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Sandra Paolini - MBET, 1630 N Main Street, # 298, Walnut Creek, CA (2026)

12/22/2025

Last week I wrote about questions to ask when you're looking for a therapist - questions that actually tell you if you're a good fit, beyond credentials and specialties.

The most important question I posed was: How do you define change?

Most therapists will give you theory. But if you want to know whether someone truly understands how change happens, you need to hear about their lived experience. Not what they learned in graduate school, but what they've tested against reality.

In this week's article, I answer that question myself. I share what 20+ years with debilitating panic disorder taught me about change, the Tibetan mind training practice that saved my life when everything else failed, and why the panic was never actually the problem.

If you're curious about a radically different approach to change - read the whole piece on my Substack :https://spaolini.substack.com/p/what-change-seems-to-be-from-someone

12/15/2025

Looking for a therapist? Here's what most people get wrong.

You check credentials. You read bios. You see who takes your insurance.
And then you start working together, and months later, nothing's really shifting.

You're not sure why. Maybe you blame yourself. Maybe you think therapy just doesn't work for you.

But here's the real issue: You didn't know what questions to ask.

After more than 20 years as a therapist, I can tell you that the usual questions won't help you find the right fit.

So I wrote an article with 7 questions that will:

Help you evaluate depth, not just credentials
Reveal whether a therapist has done their own work
Show you if they understand how change actually happens.
Help you spot red flags before you waste months in the wrong fit
Give you clarity on whether your current therapist is right for you

These aren't the comfortable questions. They're not about logistics.
But they'll help you find someone who can actually help you change.

Use them in your consultation calls.
Use them to interview potential therapists.
Use them if something feels off in your current therapy.

Read the full article: https://spaolini.substack.com/p/questions-no-one-asks-their-therapist Questions No One Asks Their Therapist—But Should

Don't settle for credentials and hoping it works out.
Ask the questions that actually matter.

12/05/2025

If you’ve ever sat in a therapy room thinking, This can’t be all there is, you’re the reason I wrote this.

My latest Substack post pulls no punches: it questions what we’ve lost in the rush to make therapy billable, branded, and “evidence-based.”

Not to tear it down. But to point back to what this work was always meant to be.

Full post here →https://spaolini.substack.com/p/when-insight-becomes-protocol

11/29/2025

Ever feel like therapy, coaching, or mindset work keeps circling the same terrain, without really getting to the root?

You’re not broken. You might just be starting in the wrong place.

My newest post on Substack digs into what traditional therapy models miss, and how intention, when it's not watered down into goals or affirmations, can shift things at a level most systems never reach.

Read it here → https://spaolini.substack.com/p/why-your-best-intentions-keep-failing?r=7biyw

And if it hits home, subscribe.

This isn't just another post about self-improvement. It's about what actually creates change—and what therapy often misses.

11/21/2025

When Knowing Isn’t Changing: The Gap AI Can’t Cross

More people are turning to AI for insight about their emotions, patterns, and relationships.

But insight doesn’t always equal change, and AI can’t reach the places where real transformation happens.

Beliefs don’t just live in your thoughts. They’re wired into your nervous system, into the body, and into the reflexes that formed before you had words.

This post explores the difference between knowing and actually shifting, and why presence, not performance, is what really heals.

Read the full piece on Substack:
https://spaolini.substack.com/p/when-knowing-isnt-changing-the-gap

10/03/2025

Ever feel exhausted but wired?

It’s not just your thoughts keeping you awake.

Your body needs a different signal—one it can actually follow.

This week’s Blog Post breaks down why most sleep advice doesn’t work...
and what real rest actually requires.

Read the full blog post and get today's FREE Yoga Nidra Audio link here: https://changeworkstrategies.com/beyond-sleep-hygiene-a-yogic-approach-to-deep-rest/

Subscribe for more like this here: https://changeworkstrategies.com/

Get the full 30-minute Yoga Nidra Freebie here https://mindbodyenergytechnology.com/yoga-nidra-freebie/

09/27/2025

When thinking harder stops working...

There’s a different kind of intelligence—beneath the doing. One that doesn’t require effort, insight, or strategy.

My weekly LinkedIn newsletter explores:

• Why overanalysis doesn’t lead to real change
• What most mental strategies miss
• Why real transformation doesn’t come from motivational effort. It begins (and ends) with not doing. Yep, exactly opposite of what you think would work.

Plus: it includes a free Yoga Nidra guided meditation - a deeply restful, time-tested practice rooted in ancient yogic wisdom and supported by modern neuroscience.

This isn’t mindfulness or breathwork.

It’s a doorway into clarity, calm, and nervous system reset—without effort.

Read the full article + listen to the guided meditation here:

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:7377337817099661313/

08/29/2025

You don’t think your habits.

You become them.

Tight breath. Bracing shoulders. A jaw that clenches before your mind catches up.

These aren’t just stress responses—they’re patterns etched into your body.

And talk therapy alone can’t unwind them.

In this week's post, I break down why your old strategies might not be working—and what the subtle body knows that your thinking mind doesn’t.

Real change doesn’t come from more insight.

It comes from working with energy, fascia, breath, and sensation—where your habits actually live.

Read the full piece + get a free Yoga Nidra audio when you sign up for my newsletter.

https://mindbodyenergytechnology.com/yoga-nidra-freebie/

08/14/2025

Why does therapy feel like a surface-level fix?

You go in for support. To talk. To get help.

To sort out what's been overwhelming you.

And maybe it does help—at least at first.

But over time, something starts to feel off.

The diagnosis. The treatment plan. The never-ending "work on yourself."

You start to wonder if the thing you came in with is being addressed—or just managed.

This week's newsletter is one of the most personal I've ever written.

It's about how I got disillusioned with the therapeutic model—and why I am ultimately stepping out of it.

Not because I don't believe in healing. But because I do.

You'll also get a free guided Yoga Nidra audio when you sign up—
a powerful way to slow down long enough to feel something new.

Subscribe to get it first: https://changeworkstrategies.com/

08/01/2025

Have you ever felt the urge to leave—without knowing exactly why?

Maybe nothing is “wrong,” but something in your system knows: it’s time to go. Time to change. Time to stop waiting for clarity and start listening to that quiet internal yes.

I’ve built lives in different cities and countries—and walked away from all of them. Not recklessly. But because something deeper was pulling me forward.

This week’s newsletter isn’t about digital nomadism—it’s about something more human: the inner urge to move, to shift, to evolve.

I write about what happens when comfort becomes a cage, what it means to leave behind projects that no longer fit, and how expectations—especially unconscious ones—can quietly keep us stuck.

If you’ve ever felt restless in a life that once felt aligned—or wondered if you’re the only one wired this way—you’re not.

➤ Get the full story when you sign up for the newsletter: https://changeworkstrategies.com/

You’ll also get:
✅ A free full-length Yoga Nidra meditation
✅ First access to my upcoming digital meditation library
✅ Real, grounded tools for navigating change, clarity, and reinvention

07/23/2025

Your internal energy system doesn’t need an interface.

AI might be evolving at warp speed, but there’s one thing it will never have: an internal energy source.

We’re walking around with something wildly intelligent inside of us. Our internal energy system.

It pulses. It vibrates. It moves.

However, most of us have no idea how to feel it, work with it, or unlock its potential.

It’s not something to download.
Not something to track.
Not something you “optimize.”

And that’s the whole point.

We’re trained to look outside ourselves for power—tools, hacks, tech, AI.

But the one thing that makes us uniquely human is already here, inside your body, right now.

You just have to slow down enough to feel it.

Not slow down like “take a walk” or “breathe deeply for 30 seconds.”

I mean, actually slow down—beneath the noise, beneath the goals, beneath the part of you that’s trying to get it right.

Let go of your ideas. Let go of what you think is supposed to happen. And turn your attention inward—not to your thoughts, but to your energy.

The rhythm.
The current.
The flicker of something alive that doesn’t need a name or an explanation.

No app will find it for you. Because using the mind to make it happen is the surest way to miss it.

But if you let go, something else starts to stir.
And it’s not small.
You turn your attention inward—not to your thoughts, but to sensation.

To rhythm. To the subtle flicker of something alive, already moving, already communicating.

What if this is the gateway to creativity that’s been waiting underneath all the noise?

What if our real power source can take us further than any external system ever could?

“To infinity and beyond.” – Buzz Lightyear

Want more?
Friday’s newsletter goes deep into this—what it really means to work with your internal energy system, and why it matters more than ever in an AI-saturated world.

I’m not talking about theory—I’m talking about the real thing.

Sign up for the newsletter if you’re ready to reconnect with what’s already inside you. https://changeworkstrategies.com/

07/18/2025

What if the life you’re meant to live… can’t be planned?

What if clarity doesn’t come from locking down a five-year strategy, but from letting go of clutter, of comfort, of the version of you that no longer fits?

This week’s newsletter explores the radical power of choosing simplicity—even when it doesn’t make sense on paper.

What it means to walk away from a well-built life... not to escape, but to come home to something more honest.

If you’ve ever wondered whether your stuff, your schedule, or your “shoulds” are in the way of something deeper, this one’s for you.

Sign up for The Change Lab to get this week’s full newsletter—plus tools for real transformation.
Each weekly edition explores conscious life design, personal reinvention, and the deeper forces that shape our choices.

You’ll also get instant access to a full-length Yoga Nidra practice—designed to help you drop the noise, reconnect with what matters, and take action from that place of clarity.

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