One Benefit of Talking to Yourself

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Talking to yourself can create depression or success. How you talk to yourself is the determining factor. You are what you allow yourself to be. Growing up, we were affected by our environment as well as family and friends. By age 12, our behavior is set. You conduct yourself today the way you did at 12, albeit your decisions are … Read More

About That Claim You Made

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An email from Google Adwords informed me my advertising had been pulled and would not reappear until major corrections were made to my website. Following a long wait, Google identified  what was wrong. They said I required disclaimers stating that the results shown on my website were not typical of everyone being hypnotized. Google claimed I was making false statements, … Read More

Here Is a Boy with Pull

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The father of a 16-year-old boy asked me if hypnotherapy could stop obsessive pulling. His son had started pulling his hair out. He stopped with the head hair and moved to his eyebrows. Next, his eyelids. Now he is picking his gums and cuticles. So severe is this that it affects how and what he eats. No longer does he … Read More

When You Are Sick of Being Sick

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A new client has been suffering from Lyme disease since the age of 11. A year ago she became seriously ill. Unfortunately there is no real cure for Lyme disease. Sometimes antibiotics work. This leads to further complications. Symptoms occur randomly with varying levels of intensity. My client was raised in a chaotic environment, and her Lyme disease complicated her … Read More

Dentists Are Smart. They Know the Drill

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Driving to my dentist today for teeth cleaning I thought about people who are deadly afraid of dentists and their drills. The actual visit scares some. Drilling terrifies some, and for others it is pain. Aware of the pain factor, dentists will seek to ensure patients do not feel anything. you feel nothing. (As an aside, dentists have one of … Read More

How Change Makes Success Unavoidable

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A new client is losing concentration at her job. Her sales figures have tumbled. No doubt hypnotherapy can help her.  At work the saleswoman has to make cold calls every day. Instead, she finds herself playing video games or other distractions. She had had a difficult childhood. Her  parents criticized everything she did. Plainly her childhood severely had impacted her … Read More

Who Can’t Hypnotize Whom?

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Hypnotherapy and you, a powerful combination if you want to change your life? Find yourself in a situation you are unable to break? Hypnosis is for you. While hypnosis can accomplish many things, there are limitations. If a hypnotist asked you to do something you would not do under normal circumstances, you are not going to do it under hypnosis. … Read More

Letting a Nasty Habit Eat You up

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A new client told me she has been nagged by a problem since college — at night she binges/purges on sugary foods. Gaining weight makes her unhappier than normal. Even while doing it, she wants to stop but she can’t. When dating, she would not binge/purge. It was before she knew and after she broke up with her boyfriend that … Read More

Try to be Pro-Protein at the Table

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Panic and anxiety. No matter how many times I write about, I still see many clients for anxiety. Eighty percent have become vegetarians, meaning they are not getting enough protein. The surgeon general recently changed his food priorities.  Last I remember hearing about the American Diet was in 1975 when the emphasis was on reducing fat and increasing carbohydrates. It … Read More

Learn How to Defeat Fear of Earthquakes

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I receive a lot of emails from people in earthquake zones. After reading what I have written about a fear of earthquakes, they say they cannot take their minds off what might happen. They cannot focus on their daily lives because they fret about what could happen to them. That is the key to their anxiety. “I am the Queen … Read More