Stephanie Riseley - Los Angeles Hypnotherapy

Unlock Your Past to Heal the Present

How Hypnotherapy, Cognitive Behavior Therapy & Past Life Regression

Healed Depression, Anxiety

Do you feel overwhelmed, stuck, or disconnected?   Do you feel as if you could do anything, if you only knew what it was? Tried drugs, magical mushrooms, and LSD, and you’re still at a loss?

Maybe it’s time to get serious by using scientifically proven integrative therapy. Hypnotherapy, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, combined with Past-Life Regression can free you from a lifetime of anxiety, self-destructive behavior, and shame, precisely as it healed Gary, a talented 52-year-old architect who had soul-shattering panic attacks.

When Gary walked into my office, I saw an overweight, depressed father of two who works in the IT business. He’d been on the psychiatrist-prescribed drugs for so many years, he didn’t remember when he started taking them, but now they didn’t help him at all. His sex drive had plummeted, and he felt hopeless and helpless. His wife suggested he see me, and he was ready to try anything. Both he and his wife sat through my first hour-long talk, where I explained that his brain was like a computer, but it was badly programmed right now.

I assured him that all he’d need to do was to listen to the MP3 hypnosis recording I made for him, do the “brain exercises,” and follow the other suggestions – like walking every day. If he did all of that, he’d be fine. I casually mentioned that being “gluten intolerant” causes many psychological problems because of the antigens that circulate through the blood and create sheer chaos in brain cells.

A month later, when I saw him again, he’d lost ten pounds and felt happy and empowered – he was beginning to remember who he was. He’d read about gluten intolerance, realized that he was allergic to wheat, and decided to give it up. He simply cut it out completely, and now he was so much happier and had so much more energy. We did the second session, and he got in touch with his “inner infant,” who, from his point of view, had the misfortune of being a twin. He also found “his angry inner teenager,” who wanted to do nothing but music. But from his point of view, and from years and years of talking therapy, it was his father who was to blame for his not following his dreams. He said, “He thwarted me at every turn.”

In the next session, we did a Past Life Regression, where he wanted to know why he felt so much anxiety whenever his family was away. It made him totally crazy… he felt panic.   He went back to a life in the 1700s in Sweden, where, as a teenager, he’d been sent off to town, but when he returned, he found his entire family had been murdered. In that lifetime, he’d rebounded, gotten on a ship headed for America, and made a success of his life. After that regression, his panic attacks completely disappeared.

In conducting Past Life Regressions, the client must want to know the lifetime in which a problem, phobia, or attitude originated. Because everyone has so many lifetimes to choose from, I have to ask the right question, a specific question, to get to the source of the problem.

One of the questions that provokes the strongest response is, “Why are you afraid of your power?” (And that usually means, “In what lifetime have you abused the power you had?”)  So I asked Gary’s subconscious mind to show him the lifetime that was causing him to “pull back” on his own power.

“I’m on a horse,” he said,” I’m a commander of a huge army – we’re in battle, but we’re winning. I’m Chinese – it looks to be the 1200s… maybe earlier.”

“Look to your right,” I said, “Who’s your first in command?”

“It’s my father!” he said. “Yes. Wow, he’s my most trusted friend.” He sat there, looking over his inner landscape as he watched the action.

“What happens next?” I asked.

“There’s a firing squad. I’ve ordered lots of people killed.”

“Great. Let’s see who they are. Look at their faces – each man.”

“It’s my father. There’s been a coup attempt, and I’m angry. I want revenge.”

“Okay, now let’s see the consequences of the choice you made. Let’s see what happened.”

“He was married to a woman… she is my mother in this lifetime. Wow. That is my mother! Because his wife has no way of supporting herself, and she’s ashamed, she kills herself and leaves her children orphans. One of her sons is my twin in this life.”

“What happens next?”

“I’m miserable because I’m a bad leader. I’m haunted by what I’ve done. I’m never happy again. Oh, I see it now…  Her son kills me. And I’m happy to be dead.”

When we went to the “In Between,” Gary didn’t get the usual “greeting by his soul group,” or cluster. He went right to what Michael Newton describes as the Tribunal, or meeting with “The Elders.”

I asked him to describe the medallions they wore. I was stunned, because they were exactly like Michael Newton had described in “Journey of Souls” or “Destiny of Souls.” Gary had never heard of those books.

Now, after he “came back to room awareness,” he smiled and shook his head in amazement. “No wonder my father was always giving it to me! He was just getting even, wasn’t he? I destroyed his family. And he was innocent. I know that now. Far out. I have a lot of forgiving to do… of myself and my family.”

That shift in perspective, from feeling like a victim of his father’s anger to one of understanding, turned the tide for Gary. He understands that sometimes “souls” need to be placed in situations where they learn what it feels like to be betrayed, misunderstood, or poorly judged.

In this lifetime, his father had always “judged him badly.” Just as Gary, as his Chinese-commander-self, had misjudged and put to death his loyal friend and devoted follower. His father. Gary’s now ready to go back to his music and enjoy it.

We did other sessions, and ultimately, Gary found one of the causes of all of his self-destructive behavior. Gary’s story is a powerful testament to the lasting impact of unresolved trauma and the profound healing that can come from confronting the past.

When he was a young man navigating the dangerous currents of the 1980s cocaine trade, Gary found his life irrevocably altered by a brutal act of violence. He sent his friend and business partner to pick up the product, and Colombian drug dealers shot him dead.

Gary felt such shame. The immediate shock and terror propelled him away from that life, a decision that ultimately set him on a path toward a successful career as an architect.

However, the act of leaving the drug business did not erase the trauma. Gary carried the event as a silent burden, a secret shame that gnawed at him for decades. He meticulously built a new life, a successful career, a façade of normalcy. But beneath the surface, the memory of that day, the violent death of his partner, and perhaps a sense of guilt or responsibility, festered. He never spoke of it, locking it away as a dark secret, a hidden wound that festered and ate away at his peace of mind.

It wasn’t until his buried trauma surfaced, and the veil of secrecy that had shrouded that traumatic event lifted. In hypnosis, Gary revisited that pivotal moment, not as the hip drug dealer that he once was, but as the vulnerable 22-year-old caught in a terrifying reality.

His deep dive into his own subconscious allowed him to process those shame-filled emotions he had suppressed for so long – the fear, the grief, and the horrible guilt. Gary forgave the young man he had been, the choices he made, and their tragic consequences. He was able to reframe his past experiences, and that was the key that unlocked a crucial step in his healing: understanding and, ultimately, forgiving that 22-year-old version of himself.

Gary integrated and mended the fractured parts of himself. That freed him and helped him create a sense of self-compassion.

Gary’s journey highlights how even decades later, unresolved trauma can hold you captive, and how opening to the power of your subconscious unlocks your power and leads you to freedom!

If you need help, please give me a call. (323) 933-4377

Sending you love,

Stephanie

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