What if the patterns you call self-sabotage are actually your subconscious mind trying to protect you?
In this episode, Kelly is joined by certified hypnotherapist, life coach, author, and Blue Sky Hypnosis creator Peter McLaughlin for a conversation about trauma, triggers, limiting beliefs, emotional eating, hypnosis, and healing at the root.
Peter explains why repeating patterns and intense emotional reactions may be connected to earlier experiences, and how approaching those patterns with curiosity and compassion can help us understand what is happening beneath the surface.
Kelly also shares her own experience with emotional eating, fear of being seen, and the belief that she needed to make herself smaller to feel safe.
Together, they explore:
- Why self-sabotage may actually be self-protection
- How old beliefs influence present-day reactions
- The connection between trauma, safety, and emotional eating
- What triggers may be trying to reveal
- How hypnosis works with subconscious patterns
- Moving from self-judgment to curiosity and compassion
- Practices that may support healing, including meditation, journaling, gratitude, prayer, and self-hypnosis
This episode offers a new question to consider: instead of asking, “Why am I doing this to myself?”, what might change if you asked, “What is this part of me trying to protect me from?”
Learn more about Peter McLaughlin and Blue Sky Hypnosis:
https://www.blueskyhypnosis.com/
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