Healing From Within

My Journey With Hypnotherapy and Topical Steroid Withdrawal

Since embarking on my topical steroid withdrawal journey, I’ve delved deeply into various natural healing methods, and I intend to continue sharing more about all of them with you in the future.

For now, I want to share a bit about how an unexpected healing method – hypnotherapy – helped me immensely on my healing journey.

One major aspect has been understanding how our mindset shapes our reality and experiences. I immersed myself in numerous books on this subject, absorbing all the information I could.

The Onset of Hypnotherapy

Despite reading about it quite a bit, I didn’t fully grasp the power of this concept until I started hypnotherapy. I began this journey a couple of years ago now, and since then, significant changes have taken place within me and my life – more changes than I can even articulate. Now, after experiencing all of this myself, I can embody and communicate it better.

Initially, I had no clue that hypnotherapy would be such a transformative experience. To be honest, I doubted it would do anything at all.

But this is one of those times I’m happy to say I was completely wrong. It ended up completely transforming my life and perspective of the world.

Beyond Positive Thinking

Self-help books often suggest that simply thinking positively can lead to happiness and healing. While this is partially true, this approach can be misleading, potentially leading to toxic positivity. Let me explain why I believe this is the case.

Positive thinking alone, without addressing and healing our deep-seated traumas, is just not enough. It’s about the same as placing a band-aid on a serious and open wound.

Healing Deep-Seated Traumas

To heal from trauma, we have to address the root cause, fully experience the associated emotions that have been trapped inside our body, and release them.

Hypnotherapy introduced me to this, and allowed me the space to experience it firsthand. In a relaxed trance state, I revisited some of the most painful and pivotal moments of my life – some of which I’ve written about already, and some which I will share in the future. This allowed me to express and process emotions that I couldn’t at the time, often due to the fight, flight, or freeze response.

Unresolved emotional energy can become trapped in our bodies, potentially leading to “dis-ease” in the future.

Embracing the Healing Process

True healing requires us to fully experience and process our emotions, as the saying goes – “the only way out is through.”

Focusing only on positive thinking addresses only the conscious mind, neglecting the heart and the subconscious mind – which are both arguably much more important.

We cannot think our way out of emotions; we must feel them.

A Safe Space in Hypnotherapy

Hypnotherapy provided a safe environment for me to begin this emotional work. I have since undergone at least 15 regression sessions, addressing various traumas and events from as early as age 2 to the present. For years, I struggled to do this alone, unable to overcome the fear and other emotions to feel safe enough to process everything.

Fortunately, my hypnotherapist, one of the most wonderful human beings I’ve encountered on my journey, helped me clear more trauma and self-limiting beliefs than I had managed in over a decade of conventional CBT therapy.

Integration and Healing

This work has also positively impacted my skin, which continues to heal without medication. While I still experience setbacks, I am better equipped to handle them. As I continued with this work, my mindset shifted from a pessimistic outlook to a more positive one.

To me, the magic lies in integrating the mind and heart. As Dr. Joe Dispenza describes it: “heart-brain coherence.”

It’s not just about thinking positively; it’s about allowing yourself to feel all emotions, whether perceived as “good” or “bad.” It’s about embracing your humanity, which involves a wide range of emotions.

When we permit ourselves this space, our inner reality begins to transform, and eventually, our external world reflects this change as well.