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It’s true. There’s nothing else like being in a group learning experience at The Wellness Institute. Our teachers hear it all the time: Students just don’t want to see their programs end. They want to carry on working, learning, and healing with the people who have quickly become their friends. Many Six-Day graduates are curious about what comes next,

 Our planet is filled with angst at the moment. From worries about the price of food to the prospect of escalating war, humanity is bombarded with information that produces tension, fear, and anxiety. Even if an individual seems to have everything anyone could possibly desire, the overwhelming pressure of society’s woes weighs heavily on the psyche.

Hope for the afflicted and the affected

Dementia is an all-too-common condition, and when it encroaches upon a person’s life, it changes everything. Suddenly, the ability to function fully is ripped from the afflicted individual, and in many cases, dementia gets compounded by depression, anxiety, and grief. The Alzheimer’s Association estimates that

Clients and patients often come to us complaining of the stress they feel due to life changes. Marriage, divorce, birth, death, job changes, and retirement are just a few. Who among us has never met a client struggling with these and other issues? There is no question that most people are happiest if they believe that their lives will remain predictable,

Countertransference can be a common, if potentially humbling, element of working with clients. In countertransference, the therapist reacts to a client based on some external experience or perception. For example, a client that resembles an ex-lover with whom things ended badly, or one who reminds you of your high school crush, could elicit emotions

What is integrity? Those of us who’ve studied with Wellness have at least seen what’s called The Integrity Checklist. It lists various areas of life where a person might need to be more attentive to being true to oneself, where honesty and conscientiousness are needed in order to complete certain tasks. These include everything from returning borrowed

What is gratitude? According to Google’s built-in dictionary, which is licensed from Oxford University Press, gratitude is:

• The quality of being thankful, and
• Readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness

As therapists, and as students, we eagerly grab up all the experience and information we can, as it is presented to us. We take it

Come home to your niche in the new economy with Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy

You probably hear more than once a day how workers are shifting from one kind of professional position to the next. Some people are losing their jobs, while others are quitting their jobs, searching for higher paying, more satisfying ways to make a living. Some families have

Foster some unlikely partnerships: Be a Transpersonal Coach and help humanity.

A few blog posts back, we talked about Transpersonal Coaching as an elevated approach to life management. To be sure, there are plenty of benefits clients can gain from this powerful method of fostering human development. The biggest one is the ability to bring people together