KnowStress

Are you fed up with stress, weight gain, smoking, fears, pain, and other shitty things ruining your life?

Does it feel like willpower just doesn't work?

Are you struggling with feeling powerless?

Have you tried to solve the problems in your life on your own and realized you need help from someone or something else?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you have made the right choice by being here.

I know this is hard. You've likely been debating trying "one more thing" for months, if not years. But, I'm so glad you found me and have taken the courageous step of being here.

I'm confident that hypnotherapy can work to help equip you with the necessary tools to help you face and overcome these challenges. Whether you're struggling with weight loss, smoking cessation, or stress management, it's important that you know you don't have to be alone in this journey. You can achieve your goals, overcome these struggles, and live a more fulfilling and meaningful life.

I encourage you to take a multi-pronged approach to mental and physical wellness. There's no great panacea that will cure anyone.

Hypnotherapy is not enough.
Exercise is not enough.
Healthy eating is not enough.
No one thing is ever enough.
It's always many different activities, new habits, techniques, products working together that help people improve their lives and achieve their goals.

I have found that when hypnotherapy is combined with a healthy lifestyle, true optimum health starts happening. The body is fortified, and the mind gains emotional mastery.

I know stress - and it's all stress! Maybe you do, too. I've spent a lot of time trying to make stress go away. I've done a lot of wishing and hoping to no longer be stressed and to be self-assured and at ease with whatever comes my way. Oh, to be as cool as a cucumber!

Unless you live in a bubble somewhere - and even bubbles burst - there will always be stress. Instead, I’ve decided to take on a new approach to stress. Rather than trying to make stress go away, try to understand it - kind of like keeping your friends close and your enemies closer. Okay, maybe "enemy" is too strong a word to describe stress. Maybe "frienemy" is more accurate. At any rate, dealing with stress is like hitting a patch of ice on the road. Your knee-jerk reaction may be to swerve to avoid the ice only to spin out of control. A better approach is to take your foot off the gas pedal. Take your foot off the brake, too. Face the ice and glide over it.

When it comes to your stress, be it weight gain, smoking, pain, etc., please don’t wait until you’ve hit critical mass to do something about it. This shop is all about harnessing the power of your subconscious mind to make lasting changes so that you can easily attain any goal you desire.

Thank you very much for your time in visiting my little shop. You’ll find an eclectic collection of hypnotherapy sessions I have created myself. These are the sessions that have gotten my clients the results they wanted fast!

To your success,
Melissa Stefanski, PhD

You've probably heard this story before, but I really enjoy it every time I read it. I hope you will, too. Here it goes…

The Starfish Story

~ Once upon a time, there was an old man who used to go to the ocean to do his writing. He had a habit of walking on the beach every morning before he began his work. Early one morning, he was walking along the shore after a big storm had passed and found the vast beach littered with starfish as far as the eye could see, stretching in both directions.

Off in the distance, the old man noticed a small boy approaching. As the boy walked, he paused every so often and as he grew closer, the man could see that he was occasionally bending down to pick up an object and throw it into the sea. The boy came closer still and the man called out, “Good morning! May I ask what it is that you are doing?”

The young boy paused, looked up, and replied, “Throwing starfish into the ocean. The tide has washed them up onto the beach and they can’t return to the sea by themselves,” the youth replied. “When the sun gets high, they will die, unless I throw them back into the water.”

The old man replied, “But there must be tens of thousands of starfish on this beach. I’m afraid you won’t really be able to make much of a difference.”
The boy bent down, picked up yet another starfish and threw it as far as he could into the ocean. Then he turned, smiled and said, “It made a difference to that one!” ~
Adapted from The Star Thrower by Loren Eiseley (1907 – 1977)

This simple story serves as a good reminder that:
YOU are worth time and effort.
Maybe you can't help everyone, but you can help someone.
Goals can be achieved one mini step at a time.

I've never known anyone to just wake up one day and magically be stress-free. What I do know is that by committing to practice one simple relaxation technique or tackling one little task on your to-do list adds up day by day. There's a cumulative effect to managing stress. Managing just a part of your stress every day amounts to feeling great. There won't be a designated day when you'll say, "Yes, this was the day when my stress got under control." But, after some practice, there will come a realization that somewhere along the way, things just got better.