I got my first taste of "modern medicine" while caring for my mother in 2015. She was in the Emergency Room four times in four months. She ended up in four different emergency care centers. Each time they changed her meds without checking why she was on them, gave her new meds that disagreed with he...

Much of what I do as a hypnotist is helping people correct their self-talk, what I affectionately call "un-hypnotizing my clients." Each week, I hear people say the same things (and these are just a few examples):

• In relationships, "I always pick losers."

• In work, "I can't seem to get ahea

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I saw Star Wars when it opened in 1977.  I was 8 years old and loved it!  Raised on Disney-esque movies like "Escape From Witch Mountain" and "Pete's Dragon," Star Wars was very different.  There were so many characters in it that everyone could personally relate to at least one of them.  Princess L...

I just returned from my “honeymoon,” a Royal Caribbean cruise. I needed a trip badly because I hadn’t had a vacation in 4+ years. I’ve been on plenty of trips, but all of them were work-related. This honeymoon would be unique because I wanted nothing more than to RELAX. I selected 3 of our four excu...

For the past four years, I've been learning how to "leviwand" and "spin poi." Leviwand, if you've never seen one, is a baton with a string that you hold on to with a finger loop or a ball handle. Poi is two balls (or other objects) on a line or cord, also held with a finger loop or ball handle. To s...

My last real vacation was in October of 2019. A real break, as in I didn’t have to perform, see clients, take classes, teach classes, or be accountable to anyone but myself. Every trip I’ve been on in the last four years has been work-related. I may have done lots of fun things on those trips to bre...

A little over a year ago, I was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s hypothyroidism.  It seems weird to think that 30 years of my body doing strange things were easily answered in a simple blood test from Quest Diagnostics.  Hypothyroidism is becoming very common in women my age; however, a proper diagnosis o...

It was a beautiful weekend here in Florida…and I spent 99% of the weekend inside.  My husband is on antibiotics for an infection, and I’m recovering from a fall the previous weekend that left me with a skinned knee.  We decided to make the most of our weekend by being productive.  We moved into this...

The next blog in April, our month of Foolishness and Forgiveness, is about doing the WRITE thing.  That’s right…errr…write!

Doing the WRITE thing is about writing a letter.  It’s a letter where you dig deep into your soul, get in touch with your feelings, and pour your heart out into a letter.  The...

Hello, my name is Traci, and I’m a huge procrastinator. And if you’re reading this, later, because you know, you put off reading it…it’s because you’re a procrastinator too. I wish I could wave my magic wand and make all of the things I’m putting off doing just go away, but they persist. And then th...

The end-of-year holidays are supposed to be all about taking a break from work and spending quality time with friends and family. Unfortunately, with the current economy and inflation, money worries often get in the way of having a truly carefree celebration. 

The pressure to spend comes at you fro...

If you’re stuck, now’s the time to fire up your neural network!

One of the things our unconscious minds do best is to keep us “safe.”  We are hard-wired for survival, so our unconscious minds will go to great lengths to protect us.  Unfortunately, staying “safe” may entail keeping us “stuck.”  We d...