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Todd Goodwin shares his insights about the broken mental health system through this Social Impact Heroes interview. He identifies five essential areas that must be reformed or improved:
- Root Cause Treatment: Todd criticizes the current mental health system’s focus on symptom management rather than addressing root causes. He advocates for a paradigm shift that targets the underlying issues, such as habitual thinking and nutrition, to prevent and effectively treat mental health conditions.
- Subconscious Mind Work: He emphasizes that conventional talk therapy is not effective, and mental health professionals should learn and use techniques like hypnosis and NLP to work directly with the subconscious mind. This approach can lead to faster and more lasting results.
- Eliminating Stigma: Todd addresses the stigma associated with mental health issues, which prevents many individuals from seeking help. He stresses that societal attitudes toward vulnerability, especially among men, have to change for more people to seek help without shame.
- Health Insurance Reform: He criticizes the economic incentives of the current healthcare system that favor inefficient and expensive treatments. He advocates for a change in health insurance policies to encourage more effective and holistic treatments.
- Personal Responsibility and Education: Todd promotes a change in thinking that makes people accountable for their mental health. He emphasizes the need to teach people about how their thoughts and actions affect their well-being and enable them to create beneficial changes.
According to Todd, a more holistic and preventative approach to mental health will lead to better outcomes and lower costs in the long run. Click here to read the full interview.
Gina Goodwin discusses how she entered the wellness field through this Authority Magazine interview and offers insights on improving wellbeing. Gina started her career in hospitality but soon discovered that her life purpose conflicted with her work goals. First, she noticed how guests consumed alcohol and harmful substances to cope with reality, and then she watched her mother die of cancer. Her search for non-invasive healing methods led her to hypnotherapy, which became instrumental in helping her manage her grief and trauma. The positive changes she experienced through hypnosis inspired her to become a hypnotist and join Goodwin Hypnosis.
Gina explains that her work is global in scope and that she is focused on emotional trauma resolution to improve overall wellbeing. She recommends five lifestyle tweaks that will help in this process:
- Realize that what you resent in others usually represent qualities that you dislike in yourself.
- Avoid language that relies on the word “not”, as it misdirects the subconscious.
- Separate your behaviors from your identity, since it’s harder to solve your problems with you let them define you.
- Understand the subconscious positive intentions behind your undesirable behaviors.
- Strive to maintain balanced views about things you judge in order to stabilize your emotions.
Gina also encourages people to be more aware of the role of the subconscious in emotional and behavioral issues. People can save time and frustration in their healing journey by increasing self-awareness. She ends by emphasizing the importance of mental health and referring readers Goodwin Hypnosis website and YouTube channel for further resources. Click here to read the full interview.
Todd Goodwin examines how to stop people pleasing by identifying core causes and practical methods to overcome this behavior. People pleasing is a behavioral pattern that causes individuals to put others’ needs ahead of their own. People adopt this behavior to avoid rejection or conflict, based on early life experiences and social learning. During his childhood, Todd received an ADHD diagnosis that triggered social humiliation and led to people pleasing tendencies.
He identifies several problems with people pleasing, including damaged self-esteem, built-up resentment, and stress. He notes that people pleasing may seem helpful in the short run, but it is usually very costly in the long run. It can contribute to burnout, mental health problems, and strained relationships.
- Take your time before you say yes or no.
- Identify how people pleasing behaviors are harmful to you and others.
- Discover the ways that self-serving behaviors benefit you and others.
- View every obligation as a disguised choice.
- Use hypnosis and NLP to work directly with your subconscious beliefs.
According to Todd Goodwin, almost everyone can be hypnotized unless they have severe cognitive problems due to low intelligence, medications, or severe traumatic brain injury. He states that misconceptions about hypnosis, such as the fear of being controlled or losing consciousness, can prevent a person from being hypnotized by a professional. Todd stresses that it is crucial to work with a skilled, flexible, and trustworthy hypnotist who can set the right expectations and tailor his approach for each client. He also notes that putting clients into a hypnotic state is usually quite easy, as people naturally experience hypnosis every day. However, the effectiveness of hypnosis to create personal change is a different story. If people are having trouble with hypnosis, NLP may be helpful as a complementary method. Click here to read the full article.