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I'm thrilled to be offering virtual sessions for hypnosis, emotional freedom technique, and health coaching on Well Me Right.
Well Me Right is an online platform and community that makes it easy to connect with vetted Wellness Experts on a variety of health-minded topics and get advice and support over a 1:1 private video call. Their platform vets and connects leading Wellness Experts with individual community members looking for personalized guidance and support.
I have different days and times available via this virtual platform than I do for my in-person sessions, giving you more options for scheduling your self care, including (limited) weekends!
Book a 1-on-1 virtual session and get advice & guidance that is tailored individually to you and your wellness goals.
Every time you book a wellness expert to support your health, you help make the planet healthier too. Well Me Right donates 1% of profits to climate sustainability programs to help scale emerging carbon removal technologies.
Well Me Right is an online platform and community that makes it easy to connect with vetted Wellness Experts on a variety of health-minded topics and get advice and support over a 1:1 private video call. Their platform vets and connects leading Wellness Experts with individual community members looking for personalized guidance and support.
I have different days and times available via this virtual platform than I do for my in-person sessions, giving you more options for scheduling your self care, including (limited) weekends!
Book a 1-on-1 virtual session and get advice & guidance that is tailored individually to you and your wellness goals.
Every time you book a wellness expert to support your health, you help make the planet healthier too. Well Me Right donates 1% of profits to climate sustainability programs to help scale emerging carbon removal technologies.
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A caregiver is anyone who routinely assists another person, such as an elderly parent, a child with special needs, or a partner with a chronic illness. Although caring for a loved one can be rewarding, the physical and psychological demands of this role often contribute to serious health issues. Studies have shown that caregivers experience similar symptoms as those diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder, including exhaustion, high blood pressure, anxiety, depression, and a compromised immune system.
The emotions we experience when caring for a loved one intensify the physical toll this work takes on our bodies. In addition, caregivers often ignore their own needs because they feel overwhelmed by their responsibilities. Some caregivers also find it difficult to set healthy boundaries or ask for help. These factors can lead to caregiver burnout, or caregiver stress syndrome.
Caregiver burnout is a state of mental, emotional, and physical distress that feels insurmountable and drains both body and mind. To combat burnout, caregivers must prioritize their physical and mental well-being. We can use hypnosis to help us cope with many stressors linked to caregiving. For example, caring for a loved one often disrupts our sleep, which leads to an elevation in stress hormones, including cortisol. Skipping meals or relying on convenience foods negatively impacts our nutrition, which also raises our cortisol levels. Increased cortisol further impacts sleep, and lack of sleep exacerbates other health issues. Hypnosis allows us to develop and strengthen strategies for improving sleep and managing stress because reinforcing these techniques in the hypnotic state allows them to become automatic responses.
Caregivers can also use self hypnosis to manage stress and take a “mental vacation” from their daily responsibilities. Self hypnosis is easy to learn and can be practiced in spare moments. Sometimes caregivers experience frustration when caring for someone who is unable to voice their appreciation for all the caregiver provides. With self hypnosis, a caregiver can visualize their loved one expressing gratitude or revisit positive memories they shared, and this visualization can help restore the caregiver’s sense of self and well-being.
Those receiving care can also benefit from hypnosis directly. The elderly, the chronically ill, and those with special needs can all use hypnosis to manage pain, improve sleep, reduce stress, build self-confidence, and achieve other goals. A qualified hypnotist can answer your questions about how hypnosis can help you and your lov
ed ones.
The emotions we experience when caring for a loved one intensify the physical toll this work takes on our bodies. In addition, caregivers often ignore their own needs because they feel overwhelmed by their responsibilities. Some caregivers also find it difficult to set healthy boundaries or ask for help. These factors can lead to caregiver burnout, or caregiver stress syndrome.
Caregiver burnout is a state of mental, emotional, and physical distress that feels insurmountable and drains both body and mind. To combat burnout, caregivers must prioritize their physical and mental well-being. We can use hypnosis to help us cope with many stressors linked to caregiving. For example, caring for a loved one often disrupts our sleep, which leads to an elevation in stress hormones, including cortisol. Skipping meals or relying on convenience foods negatively impacts our nutrition, which also raises our cortisol levels. Increased cortisol further impacts sleep, and lack of sleep exacerbates other health issues. Hypnosis allows us to develop and strengthen strategies for improving sleep and managing stress because reinforcing these techniques in the hypnotic state allows them to become automatic responses.
Caregivers can also use self hypnosis to manage stress and take a “mental vacation” from their daily responsibilities. Self hypnosis is easy to learn and can be practiced in spare moments. Sometimes caregivers experience frustration when caring for someone who is unable to voice their appreciation for all the caregiver provides. With self hypnosis, a caregiver can visualize their loved one expressing gratitude or revisit positive memories they shared, and this visualization can help restore the caregiver’s sense of self and well-being.
Those receiving care can also benefit from hypnosis directly. The elderly, the chronically ill, and those with special needs can all use hypnosis to manage pain, improve sleep, reduce stress, build self-confidence, and achieve other goals. A qualified hypnotist can answer your questions about how hypnosis can help you and your lov
ed ones.
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Often when we decide we want to make a change in our life, we do it spontaneously and without much planning. We see a photo of ourselves we dislike, someone dumps us because we’re a smoker, or we get really ill and decide: this is the last straw! We then make drastic changes to every possible aspect of our lives, only to find ourselves right back where we started a few months later.
This cycle sometimes begins because we abruptly decide to make a change, without really examining why that change feels important to make. Other times we’re making a change that we believe someone else wants us to make, rather than one that holds value for us.
Our motivations need to be intrinsic rather than dictated by outside influences. Once we understand where we want to go and why, we can start to formulate a plan to get there. Looking at our long term goal and breaking it down into bite-sized pieces can make goals feel more achievable.
Coaching can help you discover what habits and changes are aligned with your values, and which may not be relevant for your life. Working with a health and wellness coach can help you reverse engineer your goals by focusing first on your wellness vision. Where do you want to be, and why?
To discover your values, you can make a list of what is a priority in your life. Write down everything that’s important to you. Ask yourself questions like, “what’s important in my life?” Your list might include family, faith, flexibility, happiness, personal growth. Ask yourself why something feels important to you.
Starting with smart, achievable goals helps to ensure we don’t get frustrated and slide back to our old habits. A skilled coach can help you formulate goals that are realistic for your life and provide accountability to keep you on the path to health.
Working with a coach offers a safe space for your goals, dreams, and fears. Even the most well meaning friends and family can impose negativity on our plans. A coach is there to support you with no judgment. Coaching can be helpful for anything from weight loss, fitness goals, work/life balance, relationship strategies, or stress management.
A healthy lifestyle is crucial for avoiding chronic disease. What a gift to give yourself to get some guidance and support when building healthier habits.
This cycle sometimes begins because we abruptly decide to make a change, without really examining why that change feels important to make. Other times we’re making a change that we believe someone else wants us to make, rather than one that holds value for us.
Our motivations need to be intrinsic rather than dictated by outside influences. Once we understand where we want to go and why, we can start to formulate a plan to get there. Looking at our long term goal and breaking it down into bite-sized pieces can make goals feel more achievable.
Coaching can help you discover what habits and changes are aligned with your values, and which may not be relevant for your life. Working with a health and wellness coach can help you reverse engineer your goals by focusing first on your wellness vision. Where do you want to be, and why?
To discover your values, you can make a list of what is a priority in your life. Write down everything that’s important to you. Ask yourself questions like, “what’s important in my life?” Your list might include family, faith, flexibility, happiness, personal growth. Ask yourself why something feels important to you.
Starting with smart, achievable goals helps to ensure we don’t get frustrated and slide back to our old habits. A skilled coach can help you formulate goals that are realistic for your life and provide accountability to keep you on the path to health.
Working with a coach offers a safe space for your goals, dreams, and fears. Even the most well meaning friends and family can impose negativity on our plans. A coach is there to support you with no judgment. Coaching can be helpful for anything from weight loss, fitness goals, work/life balance, relationship strategies, or stress management.
A healthy lifestyle is crucial for avoiding chronic disease. What a gift to give yourself to get some guidance and support when building healthier habits.
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The word “hypnosis” makes some people nervous because of its connotations with stage shows or being out of control. In reality, hypnosis is simply an agreement between the hypnotist and client to participate in a psychotherapeutic technique based on the hypnotherapist providing suggestions for changes in sensation, perception, cognition, affect, mood, or behavior.
Common myths about hypnosis is that the client will be out of control, or stuck in hypnosis, or made to do silly parlor tricks. Hypnosis is actually just a heightened state of attention and concentration, like being lost in a movie and losing track of time.
Hypnosis is sometimes viewed as a new age, alternative therapy, but it’s been used for thousands of years. One of the earliest documented examples was April 1, 1829, in Paris, when M. le Docteur Chapelain used hypnosis as an anesthetic during mastectomy and axillary node dissection. This was prior to the introduction of modern anesthesia techniques. During the operation, the patient was calm and evidenced good pain control.
Cancer patients often have multiple symptoms that contribute to a decrease in their quality of life. These can include pain, nausea, fatigue, insomnia, or hot flashes. Hypnosis has been specifically employed in the care of cancer patients to reduce these symptoms.
When people receive a cancer diagnosis they may experience stress, anxiety, fear, and loss of control. Working with a hypnotherapist can help relieve these emotional stressors.
It makes sense that pain and anxiety are closely related. Most people who know they will be going into a painful procedure get anticipatory anxiety, which is not only contributes to stress and sleeplessness prior to the procedure, but can also exacerbate pain at the time.
Hypnotherapy is also very effective for building healthy habits that can help prevent cancer, such as weight management and smoking.
Hypnosis is the most frequently cited form of nonpharmacologic cognitive pain control. People who undergo a hypnotherapy session prior to surgery or before chemotherapy or radiation generally heal faster, experience less pain (and therefore need less pain medication), and are less anxious.
Common myths about hypnosis is that the client will be out of control, or stuck in hypnosis, or made to do silly parlor tricks. Hypnosis is actually just a heightened state of attention and concentration, like being lost in a movie and losing track of time.
Hypnosis is sometimes viewed as a new age, alternative therapy, but it’s been used for thousands of years. One of the earliest documented examples was April 1, 1829, in Paris, when M. le Docteur Chapelain used hypnosis as an anesthetic during mastectomy and axillary node dissection. This was prior to the introduction of modern anesthesia techniques. During the operation, the patient was calm and evidenced good pain control.
Cancer patients often have multiple symptoms that contribute to a decrease in their quality of life. These can include pain, nausea, fatigue, insomnia, or hot flashes. Hypnosis has been specifically employed in the care of cancer patients to reduce these symptoms.
When people receive a cancer diagnosis they may experience stress, anxiety, fear, and loss of control. Working with a hypnotherapist can help relieve these emotional stressors.
It makes sense that pain and anxiety are closely related. Most people who know they will be going into a painful procedure get anticipatory anxiety, which is not only contributes to stress and sleeplessness prior to the procedure, but can also exacerbate pain at the time.
Hypnotherapy is also very effective for building healthy habits that can help prevent cancer, such as weight management and smoking.
Hypnosis is the most frequently cited form of nonpharmacologic cognitive pain control. People who undergo a hypnotherapy session prior to surgery or before chemotherapy or radiation generally heal faster, experience less pain (and therefore need less pain medication), and are less anxious.
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“Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.” – Napoleon Hill
We’re all guilty of procrastination at some point in our lives. Everyone puts off unpleasant tasks from time to time.
Our modern day life, which claims to help us be extra efficient, is laden with landmines of procrastination. According to researchers at Florida State University, it is well documented that interacting with a mobile phone is associated with poorer performance on concurrently performed tasks because limited attentional resources must be shared between tasks.
Americans are viewing their phones more than ever before - an average of 52 times per day. The easiest way to cut back on this? Turn off your push notifications - all of them.
However, problems arise when procrastination begins to impact your life experience negatively. For example, if chronic procrastination extends to matters of health and self-improvement, you may be at risk of adverse outcomes. Chronic procrastinators always have trouble completing tasks.
Signs of chronic procrastination include:
You can also procrastinate based on the task itself. One common pitfall of situational procrastination is that we either maximize the effort, or we minimize it. We either exaggerate how much time or effort it will take to complete a task, or we minimize it’s impact (eg: “No one will watch this video anyway”).
Here are some common ways we allow ourselves to delay doing what we need to do:
The above list probably feels all too familiar! Most of us can recognize when we’re procrastinating and justify our actions. But with just a little effort, we could use that same energy towards admitting our procrastination and developing techniques for motivating ourselves for greater productivity.
Our modern day life, which claims to help us be extra efficient, is laden with landmines of procrastination. According to researchers at Florida State University, it is well documented that interacting with a mobile phone is associated with poorer performance on concurrently performed tasks because limited attentional resources must be shared between tasks.
Americans are viewing their phones more than ever before - an average of 52 times per day. The easiest way to cut back on this? Turn off your push notifications - all of them.
However, problems arise when procrastination begins to impact your life experience negatively. For example, if chronic procrastination extends to matters of health and self-improvement, you may be at risk of adverse outcomes. Chronic procrastinators always have trouble completing tasks.
Signs of chronic procrastination include:
- You have difficulty coping with changes and transitions
- You’re chronically late
- Your to-do list in never ending
- You focus on non-essential work rather than what needs to be done
You can also procrastinate based on the task itself. One common pitfall of situational procrastination is that we either maximize the effort, or we minimize it. We either exaggerate how much time or effort it will take to complete a task, or we minimize it’s impact (eg: “No one will watch this video anyway”).
Here are some common ways we allow ourselves to delay doing what we need to do:
- Avoidance: not going to the location, for example, avoiding your home office when you know you need to tidy up.
- Distraction: surfing the internet rather than tackling our to-do list.
- Comparison: I may not have finished my project, but some people haven’t even started theirs!
- External blaming: blaming your boss, family, or other outside elements for your inability to complete a task.
- Denial: pretending that whatever you’re working on at the moment is more critical than the project you’re avoiding.
The above list probably feels all too familiar! Most of us can recognize when we’re procrastinating and justify our actions. But with just a little effort, we could use that same energy towards admitting our procrastination and developing techniques for motivating ourselves for greater productivity.
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Sometimes, your chiropractic care is taking a longer time to "hold," meaning that you need more adjustments in order to have relief. And because we know that 90% of all disease comes from unresolved emotional hurts, it's important to find where the trigger was in your life in order to have complete healing.
Science agrees that relaxation, guided imagery, and hypnosis can help heal your physical body and reduce pain, improve the quality of your sleep, and decrease anxiety.
Science agrees that relaxation, guided imagery, and hypnosis can help heal your physical body and reduce pain, improve the quality of your sleep, and decrease anxiety.
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Chronic pain is one of the most common reasons for seeking medical assistance. Chronic pain is defined as pain that persists longer than three to six months and can include headaches, migraines, arthritis pain, and fibromyalgia. Chronic pain also affects your emotional health, causing stress, anxiety, and lack of sleep
Hypnosis has proven to be extremely effective for pain control, particularly with chronic pain.
Because anxiety and poor sleep exasperate pain, by using hypnosis to improve sleep quality and manage anxiety, you can begin to improve your comfort level fairly quickly.
Hypnotherapy for pain relief often involves therapeutic imagery. By imagining a peaceful, relaxing scene in nature, your parasympathetic nervous system is activated. The parasympathetic nervous system is vital to help the body recover from stress (like the stress of enduring months of chronic pain). Guided imagery has been found to reduce tension, blood pressure, and heart rate. The goal of guided imagery is to redirect the mind away from thoughts of discomfort and fill it with healing, peaceful thoughts.
This state of relaxation increases endorphins, which are the body’s natural pain killers. Endorphins are known as the “feel good” chemical and also decrease your stress.
Hypnotherapy for pain relief also incorporates teaching the client self-hypnosis. Learning self-hypnosis allows you to create a comfortable, relaxed state for yourself, decreasing anxiety and increasing pain tolerance.
Another common method in assisting people in learning to deal with pain is self-coping statements. For example, thinking or saying, “This will go away in a while,” rather than focusing on discomfort.
Most studies of hypnosis as a pain management tool focus on the analgesic effect, however, hypnosis has many other benefits, including improved sleep quality, reduced anxiety, and improved quality of life.
Hypnosis is also extremely effective acute pain, such as the pain associated with labor and childbirth. Women who use six sessions of hypnosis in preparation for labor report shorter stage 1 labor, less labor pain, less pain medication, and a more pleasant birth experience.
The number of sessions required when seeking hypnotherapy for pain control can vary depending on whether the pain is acute or chronic. Most issues require about 6-8 sessions to achieve success.
Hypnosis provides welcome relief for people suffering from chronic pain. No matter the original source for the pain, hypnosis will help your brain perceive the pain differently.
Hypnosis has proven to be extremely effective for pain control, particularly with chronic pain.
Because anxiety and poor sleep exasperate pain, by using hypnosis to improve sleep quality and manage anxiety, you can begin to improve your comfort level fairly quickly.
Hypnotherapy for pain relief often involves therapeutic imagery. By imagining a peaceful, relaxing scene in nature, your parasympathetic nervous system is activated. The parasympathetic nervous system is vital to help the body recover from stress (like the stress of enduring months of chronic pain). Guided imagery has been found to reduce tension, blood pressure, and heart rate. The goal of guided imagery is to redirect the mind away from thoughts of discomfort and fill it with healing, peaceful thoughts.
This state of relaxation increases endorphins, which are the body’s natural pain killers. Endorphins are known as the “feel good” chemical and also decrease your stress.
Hypnotherapy for pain relief also incorporates teaching the client self-hypnosis. Learning self-hypnosis allows you to create a comfortable, relaxed state for yourself, decreasing anxiety and increasing pain tolerance.
Another common method in assisting people in learning to deal with pain is self-coping statements. For example, thinking or saying, “This will go away in a while,” rather than focusing on discomfort.
Most studies of hypnosis as a pain management tool focus on the analgesic effect, however, hypnosis has many other benefits, including improved sleep quality, reduced anxiety, and improved quality of life.
Hypnosis is also extremely effective acute pain, such as the pain associated with labor and childbirth. Women who use six sessions of hypnosis in preparation for labor report shorter stage 1 labor, less labor pain, less pain medication, and a more pleasant birth experience.
The number of sessions required when seeking hypnotherapy for pain control can vary depending on whether the pain is acute or chronic. Most issues require about 6-8 sessions to achieve success.
Hypnosis provides welcome relief for people suffering from chronic pain. No matter the original source for the pain, hypnosis will help your brain perceive the pain differently.
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Let’s face it: our kids have a more difficult world to grow up in than we did. Yes, dial up internet was a hassle, but at least every stupid thing we didn’t wasn’t recorded and put on the internet.
So how do you let your children have access to technology but still raise mindful, thoughtful children? How do you get them off their phones and get them to experience the world around them?
Lead by example
If you are always on your phone or laptop, your child is going to model that behavior. No screens at the dinner table, while driving, or during family time.
When / Then
A great tool for kids is the “when/then” rule ….as in “WHEN you have finished all your homework and walked the dog, THEN you may have screen time.”
Open Discussion
In our house, every once in a while we have a family meeting. Yes, this usually means there are behavioral issues to discuss - but I’m trying to make this just a routine part of life. I often put the agenda for the meeting on our whiteboard prior to the meeting so the kids know what to expect. And if there’s a particular issue my husband and I want to discuss (eg chores not getting completed), we give the kids the opportunity to come up with their own recommended solutions.
Setting SMART Goals
We’ve all heard about specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and timely goals. Chances are, your kids have too, as schools start to put more focus on mindfulness and positive thinking. You can model this behavior by making goal setting something you work at - and share with your children. On New Year’s Day, our entire family takes time to reflect on the past year and set goals for the new year. I print worksheet outs for guides. Some kids stop there, and some of the older kids work in their journals or school agendas to take their goals to the next level. Having your kids hang their goals on a bulletin board in their room or homework area helps keep these goals fresh in their mind.
Family Screen Time
Movie night is an almost weekly occurrence in our home. Sometimes the kids pick the movie and sometimes we do - or we watch a television show together. Watching together opens up opportunity for physical connection as we’re cuddled up on the couch as well as opportunities to discuss the issues we see played out on the big screen.
Play Together!
During the year, we try to make time for board games, riding bikes, or tossing the football. With five kids in high school, it's more challenging than ever (and more important than ever!) to make this family time. Our family vacation is also a highlight. It's a priority each year. Again, we limit screen time (including movies and tv). We spend our time on the beach, taking walks, and playing card games at night. This family time is restorative for all of us.
What are your favorite ways to keep your kids experiencing the real world?
So how do you let your children have access to technology but still raise mindful, thoughtful children? How do you get them off their phones and get them to experience the world around them?
Lead by example
If you are always on your phone or laptop, your child is going to model that behavior. No screens at the dinner table, while driving, or during family time.
When / Then
A great tool for kids is the “when/then” rule ….as in “WHEN you have finished all your homework and walked the dog, THEN you may have screen time.”
Open Discussion
In our house, every once in a while we have a family meeting. Yes, this usually means there are behavioral issues to discuss - but I’m trying to make this just a routine part of life. I often put the agenda for the meeting on our whiteboard prior to the meeting so the kids know what to expect. And if there’s a particular issue my husband and I want to discuss (eg chores not getting completed), we give the kids the opportunity to come up with their own recommended solutions.
Setting SMART Goals
We’ve all heard about specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and timely goals. Chances are, your kids have too, as schools start to put more focus on mindfulness and positive thinking. You can model this behavior by making goal setting something you work at - and share with your children. On New Year’s Day, our entire family takes time to reflect on the past year and set goals for the new year. I print worksheet outs for guides. Some kids stop there, and some of the older kids work in their journals or school agendas to take their goals to the next level. Having your kids hang their goals on a bulletin board in their room or homework area helps keep these goals fresh in their mind.
Family Screen Time
Movie night is an almost weekly occurrence in our home. Sometimes the kids pick the movie and sometimes we do - or we watch a television show together. Watching together opens up opportunity for physical connection as we’re cuddled up on the couch as well as opportunities to discuss the issues we see played out on the big screen.
Play Together!
During the year, we try to make time for board games, riding bikes, or tossing the football. With five kids in high school, it's more challenging than ever (and more important than ever!) to make this family time. Our family vacation is also a highlight. It's a priority each year. Again, we limit screen time (including movies and tv). We spend our time on the beach, taking walks, and playing card games at night. This family time is restorative for all of us.
What are your favorite ways to keep your kids experiencing the real world?
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Does your child have trouble focusing in school? The school day is long and packed with so much information, so few breaks, and so little time outdoors, it’s no wonder kids find themselves fidgeting or tuning out in class.
Many parents first consider hypnotherapy for their child for working with an issue at school.
Hypnotherapy can help your child increase their focus and concentration and relieve anxiety in order to have a more successful academic career.
Kids love hypnosis because they are naturally imaginative. Kids don’t doubt the power of their own mind. They believe it 100%! Young children are naturally in hypnosis most of the time. They are wide open to the world around them and it’s very easy to teach them to use this to their advantage. In the state of hypnosis, kids learn to cultivate their imagination for problem-solving and coping skills. According to the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, “Because hypnosis allows people to use more of their potential, learning self-hypnosis is the ultimate act of self-control.”
Older kids and teens also enjoy hypnosis because they are able to vent out stress, anxiety, or other negative emotions. They are able to use the hypnotic state to release emotional and physical tension without having to verbalize their feelings. Children often have trouble expressing their emotions (just like adults), so being able to use their mind and imagination to create solutions for the everyday stresses of life is very comforting to them.
Kids are natural problem solvers, and when given the opportunity, often have wonderfully creative solutions to the issues in their lives.
What happens during a pediatric hypnotherapy session? Typically, the parents and child will meet with the hypnotherapist to discuss what the parents have in mind, as well as the child’s goals. Using creative play, beading, drawing, or crafts, the child can work out a solution to their issue. They then spend about 15 minutes in a very relaxed state, reinforcing the ideas to the subconscious mind. Often, there are techniques or tools provided that can be used every day.
In addition to school success, hypnosis is incredibly beneficial to help kids with issues such as nail biting, insomnia, nightmares, separation anxiety, bedwetting, or getting along with their siblings or friends.
Many parents first consider hypnotherapy for their child for working with an issue at school.
Hypnotherapy can help your child increase their focus and concentration and relieve anxiety in order to have a more successful academic career.
Kids love hypnosis because they are naturally imaginative. Kids don’t doubt the power of their own mind. They believe it 100%! Young children are naturally in hypnosis most of the time. They are wide open to the world around them and it’s very easy to teach them to use this to their advantage. In the state of hypnosis, kids learn to cultivate their imagination for problem-solving and coping skills. According to the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, “Because hypnosis allows people to use more of their potential, learning self-hypnosis is the ultimate act of self-control.”
Older kids and teens also enjoy hypnosis because they are able to vent out stress, anxiety, or other negative emotions. They are able to use the hypnotic state to release emotional and physical tension without having to verbalize their feelings. Children often have trouble expressing their emotions (just like adults), so being able to use their mind and imagination to create solutions for the everyday stresses of life is very comforting to them.
Kids are natural problem solvers, and when given the opportunity, often have wonderfully creative solutions to the issues in their lives.
What happens during a pediatric hypnotherapy session? Typically, the parents and child will meet with the hypnotherapist to discuss what the parents have in mind, as well as the child’s goals. Using creative play, beading, drawing, or crafts, the child can work out a solution to their issue. They then spend about 15 minutes in a very relaxed state, reinforcing the ideas to the subconscious mind. Often, there are techniques or tools provided that can be used every day.
In addition to school success, hypnosis is incredibly beneficial to help kids with issues such as nail biting, insomnia, nightmares, separation anxiety, bedwetting, or getting along with their siblings or friends.