Finding Mental Balance

Finding Mental Balance

To those trying to manage mental imbalance, reliance on prescription and non-prescription substances is too common. Hypnotherapy is a sustainable, holistic alternative. Transcript Hello, Brian Balke of Hypnosis Rising. Mental discomfort, whether temporary or chronic,...
Growing Outward

Growing Outward

Adolescence and early adulthood involve huge changes in the brain. The objective is for us to take control over who we are. This video considers two technologies for accomplishing that goal: the Scout Law – and hypnotherapy. Transcript The heart of Boy Scouts...
Connecting to Wellness

Connecting to Wellness

As infants, we associate isolation with hunger, discomfort, and disorientation. Those outcomes are so powerfully ingrained in the subconscious that we anticipate them when suddenly cut off from those we depend upon. That ache in the pit of the stomach, the tingling in...
The Sacred Feminism

The Sacred Feminism

For two years, I attended Saturday Torah study at the Reform congregation in Westlake Village, Adat Elohim. As we struggled through Genesis, a recent college graduate plead for her sisters, “What does this have to do with women?” I leaned over and whispered in her...
We Are One

We Are One

All therapy is an invitation to take refuge with love. In hypnotherapy, that introduction occurs at a depth that is difficult to attain in talk therapy. In my practice, I consciously seek to rekindle of a love affair with the self, a reconnection to personal unity...
The Whole Truth

The Whole Truth

The twentieth century was the age of commercialization. The century opened with industrialization that undermined agrarian independence and wrought destruction on a global scale. The tonic was the media revolution that eroded cultural disparities and gave the working...