Reading Time: 3 minutesThere is a peculiar politeness that descends on people in medical and dental settings. Adults who would happily query a restaurant bill will sit silently in a chair while something hurts, because the person doing it is busy, and seems to know what they are doing, and it feels rude to interrupt. So they say nothing. They get through it. And then they quietly decide never to come back. I have been on the other side of this, and I can tell you that no clinician wants that. A patient…
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Your Brain Has Been Working Overtime
Reading Time: 3 minutesBy Denise Billen-Mejia, MD (retired), Consulting Hypnotist If you live with chronic pain, you have probably been told — or at least made to feel — that something is wrong with you. That your body has broken down. That your brain is misfiring. That the pain is somehow your fault, or in your head, or something you simply have to manage. I want to suggest a different way of looking at it. Your brain has been working overtime. Here is what I mean by that. Pain is not…
Read MoreMarianne Clyde’s Commentary Feature on the Price of Business Digital Network
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCEO of Isn’t She Amazing, LLC | Expert in Personal Development and Life Transformation |TEDx Speaker. Marianne coaches women leaders to kick it up a notch, think bigger, increase their impact and their income. For 35 years she has been helping clients live more productive and abundant lives. As an award winning businessperson and psychotherapist, best selling author and speaker, Marianne has built multiple businesses, learning to adapt and adjust as circumstances changed over time. She is a MindValley Certified Hypnotherapist, trained by Paul McKenna. In 2016, she founded the…
Read MoreHypnotherapy and Coaching: The Brain’s Rewiring Blueprint
Reading Time: 2 minutesNeuroplasticity, the brain’s dynamic ability to reorganise and adapt its neural pathways based on experiences, is a well-established concept in neuroscience. This adaptability underscores the brain’s resilience and capacity for change, with repeated thoughts and behaviours influencing its wiring. In coaching, understanding neuroplasticity offers a promising avenue for facilitating transformational change. Coaches, therapists, and other professionals harness the principles of neuroplasticity to help individuals modify habits, behaviours, and thought patterns. The goal is to shift from limiting patterns and beliefs to empowering ones. In this context, hypnotherapy emerges as a…
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