A few years ago, I was dating a man who had a grown-up daughter who I just couldn’t stand. She triggered me like no other person in my life. I felt she was manipulative, controlling and scheming. I judged her for being fat, loud, stupid and vulgar. She was a “wannabe” actress, who only talked…
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Who Pushes Your Buttons and Why?
Last night, going to the theatre, we experienced a typical example of how someone who is not in touch with their anger attracts other angry people into their life and allows them to push their buttons. The lady taking our tickets, checking our reservations, and directing us to our table was pleasant enough even though…
Healthy Weight Loss and Exercise
Can you honestly say “I love to exercise”? Would you like to feel that way? Have you been diagnosed with Diabetes? Or do you need to lose weight? In both cases, healthy weight loss should go hand in hand with exercising. Coaching helps you to understand your emotional triggers for making unhealthy eating choices. Hypnosis…
Does Hypnosis Work for Dental Anxiety?
Imagine lying in the dental chair, deeply relaxed and comfortable, losing track of time and just enjoying how good you feel. You are aware that the dentist is working in your mouth but you are not aware of any sensation of pain. For you, the visit to the dentist is like visiting a spa. Just…
How are other people “mirrors” for us?
When you open up to the idea that other people mirror issues for you, you are moving from blaming others to recognizing that they provide a learning experience for us. Does your partner sometimes annoy you, or your sibling, parent, or parent-in-law? Does your child trigger you? Why is that happening? “She/he does not respect…
Forgiveness is a Gift That You Give Yourself
Forgiving does not mean to “forgive and forget.” It does not mean someone else was right in the way they acted towards us. It does not mean loving others; that may or may not happen. It just means finally letting go of an old painful “story”. It means taking back the energy that we have…
How Does Hypnosis for Fertility Work?
Whether you are planning to conceive naturally or take the fertility clinic route, hypnosis significantly increases your success rate. Hypnosis affects the hypothalamus, the neural centre at the base of the brain linked to the pituitary gland, and controls the flow of hormones in the body. The hypothalamus is sensitive to stress and acts as…
Blessings or Curses?
Andrew Kaufmann has created five fascinating characters in his novel “Born Weird”. At birth, the five siblings from the Wyird family were all given a “blessing” by their grandmother, which in the end turns out to be a curse. “Bursings” as one character remarks at one point. Richard, the oldest, has the gift of “self-preservation”…
What is the Nocebo Effect?
Most of us have heard of the placebo effect, but do you know what the nocebo effect is? The power of the placebo effect has been repeatedly proven. Bruce Lipton, for example, sites in his book “Biology of Belief” a “New England Journal of Medicine” study from 2002 on surgery for osteoarthritis of the knee….
Does Hypnosis Work for Weight Loss?
Hypnosis is not magic. It will not magically make you lose weight. However, it is – similar to Psych-K® – a fabulous technique to get into your subconscious mind and to give you the beliefs that make healthy weight loss easy and fun. How does hypnosis for weight loss work? Hypnosis for exercising is part…
Healing Mother-Daughter Relationships
Lately, I have had an unusually high number of mothers and daughters come to me because they are struggling with their relationship. Why is that? Maybe it has to do with the fact that I have two daughters myself and I have great empathy for both positions. Maybe the beginning of the new year makes…
The Past Should Be Used as a Diving Board – Not as a Sofa
A new year has begun, a new start. How can we move on? How do we let go of negative experiences and old limiting beliefs from the past that do not serve us anymore? How can hypnosis help you to move forward, to keep your New Year’s resolutions and reach your goals for 2013? Sometimes…
