Karen Connelly

Would you like to alter the way you think, live, move through problems?

TRY ACCELERATED HYPNOTHERAPY

Accelerated Hypnotherapy is a radical form of healing and integration. As we connect to and work with the power of your unconscious mind and body, what feels broken, immoveably stuck or trapped within becomes more workable and begins to shift in surprising (and wonderful) ways.

In clinical hypnosis, the individual’s unconscious healing resources are awakened and activated. This provides a profound brain-body-spirit movement into a new sense of possibility, even grace. Change is inside each of us—always. Where else could it possibly be? LEARNING new ways to be and live is what the human brain loves to do. As soon as I experienced this form of hypnosis myself as a client, I had to learn it as a therapist. It literally blew my mind: in the best possible way.

Hypnotherapy sessions are usually 2-3 hours long, and as such are more expensive than ‘regular’ therapy. Please contact me here if you would like a free 30-40 minute discovery call to learn more particularly about Accelerated Hypnosis.

While meditative states are not the same as trance states, they allow us to access similar internal resources. Learn more about a simple, somatic way to experiment with fearlessness in this free Courage Words article below.

CALLING THE WRITERS: ACCESS YOUR COURAGE HERE

Would you like to turn your difficult story (and, maybe, stuck or painful writing process) into a source of creative POWER?

The CWA is the program for you.

In The Courageous Writers’ Academy, I teach you a new way to approach writing the difficult / painful story & working through different forms of pain & stuckness. Hint: we practice and apply self-love, tenderness, play. We also bring profound respect and curiosity to your beautiful brain! In traditional forms of writing education, people don’t learn anything about the brain, somatic intelligence or the nervous system. In the CWA, you learn to speak your OWN language of Brain-Body-Spirit. And, you learn how SELF-EDITING your writing provides some effective brain-care.

When we learn how to edit, we learn how to ORGANIZE. With a clear, kind process, that becomes an organizing experience for the whole nervous system—your brain, your body, and, I believe, your spirit.

We all know it: writing is an act of power. YOUR power. Taking Power and Taking Care are complicated subjects. Personal power and real self-care are interwoven subjects in this coaching program. If you’ve experienced trauma or other adverse experiences, and these connect to your creative work, the CWA is a transformative and nourishing experience.

Our next CWA session begins January 23, 2025! And Guess WHAT? The Early Bird Pricing this year is better than ever! 15 % off the cost of the Academy if you enrol before Nov 21, 2024!

Learn more about the Courageous Writers’ Academy

In these times, courage, resistance & joy are necessary.

The writer Maya Angelou said that courage was the most important virtue because it made every other virtue possible. And, frankly, at this juncture in our collective history, loving resistance and fierce joy also feel critical.

We can all learn to become more courageous—in love and work, in our communities, in our shared and often dangerous, confusing world. We can also embrace loving resistance and fierce joy as radical possibilities. (I know it ain’t easy: this is the work of my whole life, and I’m still just beginning.)

I’ve spent years learning from courageous people. Courageous people inhabit the books I write.

They are a lot like you and me. They aspire—and they ache. They’re angry and complicated, beautiful and flawed. I am always trying to be thoughtfully, lovingly courageous. It is hard work.

Courage isn’t perfection; nor is it the absence of fear.

Sometimes it’s just slowly and mindfully pulling in the next miraculous breath. Then letting it go.

Sometimes the only place we’re courageous is inside, in our imaginations. The beginning of courage is always inside. Imagining what might be possible is key. (Remembering those little diamonds, sparks, of the happiness and the love we’ve known, the kindness and the pleasure—those memories also help a lot.)

We become our own courage experts by exploring, witnessing, reframing, even rewriting the stories of our lives. If this sounds right to you, please get in touch.

I offer hypnosis & therapy and the joyful, soul-expanding Courageous Writers’ Academy two or three times a year, in various forms. VERY SOON, I’ll have information online about THE OLIVE GROVE RETREAT, on the island of Lesvos, Greece, coming in May 2025!

You belong in The Courage Room, all of you, brain-body-spirit.

Bon courage,