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Episode 139: Beyond the Myths: What Hypnotherapy Really Does · Get Savvy...Demystifying Healthcare

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  SPEAKER_00: Really, only 10% got better with the real medication.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's good enough we'll put on the market per at 80 bucks a pill.
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  SPEAKER_00: But really, more people got better through mind than through the medication.
• 0:11
  SPEAKER_00: But there's no big billion-dollar payout to stockholders by teaching people how to heal with mind.
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_00: And so in and of itself, I get it, but that's how powerful we are.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have the ability to create healing.
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  SPEAKER_00: So what hypnotherapy, the what these techniques and tools are doing, is helping you access your own healing potential.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's nothing magical or mystical about this.
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  SPEAKER_00: This isn't mind control or brainwashing.
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  SPEAKER_00: In fact, it's giving you back control.
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  SPEAKER_03: What if lasting healing begins beneath the surface of the conscious mind?
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  SPEAKER_03: In this episode, we explore how hypnotherapy can help reduce anxiety, release limiting beliefs, manage pain, and create meaningful emotional change, empowering you to experience greater calm, confidence, and control.
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  SPEAKER_03: To help us get into this topic, I have Craig Merriweather on the show.
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  SPEAKER_03: Craig is a clinical hypnotherapist helping people explore deep healing and subconscious transformation.
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  SPEAKER_03: For over 16 years, Craig has been helping people heal from childhood trauma, helping cancer patients with pain control, veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder, students with test anxiety, entrepreneurs with confidence, athletes with peak performance, and anyone who may be dealing with overwhelm, fear, and anxiety.
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  SPEAKER_03: The work for Craig is personal, is he spent years struggling with depression and anxiety himself, and hypnotherapy helped him find a level of calm and emotional freedom.
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  SPEAKER_03: Welcome to the show, Craig.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Sandy.
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  SPEAKER_00: I appreciate that uh introduction.
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  SPEAKER_03: Well, let's start with you.
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  SPEAKER_03: Tell us your story and how it's led you on the journey you are on today.
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  SPEAKER_00: The reason I am where I am is uh been a long, slow journey up the mountain, as they say.
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  SPEAKER_00: I struggled a lot with depression and anxiety uh in my teenage years.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is the 1980s.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh I graduated high school in 1985, so there's no internet.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's not even uh the SSRI drugs, uh, Prozacs and Zolofs and things.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those didn't come out until the mid-90s or so.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so, really, what you had in the 1980s is what whatever book you could find at the bookstore, the library, or whatever talk therapist you might find in the phone book, you know, go go through the yellow pages.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because certainly when you're 14 or 15 uh years old, you're not gonna ask your friends at lunch at school, you know, for a talk therapist recommendation.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's just something you kind of head and you struggle with.
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  SPEAKER_00: I remember at one point even going to college and uh and what do you want to be when you grow up and all that kind of stuff, and started making that career trajectory and those plans.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so you start, okay, well, what do I want to be when I get out of school, or what do I want to study, or how do I want to where do I want to go in terms of life?
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  SPEAKER_00: And I remember just saying, I just want to be happy.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't want to be an auto mechanic, I don't want to be an electrician, I don't want to be a you know professor of mathematics, I don't want to be a doctor or lawyer, I just want to be happy.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that was my sole focus because I was not happy.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a lot of dark clouds around.
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  SPEAKER_00: And um as I moved into the 90s, so my sole kind of focus actually in my my twenties was just this struggle of depression and how to get out of it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as we move into the 90s, of course, uh Prozac and and all those are coming out.
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  SPEAKER_00: But Prozac was on the cover of Newsweek.
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  SPEAKER_00: Remember the magazine Newsweek.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh and so the conversation actually opened about depression.
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  SPEAKER_00: You could talk about it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh the personal development movement really kind of hit its second wave, maybe third wave.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Tony Robbins became a superstar with Awaken the Giant Within, and Oprah kind of switched and pivoted her show to be more positive in terms of the outlook and stuff as she became a superstar.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh so the personal growth movement opened up right as people were allowed to talk about depression.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then the internet started coming out in uh the mid to late 90s with our you know, 14, four modems that took 12 hours to download a picture over the phone lines and all that.
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  SPEAKER_00: But there was these things called blog posts and forums you could get on and discuss things and you could open up because you could be anonymous if you wanted to, you could so you could talk about your life and people could, you know, give advice.
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  SPEAKER_00: And, you know, well, go talk to your doctor.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's these new medications, all these things.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so the 90s were great in terms of just it opened up a wealth of information for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: And one of the things that came out of that, all that information, was hypnotherapy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because a lot of the books I was reading and the uh blog posts and articles and magazines and things was about hypnotherapy, these tools and techniques because in and of itself, uh, the term hypnotherapy is just an umbrella term for a lot of different tools and techniques.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not just one thing, it's a lot of different uh ways of accessing the healing power of mind.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I started using it in my own life and found deep healing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's just as things moved through life, uh, I started doing a mastermind group with a couple friends of mine because we how how can we change the world?
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  SPEAKER_00: As we moved into midlife, it's like we want to make our mark on the world, we want to change the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we started this mastermind group and we met once a week, and we all kind of had our own little um ideas of how what we wanted to do in terms of um changing the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're all kind of different, but we we you know liked each other and we could support each other.
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  SPEAKER_00: And one of the things I thought about is like, well, I have all this information about depression that I've been researching for the last 10 years about techniques and tools and things.
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  SPEAKER_00: And right at that same time, Hay House, this is like 2010, Hay House uh was having a a writing contest.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I thought, well, okay, well, I'll write a book.
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  SPEAKER_00: How hard can that be?
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  SPEAKER_00: And each month you dropped in a chapter and they would just whittle down the contestants.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you start with 500 the first month, and the second month was 200, and then the third month was a hundred, and the fourth month was fifty, and then it was twenty, and then it was like ten of us.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I got into the the the final final ten, and while I didn't come in first, I actually had an email from one of the the judges and said I came in a close second with my book, Depression 180.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so that was enough encouragement to, you know, want to put it out there in the world and discuss this.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is, you know, 20, well, at this point, 2011 or so podcasts were just coming out, this new thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I started doing interviews, and Hay House invited me to be in this book called Um Pearls of Wisdom with Jack Canfield and Marcy Shrimoff and a bunch of other people.
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  SPEAKER_00: So a lot of us that were in the contest were in it as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I wanted to do a telesummit uh about depression.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I interviewed all these people about depression and put out this telesummit because that's what you had back in the day, telesummits.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then uh that led to my own podcast, which then uh a big pivot in life since I kept talking about mind and healing and mindset and consciousness.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh I wanted to become a hypnotherapist.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so that that happened um some 10 years ago and been kind of focusing my life on hypnotherapy ever since.
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  SPEAKER_03: Aaron Powell Well, that's awesome.
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  SPEAKER_03: What a journey you've had.
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  SPEAKER_03: So speaking of that, let's level set here and talk about what is a two-part question.
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  SPEAKER_03: What is hypnotherapy and what are the myths around hypnotherapy?
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  SPEAKER_00: Aaron Powell Yeah, unfortunately, there's a lot of misconceptions uh around what this is due to the movies and TV shows, which is really unfortunate because I think it keeps a lot of people from even looking into the possibilities of this work.
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  SPEAKER_00: What we're doing with uh therapeutic hypnosis is accessing the power of your healing potential.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't fix anybody.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in and of itself, hypnotherapy doesn't fix you.
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  SPEAKER_00: You fix yourself.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the placebo effect.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we know about the placebo effect from research.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is not a fake thing, it's not uh tricking people into uh something.
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  SPEAKER_00: The placebo effect is mind healing the body, and researchers have to account for that because they may be accidentally influencing people to heal themselves.
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  SPEAKER_00: So let's say a pharmaceutical company is doing some research on a high blood pressure medication.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, they're gonna have two groups.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're gonna have a group that takes fake medicine, they're gonna have a group that takes the real medicine.
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  SPEAKER_00: The reason why they have the fake medicine is because they know they're going to accidentally influence people to heal themselves through the brochure about the research and the medication, through the website where you sign up, through the waiver you sign when you get to the research lab or the research office, uh, the white lab coats, the smell of the office.
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  SPEAKER_00: All of that stuff is influencing somebody to heal themselves and they have to account for that.
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  SPEAKER_00: So they have the group that gets the fake medication, the sugar pill, and let's say 30% of the people get better.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those people are actually healing themselves.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're using minds, their own healing potential to heal themselves.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're being, yes, they're being tricked into it.
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  SPEAKER_00: But they're doing it themselves.
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  SPEAKER_00: And and let's say 40% of the people uh with the real medication get better.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, they actually have to subtract 30% now because maybe they accidentally influence those people to heal themselves.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so really only 10% got better with the real medication, that's good enough, we'll put on the market for at 80 bucks a pill.
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  SPEAKER_00: But really, more people got better through mind than through the medication.
• 12:21
  SPEAKER_00: But there's no big billion-dollar payout to stockholders by teaching people how to heal with mind.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so, and so in and of itself, I I get it, but that's how powerful we are.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_00: We have the ability to create healing.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, what hydrotherapy, that what these techniques and tools are doing is helping you access your own healing potential.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there's nothing magical or mystical about this.
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  SPEAKER_00: This isn't mind control or brainwashing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um in fact, it's giving you back control because a lot of people, they may be experiencing anxiety, a literal physical change in the body of stress and fight or flight, and even panic or anger or resentment or or sadness or depression.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they're having a deep physical change because of maybe thoughts known or unknown, are causing are causing the brain to create a different chemistry, different hormones to be released.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're already out of control.
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  SPEAKER_00: You may know why it's happy, you may have no idea.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have people say, I don't know, all of a sudden in the middle of the day, I'll get anxious.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's out of control.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your mind, though, knows why it's doing it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your mind is telling the brain to create a new chemistry, which then dumps that into your bloodstream, which causes the body to react in a certain way through certain feeling states.
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  SPEAKER_00: But in itself, if you don't understand it or if you can't control it, then you're out of control.
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  SPEAKER_00: So what hypnotherapy does is give you back control because you're going to create healing around that, even if it's unknown to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because what we're doing is not using the conscious level of mind, we're using the subconscious level of mind.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the main job of the subconscious is to protect, to uh form this protection bubble around you to keep you safe and alive for survival.
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  SPEAKER_00: And what it's using is your experiences from the past as a guidepost on how to keep you safe.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh so if somebody's gone through some trauma, maybe recently or maybe a long time ago when they were a child, it's using that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those are these files in this filing cabinet.
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  SPEAKER_00: As you go through life, as you whatever you experience as you go through your day, what you see, hear, taste, touch, and smell, all that information you're pulling in, being processed by your mind is being filtered through that filing cabinet in case there's something dangerous in your world.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if one of those files gets triggered, you'll get the warning signals.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, instead of you know, like somebody pulling the fire alarm and and getting sirens and strobe lights and all that, what you get is feeling state, the feeling state of anxiety, the feeling state of anger, the feeling state of of worry or overwhelm or fear is a warning signal that there's something dangerous.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, one of the aspects of being human is the mind can't tell the difference between what's real and what's imagined.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is most noticeable just as an example of like somebody's having a nightmare in the middle of the night.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it doesn't matter how realistic the dream may be, how how um ridiculous the dream may be is maybe a veteran having a PTSD dream about being back in combat in the front lines, even though their war was forty years ago.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or the dream may be something super ridiculous, like a cheeseburger's chasing you down the street throwing coconuts at your head.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's ridiculous, it's never gonna happen.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in both scenarios, realistic or maybe more ridiculous, a person's safe and cozy and comfortable in bed.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the mind has a safety protocol of shoot first, ask questions later, and thinks you're under attack, either by a cheeseburger or maybe by the enemy on the front lines, and will drench your entire body with adrenaline and cortisol while in deep sleep.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so the brain starts creating those hormones, dumping in a bloodstream, your heart starts racing and get the muscle your arms and your legs to fight and to escape, train down the power of your immune system, your digestive system, and get that energy, the big muscles.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe so much cortisol gets dumped into your brain, you wake up.
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  SPEAKER_00: It wants you consciously aware, consciously alert, looking for the danger, looking for that cheeseburger coming to attack you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so you wake up with a scream and you're sweating trying to cool down your body.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're literally having a physical reaction, a physical response, uncontrolled because you're having a dream about a cheeseburger chasing on the street.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you can imagine what's happening in your waking world.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so that's, you know, the main job of the subconscious mind, of course, it's running our immune system, our digestive system.
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  SPEAKER_00: You get a cut on your finger, it knows that send the emergency healing aid to the index finger of your left hand, not the pinky finger of your right hand, get a scrape on the knee.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you ever had that experience of somebody pointing, hey, you got a big scrape on your arm, how'd you get that?
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  SPEAKER_00: And you're like, I have no idea, I didn't know it was there.
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_00: Your subconscious mind knew there was a problem and started the healing process before you were even consciously aware of it.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's how powerful you are.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so, yes, it's it's running all those systems, taking a day-old baby to that of an adult, all things you don't have to think about, holding on to habits like tying your shoes and walking down the street and riding a bicycle and all these things, again, we don't have to think about, zipping up your jacket.
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  SPEAKER_00: But its main job is to keep you safe and protected.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the problem is it can't tell the difference between what's real danger and imagined danger.
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  SPEAKER_00: The conscious mind, the analytical mind, the the logical mind, uh, the mind that creates your goals and the plans to achieve those goals and the willpower.
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  SPEAKER_00: But what neuroscience says is that conscious mind only makes up 5% of mind.
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  SPEAKER_00: Subconscious mind makes up 95% of mind.
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  SPEAKER_00: So when there's conflict between the logical mind and the emotional mind of the subconscious, the subconscious mind wins every time.
• 17:50
  SPEAKER_00: The emotional mind winds every time.
• 17:52
  SPEAKER_00: That's why none of this has to be logical or make any sense.
• 17:54
  SPEAKER_00: That's where I think people get frustrated and they start spinning their wheels and certain types of therapy.
• 17:59
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, like, not to put talk therapy on blast, I think that's very helpful and very useful.
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  SPEAKER_00: But if you're logically trying to analyze a situation that you're actually not really aware of, the core issues, because they're emotionally hidden within the subconscious, how are you fixing anything?
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's where these tools and techniques come in.
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  SPEAKER_00: And by quieting down that conscious level of mind, you can uh access that subconscious, these files.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_00: It's just computer code.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you can just, you know, start may changing the code, creating healing and resolution around past hurt, whether it happened a month ago or you know, 50 years ago.
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_00: And and that's the important part of this work.
• 18:37
  SPEAKER_00: And it and it's scary because of what people have seen on TV and movies, and that's extraordinarily unfortunate.
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_00: But this you can't take control away from anybody.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_00: You can't make people do things they don't want to do.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_00: Otherwise, smoking cessation would be 100% guarantee.
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_00: I can make everybody quit smoking.
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_00: But there are people who don't want to quit smoking.
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_03: So listening and absorbing every thing that you're saying, which makes uh so much sense.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_03: But let's take it down and help people understand by maybe sharing a patient story, obviously protecting that identity, to kind of piece it together, everything you've talked about, but how does it work uh with a patient uh to help them better understand the power of hypnotherapy?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_00: So this is a great example.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some years ago, I was doing some classes for the cancer support community, but then COVID happened.
• 19:22
  SPEAKER_00: And the cancer support community was one of the first places I at least I knew of that shut down because cancer patients have compromised immune systems.
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  SPEAKER_00: So all the classes went online.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_00: And so I had to learn how to start doing classes and sessions online.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there was a a woman in the one of the series of classes, and she's I'm in her early 70s.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh she was early to the Zoom class, and um I'm I'm there, of course, and we're waiting for uh the other people to arrive, and we're just chit-chatting as one does about the weather and life and weekend plans and all that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And she says, Hey, uh, does hypnotherapy work with procrastination?
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  SPEAKER_00: I said, Well, yeah, that's a mindset issue of pulling back uh from something, even though it may be uh beneficial to you, like getting a promotion or getting the homework turned in on time or getting the uh um presentation ready for the big meeting on Friday or whatever.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're procrastinating because there's some fear around that, some hesitation because it seems dangerous.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe is it real or imagined or logical or illogical?
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  SPEAKER_00: Something is holding you back from moving forward, even though it may be beneficial.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, yeah, hypnotherapy can help with that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Discover what it is and create healing around that.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we actually set up a time for the very next day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, she shows up for the Zoom session and she says, you know, I know I told you I wanted to uh work on procrastination, but what I really want to work on is why I don't matter in life.
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_00: And and in that 24 hours, the subconscious mind started processing.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_00: It's like, okay, we're gonna do some healing work, some deep healing work.
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_00: We can work on a problem, but why not work on the problem?
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_00: And so when she came to the session, her intuition, her feeling is like, I really want to work on this big, bigger issue.
• 20:58
  SPEAKER_00: And so, yeah, absolutely we can work on that because that's a feeling state.
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  SPEAKER_00: Feeling state of not mattering in life.
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  SPEAKER_00: You feel that in your body.
• 21:05
  SPEAKER_00: You feel that in the body because the brain is changing chemistry to create that feeling state.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_00: And the brain is creating that, you know, changing chemistry in that way because of a thought, known or unknown.
• 21:15
  SPEAKER_00: So sometimes it's just as easy to follow the feeling state back to the thought that is creating it, and that's what we did.
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_00: And go back to the first time you ever felt this feeling of not mattering in life, of having no value, of having no worth.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_00: That's why we did a regression work and I doing the countdown in five, four, three, two, one, and where are you?
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_00: And she says, I'm standing up in my crib, and my father's screaming at me because I won't stop crying.
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_00: Now, I don't know, standing up in the crib, that's that twelve months old, fourteen months old, somewhere around there.
• 21:45
  SPEAKER_00: And, you know, if she's in her seventies, I'm guessing that's the nineteen fifties, maybe.
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_00: Uh maybe uh, you know, the nineteen sixties, and and maybe men back in um those days weren't exactly trained on how to deal.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_00: With little kids, and or you know, you know, may maybe dad is just tired and had a bad day or bad week, is having a bad life, maybe he's just not a very nice person.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_00: But mom's out of the house and the baby won't stop crying, he doesn't know what to do, so best thing he can come up with is scream louder than the baby.
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_00: And in that instant, that child has to justify why this is happening.
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_00: And so the child came up with the safety protocol of, well, I guess I don't matter in life, so I need to keep myself small, I need to keep my voice low.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I need to hide.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_00: And maybe that was the best thing the child could have done in his home that maybe wasn't safe.
• 22:33
  SPEAKER_00: But that doesn't work when you're in your twenties or your thirties, let alone your 60s or 70s.
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_00: And she finally um got to a point where it was time to release and let go and resolve that issue, and that's what she did.
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_00: I never saw her again.
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_00: You know, she did like three uh generalized classes for the cancer support community that I was facilitating.
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_00: We did one solo session and she did the healing work she needed to do.
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_00: That's how powerful this is.
• 23:03
  SPEAKER_00: And again, it's not because I'm fixing anybody or that hypnotherapy fixes because she was ready to do the healing work.
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_00: She had enough life experience, maybe she had done other kind of healing work but she was ready, her subconscious mind was ready to let that go.
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_03: That's really interesting.
• 23:20
  SPEAKER_03: Well, speaking of that, and I know you've touched on it briefly, but tell us more of why the subconscious mind holds that key to the lasting change.
• 23:29
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_00: It's not against you.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_00: It may seem like it's against you a lot of the times, but it's not.
• 23:36
  SPEAKER_00: It's for you.
• 23:37
  SPEAKER_00: It wants healing.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_00: Its main job is to protect and to keep you safe.
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_00: And so it's using what has hurt you in the past.
• 23:47
  SPEAKER_00: And it's it's filtering your life as you go through your day and sensing maybe somebody speaks harshly at work or there's some family or something, and it sends those warning signals.
• 24:00
  SPEAKER_00: You are in charge of those warning signals because it was you who put those instructions on how to keep yourself safe.
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_00: It's not to blame you or say it's your fault, not here to blame the victim.
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_00: But you're the one who put those instructions in there on how to keep yourself safe, to warn you when it's your subconscious mind says it's danger.
• 24:19
  SPEAKER_00: So change the instructions.
• 24:21
  SPEAKER_00: It's computer code.
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_00: And like if somebody is writing a computer program, uh like an accounting program for their business, and they put in there two plus two equals five, well, that's not going to work very well.
• 24:33
  SPEAKER_00: And you can be frustrated, you can be angry, and you can slam your fist on your keyboard, and you can vent to your friends on how unfair it is that two plus two equals five, and you can take a marker, you take a Sharpie and write on your computer screen two plus two equals four.
• 24:45
  SPEAKER_00: But it's not until you go into the code and see that there it is, two plus two equals five, and you amend it, you edit it, you change it, you delete it, and write in new code, you put it in there two plus two equals four.
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_00: Now your equation's equal out.
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_00: You press save.
• 24:59
  SPEAKER_00: And it and not to say it's that easy and simple, but sometimes it's that easy and simple.
• 25:03
  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes you get to a point where you say, This is too heavy for me to carry anymore.
• 25:08
  SPEAKER_00: It's time to let it go.
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so let's let it go.
• 25:11
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you for explaining that.
• 25:13
  SPEAKER_03: This has been fascinating.
• 25:14
  SPEAKER_03: I I did not think of hypnotherapy in that way.
• 25:16
  SPEAKER_03: I do appreciate you providing that enlightenment.
• 25:19
  SPEAKER_03: Well, as we kind of getting closer to a close, I mean, let's talk about you uh and maybe share with us your final thoughts that you'd like to leave consumers with.
• 25:28
  SPEAKER_03: Also share with us a bit more about your book that just came out, Depression 180, and also your website, which is a wealth of information as well.
• 25:36
  SPEAKER_03: I know that's a lot in one statement, but I want to hear more.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_00: To find out more about this kind of work, uh, release the past.com is a blessed place to go.
• 25:46
  SPEAKER_00: You'll find me.
• 25:47
  SPEAKER_00: You can also go to craigmeryweather.com, but I know Merryweather has a lot of different spellings.
• 25:51
  SPEAKER_00: So releasethepast.com.
• 25:53
  SPEAKER_00: And if you're interested in this work and want more information, please email me or we'll get on the phone.
• 25:57
  SPEAKER_00: I'm happy to talk with you about this stuff.
• 25:59
  SPEAKER_00: The book uh is kind of a re-release of the book that came out in uh 2012 or so.
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_00: And you find it on Amazon, Depression180.
• 26:09
  SPEAKER_00: And it's a it's a guidebook of different techniques and tools to use to help uh relieve the patterns.
• 26:17
  SPEAKER_00: Problem with depression, again, there's a whole 10-hour conversation right there.
• 26:21
  SPEAKER_00: But just real quickly, you know, depression isn't just one thing, it's a symptom of what could be many different things.
• 26:28
  SPEAKER_00: Of course, trauma or hurt or grief, but also traumatic brain injury, you know, or you know, side effects of medication, including antidepressants, can cause depression.
• 26:39
  SPEAKER_00: So there's a lot of different um issues around depression.
• 26:43
  SPEAKER_00: The book goes through a lot of those issues and different techniques and things that have been scientifically proven.
• 26:49
  SPEAKER_00: So that's depression 180, and you can find that now on Amazon, or if you're just interested in hypnotherapy, releasethepast.com.
• 26:57
  SPEAKER_03: Awesome.
• 26:57
  SPEAKER_03: Well, what are some final thoughts that you would like to leave people with?
• 27:00
  SPEAKER_03: Thinking of listeners who said, gosh, I've heard a lot about hypnotherapy.
• 27:04
  SPEAKER_03: What Craig said makes a lot of sense, but I'm still struggling with this.
• 27:08
  SPEAKER_03: What would you tell people?
• 27:10
  SPEAKER_00: You know, the important thing about the subconscious mind, because another aspect of being human is what you practice, you get better at.
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_00: And that's great if you're learning the piano or the guitar, or you're learning dance, or you're learning martial arts, or you're learning to walk as a child, learning to ride a bicycle.
• 27:24
  SPEAKER_00: But what if you're practicing anxiety or you're practicing anger, you're practicing resentment or sadness?
• 27:31
  SPEAKER_00: Uh that's going to create a mindset that may hold you back from just being your best self.
• 27:38
  SPEAKER_00: Those are mindset issues within your subconscious mind.
• 27:41
  SPEAKER_00: You're allowed to change those.
• 27:43
  SPEAKER_00: And again, it's not to blame you or say it's your fault, but you're the one who's doing it.
• 27:47
  SPEAKER_00: Now, there may be challenges in life, certainly, but how you move through those challenges is up to you.
• 27:54
  SPEAKER_00: And that's where hypnotherapy comes in.
• 27:55
  SPEAKER_00: It's not um magic, it's not brainwashing.
• 27:59
  SPEAKER_00: In fact, the word hypnosis comes from the Greek god hypnos, who's the Greek god of sleep.
• 28:04
  SPEAKER_00: Because, you know, back in the 1800s they were using a trance state to do surgery because they didn't have fancy anesthesia or you're basically biting down on a stick if you had to have your leg amputated.
• 28:14
  SPEAKER_00: So Dr.
• 28:15
  SPEAKER_00: James Esdell, while in India, learned about this trance state, it would put people kind of in the dyskoma-like state, uh, brought it back to England, and somebody said, Oh, we should, you know, call it hypnosis after the Greek god of sleep.
• 28:28
  SPEAKER_00: That's where that comes from.
• 28:29
  SPEAKER_00: There's there's nothing magical or mystical about this.
• 28:31
  SPEAKER_00: It's just altered brainwave state, going from the beta brainwave state of consciousness firing about 18, 20 cycles per second, to the alpha brainwave state firing about 12 cycles per second when you get bored at work or you bored back in high school math class, um, and you just drift off and float away, and your mind starts thinking about something else.
• 28:54
  SPEAKER_00: You don't hear the teacher anymore or the meeting that's going on, or you're driving and you don't remember the last minute or two, and you arrive at the store, you work, or your home or something.
• 29:02
  SPEAKER_00: That's hypnosis.
• 29:04
  SPEAKER_00: You've done it.
• 29:05
  SPEAKER_00: We all do it.
• 29:06
  SPEAKER_00: This isn't that somebody can't do hypnosis, if somebody's listening and they maybe they've experienced hypnosis before and saying, Well, it didn't work for me.
• 29:14
  SPEAKER_00: Well, that's because you had control and you decided you didn't want to.
• 29:18
  SPEAKER_00: Everybody can do it because everybody drifts and floats away.
• 29:20
  SPEAKER_00: You can't be in that beta brainwave state every day, all day long.
• 29:25
  SPEAKER_00: That's not the way the brain works.
• 29:27
  SPEAKER_00: It's literally just how fast your brain is processing information when it slows down.
• 29:31
  SPEAKER_00: You move in the alpha brainwave state, we just do it on purpose.
• 29:35
  SPEAKER_03: It's been a fascinating conversation.
• 29:37
  SPEAKER_03: I am so impressed with your knowledge and the wealth of knowledge, but mostly your passion um to serve and help others.
• 29:44
  SPEAKER_03: And so so grateful for that.
• 29:46
  SPEAKER_03: We'll make sure and link to um the release of past.com, Craig Mary Merriweather site as well, and certainly to your book and um just really making a difference and kind of breaking the myths.
• 29:58
  SPEAKER_03: So I really appreciate you doing that today.
• 30:00
  SPEAKER_03: It's certainly been an honor to have you on the show.
• 30:02
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, thank you, Sandy.
• 30:03
  SPEAKER_00: I appreciate you having me on, but uh I appreciate all the work you do.
• 30:06
  SPEAKER_00: I know doing a podcast is a lot of work and and uh a lot of energy, so I appreciate all that you do for the world.
• 30:12
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you.
• 30:14
  SPEAKER_03: I enjoy having Craig on the show.
• 30:16
  SPEAKER_03: A great discussion on hypnotherapy and breaking those myths and providing enlightenment on the subject of hypnotherapy.
• 30:24
  SPEAKER_03: Make sure and check out the show notes to Craig's website, release thepast.com, and his book, Depression 180.
• 30:31
  SPEAKER_03: I've been to his website, such a wealth of information.
• 30:33
  SPEAKER_03: Make sure you check it out.
• 30:35
  SPEAKER_03: In our next episode, what if the biggest threat to your heart, brain, blood sugar, or pregnancy health is hiding in your mouth?
• 30:43
  SPEAKER_03: In the episode, we're gonna pull back the curtain on silent dental infections.
• 30:48
  SPEAKER_03: We're gonna talk about why connecting your dental health to your medical health may be one of the most important health conversations your family has this year.
• 30:57
  SPEAKER_03: I'm bringing on Dr.
• 30:58
  SPEAKER_03: Chuck Reinerstein on the show.
• 31:00
  SPEAKER_03: Dr.
• 31:00
  SPEAKER_03: Chuck is a dental health whistleblower who has spent more than 40 years watching a dangerous truth get ignored.
• 31:07
  SPEAKER_03: Millions of Americans are living with active dental infections they cannot feel and do not know they have.
• 31:14
  SPEAKER_03: And those infections can quietly push people toward heart disease, diabetes, cognitive decline, autoimmune problems, and pregnancy complications.
• 31:24
  SPEAKER_03: Dr.
• 31:24
  SPEAKER_03: Chuck is determined to help people finally connect the dots between their dental health and their medical health and what families can do right now to prevent the emotional, financial, and relational strain that major medical events bring.
• 31:37
  SPEAKER_03: Super interesting conversation.
• 31:39
  SPEAKER_03: So make sure and tune in to Dr.
• 31:42
  SPEAKER_03: Chuck and my interview.
• 31:43
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