Enter Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP).

This body of knowledge (including a set of gentle, relaxing imagination-based techniques) was very helpful for this decision making problem that I noticed my patients were having a hard time with. I discovered that often underlying these blocks to self care were old unprocessed negative emotions, unhealed traumatic events, and limiting beliefs around worthiness or self-acceptance.

For me as a patient, when I cleared these things from my past and my unconscious (body) mind, tremendous changes took place in my physical body. I promptly and easily went back into healing mode and released 50 pounds of stress-related weight gain, healed a lifetime of inebriating period pain, and dramatically improved my sleep duration and quality. WOAH.

Marrying the tenants of naturopathic medicine with the healing techniques of NLP created powerful changes. And not just for me! Clients were getting similar benefits. But something was still missing.

Third Bump! There was the odd time that what was helpful for most was ineffective for some.

I’m not a fan of these types of mysteries. Why were some people going through the same transformative process and not getting the transformation that they were seeking long term? 

Why were they going back to old habits of junk food eating, not exercising, staying up too late, lingering in relationships and situations that were stressful, unhappy, or uncomfortable? 

Essentially I’d been wondering why are people - myself included - engaging in behaviors and habits that are making them sick or preventing them from healing? Still? Again? WHY???? 

Excuse me, my passion is showing.

Recognizing these two powerful healing systems (naturopathic medicine and NLP) alone or in concert don’t work for everyone, it begged the questions, is there something that will fill in the gaps? 

Each of these systems operate from a specific set of different assumptions, as does any healing modality. Naturopathic medicine assumes that every organism has an innate ability to heal. NLP assume that the system is like a computer, a processor and storage facility.

Consciously or unconsciously, if the set of assumptions doesn’t match the client's set there’s a mismatch which lends only short-term results at best. 

What if the practitioner made no assumptions about the person, their healing model, or their expectations, and just met them exactly where they are, respecting how they’ve internally structured their own problem? 

Because this is something we all do, but we don't know we're doing it. We all have an personal way of structuring our schtuff. And once we know how we structure it, we can gain new perspectives, assume new positions, explore what's left for us, and the right way to go. We can lighten up, grow up and out of patterns, change our attitude, make progress, move forward, increase our understanding, and feel the the support from what's backing us up.

Enter SHIFT.

I'm not going to pretend like I invented this new way of working with people who are stuck and want to get moving.

I can't even say I found it. It found me. For real though… how did this PDF show up on my laptop?

How ever it got there it sealed up the cracks. Filled in the gaps. Dismantled what I was bumping up against.

This is a refreshingly, powerful, effective way of doing change work, no matter where you're starting from or where your beliefs lie.  

The healing potential here is immense. For physical stuff? Maybe. But the deep and prevalent life stuff? Definitely.

Because this work respectfully meets you exactly where you're at, it brilliantly integrates the conscious and unconscious mind so that they're working cohesively.

I know I'm being vague, and when it comes to this process there is a bit of magic in the mystery.

I'll share a real life example. One of my major mostly life long vices, bad habits, that causes a lot of guilt, shame and problems in my life, is gone after doing this work. GONE. Like don't care. Don't want it. Never think about it. Get turned OFF by it. WOAH.

So if you’re feeling stuck in the same problems or repeating patterns, I invite you to take this opportunity to SHIFT the underlying structure of these problematic patterns.

Am I asking you to trust me? Sort of. I mean... we might've just met, and I know that trust builds over time.

More so I’m asking you to trust yourself.