Relief from Fear and Depression – Todd's Story – Part 1

Today I will be talking about life changing hypnotic techniques.  This is the story of Todd and how changing a long held negative belief about himself has freed him from depression and fear.  I’ll refer to my client as Todd (the name has been changed for confidentiality).  Todd is a 45 year old man. He is a married with two children and people who know him would never guess at the anxiety and depression that he has been suffering all  his life.

He has accomplished so much in his life, yet when he came to see me he told me he thought he needed to be hospitalized.  He said it couldn’t take it anymore.  As we talked he told me that had used alcohol to try to get some peace, but it came with a price, and never really truly brought him the peace he sought.

Although he has been sober for 5 years he was still feeling guilty about the anger and rage that he directed at all around him when he had been drinking.   He was afraid his had ruined his relationships and that there was no hope for him.

Since Todd was in crisis when he came to therapy,  our first session lasted for 3 hours.  He already was very clear about how he wanted his life to be.  We started using a simple breathing exercise to get into a light hypnotic trance state.  This light trance enabled Todd to go deeper into his unconscious to uncover additional goals he was hoping we could work on.

We started working with his feeling of depression.  Using the tight feeling in his chest Todd was able to follow it back to a memory.  It turned out that this was the first memory at the root of his depression and anger.  In the “root” memory he was only 3 years old.  This was the first time he could remember his mother screaming at him, that he would “never amount to anything.”  Unfortunately there were many more memories of hearing these words screamed at him.   At three he didn’t have the life experience to understand that this couldn’t be a true statement.  Since he was only 3 years old.   More about Todd in the next post tomorrow.

If you would like to know more about Todd and how he was able to transform his life email me and let me know. Click here to email Audrey. Feel free to share issues that you are dealing so I can discuss some of the techniques and how they might help you.

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