Afraid of Your Power?

Find Your Inner Power - Past Life Regression & Hypnotherapy - Stephanie Riseley

Find Your Courage with Hypnotherapy & Past-Life Regression.

Sixty-five million years ago, give or take a Tuesday, a six-mile-wide asteroid crashed into what is now Mexico, and the dinosaurs were done. But here is the thing nobody talks about: some of them survived. The small, fast, fuzzy ones. And their descendants are you.

Your DNA carries that legacy. The question is whether you are accessing it.

My amazing client Loretta wasn’t. Not yet.

Forty years and still being bypassed

When Loretta first came to see me, she was 65, furious, exhausted, a Black woman, and carrying about 35 pounds she didn’t want. She had spent four decades working her way up through the ranks of a major restaurant company, starting as a server. She was smart, capable, and beautiful, and she had risen as far as the company would let her rise, which, it turned out, was not very far.

The young men she trained kept sailing right past her on the way up the corporate ladder. She trained them. Then, I watched them become her superiors. Then, I trained the next ones. Sound familiar? It should. Lilly Ledbetter spent years fighting the exact same rigged game.

When Loretta finally called me again, years later, the problem had a face on it. The CEO, Jack, a self-important 72-year-old who specialized in talking over people who didn’t look like him, had perfected the art of acting like Loretta wasn’t in the room. She’d say something. He’d look right through her. She’d try again. Nothing.

“I know I’m not accessing all of my power,” she told me. “I want to do a past-life regression. Maybe I’ll find out why. Or maybe it’ll just give me something.”

It gave her something, all right.

Look at your feet

When a client goes into regression, I guide them to a place, and then I ask them to look down. What are your feet doing? What do you see?

Loretta looked down.

“I have huge dinosaur feet!” she said. “Wow. I own this land. I’m so powerful. This is fabulous!”

I let her stay there for a while. In hypnotherapy, we call this somatic anchoring, and the neuroscience behind it is real. When you inhabit a felt sense of capability in your body, you are actually building new neural pathways. You are not pretending. You are rehearsing. Your nervous system does not distinguish between imagined and real states with any great reliability. That is not a glitch. That is a feature.

So Loretta stayed in her dinosaur body and owned her land until I asked her to move to the next pivotal moment.

“I see another dinosaur!” she said. “It’s my sister! I think we’re going to fight it out.”

She fought. She died in that life. And when she came back to full waking awareness, she said four words I have never forgotten:

“I can stand up to Jack now.”

Not until long after you do, Jack

A few weeks later, she came back. I asked how the meeting went.

She said: “I walked into his office and I just stood there and stared him down. He was so stunned to see me calm and powerful that he didn’t know what to say. He stumbled around until he said, ‘Loretta, when are you going to retire?'”

She didn’t blink.

“Not until long after you retire, Jack. You’re 50 pounds overweight, and I will outlive you.” Then she turned and left his office. “I have never felt so happy in my life.”

After that, Loretta speaks her mind in meetings with authority. No hedging. No disappearing. She found something in that regression, and she brought it back with her.

What Dr. Brian Weiss says about that

Dr. Brian Weiss, MD, the psychiatrist who trained me and whose work transformed the field of regression therapy, has always said that it doesn’t matter whether you think you made it up. Whether the experience comes from a genuine past life, from your own subconscious, from your superconscious mind, or from what some physicists are now calling quantum fields, the result is the same. The material that surfaces in a regression comes from you. It is yours. And it can change you.

I was recently reading “The Midnight Library” by Matt Haig, a novel built around the idea that we carry within us the unlived versions of our lives, the roads not taken, the selves we might have been. The book is about quantum physics, the way a great dinner is about chemistry: technically accurate, but that is not the point. The point is that trying on a different version of yourself changes the life you are actually living. Loretta tried on a dinosaur. It worked.

Your brain is on your side

Here is what more than 25 years of practice has taught me about how this works neurologically: the stories we carry about ourselves live in the subconscious mind as deeply grooved neural pathways. When Loretta walked into a room with Jack, her nervous system ran an old program: make yourself smaller, don’t make waves, wait your turn even though your turn never comes. That program was wired in over decades of working in a system designed to keep her exactly where she was.

Hypnotherapy bypasses the conscious mind’s insistence on those old patterns and goes directly to the subconscious, where change actually happens. Past-life regression, whether you frame it spiritually or psychologically, lets you inhabit a completely different narrative about who you are and what you are capable of. And when you do that with enough depth and feeling, your brain begins to update its programming. New neural pathways form. The old “make yourself small” groove gets weaker. The “I own this land” groove gets stronger.

This is neuroplasticity in action. You are not just discovering who you are. You are deciding who you are becoming.

What’s your version of Jack?

Most people who come to see me are not dealing with a literal Jack. But almost everyone has a version of one: a relationship they can’t leave, a career they can’t claim, a conversation they keep rehearsing and never have. Something or someone that has convinced them, through repetition or power or sheer exhaustion, that they are smaller than they actually are.

If that is you, I want to tell you something: the power you think you are missing is not missing. It is in your cells. Sixty-five million years of survival are baked into your biology. Loretta’s dinosaur was in there the whole time. She just needed a guide to help her find it.

That is what I do.

Ready to find yours?

If you’re ready to stop making yourself smaller and start accessing the power that’s actually yours, I’d love to work with you. Through hypnotherapy, past-life regression, and Cognitive Behavioral methods, we bypass the old programs and help you build new ones. Sessions are available in person in Los Angeles and via Zoom worldwide.

Please give me a call. (323) 933-4377 , or visit StephanieRiseley.com

Sending you love,

Stephanie