The Long Way Here
I spent years after that searching for a framework that could hold what I already felt to be true. That there is something underneath the surface of a person that logic alone cannot reach.
I came to the United States at sixteen as an international student. My father was an executive. My mother was an engineer in the oil industry. They were serious, accomplished people who gave me every advantage a childhood in Siberia could offer. And still, none of it came with a manual for how to live life on life's terms.
I was naive in the way only someone raised in one world and dropped into another can be. I didn't understand how relationships worked here, how friendships formed, what the unspoken rules were. I was too trusting in ways that cost me. I spent years feeling like everyone else had been handed an instruction book at birth that somehow never reached me.
I buried the dream of studying psychology. I put my real self on a long and painful hold. From the outside, I was functioning. On the inside, I was running a rough draft of a life I hadn't figured out how to actually start.
The one constant was books. My father gave me Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People" when I was eleven. I devoured it. From that moment, nothing was more interesting to me than the human mind. I went on to read everything I could find: Maxwell Maltz's Psycho-Cybernetics, Carl Jung, dozens of books over decades, anything that pointed toward what was underneath.
Through years of formal therapy, spiritual studies, and my own inner work, I kept searching. I came to hypnosis because nothing else had gone far enough.
In one of my more profound hypnosis sessions, I was guided back to a younger version of myself. I walked through hallways collecting cobwebs. I ended up at a beach with a bonfire larger than I was, and everything I had been carrying dissolved into it and rose as snowflakes, fire that moved like snow, drifting free.
The formal training and the personal work happened together, each one deepening the other. Decades of working with people, through every role I held before this one, and over 8 years of focused hypnosis practice later, have allowed my intuition to grow more precise. What I know to be true has not changed since that bonfire on the beach. Hypnosis works. I've seen it in myself and in hundreds of people since.
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