My Story
Is your life a Failure to launch???
Is your life a Failure to launch???
Ever feel like you are a rocket all set and prepared to launch the best mission of your life…and then fail…over and over again? This was me!!! I have always been an overachiever feeling as if I had to prove to someone that I was worthy. I was very competitive with sports and if someone told me “I would not be successful”, I would kill myself just to prove them wrong.
I would dive in and apply myself 110% and often get just within reach of a goal…and then I would fail or lose motivation because some obstacle got in my way. I would then start over and while I eventually achieved many goals, EVERYTHING required so much effort. I just didn’t understand why things were always so difficult for ME.
2017 marked the beginning of some major life challenges. Over the next few years, I lived through 5 major wildfires, nearly lost my family home and was forced to leave under emergency evacuations. Our beloved hometown was torn up with violent protests, and then Covid 19 arrived.
We lived under lockdown and my kids were forced to attend school on zoom. I watched as their personalities changed. One became withdrawn while the other developed extreme anxiety and severe panic attacks. We also lost several dear family members and friends during this time. My resilience was quickly fading and I found myself feeling anxious, sad, and with no motivation to look to the future or even dream.
Through my 30 years in emergency service, I’ve had 100’s of hours of training in helping others with mental disorders, addictions, PTSD, anxiety, and was a trained hostage negotiator. I was also taught that if I meditated, exercised and ate healthy that my mind would remain strong and healthy. I actively practiced all of those but they were not enough.
So, I dug deeper…did more research…practiced self-hypnosis and even saw a therapist with my child. It was not enough!!! I felt life slipping through my fingers. I was not fully present for my family and just getting through each day. I was unhappy and depressed.
It felt as if the exercise, healthy diet and meditation was all just a band aid providing temporary relief until the next thing triggered all the emotions again. In other words, I felt much like that rocket unable to launch forward in my life. That is, until an opportunity fell into my lap that would change the trajectory of my life.
What began as a way for me to earn money from home (online business coaching) quickly turned into an eye-opening experience that gave me a glimpse of another side of life.
My mentor kept talking about the power of hypnotherapy and how we could ‘reprogram our brains’. She said we could change the way we think, feel and behave and have a profound change in our lives.
Initially, I blew off the notion because I had already tried everything and knew there was nothing that could permanently remove the traumas I had experienced. But when you reach rock bottom and feel you have nothing more to lose…. what the hell!! So, I gave it a try and after my initial appointment I thought to myself “boy, that was relaxing but not going to fix my problems”.
. This approach was drastically different from anything I’ve ever experienced or had been taught. It gave me the ability to let go of all that trauma, regain control in my life and most importantly, for the first time in a very long time, I was happy. I discovered that it is possible to uncover and resolve many layers of past emotional traumas, even ones that are decades old!
The effects I’ve personally experienced with hypnotherapy were so profound that I have turned it into my passion and profession.
I am now a certified professional analytical hypnotherapist and enjoy introducing others to their vast potential and ability to change their lives.
Nothing makes me happier than helping others to shed the traumas that are keeping them stuck and struggling and to flow into a life they only thought was possible in their dreams.
So if you find yourself struggling to get up in the morning, if you find that unhappy is your normal state of being, or if anxiety and depression is something you are struggling with, I want to let you know that there is a way out that does not include a lifetime of medication.
If that sounds good, use this link to jump on my calendar for a free consultation. https://calendly.com/apehlke259/60min
