half a dozen nay saying eliminations.
They are exhausting to be around.

So firstly, if this describes you seek help, it is no way to experience the life and space you occupy, and even while writing this I can hear the snide responses about its my life I'll do what I want etc. B.S.

Secondly if you are around these people do the healthy thing and distance yourself from them a soon as you can. There is no helping them, there is no appeasing them or any level of satisfaction which you will achieve. That is probably the most significant step in your own positive behavior, self- determination and self-love.

No one should remain in toxic environments or Chernobyl like meltdowns willingly. Your time and peace are more valuable than to exist in a wasteland, and although misery may love company, make it not yours.

Although foul moods are a natural emotional state, they are also a choice, please keep that in mind when going through one or dealing with one.

How to keep your needle in the positive mindset wavelengths you may ask? Take responsibility for your moods, and choose to seek a life experience that is uplifting and fulfilling. There must be the foundation of desire to fuel the determination to practice positive thinking daily. And yes practice does make permanent in our conduct and behaviors, so practice the self love. Speaking of, there is a phrase I use frequently. " Love and Allow" I love myself enough to ALLOW others their pathway. In other words you do you, I don't need to be involved.

If you know there is a serious case of stinkin holding you back DM me

12/02/2025

Tuesdays Treatment Tidbit.
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Blowhard, Braggart, egomaniac,narcissist for me conjur images and impressions of some very belligerent people. Overbearing and controlling in nature, seeking to shine, to reach the top and to dominate at any cost. Sound familiar or accurate in your experiences as well?
They are the exception to human kindness not the rule of thumb though, as the large majority of us have a difficult time acknowledging our self worth, and accomplishments thus far.
I can share with you personally that there are times and circumstances in my life and existence, which seemed dire, hopeless and oh ao freaking insurmountable, by health issues, financial bleakness and raw realization of how solo, I thought I was. During these tribulations, when you are raw and feeling abandoned, some will turn to a higher power to seek inner strength and to assist with the load of their burdens, creating the emotional setting for releif. Some people's reactions to these situations, are to seek escape through other other means like substances or addiction. What is the true tragedy, in these responses, is the abandonment of self. The leaving behind any validation that we have survived other traumatic situations, we have risen from the ashes of the last fiasco and crisis, and to turn our backs on our own self worth and resourceful nature, is just an added ingredient to an already stressful environment.
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We realize that as soon as wait for outside forces to solve the problem or to swoop in with solutions, that we also relinquish our empowerment. They say for most it is easier to blame outside things or other people, for our plight, but usually when we are honest reflection, can nod our heads that we had the most influential position to our lives.
If it is meant to be it is up to me, drawing on the huge library of resources, past experiences and abilities, including asking for help and assistance for additional information and support.
You are a warrior, you have conquered so many different obstacles and challenges, the battles you have survived mind blowing. Stop selling yourself short.
Step into the embrace of your magnificent self.
Be well.

11/28/2025

Friday's Felling
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TBH I spent a long time scrolling to be captured by a phrase which resonated with me this morning, and then bam, this appears on the screen. On the surface the message, clean and innocuous enough, not significantly profound, but what it activated within was the recollection of much of what I help people with and heal past for most if not all my career. There is a technique I still use today, called the fast phobia release, developed by Grinder and Bandler, which capitalize on the quirky realization that your brain cannot hold onto an emotional imprint when it runs hyperspeed in rewind. Basically a phobia is a irrational fear response triggered by visual stimulation, see the spider, become terrified to a state of paralysis with no one was ever being attacked or bitten. Irrational and unfounded response, to a stimulus. What it also demonstrates is that emotional responses don't fade or diminish over time, that watching that movie, hearing that song, reading that card can all release the tears, that rage or anger still live within the breath of an recollection.
So healing of ourselves emotionally is having the ability to keep the incredibly valuable resource library in our mind, so LEARNINGS can be achieved, without the teather of emotional harm.
I wrote earlier this week that each and everyone of us, have experienced tragedy pain and suffering in our lives, but only we get to decide to make it an excuse or a source of motivation.
For so many of us, we carry the damage and injustices of our history around like a huge weight, somehow choosing to focus on the burdens and pain, in stead of the victory and strength demonstrated.
Healing emotionally is in my opinion getting out of the whambulance and getting on with the wisdoms of your lessons.
I look forward to your questions and comments.
Be well.

11/26/2025

Wednesday's Wisdom.
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The concepts of muscle memory are pretty straightforward to understand, and we have examples in our daily live to demonstrate them. Now we understand this as it pertains to the physical response and placement, but dig deeper and you will realize that it is first a function of your brain. The commands for structure, tension and placement all come from the command center in between your earlobes.
Take that one step deeper and apply it to your emotional responses and triggers. How many times have you wondered what made you feel a certain way or react in a manner which was a little surprising? I use the analogy of walking the same way from the a starting point to a destination, a path is created and if the traffic is frequent, a rut is etched out, with anxiety disorders. However the neuroscience applies to every facet of learning. And so does the concepts of neuro-plasticity in modification and change work. The advantages of using hypnosis for these goals, is largely in part that while in trance, the gaurd rails ir point guards of rationalizing are suspended, and new neuro pathways can be layed out unencumbered. Like bringing in a road crew to make the next path to a new destination of thoughts, responses and reactions,instead of traversing 100s of times practicing it to achieve the same impressions.
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Make no bones or qualms about how flexible and diverse your brain actually is in being adaptable and maliable to better suiting a preferred way to experience your life.
As always I look forward to your questions or comments. If you are curious about how this could work for you, send me a DM.
Be well.

11/14/2025

The Warrior You Are

11/12/2025

Wednesday's Wisdom
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This trip to Italy has reminded me that words indeed do matter. In the obvious demonstrations, in not speaking the language, and struggling to communicate with locals for basic requests. Words matter, the change of a letter or two means something completely different and gets you some very strange stares I can tell you. It also echoed how important the vocabulary we choose for ourselves makes such an significant difference in our thoughts and emotional state. You may know I have some specific words which I think are some of the most dangerous selection around, but they have become part of the vernacular and choose often.
Try, Why, Normal and Perfect some very heavy hitters on my s**t list. There are countless studies and research papers pointing to how specific words have a direct correlation to what is activated in our brains and what is triggered in response. Huge example, when someone else is upset with you, their choice of words as well as the tone all change prompting you to feel upset, guilty etc. That is from a third party and the level of response is influenced by how close to that person you are, as in if it is a random person the effects is different than coming from a parent or spouse. Now consider when the same vocabulary is being used from the inside as was from the angry or condescending person.
Check up from the neck up moment when you find yourself offset for no reason, check out how self talk has been. Perpetually feeling anxious, hunt for the stream of " what ifs" spewing into your thoughts, change the flow of those and you alter the emotional state almost always.
In being a hypnotherapist I am very intune with the power of word choice, for they are my tools to accomplish the change work so your mind will comprehend most effectively. For most of us we use what we use, without thought to how it influence our disposition or confidence.
Be well.

11/06/2025

Therapy Thursday.
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This is not an endorsement for a sneaker company, but succinctly, just do it! I speak to so many people who make deals and bargains with themselves and their levels of experiences for life. Restraint is a good stop measure for gluttony and excess, it is also a great excuse for self deprivation. I wrote a piece yesterday, about waiting until you were ready, with being ready is a myth, you start, you suck, you eventually figure it out and you get better. I am not suggesting you pick up a parachute pack and jump out of a plane at 3000 ft without some training, but I am encouraging you that if you are curious about the exhilarating experience, to take the steps towards getting it done. What holds us back from telling that person I love you. As we hang up the phone, or you have a most delightful smile, or what you said upset me greatly. The words and emotions we suppress and choke down, the actions and feelings we deny ourselves for what?
Remember that you survived hundreds of thousands of sperms all swimming for the same golden egg, and you were the Victor and conquering zygote. Don't let all that effort and what you fought for go to waste with a shopping list of terms and conditions needed to grant yourself permission to experience your life. Eat the damn cake.
Be well.

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