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EDN Hypnotherapy Hypnotherapy Clinic specializing in Anxiety Relief and Chronic Pain Management.

Hypnotherapy Clinic specializing in Chronic Pain Releif, Emotional Distress Treatments and Weight Management Programs.Located in Edmonton with ample parking or available worldwide through Zoom or Skype.

Therapy Thursday What does self care mean to you? I was recently reminded, that self care isn't necessarily down time, b...
10/15/2026

Therapy Thursday

What does self care mean to you? I was recently reminded, that self care isn't necessarily down time, but the course of event's which bring you rejuvenation and espirit!

As a hypnotherapist I am advocating always for empowerment and self care, I've written at lengths about how the term selfish is not a nasty concept, in fact but even with that theme in mind, I sometimes neglect to acknowledge that my definition of self-care is and should be different than yours, and you get to decide what works best.

Where therapy comes into play, is when you are not able to experience self care down time, due to guilt or a level of internal abuse, preventing the progress, or you are at a complete loss as to what it means, how it would look and terrified if how it might feel.

Unplugging from a routine, stressful or not is always a good idea, if for nothing else to break the patterns of oblivion and dust off fresh perspective.

A change is as good as a break they say, so be the change.

How are you feeling today?

Be well

Wisdom Wednesday Firstly for all the visuals in my readership, it is the absolutely perfect time to start to work on you...
10/14/2026

Wisdom Wednesday

Firstly for all the visuals in my readership, it is the absolutely perfect time to start to work on your internal movies. Make them full of awesome memories and big, bold and full if colour!

For the auditory ones, find the voice which is soothing, supportive and central to whisper the words that are going to move your head around to a more positive perspective.

I still find it amazing, that if we can identify how the issues in our lives, the means that our stinkin thinking is communicated and transmitted what prevents the reverse engineering from taking place more frequently.

What is it about our concepts that our plights must be complicated?

I am so very thankful for the opportunity to practice in a field which does being about change, that promotes and develops a means to modify the behaviors and strategies we have relaxed into, as uncomfortable and disruptive as they may become.

Be well

Tuesdays Tidbit. As a hypnotherapist, it was drilled into me very early on in my training to relax the focus on just one...
10/13/2026

Tuesdays Tidbit.

As a hypnotherapist, it was drilled into me very early on in my training to relax the focus on just one modality and receive the full communicative message being delivered as a whole.
What a terrific first thought huh?

Allow ne to reverse think as an example: one of the most difficult forms of communication to understand or interpret would be cave drawing, hieroglyphs, druid ruins etc. Similar to a text message only using emojii as your language. Open for interpretation, and transmits nothing other than a single bit if information. A voice mail, text adds a layer of tonality, sentence and verb emphasis and syntax doesn't it. So we add a couple more waves to our transmission! Now most will stop there at the vocal level, but when we elevate our brains to the full communicative experience we also use Other Than Verbal Communication skills, as taught by the late Dr. Dave Dobson, or being open to the linguistics actually being utilized, forming a meta model , from Bandler and Grinder style, to adding in the micro expressions which either validate the adaptive vocabulary or contradict it, and lastly I would suppose is the energetic version as well.

You begin to realize that until such time that I have developed E.S.P. and can receive thoughts from another, in their entirety, I am subjected to the rudimentary versions and skills of the sender and the limited station in being the receiver.

The likes of non verbal communication skills are an incredible addition to learning and understanding or comprehending what your fellow flesh suit is transmitting so you can ascertain more wholly the messages.

Like learning a second language can expand the scope if traveling, opening yourself up to the full package or a fuller packet of information being sent can also benefit directly your ability to communicate at a higher level.

Be well.

Monday's Mantra R.A K. ( Random Acts of Kindness) have such an incredibly awesome potential. There is no need for flambo...
10/12/2026

Monday's Mantra

R.A K. ( Random Acts of Kindness) have such an incredibly awesome potential. There is no need for flamboyant or banners, but our commitment to showing respect and kindness, wherever and whenevervwe have opportunity.

In the realm of humanity, and mind glitches, I am still curious to what triggered individuals becoming vindictive and cruel with precision and intent? I can understand the defense mechanism, the emotional electric fence, but the transition to harmful and hateful mostly alludes me.

Perhaps, indeed It is the rose coloured glasses I have donned as a therapist and mental well-being coach, which make me blind to the cause, and I have to be honest dear reader, I am absolutely OK with that absence, continuing on my own delusional path, that everyone is messed up and all have a positive potentials.

Here in Canada we celebrate Thanksgiving today, so to all my Canucks a very happy Gobble Gobble, I am Thankful for you all.

Be well

This hit like a ton of bricks in the face, like a Wile E Coyote scene. In so many circumstances in our lives, we negotia...
10/10/2026

This hit like a ton of bricks in the face, like a Wile E Coyote scene. In so many circumstances in our lives, we negotiate more brutally with our own standards, than in any corporate boardroom could ever aspire to!
There are always extenuating circumstances, there will always be hard decisions, and there exists people who feed off of preying on the weak, in every single community or family even.
Perhaps it is somehow the attraction of not making a situation confrontational, messy or combative, that seduces us to compromise our own standards, erase the line in the sand and devalue ourselves, that these defeats are activated.

It has been quoted many times that by setting the boundaries for ourselves we demonstrate, to our external world, what is acceptable and what will not be tolerated and how we expect to be treated.
Like parenting, or coaching, if you are not willing to lead by example then the " do as I say not as I do" becomes a significant hurdle.

Biologically speaking we have a pre frontal lobe, specifically adapted to guide us through the fluid circumstances of the day, and my belief that the " situation is always boss" is grounded in the contention that there is hardly if ever a stock, off the shelf response, or strategies.

However, in this regard, instead of a long lamentation, acknowledging a responsibility in who you are in this very moment, what you have been subjected to, but more importantly how you are still standing, is an incredibly powerful first step towards carving and having the privilege of creativity on who you truly want to become.

Be well

Friday's FindEvery morning, very early, I spend my quiet time enjoying my coffee, scrolling through different feeds or w...
10/09/2026

Friday's Find

Every morning, very early, I spend my quiet time enjoying my coffee, scrolling through different feeds or whatever they are called... platforms, seeking an image or phrase which captures my eye, or arouses the muse. Although I am not an advocate for the fates, I am also not foolhardy to place all my eggs in the random basket either. There are stimulus which at a certain time, place and disposition, will effect me.

I write this so you know Dear Reader, the process to which I create the posting you read, some thought provoking and others inspired, I hope.
Something that dawned on me, in this morning's ritual, there really hasn't been anything new written in years! The ideas, concepts and dreams of the likes of Socrates, Rumi, Buddha, Plato et al are the foundation for the inspired prose and words, of the last 200 yrs.
That is not a disrespect to any thinkers of the now generation, but more importantly a nod to my realization that the wants, desires, problems, fears, and needs have remained consistent and constant throughout time. There may be different garments or circumstance, but the core is similar.

Most of you know my opinion on chasing s**t in our lives, that in a very nature driven environment, chasing implies very succinctly, a desire to avoid and escape from the other side of the equation. Perhaps part of the therapeutic approaches, is to embrace our lives were not created with a predictable or predisposed purpose. But our lives were intended to be lived and experienced ON PURPOSE.
For those who lament about the absence of meaning to their lives I offer you its over simplified solution, live your life with meaning, with intent and ON PURPOSE.

I am the first to admit as a hypnotherapist I do not have all the information, the approaches or even the newest fad of techniques. What I do firmly believe in, is my task is and always will be, that catalyst vessel, that gets the current you out of the way of the desired you, long enough so neuro-plasticity and pathways can be firmly aligned to make it natural and easy.

As always I look forward to your questions or comments.
Be well

Wisdom Wednesday I am not positive, it wasn't the image itself which caught my attention,or the words to which echo a ph...
10/07/2026

Wisdom Wednesday

I am not positive, it wasn't the image itself which caught my attention,or the words to which echo a phraseology I use in practice daily, " See what you need to see, Hear what you need to hear inside, to start to feel like you want to feel" is a suggestion to which is mentioned many times in my day for sure, and in Ericksonian style, is permissive enough for the "higher component" of ourselves to fill in some chinks in the Armour.

This phrase is equally important or valuable, as it directs all of us to; firstly experience emotions fully and completely and ; secondly once experienced and processed, move them to the heap.

Emotions, especially those which have been suppressed, tend to ferment and break down, like that lettuce head in the bottom if your crisper. Once vibrant, leafy. And a fantastic basic ingredient for a delightful salad, now slimy and limp, leaving stains all over the other fresh vegetables in there, which had no affiliation to being part of a salad at all!

From the CBT approach, emotions are the side effect of our interpretation of a neutral occurrence, so already suspect in the veracity of it intent.

I am not suggesting becoming completely stoic, but more so, being a responsible facilitator of your emotions. They bring a fullness and vibrancy to life absolutely, when experienced appropriately.

Having a challenge with uncontrolled emotions, or not able to move beyond a " stuck state", DM or PM me so we could discuss.

Looking forward to your questions or comments.

Be well


Tuesdays Treatment How many instances have we cognitively recognized we have been in survival mode? If I follow the path...
10/06/2026

Tuesdays Treatment

How many instances have we cognitively recognized we have been in survival mode?
If I follow the pathway of the 4 "F"s ; freeze; fight; flight and fawn, where does the potential for growth and development exist in those states?

I can only speak of certain modalities of therapy with any real conviction and confidence, however once we can move to a safe space and emotionally and a stable environment mentally, we can then develop and explore our potentials, unfortunately we are re****ed from achieving this fully, while our physiology is hyperactive.

Find a method, an approach and a therapist who you feel comfortable with and break up some of the mask you have been hiding behind.
Allow or more importantly become a proactive component to your life's enjoyment!

Be well

Mindset Monday I hope that most of you, Dear Readers, are familiar with Robert Frosts epic work, or atleast the beginnin...
10/05/2026

Mindset Monday

I hope that most of you, Dear Readers, are familiar with Robert Frosts epic work, or atleast the beginning of the first stanza. " Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth; "
Neuro-plasticity or synaptic flexibility, remind me of this poem, frequently to be honest. It could be the key word diverged and divergence which are the key pivots, but conceptually they are similar in my mind.

If we can accept that the oversimplified phrase, "those neurons that fire together wire together" is actually valid, then we also need to acknowledge that a HUGE key to our emotional and mental health are absolutely within our grasp.
Hypnotists and science have wanted to explain what happens to the brain or specific the thoughts , that makes trance work so effective... sometimes and frustrating enough, usually not with enough consistency or continuity to place all the marbles in that bag for sure!

Many crucial variables to respectfully give a nod to for sure, as I was reminded recently. No two people could ever go through the exact same event, and process it or recall it the same ever. No two people share the same filters, bias or experience for their data base. So if we approach a subject in a standardized manner, we will connect with certain components and miss with others completely.

So, if you desire change, to thoughts or emotions, a crucial ingredient is to seek the path less traveled, which makes all the difference in the world!

Always appreciate the comments and feedback as well as your questions on how Hypnotherapy could help you.

Be well

Friday Feelings I could not begin to count the number of people I have treated, because their emotions were bottled up a...
10/02/2026

Friday Feelings

I could not begin to count the number of people I have treated, because their emotions were bottled up and never processed. Anger, hurt, betrayal, grief, disappointment, and humiliation to list just a few. Here is where for me it doea get real interesting, for you see Dear Readers, I admit I have developed my career around such situations and guiding people to release the mixture and caucaophany of blended, rotten and spoiled emotions, from living someplace inside absolutely rent free, ruining the neighborhood beautification.

How is it that as flesh suits, we do not store the celebrations, accomplishments and joy we experience as well? That if and when we recall those moments they are almost in a disassociative frame.

Societal standards were very damaging, for to express emotions in a social.setting you were wrought with hysteria, or worse, if male, not a real man.

So many cultures promote the " partial" life balance, and I respect that notion completely. At what juncture do we make the next emotional evolutionary step and not only find balance, but to begin with experience and process them?
I am reminded very succinctly that a pattern of anxiety is a spin of the " OMG's" or the barrage of " What ifs " which if my experience and training has demonstrated, is amplified by the unresolved vacuum of previous bouts.

Maybe... maybe not.

I look forward to your questions, comments or views.
If you are curious about how Hypnotherapy works shoot me a DM.

Be well.

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