Can doing the hokey-pokey help you lose weight?
Do you still clean your plate because there are starving children somewhere in the world? The same thing that holds us back can leverage us for success.
Health
Weight loss misdirection and marketing
I get really irritated by those sneaky, lying weight-loss liars. I was at a church function recently where the icebreaker included naming your favorite movie (on this particular day mine was Groundhog Day) and reaching into a little tub full of movie candy and pulling out a box for your prize. I pulled out this …
Hypnosis and IBS
The Wall Street Journal ran an article about how hypnosis helps with IBS. Now, this from The Lancet.
Kiera Knieghtly talks about hypnosis and PTSD
We make assumptions about people: how successful they are, what they like, what they care about, what they believe. We don’t often make assumptions about what they are afraid of. Photographers and other media workers so harassed Keira Knightley that it resulted in a PTSD diagnosis and fear of going out in public, among other …
Mind/body, sexuality, and coaching
A couple of weeks ago, I met with Kristine D’Angelo, of DoYourSexLifeAFavor. D’Angelo is a certified sex coach, which means she’s a coach (someone who listens, asks questions, gives homework assignments, reflects, encourages, holds people accountable, etc.) who helps clients with goals regarding their sexual lives – physicality, attitudes, experiences, communication (with self and others), …