EDN Hypnotherapy

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.

11/01/2025

https://sites.libsyn.com/595985/how-hypnosis-can-help-you

Hypnosis can be instrumental in helping with a wide range of issues, from helping with stress and anxiety; phobias; depression; chronic pain and behavioral modifications such as smoking cessation and weight management, through the application of someone who is properly trained. The arguement whether...

10/31/2025

Feelings Friday.
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I was preparing my notes and doing some research my podcast later today, and came across this poster, which reminded me succinctly of something which I had lost touch with. Don't get me wrong, I still practice daily the remembered activity,but what I had lost touch with is how significant it is. There are multiple layers to what I actually do in a session and most of the actions or philosophies I share while in session, such as that my mastery as a hypnotherapist is to find a way to get you out of the way of you long enough for You to rediscover the solution to your challenges. Point being you are a higher thinking, creative, self contained bundle of experiences and knowledge.
The second which somehow I've let slip into the quiet is the fact that the majority of sessions I conduct, are spent DE- hypnotizing someone from their own deep trance complete with triggers and post hypnotic suggestions.
Short form: there are so many concepts, ideologies, and limitations which are completely false and erroneous, with which you have been leading your life with.
Where did you learn that to be Normal was desired, what does that even mean to anyone and how could you tell if you achieved it? Conversely what drives the brain to seeking perfect? What the hell is that? Perhaps not as showy as the infamous " Sleep" on stage, where someone drops, loose, limp like a rag doll into a chair, but as potent just the same.
A point of freedom for some, is the acceptance that we are all flawed, damaged, and messed up in our own ways, Largely in part because we learned about a world from people who were flawed, damaged and messed up as well. Parents, mentors, teachers, and friends, all not having any of their s**t together, and all contributing to your development.
In spite of the list of derogatory labels we could affix and most days do, we still survive, we still move forward and we still can brighten another person's day.
Step into the embrace, that you are who you are in these current breaths, that you did what you did in your past for reasons which were valid and justified in those moments of time, and are influenced by a long list of inherented absurdities.

10/30/2025

A key component to our change work in using the power of hypnosis, for our therapeutic approaches, is for me found in this simple thought. Our minds make by far more worse, dire, and fatalistic our perceptions of a situation than they actually are, so part of our talents and gift, is as I have said to every one of my clients, " for me to get You out of the way of the real you to find Your solution."
Sometimes this requires inspiration, sometimes imagination and sometimes illumination, but almost every instance, the answers are already within. I think therapeutically that is what makes metaphor such an integral part of your resources.
Be well.

10/29/2025

Living your Pesent

10/25/2025

Hypno-Tok with Hypnoguy

Season 1 Episode 1002

The Hypnosis Hype

Often seen as quackery, and denigrated as fakery or placebo effect, Hypnosis has been shown to be very much a real and legitimate phenemonenon. With a wide variety of theraputic applciations including one of its initial uses, that of pain control.  From wonder sessions of weight managenment, Hy...

10/18/2025

Have a listen and let me know on comments

Exploring Emotional Well being and Mental Health strategies using Hypnosis and associated techniques. Kevin Wolchansky discusses the different applications of Hypnosis for mental health, emotional well being and behavioral modification, in a straight forward and practical manner. Demystifying the mo...

10/14/2025

Treatment Tuesday