Holistic Hypnotherapy

11/08/2021

"Hypnosis is the oldest Western form of psychotherapy, but it’s been tarred with the brush of dangling watches and purple capes. In fact, it’s a very powerful means of changing the way we use our minds to control perception and our bodies"

in 2016, David Spiegel, Professor and associate chair of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford conducted a study to see what was happening in the brains of people who had undergone hypnosis. His work confirmed three really amazing things that hypnosis does to your brain 1. increase focus. You become more absorbed in your inner world to the extent that you tune out everything else. 2. Strengthens the brain-body connection. Your mind has more influence on what's going on in your body while in hypnosis. 3. Reduction in self-consciousness. Your brain doesn't spend as much time and energy evaluating actions, meaning you more easily do what is suggested to you.

These are things we hypnotists have known for a long time, but it's always nice when the science confirms what we already intuitively saw.

The implications of this study and many others like it are huge. It means hypnosis is, in fact, a very effective way to change behaviors, affect physical conditions like pain disease and sensation, as well as ease anxiety and phobias.

Check out the study for yourself if you'd like to read more

By scanning the brains of subjects while they were hypnotized, researchers at the School of Medicine were able to see the neural changes associated with hypnosis.

09/21/2021

First day in a new office space! On Tuesday's you can find me in the cozy and peaceful Birch Room at Open Door Wellness

What I love about this room is that it feels like you are cocooning inside a paper birch tree. Good place to have a healing daydream with me!

I'm offering 60 and 90 min sessions for hypnotherapy, coaching, intuitive tarot readings, and herbal wisdom. If you're like me and want to try everything, book an Entraceworks session for a truly magical and integrative experience combining my services.

For my Hudson Valley friends: don't worry, I'm still doing virtual work.

Get in touch! We'll begin within. ;)

09/20/2021

There’s a lot of mystique that surrounds the idea of hypnosis. ? ? It’s interesting being in this field as a woman, since traditional hypnotists have been men, and the old authoritarian style of rapid inductions you see on stage is often what we think of as hypnosis. And there’s a lot of ego in the history of the practice that has done disservice to the whole field. But really, a hypnotic trance is the most natural thing in the world. We don’t need pendulums or any other prop to do it. Just a willingness to let go and become open to the idea that something is happening, something healing and relaxing and beyond our conscious control. If you can imagine, just for a minute, that it’s possible to let your subconscious mind take over, and that the more you allow this, the better you feel...well, maybe you’re doing it right now?

09/16/2021

Did you know there are many everyday herbs that can help facilitate a dreamy, hypnotic state of mind? You don't need to get "high" to experience mental relaxation. One thing I love doing in my practice is exploring some of the gentle, safe, non-psychoactive plants that can help calm the nervous system and induce light trance. Aromatic plants like sage, frankincense, and sandalwood have been used for millennia as incense to clear the mind and dispel evil (which is just a word to describe the state of mind that keeps us locked in suffering) before sacred ritual or divine worship. Scent is a powerful way to shift consciousness. But there are also many mushrooms and less-well known plants that can help you reach the hypnogogic state of mind more easily through tincture, tea, or salve. I've developed a couple different blends that I love to use before hypnosis. DO you have a favorite plant you use to relax the mind and induce dreams or daydreams?

09/09/2021

Exciting news! I'm teaming up with Open Door Wellness Collective in WRJ and sharing a lovely new office space beginning Sept 21st! Now booking in person sessions at 9:00, 10:45 and 12:30 on Tuesdays. If your in the Upper Valley, come see me in my beautiful new space.
Get in touch to book your preferred time

We are the Upper Valley's premiere hub for integrative care and movement studies offering professional services, classes and a makerspace.

09/08/2021

Ever wonder where the word hypnosis comes from? Hypnos is one of the most interesting gods in the Greek pantheon. The child of Nyx (night) and the Erebus (darkness), he is a gentle, sweet god who dwells in a deep cave near the entrance to Hades, beside the river Lethe (forgetfulness) where o***m poppies and other sedative herbs grow.

He is often known as the drowsy god. He lives in perpetual twilight, in a dreamy state, neither fully awake or fully asleep. His children fill our dreams with meaningful colors, animals, and symbols.

He was often depicted as a bird, or as a winged god, not unlike Hermes. In fact, some scholars believe Hypnos is an aspect of Hermes.

The ancients appealed to Hypnos to bring peace and calm, to end suffering and pain, and to take away the troubles of daily life. He was known to induce the pleasant state of consciousness we call the Hypnogogic, in which healing and restorative dreams could come. For this reason, Hypnos was much loved, respected and praised by the ancients. We still nod to his healing powers today, when we use our modern word hypnosis and hypnotherapy.

"Hypnos,
divine repose of all things!
Gentlest of the deities!
Peace to the troubled mind,
from which you drive the cares of life.
Restorer of men’s strength
when wearied with the toils of day.”
Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book XI (1 A.D.)