Our next guest, Brooke Ritchie, has led a full and diverse life. From living in a trailer park to becoming a nanny to some of the wealthiest people. And, Shelby, we've talked about this before.... the hard thing is...being surrounded by wealth, knowing what IS possible, but then we allow our limiting beliefs to hold us back!

Girlfriend....we KNOW you are out there struggling with some of these same limiting beliefs. We love Brooke's vulnerability to share her story and how she's had to overcome her own limiting beliefs to live her best life as a coach and therapist. And Brooke will say that being a coach and therapist has been her life’s work. It chose her. This calling has now allowed HER to help countless people to embody their true selves and achieve things they had feared were out of reach. 

The good news is: You can change. But, girl...you have to take charge of interrupting old patterns and narratives by committing to doing the deep inner work. As a trauma-informed mindset coach and therapist Brooke helps people overcome self-worth issues & mindset blocks so they can make quantum leaps in every aspect of their lives. Imagine what your life would look like if you actually felt worthy. What conversations would you have? And with who? What kind of money could you make? Where would you spend your vacations? And who would you wake up next to? 

Brooke has a Master’s degree in Somatic Psychology and works as a Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist. She is certified as a Neuro-Linguistic Programming Practitioner and is trained in The Mastery Method Coaching, Deep Transformational Coaching, EMDR Therapy, & Regenerating Images in Memory.

Let's just say girl has done it all and in this episode, she walks us through some of the tools and techniques she uses to help her clients achieve the freedom and transformation they seek.

In this episode, Brooke teaches us:

1. When we experience a trauma, it leaves an open loop in our brain. So, each time the brain experiences something similar it catalogues it as a comparable experience and triggers the same feelings as we had during the initial experience...creating these repetitive narratives. We can identify the open loop and reparent that inner child to provide them what they need to close the loop.
2. We can use hypnosis to down shift our brain waves into a slower theta state, taking the frontal cortex offline, so that your brain is operating at the same wave length that it is between the ages of 0-7. In this way you can dig into your subconscious and repeater neural pathways.
3. You are already in hypnosis 2x a day. Right as you are falling asleep and then as you wake up in the morning. These become opportunistic moments to do some. your inner work.
4. EMDR stands for eye movement desensitization reprocessing and is a therapeutic method of using bilateral stimulation of the brain to help the individual reshape the way they think about the traumas that happened to them.
5. In order to expand your thinking and vision a future that is even broader that you know today, you can evaluate who you're spending time with. You absorb the mindset of those you spend your time with. When you expand your circle of friends, you expand your mind.
6. When facing a block or limiting belief, ask yourself: "Is (this block) true?" Then, "Can I absolutely believe it's true?" "How do you react when you think or hear this thought" "If it is not true, what could be possible and who could you be without the thought?"

You can find more of Brooke at:

Facebook | brookieritchie

IG | brookieritchie

LinkedIn

Website Offer| https://www.brookeritchiecoaching.com/

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