When Your Past Life Was More Exciting Than This One.
Sometimes the greatest challenge isn’t surviving a war. It’s finding joy in the aftermath of victory. Hypnotherapy, CBT, and Past Life Regression can reveal a hero’s life and help you appreciate the life you live.
Last week, a client I’ll call Sharon described a busy, action-filled life that would make most people envious.
She’s a successful surgeon. Tall, blonde, beautiful. A handsome husband in tech, and two pre-teen, healthy daughters she adores. She’s designed her career brilliantly. She’s in surgery by 6:30 AM and home by 3 PM to be with her girls.
“So why,” she asked, “why can’t I ever feel joy? Why can’t I have fun?”
The surface answer was easy enough to find. Sharon had clawed her way up from crushing poverty. Her father, raised in the luxury of Laguna Beach, had decided it would be “fun” to become Mormon and dragged the family into extreme deprivation.
Sharon started working bagging groceries at 15, put herself through college, then one of the best medical schools in the country, and built the life she has now through sheer force of will.
You’d think that would be enough to make her feel proud. To make her feel like a hero.
But it wasn’t.
The Regression That Changed Everything
I always warn clients not to have high expectations for their first regression. The conscious mind puts up a fight. It insists, “You’re just making it up.”
Most people need a few sessions before they can really let go.
But not Sharon! She knocked it out of the ballpark on her first try.
“Where are you?” I asked once she was in a trance.
“Oh my goodness, I am SO RICH!” she exclaimed. “I’m a little girl, but I’m dressed in finery. I’m riding in a lacquered black coach with horses that have huge feathered plumes on their heads. I think… I think I’m a
Lord’s daughter.”
The joy in her voice was palpable. Then it shifted.
“What’s happening now?” I asked.
Her voice dropped. “I’m being forced to marry a man I don’t care about. But he needs our money and has a social status. He’s a Lord in his own right, but…” she paused. “He’s gay. We have a lot of money. His mother is very happy that I’m marrying her son. Because he’s gay, I never get pregnant. My heart goes out to him, but I don’t know what to do.”
Then Sharon smiled. “I see myself lying in a field, I’m looking up at the stars, asking for help. I know I must leave this life. There’s a woman advertising for help. It’s the time of the Crimean War. I join up with her.”
She paused, then whispered with awe: “It’s Florence Nightingale.”
What followed was extraordinary. Sharon, this proper Lord’s daughter, left her life of wealth and meaningless privilege to become a healer on the battlefield. She found her purpose caring for dying soldiers. When the war ended, she didn’t want to go home. She and another nurse joined a band of fun-loving Romani travelers.
“Look around,” I said. “Do you recognize anyone?”
“It’s my husband!” she cried. “My husband from this lifetime! Wow! He’s there!”
They traveled together with the Roma, happy and free, until they reached a village where the locals didn’t take kindly to strangers. They burned the wagons and killed everyone, except the two white women, who escaped.
Sharon and her friend ended up on a ship bound for America. They landed in Massachusetts, where they became healers in a tiny village, helping with births and deaths.
When she died in that lifetime and moved into the In Between, her soul group surrounded her with applause and celebration.
Both of us sat there, stunned. What a life! No wonder this one felt boring.
The Real Hero’s Journey
“But here’s what you need to understand,” I told Sharon. “The goal of THIS lifetime is to know that a hero’s work doesn’t have to be so exciting.”
She looked at me, confused.
“You already did the big dramatic stuff,” I explained. “You broke free from societal constraints. You found your purpose. You risked everything. You saved lives. You’ve proven you can do hard things.”
“So what’s left?” she asked.
“Joy,” I said. “Just showing up and being happy to be alive. That’s hero enough.”
Why Your Soul Chose a “Boring” Life
Here’s what I’ve learned in more than 25 years of doing this work: Sometimes your soul chooses what looks like an ordinary life specifically BECAUSE your past lives were so extraordinary that you never learned how to just… be.
Maybe you never learned to appreciate the small moments or feel proud of “mundane” achievements—the “mom and pop” lives. Or perhaps to find joy in stability, and celebrate the ordinary miracle of safety and comfort.
If your last life involved fleeing burning wagons and crossing an ocean to start over, this life’s challenge might be learning to appreciate that your biggest problem is that your daughters are a bit entitled.
That’s not a failure. That’s an assignment, a soul contract.
The Cognitive Shift
This is where cognitive behavioral therapy meets past-life regression.
Once Sharon SAW that lifetime, and felt the applause of her soul group celebrating her courage, she could make a conscious choice in this lifetime.
She could stop waiting for life to be dramatic enough to count.
She could stop unconsciously creating chaos to feel alive.
She could recognize that the hero who left everything to follow Florence Nightingale is the same hero who gets up at 5 AM to save lives in an operating room and still makes it home for dinner with her girls.
Same hero. Different assignment – different soul contract.
Your Turn
If you’ve ever felt like this life is somehow “less than,” like you’re capable of more, meant for more, waiting for something bigger, please consider this:
What if you already DID the bigger thing?
What if this lifetime’s assignment is to show up with joy?
What if the most heroic thing you could do right now is appreciate the planet you’re on, the people you love, and the ordinary miracle of being alive?
Because here’s the truth: The soul that could leave wealth and privilege to nurse dying soldiers on a battlefield? That same soul can DEFINITELY find joy in the life you’re living right now.
It just has to choose to.
Want to discover what your soul chose to do in this lifetime?
Past-life regression isn’t about proving reincarnation or finding a past life as Cleopatra. It’s about understanding the patterns, fears, and gifts you brought into this life, and finally making peace with the assignments and soul contracts you chose and agreed to.
Sometimes the most powerful healing comes from realizing – Wow! I’ve already been the hero. Now I get to be happy. And that is the real journey. Open to the wonder of your life.
If you need help, please give me a call. (323) 933-4377
Sending you love,
Stephanie
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