WHO I AM
On the
surface of things, I am a practicing clinical hypnotherapist and
clinical homeopath. I am also the author of several books: Journey
to Alternity: Transformational Healing Through Stories and Metaphors
(www.amazon.com) and The Worst Is Over: What To Say When Every
Moment Counts (with Judith Acosta, 2002). Using the
protocol of Verbal First Aid, I have trained
firefighters, emergency medical personnel, doctors, nurses and police
officers across the US, and in England and China how to speak in
medical emergencies to relieve pain, calm, promote healing and save
lives.
I
also teach creative writing in the UCLA Extension Writers' Program with
my husband Harry Youtt, and in 2004, we were awarded the distinction of
being the Outstanding Instructors for the year. (Click here if you'd like to read
the UCLA Writers' Quarterly article and interview of us about this.)
As a consultant to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angels, I have written a series of pre-, intra-, and post-operative and ICU creative imagery CDs currently being used in the Cardiothoracic Surgery unit. The pilot program was a success demonstrating improvements in pain control and earlier release in patients who listen to the CD's before, during, and after surgery. CD's based on this study are available for general surgery as Guided Imagery for Surgery.
Prenatal
and early childhood issues have been important to me, as we are
contributing to the future when we bring in and support emotionally and
physically healthy new generations. As a featured speaker at the
Association of Pre- and Perinatal Psychology and Health, I address the
need to tend to the mother's psychological wellbeing to support the
emotional development of the child within through my program BONDING WITH THE BABY WITHIN.
As a
result of the disastrous earthquake and floods in China, I am currently
(2008) working with the largest psychological institute in Beijing to
develop models for helping people through crises. You can read my
blog of my trip there by
clicking here..
CREATIVITY -- IT'S OURS, IT'S FREE, IT'S MAGICAL
How I got to this point, after a career that began with writing a best-selling novel, moved on to a stint as a writer for General Hospital, and then progressed through the executive ranks of New York advertising agencies, is a separate story. The essential point is that when I discovered it was possible to help people heal on the material plane by inviting them to create alternate realities, I knew I'd found my niche.
The magic that we all have is our imagination. When people move into that plane, they move into the magician's journey.
In my hypnotherapy practice, which has at times focused upon people who are suffering serious physical illnesses, my clients have experienced "spontaneous remissions" from cancer, recovery from paralysis, and rapid relief from allergies and eating disorders. The solutions my clients discover have been influenced by visitations by angels, sometimes discussions with a fruit bowl and, in one case, a dance with her own cancer.
These stories are all documented in my book, Journey to Alternity. The power of these clients' creative imaginations changed their worlds.
As an instructor in the UCLA Extension Writers' Program, a best-selling novelist, TV writer, Creative Director at major advertising agencies in New York and Los Angeles, I have seen how creativity opens the door to Alternity — alternate realities — and, ultimately, as I've seen through hypnotherapy, to healing. I won't give you "five easy steps" or some quick grid that will change your life. I can't. I don't think the easy answers exist.
All I do know is that you have it in you to heal yourself through your imagination. We are not stuck in any one "reality," and when we know it, we are free to live our full potential. Can you do it for yourself? Try some of the exercises from my book: Journey to Alternity on this site and see.
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