October 3, 2024 • 21 mins
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Kimberly Lynne became a consulting hypnotist in 2019 and board certified hypnotist in 2021.Since that time she has witnessed the incredible impact hypnosis can make in a life with hundreds of her happy clients.
Kimberly's personal journey with hypnosis began when self-hypnosis put her 20 years of chronic pain into remission and helped her overcome severe anxiety and panic attacks. After exhausting all other options, she decided to try hypnosis, which she initially considered a "crazy" method. Instead of merely treating symptoms, hypnosis addressed the root cause of her issues. Today, Kimberly is completely free from chronic pain, anxiety, and panic attacks, thanks to the power of hypnosis. Trained by some of the foremost experts in hypnosis, she holds numerous certifications and has earned awards and accolades. Since 2023, she has proudly served as the chairperson of the Board Certification Committee for 5-PATH IAHP (5-PATH International Association of Hypnosis Professionals).
Kimberly specializes in helping clients overcome stress, anxiety, and burnout, guiding them towards self-empowerment. By addressing the root causes through hypnotherapy, she ensures deep and lasting healing, setting the stage for a healthier, more fulfilling life. Her work is holistic, trauma-informed, and comprehensive, aiming to empower each client. Kimberly offers both virtual sessions and in-person sessions at her private office in Boise, Idaho.
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Kimberly Lynne became a consulting hypnotist in 2019 and board certified hypnotist in 2021.Since that time she has witnessed the incredible impact hypnosis can make in a life with hundreds of her happy clients.
Kimberly's personal journey with hypnosis began when self-hypnosis put her 20 years of chronic pain into remission and helped her overcome severe anxiety and panic attacks. After exhausting all other options, she decided to try hypnosis, which she initially considered a "crazy" method. Instead of merely treating symptoms, hypnosis addressed the root cause of her issues. Today, Kimberly is completely free from chronic pain, anxiety, and panic attacks, thanks to the power of hypnosis. Trained by some of the foremost experts in hypnosis, she holds numerous certifications and has earned awards and accolades. Since 2023, she has proudly served as the chairperson of the Board Certification Committee for 5-PATH IAHP (5-PATH International Association of Hypnosis Professionals).
Kimberly specializes in helping clients overcome stress, anxiety, and burnout, guiding them towards self-empowerment. By addressing the root causes through hypnotherapy, she ensures deep and lasting healing, setting the stage for a healthier, more fulfilling life. Her work is holistic, trauma-informed, and comprehensive, aiming to empower each client. Kimberly offers both virtual sessions and in-person sessions at her private office in Boise, Idaho.
Website: https://lynnehypnosis.com
Connect with Kimberly:
Profile on almost all social media: @HypnotistKimberlyLynne FB: https://www.facebook.com/HypnotistKimberlyLynne IG: https://www.instagram.com/hypnotistkimberlylynne/ LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hypnotistkimberlylynne/ YT: https://www.youtube.com/@HypnotistKimberlyLynne TT: https://www.tiktok.com/@hypnotistkimberlylynne
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to the Heal Thrived Dream Podcast, where trauma survivors
become healthy thrivers. Each month will feature a theme in
the trauma recovery and empowerment field to promote your recovery,
healing and learning how to build dreams. Here's your host,
Karen Robinson, transformational coach and therapist.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Good morning, and welcome to the Heel Thrived Dream Podcast. Today,
our gas is a hypnotherapist. Is that right?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Yeah? I go by both hypnotherapist, hypnotist. It's all the
record has stopped.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
We all mean the same thing, actually, so I wanted
to make sure I thought you had all the credentials.
But I was like, wait a minute, because I saw
a hypnotists in your Okay, So just that.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
It's all the same thing, and it depends on the
organization what you get to call yourself. I am not
a licensed social worker psychologists, so some of my certifications
say hypnotherapists, some of them say hypnotists. So I go
back and forth and just come interchangeably. Hope that answers
your question.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Yeah, I wanted to make sure I had it right
before we catfish. This meeting is being recorded. Hello and
welcome to the heel Thrived Dream podcast. Today we have
an awesome guest who is a hypnotherapist or a hypnotist.
She goes by both. Her name is Kimberly Lent. Kimberly
(01:35):
has been a certified hypnotist for over five years and
has hundreds of happy clients. She has witnessed and countless
lie the incredible impact hypnosis makes in an individual's life.
Her personal journey with hypnotists I'm struggling on my words today.
(01:58):
People began when she overcame twenty years of chronic pain, anxiety,
and panic attacks. Professionally, she has trained with many hypnosists
greats which has numerous certifications and various awards accomplishments. She
now specializes in stress and anxiety relief, burn up prevention
(02:22):
and recovery, and in self empower. Kimberly's mission is to
provide hypnotherapy that addresses the root causes of the individual's problem,
to ensure complete healing and create the ripe environment for
a healthier and more fulfilling life. Really, anything I forgot
(02:47):
that you would like to correct or anything you want
to add about your certifications.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
No, you did a great job. You know. One of
the words that it's going to be really important today
that I do have on my website, but it doesn't
always go on. My bio is that I am a
trauma informed hypnotist, which means I asked the question what
happened to you? Not what is your diagnosis? And I
practice a holistic approach, which is my body spirit. So
(03:16):
I try to help people address all the parts of
them to make sure that they get full healing.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
That's so awesome. So that's why we are so aligned.
And whenever I hear pratitioners talk about root causes, that's
a signal to me like, oh, they get it, they
get that. A lot of times what our struggles are
are there because of kash trauma. Would you agree with that?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
I would. My philosophy is that we all came in
to this world. We're born basically just fine all the
things that happened along the way. And as a hypnotist,
I think of a lot of the events that we
either call big T trauma little T trauma. They are
installing programs in our subconscious mind and they're not a
(04:08):
part of the original person. So as a hypnotist, I
have the privilege of and helping people remove those extrainous
programs at extra baggage.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Right, How did you get interested in this field?
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Well, I was thinking about it. It's funny. I was
on a healing journey myself, I think, as a lot
of different kinds of healers are. And I had twenty
years of chronic pain, and then some life events came
along and I developed severe anxiety and panic attacks where
I was drifting out of my body is to control
of the car and other such things. And so this
(04:44):
was really not okay. And I had already done a
lot of other things, very b western medicine things, good things,
but nothing really ever had any of my problems. And
so I tried all the metaphysical woo woo, reiky, acupuncture,
energy healing, all those things when the anxiety and panic began,
and those were making me feel better, but they just
(05:07):
weren't quite getting to that root cause. And I was
introduced the concept of hypnosis through social media somehow as
I was in those kinds of spheres. And for the
first six months I thought to myself, that's crazy. You
can't believe people do that. That's just the fakest thing ever.
But after I tried everything, I thought, well, I've nothing
(05:30):
left to lose, but I was too afraid to go
to a hypnotist because of all the previous negative perceptions
that I've been given, the incorrect perceptions about hypnotists. So
I cautiously thought, this looks really reputable. I found a
great hypnotist, but I just couldn't get my there. So
(05:51):
I decided to become a trained hypnotist, fixed myself and
who knows, maybe I'll help other people, and it immediately
helping me, so I became a true believer. Hypnosis really
truly saved my life. It did a one eighty all
My anxiety and panic went away within just a few
weeks and my body began to heal. So that, in
(06:14):
a nutshell, is how I got into hypnosis. And since
becoming a hypnotist becomes of people that I get my office,
a lot of them have much more severe trauma than
I would identify myself as having. And it has really
become a theme for a lot of my clients to
(06:35):
have trauma. And so I decided, well, I need to
become more. I need to become an expert in this
and understand it more. Now I know, yes, I was,
I do have trauma just like they do, but especially
the kind of trauma where women are survivors of sexual
assault or violence. I did not identify with that group
(06:59):
until I became educated and realized, yes, I'm just like
almost every other woman in America, which is we've all
kind of been victims of sexual violence. And so it's
become something that's really important to me and makes me
get really angry and want to stick up for people
and get it. Just yes, I just want to shout
(07:21):
it from the rooftops. It just makes me so angry.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
So yeah, yeah, it's It's what's interesting, you know, I
specialized in trauma for over twenty five years now, and
I'm still learning.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Like there's it's such a vast field, not only because
of all the different traumas that we can have, like
how complex it can be. And with my client this morning,
she told me about this code word you can use
at a restaurant or a bar, and it's requesting an
(07:58):
angel shot.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Hmmm, yes, I have heard of that.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
I had not heard of that, and I'm like, oh
my gosh, like I'm still learning. So I immediately shared
it with my daughters, and I shared it with my
Facebook group and people are like, yeah, I have not
heard of this. This is so helpful.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
I just say, thank God for social media, thank god
for TikTok, because that's where I learned all that. And
I also learned that this just came to mind too.
There's a specially hands on all I saw, So I
have to do a little bit more research on maybe
trafficking victims used when they're out in public behind their back.
I don't know much about it. I've just seen a
little bit of it. You might even know about it
than I do. But thank God for social media. I
(08:35):
think it's actually really helped women rally support for each
other and educate each other, and I think it's great.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yes, yes, that's like my Facebook group is a free
offering I do, and it's to educate and to inspire,
you know, and still hope and to people. And I
feel like the podcast says that too, you know, is
I don't just have people come on sharing their traumas,
but sharing how they're healing from it and what healing
(09:02):
tools are available. So I am proud to say that
Kimberly is going to be one of our speakers at
my October summit called Finding Connection after relationship trauma. Kimberly,
can you say a little more and why you'd be
interested in speaking at a summit such as this one.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Yes, I, like I said a few minutes ago, did
not identify myself as a survivor of sexual violence until
it became educated, and then I realized that it's happened
countless times in my life. I might not have a
real big event, a signature event like other people have survived,
(09:48):
but I too, just like I think I'm part of
that larger group of women who are not in the statistics,
you know, the we some statistics say, you know, one
in four or one in six women have have been
victims of rape and survivors of rape. But if we
actually account every single time a woman has been harassed
(10:12):
or can't called touched without consent, manipulated, the numbers would
be much much higher. And these things are traumatic as well,
especially when they happened when they're young. And that's when
these kinds of things happened to me. The very first
time I was ever touched without consent was when I
(10:33):
was twelve years old and I was an early developer
and a boy came up to me at the roller
rank I was roller skating and it was you know,
nineteen eighty nine, and touched me and made gestures and
it was I think you just back then, I just
kind of thought, well, it's just boys. I mean, it's rude,
but I wouldn't have thought it myself as a survivor
of that. But it really is such an impactful event,
(10:55):
and it happens so often, and it's just so normalized.
So this is the perspective that I'm coming from, and
I want to encourage other women who might be like
me who think that they may not have experienced these things,
and number one, become more aware so that they can
just address their own issues, but also be more supportive
(11:16):
of the women who are coming forward and are saying
they are survivors of physical assault and violence, so that
we can all support each other and stop victim blaming.
And the victim blaming really bothers me the way that
we in our culture we perpetuate the idea that it
(11:39):
just doesn't happen very often. Most of the women are lying,
they were kind of asking for it. It's so unfortunate
these myths exist. So my presentation is going to be
about myths about sexual violence and how we can be
supportive of each other and so be more aware and support.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Yeah, I feel so blessed that you're gonna come in
and do this education on this because I have to say,
it is really difficult. I understand why it happens. I've
done a lot of studies on feminism, and you know,
women are very much a part of the patriarchy too,
(12:21):
That's what our conditioning is. And it's really unfortunate when
we turn on each other and don't advocate for each other,
because we really could be a sisterhood and more change
would happened if more women spoke out imported each other.
I do believe what change would happen.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
I agree with you completely, and there just needs to
be a lot we need to get rid of that
shame emotion completely and believe and support each other because
there's just no there's just no reason for a woman
it just does a sense for her to lie about it.
There's there's it's got to be so small that it's
(13:02):
uncalculable how many women are really lying about what happens
them and really remember, and we so easily disregard it,
and it's just it's just a myth. It's just the
it's just the stereotype. It's just perpetuated, unfortunately, and so
it's just easier for us to believe that because it's
so uncomfortable to believe the truth, that it's so common,
(13:23):
and that it's so easy to be a victim, and
that intelligent, strong people, women and men sometimes too are
being victims are and surviving. We need to we need
to educate.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Perfectly said so, I would love to hear. And I
know this might be putting on you on the spot
a bit, and if so, we'll work through that, or
it may not. You might be ready. But the next
question I have is I'd love to hear about, like
maybe a case study of a trauma survivor that you
(14:00):
worked with, you know, like what was the type of
trauma she had, and how has your work made a
difference for her? Like, I know you have stories, but
I don't know if you have one. Maybe ready?
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Oh wow, yeah, I actually should have prepared for that,
and I have quite a few. I will. I'll talk
about the one that's most recent. She's most in my brain.
I'm actually working with her very recently. I'm just finished.
And she was she is a survivor of childhood sexual
abuse and was really struggling with disassociation. Now, as a hypnotist,
(14:32):
I practice hypnotherapy, and so I do call myself a hypnotherapist,
but I don't diagnose, and I don't actually treat any
diagnosable illnesses. What I do is I help my clients
address these stressful negative feelings, release the pressure, neutralize those
fixed programs, the belief that, for instance, it might have
(14:53):
been your fault or that you deserved it. And then
what happens is it sort of lets the pressure out
in eternally and they begin to heal right, because we're
removing the unhealthy beliefs surrounding what happened to them. And
so working with this woman, these clients, they typically take
a little bit longer than like what i'd say the
(15:14):
average client who might come to me for having control
or weight loss or something like that. We had about
eleven sessions, and when she first came to me, she
was had been married for thirty us years, really struggling
with intimacy, couldn't talk about conflict or feelings without feeling
(15:35):
like she was disassociating. And it's taken quite a while
for her to begin to feel safe but she has
been able to start first had an orkness of when
she was disassociating, and then began to work on consciously
redirecting and reframing those moments so that she could be present.
(15:57):
And she just feels so much stronger and so much less,
so much more able to trust and be intimate and
discuss things that are conflicting with her spouse because for
her whole marriage up until now, these things were basically impossible,
and her spouse was feeling like she could never talk
about his feelings, he could never bring up conflict because
(16:20):
his emotional needs couldn't get met because she could never
talk about it because the moment that it started, she
just would just her mind would just go elsewhere because
it was so scary and triggering to her. So it's
been life changing for her in her marriage. And her
husband actually did come up to me and thank me
as well, because he's really pleased with just how much
(16:42):
closer they feel and how much they're able to talk
so much more. And I really do believe, you know,
just like all the other healing modalities, hipposis and what
I do is just one chapter of the journey. And
so obviously once eventually, when my work with her is done,
you know, she might go on to another modality. She
(17:03):
does a lot of things, and so she's ready to
build skills as well. And one of the things I
kind of likened to her in one session is that
when you begin having an autopilot program of disassociating the
moment something scary comes in, you stop developing the skill
to deal with the conflict even when it's safe. And
(17:26):
so once you start feeling your feelings again in the moment,
it's going to be a little bit more uncomfortable than
it used to be because you weren't present, you weren't
dealing with it. So you're going to feel those feelings
and it's time to build skills. Right. We have to
learn to communicate, we have to learn to navigate conflict.
These are things that all adults eventually have to learn
(17:47):
to do. But when we are just associating, for instance,
or using systances, we don't build the skills that we need.
So she's at that point where she's ready to start
doing that. And so again, like I said, there's more
for her do, but she feels much more capable and
empowered to do that.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
That was a really beautiful case example, So thanks thanks
for sharing that with us. And so I know you
do one on one, but do you do any group sessions?
Do you do any courses workshops or is it just
one on one?
Speaker 3 (18:23):
It is mostly just one on one. You have to
really check in with me. I'll have an occasional workshop.
The wonderful thing about workshops is that they do allow
people to dip their toes into hypnosis and see if
it's for them. But you don't with hypnosis, and the
way I look at human beings is that it's not
(18:45):
a one off, right, just like therapy is just not
a session deal. And so I'm working on doing any more.
Let's just say that. But I it's you know, I'm
five years in and so I'm slowly developing that. So yeah,
more workshops are to come in the future. Awesome.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
I would love if you would keep in touch with
my community so I could cost to the show notes
or send out emails to help support survivors. I love
trauma survivors. I have many, many choices and heal modalities,
you know, because what works for one person doesn't work
for another, and sometimes it just takes many things to
(19:24):
try before we really start to feel like we're healing well.
So I'm glad that you offer a couple of different things.
And if someone were to want to know you a
little better, where would they go to learn more about you?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
You would You can find me on all those of
your favorite social media platforms, kind of try to exist everywhere,
and it directs you back to my website, which is
Lynn hypnosis dot com. You can schedule a free consultation there.
Every person that I work with is a consultation for
(19:58):
free up front. Because you have to figure out if
you like me. I have to be able to find
out if you're a good fit. I mean, because nosis
isn't a good fit for everybody, and there's multiple reasons why.
So it requires me having a good understanding, a good
overview of what you're trying to do and what your
goals are and what you're dealing with for me to
(20:19):
know if you're a good fit for what I do.
So it's totally free and no obligation. We got to
figure out if we like each other we want to
work together, so you can do that on my website
and I have also a YouTube channel too, so and
I'm hoping to be posting there soon more so you
can check in there.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Okay, we'll have all of Kimberly's links in the show notes.
And also she's going to be a speaker at the
next summit. Well, the next summit is called again Healing
Connections after Relationship Trauma, and Kimberly is going to be
(20:57):
one of our amazing speakers. And I want to give
the dates October sixteenth and eighteenth, and by the time
this podcast is published, the registration links will be in
this in the show notes, So please come and check
out Kimberly and all the other amazing speakers and as
(21:18):
well as the sponsors that are helping with this event
make it possible. So Kimberly, thank you so much for
being on my podcast today and for being a special
speaker at my summit.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
You are very welcome. Thank you. I find it an
honor to help and support women, so I'm excited for it.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Thank you again.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Thank you for listening in today. Please join us next week,
same day and time. Also, I would love for you
to check out my website heel Thrive dream dot com.
Welcome to the Heal Thrived Dream Podcast, where trauma survivors
become healthy thrivers. Each month will feature a theme in
the trauma recovery and empowerment field to promote your recovery,
healing and learning how to build dreams. Here's your host,
Karen Robinson, transformational coach and therapist.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Good morning, and welcome to the Heel Thrived Dream Podcast. Today,
our gas is a hypnotherapist. Is that right?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Yeah? I go by both hypnotherapist, hypnotist. It's all the
record has stopped.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
We all mean the same thing, actually, so I wanted
to make sure I thought you had all the credentials.
But I was like, wait a minute, because I saw
a hypnotists in your Okay, So just that.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
It's all the same thing, and it depends on the
organization what you get to call yourself. I am not
a licensed social worker psychologists, so some of my certifications
say hypnotherapists, some of them say hypnotists. So I go
back and forth and just come interchangeably. Hope that answers
your question.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Yeah, I wanted to make sure I had it right
before we catfish. This meeting is being recorded. Hello and
welcome to the heel Thrived Dream podcast. Today we have
an awesome guest who is a hypnotherapist or a hypnotist.
She goes by both. Her name is Kimberly Lent. Kimberly
(01:35):
has been a certified hypnotist for over five years and
has hundreds of happy clients. She has witnessed and countless
lie the incredible impact hypnosis makes in an individual's life.
Her personal journey with hypnotists I'm struggling on my words today.
(01:58):
People began when she overcame twenty years of chronic pain, anxiety,
and panic attacks. Professionally, she has trained with many hypnosists
greats which has numerous certifications and various awards accomplishments. She
now specializes in stress and anxiety relief, burn up prevention
(02:22):
and recovery, and in self empower. Kimberly's mission is to
provide hypnotherapy that addresses the root causes of the individual's problem,
to ensure complete healing and create the ripe environment for
a healthier and more fulfilling life. Really, anything I forgot
(02:47):
that you would like to correct or anything you want
to add about your certifications.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
No, you did a great job. You know. One of
the words that it's going to be really important today
that I do have on my website, but it doesn't
always go on. My bio is that I am a
trauma informed hypnotist, which means I asked the question what
happened to you? Not what is your diagnosis? And I
practice a holistic approach, which is my body spirit. So
(03:16):
I try to help people address all the parts of
them to make sure that they get full healing.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
That's so awesome. So that's why we are so aligned.
And whenever I hear pratitioners talk about root causes, that's
a signal to me like, oh, they get it, they
get that. A lot of times what our struggles are
are there because of kash trauma. Would you agree with that?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
I would. My philosophy is that we all came in
to this world. We're born basically just fine all the
things that happened along the way. And as a hypnotist,
I think of a lot of the events that we
either call big T trauma little T trauma. They are
installing programs in our subconscious mind and they're not a
(04:08):
part of the original person. So as a hypnotist, I
have the privilege of and helping people remove those extrainous
programs at extra baggage.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Right, How did you get interested in this field?
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Well, I was thinking about it. It's funny. I was
on a healing journey myself, I think, as a lot
of different kinds of healers are. And I had twenty
years of chronic pain, and then some life events came
along and I developed severe anxiety and panic attacks where
I was drifting out of my body is to control
of the car and other such things. And so this
(04:44):
was really not okay. And I had already done a
lot of other things, very b western medicine things, good things,
but nothing really ever had any of my problems. And
so I tried all the metaphysical woo woo, reiky, acupuncture,
energy healing, all those things when the anxiety and panic began,
and those were making me feel better, but they just
(05:07):
weren't quite getting to that root cause. And I was
introduced the concept of hypnosis through social media somehow as
I was in those kinds of spheres. And for the
first six months I thought to myself, that's crazy. You
can't believe people do that. That's just the fakest thing ever.
But after I tried everything, I thought, well, I've nothing
(05:30):
left to lose, but I was too afraid to go
to a hypnotist because of all the previous negative perceptions
that I've been given, the incorrect perceptions about hypnotists. So
I cautiously thought, this looks really reputable. I found a
great hypnotist, but I just couldn't get my there. So
(05:51):
I decided to become a trained hypnotist, fixed myself and
who knows, maybe I'll help other people, and it immediately
helping me, so I became a true believer. Hypnosis really
truly saved my life. It did a one eighty all
My anxiety and panic went away within just a few
weeks and my body began to heal. So that, in
(06:14):
a nutshell, is how I got into hypnosis. And since
becoming a hypnotist becomes of people that I get my office,
a lot of them have much more severe trauma than
I would identify myself as having. And it has really
become a theme for a lot of my clients to
(06:35):
have trauma. And so I decided, well, I need to
become more. I need to become an expert in this
and understand it more. Now I know, yes, I was,
I do have trauma just like they do, but especially
the kind of trauma where women are survivors of sexual
assault or violence. I did not identify with that group
(06:59):
until I became educated and realized, yes, I'm just like
almost every other woman in America, which is we've all
kind of been victims of sexual violence. And so it's
become something that's really important to me and makes me
get really angry and want to stick up for people
and get it. Just yes, I just want to shout
(07:21):
it from the rooftops. It just makes me so angry.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
So yeah, yeah, it's It's what's interesting, you know, I
specialized in trauma for over twenty five years now, and
I'm still learning.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Like there's it's such a vast field, not only because
of all the different traumas that we can have, like
how complex it can be. And with my client this morning,
she told me about this code word you can use
at a restaurant or a bar, and it's requesting an
(07:58):
angel shot.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Hmmm, yes, I have heard of that.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
I had not heard of that, and I'm like, oh
my gosh, like I'm still learning. So I immediately shared
it with my daughters, and I shared it with my
Facebook group and people are like, yeah, I have not
heard of this. This is so helpful.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
I just say, thank God for social media, thank god
for TikTok, because that's where I learned all that. And
I also learned that this just came to mind too.
There's a specially hands on all I saw, So I
have to do a little bit more research on maybe
trafficking victims used when they're out in public behind their back.
I don't know much about it. I've just seen a
little bit of it. You might even know about it
than I do. But thank God for social media. I
(08:35):
think it's actually really helped women rally support for each
other and educate each other, and I think it's great.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yes, yes, that's like my Facebook group is a free
offering I do, and it's to educate and to inspire,
you know, and still hope and to people. And I
feel like the podcast says that too, you know, is
I don't just have people come on sharing their traumas,
but sharing how they're healing from it and what healing
(09:02):
tools are available. So I am proud to say that
Kimberly is going to be one of our speakers at
my October summit called Finding Connection after relationship trauma. Kimberly,
can you say a little more and why you'd be
interested in speaking at a summit such as this one.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Yes, I, like I said a few minutes ago, did
not identify myself as a survivor of sexual violence until
it became educated, and then I realized that it's happened
countless times in my life. I might not have a
real big event, a signature event like other people have survived,
(09:48):
but I too, just like I think I'm part of
that larger group of women who are not in the statistics,
you know, the we some statistics say, you know, one
in four or one in six women have have been
victims of rape and survivors of rape. But if we
actually account every single time a woman has been harassed
(10:12):
or can't called touched without consent, manipulated, the numbers would
be much much higher. And these things are traumatic as well,
especially when they happened when they're young. And that's when
these kinds of things happened to me. The very first
time I was ever touched without consent was when I
(10:33):
was twelve years old and I was an early developer
and a boy came up to me at the roller
rank I was roller skating and it was you know,
nineteen eighty nine, and touched me and made gestures and
it was I think you just back then, I just
kind of thought, well, it's just boys. I mean, it's rude,
but I wouldn't have thought it myself as a survivor
of that. But it really is such an impactful event,
(10:55):
and it happens so often, and it's just so normalized.
So this is the perspective that I'm coming from, and
I want to encourage other women who might be like
me who think that they may not have experienced these things,
and number one, become more aware so that they can
just address their own issues, but also be more supportive
(11:16):
of the women who are coming forward and are saying
they are survivors of physical assault and violence, so that
we can all support each other and stop victim blaming.
And the victim blaming really bothers me the way that
we in our culture we perpetuate the idea that it
(11:39):
just doesn't happen very often. Most of the women are lying,
they were kind of asking for it. It's so unfortunate
these myths exist. So my presentation is going to be
about myths about sexual violence and how we can be
supportive of each other and so be more aware and support.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Yeah, I feel so blessed that you're gonna come in
and do this education on this because I have to say,
it is really difficult. I understand why it happens. I've
done a lot of studies on feminism, and you know,
women are very much a part of the patriarchy too,
(12:21):
That's what our conditioning is. And it's really unfortunate when
we turn on each other and don't advocate for each other,
because we really could be a sisterhood and more change
would happened if more women spoke out imported each other.
I do believe what change would happen.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
I agree with you completely, and there just needs to
be a lot we need to get rid of that
shame emotion completely and believe and support each other because
there's just no there's just no reason for a woman
it just does a sense for her to lie about it.
There's there's it's got to be so small that it's
(13:02):
uncalculable how many women are really lying about what happens
them and really remember, and we so easily disregard it,
and it's just it's just a myth. It's just the
it's just the stereotype. It's just perpetuated, unfortunately, and so
it's just easier for us to believe that because it's
so uncomfortable to believe the truth, that it's so common,
(13:23):
and that it's so easy to be a victim, and
that intelligent, strong people, women and men sometimes too are
being victims are and surviving. We need to we need
to educate.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Perfectly said so, I would love to hear. And I
know this might be putting on you on the spot
a bit, and if so, we'll work through that, or
it may not. You might be ready. But the next
question I have is I'd love to hear about, like
maybe a case study of a trauma survivor that you
(14:00):
worked with, you know, like what was the type of
trauma she had, and how has your work made a
difference for her? Like, I know you have stories, but
I don't know if you have one. Maybe ready?
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Oh wow, yeah, I actually should have prepared for that,
and I have quite a few. I will. I'll talk
about the one that's most recent. She's most in my brain.
I'm actually working with her very recently. I'm just finished.
And she was she is a survivor of childhood sexual
abuse and was really struggling with disassociation. Now, as a hypnotist,
(14:32):
I practice hypnotherapy, and so I do call myself a hypnotherapist,
but I don't diagnose, and I don't actually treat any
diagnosable illnesses. What I do is I help my clients
address these stressful negative feelings, release the pressure, neutralize those
fixed programs, the belief that, for instance, it might have
(14:53):
been your fault or that you deserved it. And then
what happens is it sort of lets the pressure out
in eternally and they begin to heal right, because we're
removing the unhealthy beliefs surrounding what happened to them. And
so working with this woman, these clients, they typically take
a little bit longer than like what i'd say the
(15:14):
average client who might come to me for having control
or weight loss or something like that. We had about
eleven sessions, and when she first came to me, she
was had been married for thirty us years, really struggling
with intimacy, couldn't talk about conflict or feelings without feeling
(15:35):
like she was disassociating. And it's taken quite a while
for her to begin to feel safe but she has
been able to start first had an orkness of when
she was disassociating, and then began to work on consciously
redirecting and reframing those moments so that she could be present.
(15:57):
And she just feels so much stronger and so much less,
so much more able to trust and be intimate and
discuss things that are conflicting with her spouse because for
her whole marriage up until now, these things were basically impossible,
and her spouse was feeling like she could never talk
about his feelings, he could never bring up conflict because
(16:20):
his emotional needs couldn't get met because she could never
talk about it because the moment that it started, she
just would just her mind would just go elsewhere because
it was so scary and triggering to her. So it's
been life changing for her in her marriage. And her
husband actually did come up to me and thank me
as well, because he's really pleased with just how much
(16:42):
closer they feel and how much they're able to talk
so much more. And I really do believe, you know,
just like all the other healing modalities, hipposis and what
I do is just one chapter of the journey. And
so obviously once eventually, when my work with her is done,
you know, she might go on to another modality. She
(17:03):
does a lot of things, and so she's ready to
build skills as well. And one of the things I
kind of likened to her in one session is that
when you begin having an autopilot program of disassociating the
moment something scary comes in, you stop developing the skill
to deal with the conflict even when it's safe. And
(17:26):
so once you start feeling your feelings again in the moment,
it's going to be a little bit more uncomfortable than
it used to be because you weren't present, you weren't
dealing with it. So you're going to feel those feelings
and it's time to build skills. Right. We have to
learn to communicate, we have to learn to navigate conflict.
These are things that all adults eventually have to learn
(17:47):
to do. But when we are just associating, for instance,
or using systances, we don't build the skills that we need.
So she's at that point where she's ready to start
doing that. And so again, like I said, there's more
for her do, but she feels much more capable and
empowered to do that.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
That was a really beautiful case example, So thanks thanks
for sharing that with us. And so I know you
do one on one, but do you do any group sessions?
Do you do any courses workshops or is it just
one on one?
Speaker 3 (18:23):
It is mostly just one on one. You have to
really check in with me. I'll have an occasional workshop.
The wonderful thing about workshops is that they do allow
people to dip their toes into hypnosis and see if
it's for them. But you don't with hypnosis, and the
way I look at human beings is that it's not
(18:45):
a one off, right, just like therapy is just not
a session deal. And so I'm working on doing any more.
Let's just say that. But I it's you know, I'm
five years in and so I'm slowly developing that. So yeah,
more workshops are to come in the future. Awesome.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
I would love if you would keep in touch with
my community so I could cost to the show notes
or send out emails to help support survivors. I love
trauma survivors. I have many, many choices and heal modalities,
you know, because what works for one person doesn't work
for another, and sometimes it just takes many things to
(19:24):
try before we really start to feel like we're healing well.
So I'm glad that you offer a couple of different things.
And if someone were to want to know you a
little better, where would they go to learn more about you?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
You would You can find me on all those of
your favorite social media platforms, kind of try to exist everywhere,
and it directs you back to my website, which is
Lynn hypnosis dot com. You can schedule a free consultation there.
Every person that I work with is a consultation for
(19:58):
free up front. Because you have to figure out if
you like me. I have to be able to find
out if you're a good fit. I mean, because nosis
isn't a good fit for everybody, and there's multiple reasons why.
So it requires me having a good understanding, a good
overview of what you're trying to do and what your
goals are and what you're dealing with for me to
(20:19):
know if you're a good fit for what I do.
So it's totally free and no obligation. We got to
figure out if we like each other we want to
work together, so you can do that on my website
and I have also a YouTube channel too, so and
I'm hoping to be posting there soon more so you
can check in there.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Okay, we'll have all of Kimberly's links in the show notes.
And also she's going to be a speaker at the
next summit. Well, the next summit is called again Healing
Connections after Relationship Trauma, and Kimberly is going to be
(20:57):
one of our amazing speakers. And I want to give
the dates October sixteenth and eighteenth, and by the time
this podcast is published, the registration links will be in
this in the show notes, So please come and check
out Kimberly and all the other amazing speakers and as
(21:18):
well as the sponsors that are helping with this event
make it possible. So Kimberly, thank you so much for
being on my podcast today and for being a special
speaker at my summit.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
You are very welcome. Thank you. I find it an
honor to help and support women, so I'm excited for it.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Thank you again.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Thank you for listening in today. Please join us next week,
same day and time. Also, I would love for you
to check out my website heel Thrive dream dot com.
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