“I finished the audition and only when I walked out did I realize: I had no teeth chattering, no sweating, no shaking at all! It was just so crazy. I didn’t expect it at all!” Let’s rewind back to when I first met Maya. She was a bright high school student who played trombone in […]
If it ain’t fun, you ain’t doin’ it right! When I started working for the Monarch Center for Family Healing, a wilderness therapy program for at risk youth, I soon discovered that “at risk,” meant teens who were alive, and their parents were worried. The kids were sent to us for many reasons—drugs, sex, anger, […]
Being raised by NLPeople Over the years, many people have asked me, “What was it like growing up with your parents using NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) on you all the time?” To which I like to respond, smiling, “How would you feel if your parents NLpeed on you your entire childhood?” Then I point out that there […]
February 3, 2015
Metaphors in Coaching and Therapy: Keys to Your Inner Experience
The above video is just a very small sample of the full Metaphors of Movement process developed by Andrew T Austin. Awakening through Metaphor Last September I gave an interactive presentation for the American Council of Hypnotist Examiners' International Hypnotherapy Conference. I presented Andrew T. Austin's Metaphors of Movement process, exploring group metaphors and sharing examples of client metaphors from my […]
Last week I was re-reading one of my favorite nonfiction books, “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman.” Feynman was a young professor at Cornell, feeling somewhat “burned out” by teaching introductory physics classes. One day he was in the cafeteria when a guy was fooling around throwing a spinning plate in the air. Feynman noticed the […]
“But the fear keeps me safe...!” “I can’t let go of the anger or I might get hurt...!” This is the kind of thing I hear again and again from clients experiencing anxiety, anger, fear or other emotions causing stress, sleep loss, or compromising their relationships, careers, and life in general. The side effects of […]