Johnny Depp…poor mind, poor me.
Last week we learned that Hollywood megastar Johnny Depp has problems. The kind of problems some might even wish to have. Rich people problems. We found out that the actor that plays the charismatic, swashbuckling ¨Jack Sparrow¨ in the wildly successful Disney movie Franchise ¨Pirates of the Caribbean¨ spends 2 million a month on his […]
Why “evidence based”?
I often get asked why I call myself an evidence-based practitioner. In the field of psychotherapy, there are so many techniques and schools of thought, and although hypnotherapy can be considered “the mother of all psychotherapies”, what is my focus? There are so many different types of hypnotherapy practitioners out there. On what basis do I […]
Does hypnosis work?
One of the most common questions I get as a hypnotist is ¨does hypnosis work¨ ? The short answer is: yes. So when people ask me this, the person is asking if it’s ¨real¨ (as in does it actually exist). Also if it does, will it work for them? Before I unpack this question further […]
Seeing the forest for the trees: finding natural.
While I was growing up in Papua New Guinea, (the country where I was born and lived until I was 13 years old) my mother Dr. Carol Jenkins found herself living an anthropologist’s dream: working with an indigenous tribe that had just been discovered in the rainforest and were still living in the ¨stone age¨. […]
The world within: diving deep into the inner-mind
Albert Einstein once said ¨the only source of knowledge is experience¨. This world is full of a vast array of things we can do, be or have and when it comes down to it, all we have is experience itself. An entire life can be built around the idea that to encounter or undergo […]
Mind control and hypnosis
One thing that stops many people from benefitting from the incredible power of hypnosis is the idea of it being used as “mind control”. Cue scary music. Let’s talk about myth of mind control. Often people have some false impressions about hypnosis being some form of mind control. The hysteria created by the George Du […]
Believing is achieving
After several years participating in personal development and transformational events, certain patterns clearly began to emerge. On one hand the techniques being taught were often truly amazing (especially when it came to hypnosis and NLP) and even though people often reported what I call the BAM (Big Aha Moments!) of personal change and insight, they […]
Alchemy of Coaching: baby steps to quantum leap
I’ve heard the coaching relationship described as an alchemical process: the act of turning something ordinary into something extraordinary or special. It seems to me a truly magical working of the highest order. It is special because at some level both alchemist and element have to decide to fully commit to the process, knowing […]
FEAR, the other 4 letter word
You know what I mean. That feeling of tightness in the chest and stomach, your throat closing, your hands beginning to sweat and that unmistakable impulse to RUN AWAY. It is not a fun state to be in, but the truth is that without that very natural body response, you wouldn’t be here. This totally […]