Category: Anxiety
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How Drugs Hijack Your Brain

How Drugs Hijack Your Brain Your brain is designed for survival so it focuses on 2 things: Pleasure = GoodPain = Bad Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that helps you feel pleasure on a scale out of ten. A really great day where everything flows and the sun is shining is 10/10 🙂 Coke, amphetamines, prescription…
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How Substance Use Messes up the Feel Good System in Your Brain

Shout to My Male Followers! I wanna thank all my listeners. I’ve been looking at the stats and notice that there are a lot of men listening on Spotify. And maybe it’s because men suffer with common mental health issues like anxiety, stress, depression, but 40% of men have never spoken to anyone about their…
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The Worst thing that Happens When You Find Out They’re Cheating

Every so often, when I’m talking about hypnosis and how amazing it is, I get someone (usually men) who say that they would never do hypnosis because of what’s down in their subconscious mind- they’re afraid of what might be down there…. And I kinda get it. There’s something down there that you just don’t…
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The Secret of Effective Therapy

Have you ever wondered if the therapy you’re getting is really that effective? Like, you would really like your problem to be over already… Have you ever been to a therapist for some type of emotional problem that you had to talk through? And 3/4 of the way through your appointment, it’s finally getting easier…
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How to Get to the Truth If You Think (S)Hes’s Cheating

When I found out my ex was cheating, I asked him if he would swear on his kids that he wasn’t cheating. And, of course, he did. No problem. What an easy out for a cheater because the cheater isn’t dealing in the truth, so it’s easy for them to cheat and to lie about…
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Reconsolidation Research – Neutralizing Painful Memories

Imagine that your memories are like a dynamic process of painting on a canvas that can change over time. Studies at McGill University that has discovered a series of molecules that regulate how our brains recall, restore and change old memories. They discovered that when you revisit a memory, it’s like painting on this mental…
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How to Get Your Ex Back

There are websites and podcasts and courses about how to get your ex back because this is the way you feel when maybe when you feel like something’s been taken away from you too soon. You weren’t ready for it. When you don’t have closure. You feel like you’ve lost an ex, there’s a void…
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What’s Blocking Your Affirmations

Here’s why affirmations don’t work. Let’s take an affirmation like, “I am worthy of the wealth I desire.” You can’t take a 8 word affirmation and just repeat it over and over and expect to create new neural pathways in your brain. Because you always have to get through your gatekeeper. Your critical mind. And…
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Why It’s So Challenging to Stop or Start a Habit

Think about how habits feel. They feel very effortless and easy, don’t they? They’re automatic. They run themselves, like when you tie your shoes, you don’t even have to think about it anymore. You just have a thought or an intention and it just happens. It’s effortless. It’s easy. And if you think of a…
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Something Holding You Back?

You have big goals, dreams, maybe even a passion project. Things aren’t going quite as smoothly as you like. It might even feel like for every one step forward, you take two steps back. There’s a part of you that likes where you are. Nothing fancy, just stayin’ alive And it might even be very…