The fascinating thing about relationships is that they don’t exist entirely in the external world—they begin and end in your own mind. The way you interact with others is shaped entirely by how your senses interpret the world around you. Sight, sound, touch—all of...
I recently worked with a client around OCD using hypnosis and saw incredible success. We focused on his OCD in a single session after working together for a while on other issues. The outcome was remarkable. After years, even decades, of battling certain distressing...
One of the analogies i like to give my clients with ADHD, or ADHD symptoms, is that you are a high-performance vehicle stuck in a suburb. Everyone around you is a Toyota Corolla. You can pour sugar into their gas tank and they'll still run (they'll just smell like...
I recently completed my Master's degree after a break of almost 10 years. After sharing my success story, I received several inquiries from other people with ADHD who are currently in university (and their parents), wanting to learn more about what worked for me, so I...
I have found cold showers to be a helpful component in my trauma healing journey, and I believe there is research to support this finding. Early on, when I started taking cold showers, I’d find myself crying afterwards, and stretching to release trauma-induced...
ADHD is a child who was never taught how to be in the world. A creative who is too big for this world. ADHD is disappointment that it's not possible to do everything, that our mind is bigger than the universe. ADHD is being misunderstood, it's wasted potential, it's...
As someone who has experienced firsthand the current downsizing of the tech sector, I wanted to give back and support others who may be going through a difficult time. I’m offering a free full-length hypnotherapy session for anyone who has recently been laid off. This...
I’ve worked with several clients with addiction, and here’s what hypnosis for addiction typically looks like. The principle with addiction is that we pursue it to provide temporary relief from some other discomfort. Life sucks, we do something that makes...
We know a single traumatic event can already result in PTSD showing symptoms like anger, depression, and anxiety. If you take a single traumatic event and multiply it, or have prolonged exposure to a traumatic experience- it can result in CPTSD, or Complex Post...
My mother will always fall very short of what I want, need, and deserved her to be. I am working on coming to terms with this, alongside the understanding that she does wish she could be better. This desire, this staring her flaws in the face and being pained by them,...
In business: 20% of my clients give me 80% of my headache. Interestingly enough, these are usually also the ones who paid me the least and gave me the most grief over the cost. So a great way to filter them out is to raise prices! 80% of a great looking website can be...
As a former ordained Orthodox Rabbi and ex-religious Jew, I know firsthand what Religious Trauma looks like. (In fact, parts of this site still bear testament to the time when I was devoutly religious and taught Jewish meditation; I have a policy to not delete content...
My biggest fear is other people's suffering. It was the first day of processing during my Ayahuasca ceremony, realizing that all that pain I was feeling was in response to other people, but not actually other people. This gave me some control back, these were still my...
A few months ago I first entertained the thought that I had ADHD. I hadn't considered it earlier because the name is so very misleading. One of the biggest disservices to ADHD is the associations the name gives us - a hyperactive kid who can't sit still and is given...
Fortune teller’s omens to the contrary, the thing you fear usually does not come true. One of my favourite quotes from Mark Twain goes “I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.” I found this to be true for my personal anxieties – I would...
I have long known that I exist within a contradictory dichotomy: an attraction to both freedom and safety. (I use safety and structure interchangeably here, because to me structure creates a feeling of safety) I think others may relate to this as well, but I’ve always...
I have been practicing caring for my inner child for many months now, focusing on providing it with the basic emotional needs I knew it needed but had never gotten. A sense of being held, of being ok, of feeling contained in compassion, of validation and safety. As I...
Shame is a bitch. A motherfucking cuntbusting[1] bitch. Of all negative emotions, it’s the one that hits me the hardest, because it challenges my very existence. To stare in the face of your shame is to stare into the gut clenching void that says “you suck too much to...
I’d like to list the features of an amazingly powerful and easy to use assessment tool that can increase efficiency and work satisfaction. The PDP is 22 page report generated by answering a series of this or that questions that seem completely pointless and unrelated....
They say that 90% of success is showing up. I try to live by that principle. Whether it's quieting the voice in my head that says "thousands of people have already tried that", or getting myself to take small, seemingly inconsequential steps towards a goal. I like to...