SNAKE OIL COACHING

Nope!  I didn’t want to drink it either. Despite the promise that this POISONOUS-SNAKE-INFUSED SCHNAPPS (offered to me here in Vietnam) would protect me from danger… I passed.

But the thing is - I totally believe that it WOULD protect me — IF I indeed believed in it.

Our Western minds are quick to dismiss things like this schnapps as "crazy superstition."

Yet Western science itself tells us how our beliefs have factual, real, physical power as is evidenced by countless studies that show how #placebos can match or even outperform 'real' drugs.

Neuroscience has shown how our brain has its own internal pharmacy:

when we expect healing, it can produce the very chemicals that are needed to heal.

In the book "The Mindful Body" the author Ellen J. Langer describes how even our perception of time can influence healing: in one experiment, a first group of participants with minor wounds was asked to monitor the wound every few minutes using a clock that ran twice as fast as real time. In the second group the clock ran half as fast, and in the third the clock displayed real time.

The experiment showed that wounds healed much faster when the clock ran faster, and slower when it ran slower!

Even open-label placebos (where people know it's a placebo) still reduce symptoms — as long as there's positive expectation.

“The brain responds in the same way to placebos as it does to drugs.”*

Our beliefs have a real-life, physical impact — on our health, our well-being, and the outcomes we create in our lives.

As a coach, working with the neuroplasticity of the brain, I witness daily how 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵𝘆, 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝘆, 𝘀𝘂𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀- 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝘄𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗯𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗘𝗟𝗜𝗘𝗙𝗦 𝗪𝗘 𝗛𝗢𝗟𝗗 𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗦𝗘𝗟𝗩𝗘𝗦. (I keep going on about this because this is SO important!)

“I’m not important.”

 “I’m bad.”

 “I’m unsafe.”

 “I’m powerless.”

 “I’m alone.”

𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗯𝗼𝘀.

𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗮𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝘂𝘀 - 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆’𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗲, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝘄𝗲 𝗕𝗘𝗟𝗜𝗘𝗩𝗘 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆’𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗲.

𝗔 𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗳 𝗡𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴.

That's because they are held deep in the UNconscious mind & were formed during our childhood - long before our brains were developed fully & capable of challenging them consciously.

However, with Deep/EMDR coaching, we CAN reach this deeper level & update those beliefs. We CAN rewire them into:

“I am safe/enough/ have power." etc.

When this happens, the brain starts filtering reality differently — just like it does when we believe that a drug -or placebo… or snake schnapps!- is going to help us.

It begins finding and creating evidence for those new, self-empowering beliefs.

And that’s when life begins to change and shift — from the inside out.

Call it snake oil!

The proof of my coaching is in the pudding: if after a first session with me you don't notice any improvements then why would you work with me?

The fact that people do - typically in 6 months 1:1 coaching- says it all. Or better: THEY say it all - hop over to my website to read client testimonials.