Jessica Betancourt is a certified Transformational Life Coach and Hypnotherapist specialising in addiction transformation. From her own experience, she can relate to the feelings of having chronic anxiety and using substances, mostly alcohol and nicotine to self-medicate.
She joins Dawn in this episode to talk all about her own struggles, how she has been able to cure her addictions to alcohol and cigarettes using hypnotherapy, Neuro-linguistic Programming and meditation and how she now teaches other women how to do the same.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Jessica’s coping mechanisms for life were self-remedies such as drinking and smoking. She didn't realise it's impact until one day she realised it was something she simply didn't want to do anymore. She wanted to face her problems and find a long-term solution to feeling better.
- It’s not comfortable to admit you may have a problem and need help but when you do, it is an incredibly powerful thing to do.
- After starting hypnotherapy, Jessica was able to start tackling her self-limiting beliefs. She began to discover who she truly was and what choices she had.
- The anxiety-induced thoughts have never gone away for Jessica. But she has learnt how to understand those voices and parts of herself and overcome them.
- 'Distractions' to your anxiety and emotions isn’t a long term solution. This is why it’s important to explore what is behind these feelings and learn what fuels them.
- Having a supportive and safe space to explore and recognise your anxiety is really important.
- Jessica's advice for three simple things you can do to help with your anxiety is:
Stop self-meditating and tell yourself the truth, assess how well you are taking care of yourself and pay attention to your own breathing.
BEST MOMENTS
“I don’t think many people want to come out and say I have a problem, I need help with this”
“When we believe we are in a stuck state, of course we are never going to move anywhere”
“It does require some level of bravery and willingness to be uncomfortable for the short-term”
VALUABLE RESOURCES
If you would like to experience hypnotherapy, please click the link below to book a taster session. The charge will be refunded against any therapy session or product download from Dawn’s website.
https://calendly.com/dkmtherapy/hypnotherapy-taster-session
CONTACT METHOD
Finding Freedom Facebook Group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/5046568725414144/)
Email Dawn ([email protected])
ABOUT THE GUEST
Jessica Betancourt is a certified Transformational Life Coach and Rapid Transformational Hypnotherapist who specializes in working with women to heal from alcohol addiction. She believes that negative habits are a symptom of a deeper lying issue and that in locating and healing the core cause of discomfort, pain, or trauma, a person can experience the most liberating freedom.
Check out Jessica’s Podcast: The Mindful Drinking for Women Podcast
Join her Facebook Group: Mindful Drinking for Women
Connect with her on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/blessedvida.hypnotherapy/
Jessica’s Programme: Mindful Drinking Sessions for Women
ABOUT THE HOST
Dawn Morgan
Dawn is a hypnotherapist and resilience coach, trainer, mentor and business owner. Dawn has experienced trauma, terrorist attacks, divorce, being a single parent on benefits, redundancy (more than once) relationship breakdowns... and a whole lot more; and she has always bounced back. Dawn believes that life is for living and we can learn about ourselves from everything we experience, good or bad. We can take those experiences and use them to grow, or use them to shrink... our choice. Dawn chose growth and thinks you should too.
We all have everything we need within us; hope, resilience, compassion, wisdom, confidence; Dawn’s mission is to help you uncover yours!