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In this eye-opening episode, host Tommy Sobel shares his deeply personal story about overcoming psoriasis through hypnotherapy, which revealed his life's purpose.
Diagnosed with an autoimmune condition on a vulnerable part of his body, Tommy describes his struggle, the limitations of conventional Western medicine, and how a chance encounter with a Chi Gong teacher and hypnotherapist led to a transformational healing experience.
With over 15 years of being symptom-free, Tommy delves into the psycho-spiritual aspects of disease, encourages listeners to explore their own deep-rooted traumas, and offers insights into the alternative modalities that can actually heal conditions, especially when traditional methods have failed.
By sharing his journey, Tommy illustrates how emotional healing can lead to profound physical recovery and inspire a life of fulfillment and purpose.
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Episode Chapters:
00:00 My Biggest Secret Revealed
01:37 College Heartbreak and Psoriasis Diagnosis
02:41 Struggles with Psoriasis and Failed Treatments
04:27 Discovering Hypnotherapy and Healing
08:04 The Power of Meditative States
14:13 Integrating Healing Modalities
19:09 Turning Pain into Purpose
22:04 Conclusion and Invitation
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(00:00):
This is a story about my
(00:05):
biggest secret.
This ultimately led to me discoveringwho I really am and what my role is
here on Earth in this incarnation,and is a story about my greatest.
Weakness my biggest mess.
That became my biggest gift.
So I got diagnosed withpsoriasis on my penis.
I felt like it was my fault.
(00:27):
I made a massive mistake,felt like a death sentence.
I was able to do what dozens ofdoctors authority figures that I
looked up to told me was impossible,but so specifically, how did it work?
How was I able to heal my psoriasis first?
(01:05):
This is a story about my biggest secret.
This ultimately led to me discoveringwho I really am and what my role is
here on Earth in this incarnation,and is a story about my greatest
weakness, my biggest mess.
That became my.
Biggest gift and my greatest strength.
(01:26):
It's my pain to purpose story.
So here we go.
I've never told this story.
I mean, obviously this is the firstepisode of my podcast, so I haven't told
any stories on my podcast, but I justwanted to go straight with this one.
So it all startedfreshman year of college.
I fell in love with a girl on mydorm room floor, and unfortunately
it just did not go well.
(01:47):
It was also around that timethat I started smoking weed.
So here I am living alone, 18 years old.
And I got mad at her forsomething super silly.
I don't even know what it was.
When I confronted her about it reallyangrily, instead of her apologizing,
she just gave me the cold shoulder.
The next thing I know, I'm in my dormroom and I hear a knock on my door,
(02:08):
and I look out the peephole, and she'smaking out with another guy from the
dorm room floor leaning on my door.
Crazy.
I thought, what if Ihadn't been upset at her?
What if I hadn't said that?
What if I had just let it go?
I just had all these what ifs andI just started going to all these
concerts by myself, the music thatshe introduced me to, and looking
(02:28):
back, I now know that I was depressed.
I didn't know at the time,I felt like it was my fault.
I made a massive mistake.
It was really rough andcompletely unrelated to that.
That's the backstory.
Completely unrelated to that.
When I started college,I got a rash on my penis.
I went to the university doctorand I'm super embarrassed.
(02:48):
I'm like, what is this?
And they said it was psoriasis.
So I got diagnosed withpsoriasis on my penis.
And if you don't know what psoriasis is,psoriasis is an autoimmune condition that
Western doctors don't have a cure for.
And I ended up going from dermatologistto dermatologist who told me
to take this cortisone cream.
(03:08):
And then the other dermatologist wouldbe like, why are you taking that one?
You should be taking this cream,but we can't do anything about it.
We don't know what causes it.
We don't know how to heal it.
All you really can do is take this cream.
So over the next.
Five years I lived withthis rash on my penis.
I thought maybe peoplewould think it was an STD.
(03:28):
Maybe people would think therewas something wrong with me.
I thought there was something wrong.
If there was no reasonthat it could start.
Why did this happen?
I felt super confused and isolated.
I couldn't talk about it with anybody,and I thought that that was what
the rest of my life was gonna be andthat I was gonna have this shameful.
Thing that I needed to hide surroundedby this lifestyle that I'd been looking
(03:53):
forward to my whole life, where finallyI get to be an adult and be with
women and just do the whole collegething that I'd been so excited about.
And then my entire college, I reallycouldn't because the cream didn't really
work and all the authority figures.
In my life told me this is whatI was gonna need to live with.
That there was no cure.
(04:14):
And that was my collegeexperience in a nutshell.
The doctors were right.
It didn't go away.
And I spent five years just living in thisinner turmoil, felt like a death sentence,
and then things started to change.
Right after college, Iserendipitously went to visit.
This Tai Chi teacher, I was veryinterested in a specific type of
(04:36):
tai chi called Niang, and thisniang teacher introduced me to some
of the Eastern methods of healing.
And as we were doing the Niangenergy work, he told me he was
also a clinical hypnotherapist.
I didn't know what that was,but clinical hypnotherapy.
Is very different than stagehypnosis where a magician puts
someone to sleep or makes them callthemselves a duck or something.
(04:58):
Clinical hypnotherapy is where you gointo a meditative state and you access
the subconscious mind, and that's wherea lot of our unconscious patterns are.
Our belief systems, our mindset,our network of emotions.
And feelings and thoughtprocesses, and you can't access
that from the conscious mind.
You need to get into a meditativestate when you're suggestible,
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which is what hypnosis is.
It's like a low grade trancestate, and once you're in that
meditative state, that's whereyou can release these patterns.
Release trauma.
This is all stuff he was explaining to meand I started doing this work with him.
And long story short, throughthat hypnotherapy work,
the miraculous happened.
And my psoriasis on my penis went away.
(05:41):
And since then, I've been completelysymptom free for 15 years.
I went from being this uncomfortableteenage kid who could not experience
intimacy, physically, could not experienceintimacy, to being able to feel confident
in my body again with my manhoodand able to be intimate with women.
(06:02):
And now here I am in a happyrelationship seven years, right?
And, and I'm married, and nowwe're working on starting a family.
So all those doctors, all thosedermatologists were wrong.
All the western doctors that saidthat you cannot cure autoimmune
conditions, that you couldn't get ridof psoriasis, that you just have to
put the cream, they were all wrong.
(06:22):
And this is what I discovered when Iwas 23 years old working with this guy.
I was able to do what dozens of doctors.
Authority figures that I looked upto told me was impossible, and my
hypnotherapist, his name was Jim.
He helped me understand that thereis a psychological, emotional,
and spiritual component.
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To diseases and disorders, whereas westernallopathic medicine see us as machines.
It's like your body is a car.
You just gotta cut somethingout, you gotta medicate it.
You know?
The way that they thinkabout it is purely physical.
It's purely the mechanical.
And western medicineis really good at that.
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It's really good when you need surgery.
It's really good to put broken bonestogether, but it completely dismisses.
Or omits, the emotional and thepsychological and the spiritual
components to disease and to trauma.
This, this experiencecompletely changed my life.
It completely changed the trajectoryof my life because I started
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asking myself, okay, what elsehave I been told that's impossible?
That is actually possible with my body.
With my mind, what otherauthority figures are wrong?
If these doctors are wrong about mehealing my psoriasis, what else are they
wrong about and what else can I do thatpeople have told me that I couldn't do?
(07:46):
If I could use hypnotherapy to healsomething physically in my body that I've
been dealing with for five or more years.
What else could I do in these states?
What other anxieties, fears, or ailmentsthat I was struggling with or other people
are struggling with, could they overcome?
So I saw Jim, my clinical hypnotherapistevery single week for 13 years.
(08:10):
Starting when I was 22 yearsold and he went from being my
therapist to being my mentor.
He guided me through thiswhole new understanding of
how the body actually works.
Because the truth is, we as humans,we have three main components.
We are mind, we arebody, and we are spirit.
And so we need to take intoaccount all three of those aspects.
(08:33):
And going to Duke where, whichis where I went to college,
I was pre-med, and so I was.
On the doctor track, I wasgoing to be a PhD doctor.
I was doing neuroscience research and Ihad been doing cancer research up until
that point, and so this completely veeredme off my conventional parental approved.
Path of success to be like,wait a second, maybe this is
(08:55):
not all it's cracked up to be.
Maybe there's something deeper thatthat is more fascinating to me, but
so specifically, how did it work?
How was I able to heal my psoriasis?
First, what we would do is we would gointo a meditative state by accessing the
subconscious mind using hypnotherapy.
I was able to, in short, healthe trauma from the breakup, and
(09:17):
I didn't even know at the time.
That the psoriasis hadanything to do with that.
Break up that heartbreakfreshman year of college.
But my body I learned had beenprotecting me all of this time
because that experience was sopainful because I had opened my heart.
I was in this veryvulnerable, whole new world.
(09:39):
As an adult.
I was also using these hypnoticdigestibles from the weed.
Which aggravated or exacerbated theemotional wounding from the rejection.
That was so painful for methat my body didn't want me
to experience that pain again.
So it decided to protect me.
What aspect of my mind wasactually protecting me?
(09:59):
I'm gonna get into in the future episode,but it was trying to keep me safe.
It was trying to protect me from beinghurt again, and the way that it did that
was not necessarily in the best way.
But it was in a way that it knew how,and it created this rash on my penis
that protected me from ever being put ina situation where I would be intimate.
(10:20):
Vulnerable and opening my heart tothe point where I could be hurt again.
And I mean, that was a massivebreakthrough to understand that,
to be able to tie a, an emotionaltrauma to a physical ailment.
This is super common, bythe way, and you've probably
experienced something like this.
There's a few different terms for it.
It's commonly called.
Body syndrome, conversiondisorder or psychosomatic is
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what they used to call it.
But I was just converting all ofthis stress, all the anxiety, all
the heartbreak into my body, andthat was how it was protecting me.
I feel like other great examplesof this are, let's say you've got
a job and your boss is an assholeand you don't like your boss.
So every time you go to work you get thisbad headache and you get migraines, but
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then you leave work and you feel fine.
So you wonder, oh, isthere mold in my office?
Am I eating poorly?
Am I having too much coffee?
No.
It's the fact that you don'twant to be working there anymore.
Your boss sucks.
You need to quit and youneed to get a new job.
That's another exampleof your body trying to.
Help you in some way.
And so after doing the healing workwith my hypnotherapist, I processed
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a lot of those feelings that I'd beenrepressing, not confronting, avoiding.
And so after healing thattrauma, my body just no longer
needed to protect me anymore.
It was like I learned the message.
It finally felt safeon an embodiment level.
To be intimate again.
Of course, I wasn't at the time awareof any of this or how this worked.
It was a huge aha moment.
(11:51):
He helped me realize that theystarted at around the same time.
So often when I work with people now,one key component is thinking, okay,
if you have any ailment disorderor disease, you can ask, okay,
when did this feeling first start?
When was the first time I felt.
X, Y, Z. When was the firsttime the rash started?
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When was the first timeyou got the headache?
And that is gonna tell you, you'regonna be reminded of something
you probably completely forgot.
'cause it doesn't feel good to thinkabout the root cause of trauma.
But by processing that one memory, thatone event, that's how you can unlock it.
That's how you can heal it.
I now know there are threevectors of disease and disorders.
The first vector is physical, right?
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Let's say you have a hole in your heart.
Or you have a broken bone, there'sa mechanical issue that is the cause
of a disease and disorder, and that'ssomething that Western medicine is
really good at helping people with.
The second is environmental.
You can get sick from viruses, bacteria,mold, heavy metals, all this stuff.
A lot of people that suffer from A DHDdepression, OCD, they often find that
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they have parasites or heavy metals.
There is often an environmental.
Chemical component topsychological disorders.
That's the second vector.
But then the third is the psychospiritual.
That emotional component, likeemotional trauma, like some wound that
you experienced when you were a kid.
Out of those three vectors,they all are worth exploring.
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You want to take a look at all three,but me personally, I feel like the
emotional psychospiritual componentis the one that's most often missed.
It's the one that you can't really get.
Help with from that manyconventional people.
It's something you kind of have to gooff the beaten path, obviously therapists
and there, there's a lot of modalitiesthat help with the emotional, but really
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to get to the bottom of where a traumastarted, that's the aspect that I love
the most with my work that I do now.
And so.
The Western world, theyhave two of those covered.
They can help you understand if you've gota broken bone or an issue with your liver.
With an ultrasound, they candiagnose and use x-rays and CAT
scans and blood tests and all thatstuff, but they completely omit.
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They are missing.
This key component, the emotional,psychological, and spiritual aspect
to life's biggest challenges.
Since having my own healing experienceand uncovering that there were actually
methods out there like clinicalhypnotherapy that can heal things that
other authorities that are not possible.
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I started exploring all these otherhealing modalities and since then I've.
Experienced so many otherways to heal on the emotional,
mental, and spiritual levels.
You've got Reiki, EMDR, ayahuasca, peyote,breath work, holotropic breath work.
You've got.
Various meditations, Joe Dispenza,NLP, theta Healing neurofeedback.
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You've got somatic therapy.
There's so many different,incredibly powerful modalities out
there that I have since explored.
It's incredible and I've experiencedall them, and I'm like a Guinea
pig where I feel like I've triedeverything and what I noticed
through working through my long list.
Of ailments and inner obstacles.
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My negative self-talk as well as otherphysical ailments, especially back
issues, had a lot of lower back painand herniated discs over the years
was that many of the best healingmodalities that I experienced, the
ones that made the biggest difference.
They were the ones that broughtme into a meditative state.
I realized that it's the meditative statethat is the key component to accelerate
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growth and healing, that we reallydo need to access the subconscious.
That's like the consistent component tothe things that actually have worked for
me, and I feel like worked for many peoplealso, once I started to go through my long
list of remedial things that were keepingme small and keeping me in this anxious.
Insecure, unfulfilled version of myself.
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I started to feel more confident, morepurposeful, more whole, more alive.
So I started using these meditativestates, not just to work on solving
problems, but actually to optimizefinesse and actually improving quality
of life that was already quite high.
I, I just wanna share that first.
You might be working onsolving the bad shit, but then
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there's this whole other level.
Once you've tackled most of those.
To actually accelerating yourspiritual awakening, connecting to
your higher power, witnessing thefuture, connecting to your higher self.
There's incredible amounts ofinsights and clarity that can
come through these meditativestates to live your fullest life.
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It's like you go from just tryingto survive to actually thriving.
And you can do both of thosewith these meditative states.
And so I ask you, as you're listeningto this, if any of this is resonating,
if you're hearing a little bit of yourstory or your journey here, maybe there's
something that you've been hiding that isyour biggest struggle, the thing that you
are ashamed about, or your core wound.
That may be turned into an autoimmunedisorder or turned into some
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form of addiction or avoidance.
What are you struggling with?
Where are you converting your stress andyour unprocessed trauma into your body?
Or maybe you find yourself sabotagingyour success and you don't know why?
In my case, the way that I was sabotagingmy success was sabotaging my deep desire,
my conscious desire to be intimate.
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My body was sabotaging that.
So where is your bodysabotaging what you really want?
And are you using your subconscious mindto understand that better and to heal?
Also, maybe you're about tomake a really big presentation.
Maybe you wanna start a podcast.
Maybe you wanna write a book.
Maybe you want to quit your job.
Maybe you wanna raise a bunch ofmoney for your side hustle to become
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the next big thing, and you haven'tbeen taking the aligned actions.
You can go into a meditative state.
And come outta that feeling ready,feeling confident, and knowing
exactly what the next step is.
What's so great about having hadall these experiences I've shared in
this episode is that I've basicallytaken all the different healing
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modalities that I've experienced.
The NLP, the Theta healing andthe clinical hypnotherapy, and
I've made it my own and I now helpother people every single day.
These amazing, ambitious.
Entrepreneurs, typically people whowanna live a fuller life who might be
struggling with their own subconsciousself-sabotage, their own unprocessed
traumas from their childhood.
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And I help them with it by helpingthem go into a meditative state
to heal at the deepest level.
And I love it.
It's incredible.
Yeah.
It, it's, I, it's like I, I found mything and I, I needed to have that pain.
I needed to have that horrible,traumatic experience to go through
this entire life trajectory.
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Over the last decades to be in thisincredibly powerful position that
I'm so proud to be in now, whereeverything that I experienced,
all my trials and tribulations.
All my lessons have become my blessings.
They've become my greatest gift, and Icall it superconscious healing because
not only are we going into a subconsciousmeditative state, I'm actually connecting
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to what I call the superconscious,which is basically this infinite loving
guidance, this one source consciousnessthat is out there that we have access to.
So while I bring the person.
Into a meditative state toaccess the subconscious.
We're also accessing the superconscious, and it's from there, I connect
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intuitively and we get to the bottomof that root trauma, the root memory.
That's my favorite thing to do,and I just see incredible results.
Every single day.
It's really special.
It's really powerful and I know I'mlike kind of selling what I actually
do now, which is not the point.
But the point is that as I lookback, my biggest secret has become
my greatest gift, my biggest trauma.
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That left me feeling isolatedand completely lost has
become my greatest strength.
What dilemma has been keeping you up at.
That's preventing you frommoving forward in the best way.
What weed needs to be pluckedspiritually with you because
it doesn't need to anymore.
My experience is uniqueperhaps, but it's not special.
We all are experiencing these core wounds.
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You can heal it if anybody istelling you that you have to live
with something for the rest ofyour life before you believe them.
Come experience the, the workthat I've experienced, because
everything is possible to heal.
With very few caveats, and I'm gonna havea whole other episode on divine timing,
which is maybe where there's exceptionsto that rule, but anything that's
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limiting you, it doesn't have to anymore.
You can let it go.
You can heal.
Even if all the doctors in theworld, even if your parents, family
members, friends, teachers, spirit,guys, even if they tell you you
can't do something, you can be free.
You can live a full life.
And honestly, you canprobably take whatever pain.
You're experiencing and transmute it intoa gift, into an opportunity, a lesson or
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a blessing that you can give the world.
I mean, your pain is probablyyour greatest purpose as well.
You might just not know it yet, nomatter where you are on the healing
journey, whether you're in thebeginning and you're experiencing
these incredible traumatic experiences.
Just trying to weather the stormof your life situation right now.
Or maybe you've come through theacute challenges and things just
(21:32):
don't really make sense yet.
You don't know why things happenedor what it means, or maybe you're in
like one of the later phases whereeverything is coming full circle.
You're starting to see with hindsighthow all these things that feel like
happen to you, really happen for you,and really were lessons to help you grow.
(21:52):
Realize that, oh wow,pressure does make diamonds.
I am a better person, or I havebeen able to rise to the challenge.
Because of it.
I hope that my story resonateswith you because you are not alone.
Thank you so much for listening.
That is my healing story.
I invite you to follow along as I continueto share my journey of healing, and
I get more specific about modalities,frameworks, tools, and techniques
(22:17):
that have been most helpful for me.
Very specifically, step by step,I'm gonna be sharing the tools
and the techniques that just keepshowing up because they consistently
create breakthroughs for people.
And have created massivebreakthroughs for me.
So if you enjoyed this experience,would just be so grateful if you'd
give an honest review, comment,share it with people, follow
(22:39):
my podcast on all platforms.
You know what to do.
Just engage with it.
That's really what helps.
Thank you so much for listening.
So glad to be here with you and let meknow what you'd like to hear more of.
This is a story about my
(00:05):
biggest secret.
This ultimately led to me discoveringwho I really am and what my role is
here on Earth in this incarnation,and is a story about my greatest.
Weakness my biggest mess.
That became my biggest gift.
So I got diagnosed withpsoriasis on my penis.
I felt like it was my fault.
(00:27):
I made a massive mistake,felt like a death sentence.
I was able to do what dozens ofdoctors authority figures that I
looked up to told me was impossible,but so specifically, how did it work?
How was I able to heal my psoriasis first?
(01:05):
This is a story about my biggest secret.
This ultimately led to me discoveringwho I really am and what my role is
here on Earth in this incarnation,and is a story about my greatest
weakness, my biggest mess.
That became my.
Biggest gift and my greatest strength.
(01:26):
It's my pain to purpose story.
So here we go.
I've never told this story.
I mean, obviously this is the firstepisode of my podcast, so I haven't told
any stories on my podcast, but I justwanted to go straight with this one.
So it all startedfreshman year of college.
I fell in love with a girl on mydorm room floor, and unfortunately
it just did not go well.
(01:47):
It was also around that timethat I started smoking weed.
So here I am living alone, 18 years old.
And I got mad at her forsomething super silly.
I don't even know what it was.
When I confronted her about it reallyangrily, instead of her apologizing,
she just gave me the cold shoulder.
The next thing I know, I'm in my dormroom and I hear a knock on my door,
(02:08):
and I look out the peephole, and she'smaking out with another guy from the
dorm room floor leaning on my door.
Crazy.
I thought, what if Ihadn't been upset at her?
What if I hadn't said that?
What if I had just let it go?
I just had all these what ifs andI just started going to all these
concerts by myself, the music thatshe introduced me to, and looking
(02:28):
back, I now know that I was depressed.
I didn't know at the time,I felt like it was my fault.
I made a massive mistake.
It was really rough andcompletely unrelated to that.
That's the backstory.
Completely unrelated to that.
When I started college,I got a rash on my penis.
I went to the university doctorand I'm super embarrassed.
(02:48):
I'm like, what is this?
And they said it was psoriasis.
So I got diagnosed withpsoriasis on my penis.
And if you don't know what psoriasis is,psoriasis is an autoimmune condition that
Western doctors don't have a cure for.
And I ended up going from dermatologistto dermatologist who told me
to take this cortisone cream.
(03:08):
And then the other dermatologist wouldbe like, why are you taking that one?
You should be taking this cream,but we can't do anything about it.
We don't know what causes it.
We don't know how to heal it.
All you really can do is take this cream.
So over the next.
Five years I lived withthis rash on my penis.
I thought maybe peoplewould think it was an STD.
(03:28):
Maybe people would think therewas something wrong with me.
I thought there was something wrong.
If there was no reasonthat it could start.
Why did this happen?
I felt super confused and isolated.
I couldn't talk about it with anybody,and I thought that that was what
the rest of my life was gonna be andthat I was gonna have this shameful.
Thing that I needed to hide surroundedby this lifestyle that I'd been looking
(03:53):
forward to my whole life, where finallyI get to be an adult and be with
women and just do the whole collegething that I'd been so excited about.
And then my entire college, I reallycouldn't because the cream didn't really
work and all the authority figures.
In my life told me this is whatI was gonna need to live with.
That there was no cure.
(04:14):
And that was my collegeexperience in a nutshell.
The doctors were right.
It didn't go away.
And I spent five years just living in thisinner turmoil, felt like a death sentence,
and then things started to change.
Right after college, Iserendipitously went to visit.
This Tai Chi teacher, I was veryinterested in a specific type of
(04:36):
tai chi called Niang, and thisniang teacher introduced me to some
of the Eastern methods of healing.
And as we were doing the Niangenergy work, he told me he was
also a clinical hypnotherapist.
I didn't know what that was,but clinical hypnotherapy.
Is very different than stagehypnosis where a magician puts
someone to sleep or makes them callthemselves a duck or something.
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Clinical hypnotherapy is where you gointo a meditative state and you access
the subconscious mind, and that's wherea lot of our unconscious patterns are.
Our belief systems, our mindset,our network of emotions.
And feelings and thoughtprocesses, and you can't access
that from the conscious mind.
You need to get into a meditativestate when you're suggestible,
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which is what hypnosis is.
It's like a low grade trancestate, and once you're in that
meditative state, that's whereyou can release these patterns.
Release trauma.
This is all stuff he was explaining to meand I started doing this work with him.
And long story short, throughthat hypnotherapy work,
the miraculous happened.
And my psoriasis on my penis went away.
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And since then, I've been completelysymptom free for 15 years.
I went from being this uncomfortableteenage kid who could not experience
intimacy, physically, could not experienceintimacy, to being able to feel confident
in my body again with my manhoodand able to be intimate with women.
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And now here I am in a happyrelationship seven years, right?
And, and I'm married, and nowwe're working on starting a family.
So all those doctors, all thosedermatologists were wrong.
All the western doctors that saidthat you cannot cure autoimmune
conditions, that you couldn't get ridof psoriasis, that you just have to
put the cream, they were all wrong.
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And this is what I discovered when Iwas 23 years old working with this guy.
I was able to do what dozens of doctors.
Authority figures that I looked upto told me was impossible, and my
hypnotherapist, his name was Jim.
He helped me understand that thereis a psychological, emotional,
and spiritual component.
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To diseases and disorders, whereas westernallopathic medicine see us as machines.
It's like your body is a car.
You just gotta cut somethingout, you gotta medicate it.
You know?
The way that they thinkabout it is purely physical.
It's purely the mechanical.
And western medicineis really good at that.
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It's really good when you need surgery.
It's really good to put broken bonestogether, but it completely dismisses.
Or omits, the emotional and thepsychological and the spiritual
components to disease and to trauma.
This, this experiencecompletely changed my life.
It completely changed the trajectoryof my life because I started
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asking myself, okay, what elsehave I been told that's impossible?
That is actually possible with my body.
With my mind, what otherauthority figures are wrong?
If these doctors are wrong about mehealing my psoriasis, what else are they
wrong about and what else can I do thatpeople have told me that I couldn't do?
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If I could use hypnotherapy to healsomething physically in my body that I've
been dealing with for five or more years.
What else could I do in these states?
What other anxieties, fears, or ailmentsthat I was struggling with or other people
are struggling with, could they overcome?
So I saw Jim, my clinical hypnotherapistevery single week for 13 years.
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Starting when I was 22 yearsold and he went from being my
therapist to being my mentor.
He guided me through thiswhole new understanding of
how the body actually works.
Because the truth is, we as humans,we have three main components.
We are mind, we arebody, and we are spirit.
And so we need to take intoaccount all three of those aspects.
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And going to Duke where, whichis where I went to college,
I was pre-med, and so I was.
On the doctor track, I wasgoing to be a PhD doctor.
I was doing neuroscience research and Ihad been doing cancer research up until
that point, and so this completely veeredme off my conventional parental approved.
Path of success to be like,wait a second, maybe this is
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not all it's cracked up to be.
Maybe there's something deeper thatthat is more fascinating to me, but
so specifically, how did it work?
How was I able to heal my psoriasis?
First, what we would do is we would gointo a meditative state by accessing the
subconscious mind using hypnotherapy.
I was able to, in short, healthe trauma from the breakup, and
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I didn't even know at the time.
That the psoriasis hadanything to do with that.
Break up that heartbreakfreshman year of college.
But my body I learned had beenprotecting me all of this time
because that experience was sopainful because I had opened my heart.
I was in this veryvulnerable, whole new world.
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As an adult.
I was also using these hypnoticdigestibles from the weed.
Which aggravated or exacerbated theemotional wounding from the rejection.
That was so painful for methat my body didn't want me
to experience that pain again.
So it decided to protect me.
What aspect of my mind wasactually protecting me?
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I'm gonna get into in the future episode,but it was trying to keep me safe.
It was trying to protect me from beinghurt again, and the way that it did that
was not necessarily in the best way.
But it was in a way that it knew how,and it created this rash on my penis
that protected me from ever being put ina situation where I would be intimate.
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Vulnerable and opening my heart tothe point where I could be hurt again.
And I mean, that was a massivebreakthrough to understand that,
to be able to tie a, an emotionaltrauma to a physical ailment.
This is super common, bythe way, and you've probably
experienced something like this.
There's a few different terms for it.
It's commonly called.
Body syndrome, conversiondisorder or psychosomatic is
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what they used to call it.
But I was just converting all ofthis stress, all the anxiety, all
the heartbreak into my body, andthat was how it was protecting me.
I feel like other great examplesof this are, let's say you've got
a job and your boss is an assholeand you don't like your boss.
So every time you go to work you get thisbad headache and you get migraines, but
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then you leave work and you feel fine.
So you wonder, oh, isthere mold in my office?
Am I eating poorly?
Am I having too much coffee?
No.
It's the fact that you don'twant to be working there anymore.
Your boss sucks.
You need to quit and youneed to get a new job.
That's another exampleof your body trying to.
Help you in some way.
And so after doing the healing workwith my hypnotherapist, I processed
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a lot of those feelings that I'd beenrepressing, not confronting, avoiding.
And so after healing thattrauma, my body just no longer
needed to protect me anymore.
It was like I learned the message.
It finally felt safeon an embodiment level.
To be intimate again.
Of course, I wasn't at the time awareof any of this or how this worked.
It was a huge aha moment.
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He helped me realize that theystarted at around the same time.
So often when I work with people now,one key component is thinking, okay,
if you have any ailment disorderor disease, you can ask, okay,
when did this feeling first start?
When was the first time I felt.
X, Y, Z. When was the firsttime the rash started?
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When was the first timeyou got the headache?
And that is gonna tell you, you'regonna be reminded of something
you probably completely forgot.
'cause it doesn't feel good to thinkabout the root cause of trauma.
But by processing that one memory, thatone event, that's how you can unlock it.
That's how you can heal it.
I now know there are threevectors of disease and disorders.
The first vector is physical, right?
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Let's say you have a hole in your heart.
Or you have a broken bone, there'sa mechanical issue that is the cause
of a disease and disorder, and that'ssomething that Western medicine is
really good at helping people with.
The second is environmental.
You can get sick from viruses, bacteria,mold, heavy metals, all this stuff.
A lot of people that suffer from A DHDdepression, OCD, they often find that
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they have parasites or heavy metals.
There is often an environmental.
Chemical component topsychological disorders.
That's the second vector.
But then the third is the psychospiritual.
That emotional component, likeemotional trauma, like some wound that
you experienced when you were a kid.
Out of those three vectors,they all are worth exploring.
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You want to take a look at all three,but me personally, I feel like the
emotional psychospiritual componentis the one that's most often missed.
It's the one that you can't really get.
Help with from that manyconventional people.
It's something you kind of have to gooff the beaten path, obviously therapists
and there, there's a lot of modalitiesthat help with the emotional, but really
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to get to the bottom of where a traumastarted, that's the aspect that I love
the most with my work that I do now.
And so.
The Western world, theyhave two of those covered.
They can help you understand if you've gota broken bone or an issue with your liver.
With an ultrasound, they candiagnose and use x-rays and CAT
scans and blood tests and all thatstuff, but they completely omit.
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They are missing.
This key component, the emotional,psychological, and spiritual aspect
to life's biggest challenges.
Since having my own healing experienceand uncovering that there were actually
methods out there like clinicalhypnotherapy that can heal things that
other authorities that are not possible.
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I started exploring all these otherhealing modalities and since then I've.
Experienced so many otherways to heal on the emotional,
mental, and spiritual levels.
You've got Reiki, EMDR, ayahuasca, peyote,breath work, holotropic breath work.
You've got.
Various meditations, Joe Dispenza,NLP, theta Healing neurofeedback.
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You've got somatic therapy.
There's so many different,incredibly powerful modalities out
there that I have since explored.
It's incredible and I've experiencedall them, and I'm like a Guinea
pig where I feel like I've triedeverything and what I noticed
through working through my long list.
Of ailments and inner obstacles.
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My negative self-talk as well as otherphysical ailments, especially back
issues, had a lot of lower back painand herniated discs over the years
was that many of the best healingmodalities that I experienced, the
ones that made the biggest difference.
They were the ones that broughtme into a meditative state.
I realized that it's the meditative statethat is the key component to accelerate
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growth and healing, that we reallydo need to access the subconscious.
That's like the consistent component tothe things that actually have worked for
me, and I feel like worked for many peoplealso, once I started to go through my long
list of remedial things that were keepingme small and keeping me in this anxious.
Insecure, unfulfilled version of myself.
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I started to feel more confident, morepurposeful, more whole, more alive.
So I started using these meditativestates, not just to work on solving
problems, but actually to optimizefinesse and actually improving quality
of life that was already quite high.
I, I just wanna share that first.
You might be working onsolving the bad shit, but then
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there's this whole other level.
Once you've tackled most of those.
To actually accelerating yourspiritual awakening, connecting to
your higher power, witnessing thefuture, connecting to your higher self.
There's incredible amounts ofinsights and clarity that can
come through these meditativestates to live your fullest life.
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It's like you go from just tryingto survive to actually thriving.
And you can do both of thosewith these meditative states.
And so I ask you, as you're listeningto this, if any of this is resonating,
if you're hearing a little bit of yourstory or your journey here, maybe there's
something that you've been hiding that isyour biggest struggle, the thing that you
are ashamed about, or your core wound.
That may be turned into an autoimmunedisorder or turned into some
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form of addiction or avoidance.
What are you struggling with?
Where are you converting your stress andyour unprocessed trauma into your body?
Or maybe you find yourself sabotagingyour success and you don't know why?
In my case, the way that I was sabotagingmy success was sabotaging my deep desire,
my conscious desire to be intimate.
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My body was sabotaging that.
So where is your bodysabotaging what you really want?
And are you using your subconscious mindto understand that better and to heal?
Also, maybe you're about tomake a really big presentation.
Maybe you wanna start a podcast.
Maybe you wanna write a book.
Maybe you want to quit your job.
Maybe you wanna raise a bunch ofmoney for your side hustle to become
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the next big thing, and you haven'tbeen taking the aligned actions.
You can go into a meditative state.
And come outta that feeling ready,feeling confident, and knowing
exactly what the next step is.
What's so great about having hadall these experiences I've shared in
this episode is that I've basicallytaken all the different healing
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modalities that I've experienced.
The NLP, the Theta healing andthe clinical hypnotherapy, and
I've made it my own and I now helpother people every single day.
These amazing, ambitious.
Entrepreneurs, typically people whowanna live a fuller life who might be
struggling with their own subconsciousself-sabotage, their own unprocessed
traumas from their childhood.
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And I help them with it by helpingthem go into a meditative state
to heal at the deepest level.
And I love it.
It's incredible.
Yeah.
It, it's, I, it's like I, I found mything and I, I needed to have that pain.
I needed to have that horrible,traumatic experience to go through
this entire life trajectory.
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Over the last decades to be in thisincredibly powerful position that
I'm so proud to be in now, whereeverything that I experienced,
all my trials and tribulations.
All my lessons have become my blessings.
They've become my greatest gift, and Icall it superconscious healing because
not only are we going into a subconsciousmeditative state, I'm actually connecting
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to what I call the superconscious,which is basically this infinite loving
guidance, this one source consciousnessthat is out there that we have access to.
So while I bring the person.
Into a meditative state toaccess the subconscious.
We're also accessing the superconscious, and it's from there, I connect
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intuitively and we get to the bottomof that root trauma, the root memory.
That's my favorite thing to do,and I just see incredible results.
Every single day.
It's really special.
It's really powerful and I know I'mlike kind of selling what I actually
do now, which is not the point.
But the point is that as I lookback, my biggest secret has become
my greatest gift, my biggest trauma.
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That left me feeling isolatedand completely lost has
become my greatest strength.
What dilemma has been keeping you up at.
That's preventing you frommoving forward in the best way.
What weed needs to be pluckedspiritually with you because
it doesn't need to anymore.
My experience is uniqueperhaps, but it's not special.
We all are experiencing these core wounds.
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You can heal it if anybody istelling you that you have to live
with something for the rest ofyour life before you believe them.
Come experience the, the workthat I've experienced, because
everything is possible to heal.
With very few caveats, and I'm gonna havea whole other episode on divine timing,
which is maybe where there's exceptionsto that rule, but anything that's
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limiting you, it doesn't have to anymore.
You can let it go.
You can heal.
Even if all the doctors in theworld, even if your parents, family
members, friends, teachers, spirit,guys, even if they tell you you
can't do something, you can be free.
You can live a full life.
And honestly, you canprobably take whatever pain.
You're experiencing and transmute it intoa gift, into an opportunity, a lesson or
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a blessing that you can give the world.
I mean, your pain is probablyyour greatest purpose as well.
You might just not know it yet, nomatter where you are on the healing
journey, whether you're in thebeginning and you're experiencing
these incredible traumatic experiences.
Just trying to weather the stormof your life situation right now.
Or maybe you've come through theacute challenges and things just
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don't really make sense yet.
You don't know why things happenedor what it means, or maybe you're in
like one of the later phases whereeverything is coming full circle.
You're starting to see with hindsighthow all these things that feel like
happen to you, really happen for you,and really were lessons to help you grow.
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Realize that, oh wow,pressure does make diamonds.
I am a better person, or I havebeen able to rise to the challenge.
Because of it.
I hope that my story resonateswith you because you are not alone.
Thank you so much for listening.
That is my healing story.
I invite you to follow along as I continueto share my journey of healing, and
I get more specific about modalities,frameworks, tools, and techniques
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that have been most helpful for me.
Very specifically, step by step,I'm gonna be sharing the tools
and the techniques that just keepshowing up because they consistently
create breakthroughs for people.
And have created massivebreakthroughs for me.
So if you enjoyed this experience,would just be so grateful if you'd
give an honest review, comment,share it with people, follow
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my podcast on all platforms.
You know what to do.
Just engage with it.
That's really what helps.
Thank you so much for listening.
So glad to be here with you and let meknow what you'd like to hear more of.
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