Lian and hypnotherapist and changework facilitator James Tripp on where pattern-based change meets its ceiling, what Jungian individuation and NLP have to say to each other, and why the most resistant clients may be the ones most in need of a reconnection to soul.

James Tripp is an internationally recognised authority in the fields of self development, personal mastery and generative changework.

Coming from a diverse background including philosophy, music, martial arts, movement culture and NLP, James is also the developer of the Hypnosis Without Trance approach to hypnotic facilitation as well as author of the critically acclaimed book of the same title.

In his one-to-one work, James works with individuals looking to become better adapted in consistently creating outcomes they value and living lives they love. Since turning professional in 2007 his clients have included artists, filmmakers, entrepreneurs and business creators, c-suite executives, actors and performers, frontline services operatives, medical doctors, writers, special forces operatives and military veterans.

In this episode, Lian and James begin with "doomer optimism," a genuine belief that radical change is not only inevitable but potentially the very thing that makes us more alive and more human. They look at what it costs people to build a life around patterns that are functional in the world but out of resonance with who they truly are, and why that gap, which might show up as numbness, burnout, or a vague sense that something's missing, tends to compound under pressure.

From there the conversation moves into territory that doesn’t always make it into change-work: soul, and what it takes to bring that word into a room full of police officers without losing them, and why, in James’ experience, even the most practical people tend to respond when someone gives them permission to look in that direction. There's something here about nourishment rather than healing, about arcs of becoming rather than things to fix, and about where ancient ways of knowing, shamanism, Taoism, the Kabbalah, still carry genuine usefulness in a world that has largely forgotten them.

Listen if you've been doing this work, in yourself or with others, long enough to sense that changing our patterns is only part of the story.

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What you’ll learn from this episode:

• Why changing patterns can take you a long way but still leave you feeling like the nut has been removed from the shell

• How soul connection shows up differently depending on the room you're in, and why James rarely uses that language the same way twice

• What Jung's private admission near the end of his life, that he had failed at his principal task, reveals about how long it takes for a seed to become a fruit tree

Resources and stuff that we spoke about:

• Visit James’s website (https://www.jamestripp.co.uk/).

• James’s Linktree (https://linktr.ee/jamestripp)

• Join UNIO, The Community for Wild Sovereign Souls: (https://www.unioacademy.com/) This is for the old souls in this new world… Discover your kin & unite with your soul’s calling to truly live your myth.

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