Joanne Smith spent 16 years in chronic pain until a hypnotherapy session brought sudden relief, showing her pain could actually disappear. That experience led her to train in Core Renewal Therapy, which blends hypnotherapy, CBT, DBT, and existential techniques.
I've never known that's possible. And for me, it was in a— the first time I experienced a shift in the levels of pain I was experiencing was in, um, it was a visualization. It was a hypnotherapy session, but it's the same thing, just different, different words for it. Um, it's a— it's guiding you into a different way of being. It's guiding your thoughts into a place that you may not have gone, and I, for the first time in, at the time it was the first time in 16 years that I felt like, wow, I felt really good, it disappeared, it was enough for me to know what was possible, if that could disappear then what on earth happened, so I've shared that story before about the hypnotherapy, which is why I've just recently completed my CRT therapy training as well, Core Renewal Therapy training, which is a blended approach with hypnotherapy, cognitive behavioral, dialectical behavioral, and existential.
