Sometimes I’m asked: “Who does the hypnotist see for treatment?”

And while I’m always happy to refer clients to colleagues and teachers I deeply admire, sometimes the most transformative work doesn’t come from a session at all, rather it comes from the media we let into our minds.

Books, podcasts, videos, these all serve as mirrors and mentors for me. They teach what I don’t yet know, affirm what I already believe, or lovingly challenge what I once assumed to be true.

Below are the works that shaped me most this year, the ones that stretched, soothed, and reminded me what’s possible.

Your neural networks are like roads running through your brain and body. Every habit, belief, and emotional response travels along these roads. The more you use a road, the faster and more automatic it becomes.

If you struggle to visualize, or if your own mind stops you when you try, it’s not because you lack imagination.

It’s because a part of you believes it’s not safe to see the vision through.

Your unconscious mind is speaking to you all the time. Yet most people don’t recognize the language it speaks.

Understanding the unconscious mind is like learning a new language because it doesn’t communicate the way your logical mind does, and this is where most people get stuck.

They expect clear answers, direct insights, and obvious solutions, but the unconscious doesn’t work like that. It speaks in symbols, emotions, and fragments of memories.

Hypnosis is the bridge that allows you to communicate and translate.

Maybe you followed the rules. Maybe you broke them.

Either way, the message was clear: who you are isn’t always acceptable.

The world will shape you if you let it. And without realizing it, sometimes you do. You start dimming certain parts of yourself. Softening your edges. Editing your own thoughts before you say them. Until one day, you wake up and wonder, "Wait. Who am I?"