by victoriab | May 12, 2022 | Coping with Everyday Life, Hypnosis, Resources - Coping with Everyday Life, Self Sabotage, Weight Loss
What do you think of the new cover? It was time. I just realized that first started offering the program in 2009! I’ve been adding to it and updating it constantly and think it keeps getting better and better and even more effective. Here is my latest...
by victoriab | Mar 6, 2022 | About Hypnosis
Photo: Michael Hession Wondering if a virtual hypnotherapy session would work for you? If you have a busy schedule, if you get anxious driving through traffic, if you are recovering from an illness or injury, or need on-the-spot support through a social situation, a...
by victoriab | Jan 27, 2022 | About Hypnosis, Addictions, Blog, Clearing the past, Coping with Everyday Life, Creating Transformation, Hypnosis, Resources - Coping with Everyday Life, Stop Smoking, Stress and Anxiety Relief, Weight Loss
Photo: Michael Hession Wondering if a virtual hypnotherapy session would work for you? If you have a busy schedule, if you get anxious driving through traffic, if you are recovering from an illness or injury, or need on-the-spot support through a social situation, a...
by victoriab | Jan 1, 2020 | Stop Smoking, Addictions
Now that it’s New Year’s there are posts galore on how to overcome all of our unhealthy habits and issues. In one- How to Quit Smoking — 10 Creative Ways Smokers Finally Kicked the Habit , solutions that actually worked (at least for the person sharing the tip),...
by victoriab | Dec 30, 2019 | Addictions, Alcohol Recovery Support, Blog, Coping with Everyday Life, Hypnosis, Stop Smoking
You might decide one of these days that you’ve smoked enough cigarettes and just call to set up a hypnosis session and be done with them forever. Chances are, you’ve already cut way back and don’t really have much of an addiction to nicotine anyway. The problem is, no...
by victoriab | Dec 28, 2019 | Blog, Brains, Coping with Everyday Life, Fears & Phobias, Happiness, Performance Anxiety, Relaxation, Sports Performance, Stress and Anxiety Relief, Trauma
We all know what it’s like to feel anxious, worry, get stressed or even kind of panic. Once we get through the event, exam or challenge, we breathe big sigh of relief. Our nervous system developed to gear us up to focus and be on heightened alert to help us get...
by victoriab | Nov 26, 2019 | Blog, Brains, Coping with Everyday Life, Creating Transformation, Happiness, Spirituality, Stress and Anxiety Relief
What’s the difference? If you’re jolly, aren’t you grateful? According to Dr. Robert Emmons, the author of THANKS! How the New Science of Gratitude can Make you Happier, while there are many things that we can be happy about, the uniqueness of gratitude is that...
by victoriab | Jul 21, 2019 | Coping with Everyday Life, Blog, Brains, Fears & Phobias, Happiness, Performance Anxiety, Relaxation, Stress and Anxiety Relief
Do you know the difference between stress and anxiety? No matter how great our relationships, no matter how calm our work environment, no matter how abundant our finances, stressors are an unavoidable part of life. We all have deadlines with things to accomplish, we...
by victoriab | Nov 1, 2018 | Blog, Addictions, Stop Smoking
Scary news in a new study that shows that even very light smoking can lead to serious health issues “a new report from the U.S. Surgeon General concludes that even a single cigarette can cause immediate harm and raise the risk of diseases like cancer and heart...
by victoriab | Nov 1, 2018 | Addictions, Stop Smoking
Pregnant and still smoking? Or maybe you want have a baby, but don’t know how you’re going to quit like you know you should. Besides the harmful toxins nicotine and carbon monoxide, “cigarette smoke contains more than 2,500 individual chemicals, all of which can have...
by victoriab | Nov 1, 2018 | Addictions
AddYears ago I heard a parable of a guru who told his student that while he meditated he should never think about the RED MONKEY. Of course, although he had never thought of a red monkey before, that became the image that kept coming into his mind. Research has now...
by victoriab | Oct 31, 2018 | Addictions, Books
Seven Weeks to Sobriety: The Proven Program to Fight Alcoholism through Nutrition by Joan Mathews Larson Open this book and you will embark on a groundbreaking seven-week journey that will change your life. You will learn how to break your addiction to alcohol and end...
by victoriab | Oct 31, 2018 | Addictions, Books
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction by Gabor Mate Based on Gabor Maté’s two decades of experience as a medical doctor and his groundbreaking work with the severely addicted on Vancouver’s skid row, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts radically...
by victoriab | Oct 31, 2018 | Books
Change Your Brain, Change Your Body: Use Your Brain to Get and Keep the Body You Have Always Wanted by Daniel G. Amen The key to a better body—in shape, energized, and youthful—is a healthy brain. Based on the latest medical research, as well as on Dr. Amen’s two...
by victoriab | Oct 31, 2018 | Books
Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction by Maia Szalavitz More people than ever before see themselves as addicted to, or recovering from, addiction, whether it be alcohol or drugs, prescription meds, sex, gambling, porn, or the internet. But...