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NOTE: This article is for practicing and professional hypnotherapists, and requires knowledge and techniques that are not explained in the article. The instructive nature of this article assumes you have had hypnotherapy training and experience. It is not present adaquate information for a beginniner to complete a session. Do not attempt to use this model unless you have had training in the process of hypnotherapy.

This is a fresh and exciting beginning as we approach a new year and contemplate some new courses and workshops along with our successful traditional curriculum. This past year, 2007, we celebrated our 30th anniversity. Josie Hadley, our Founder, plunged into an almost daunting adventure when she established PASH. A state approved and licensed teaching facility teaching hypnotherapy. "And what is hypnotherapy" would have been a very frequent question she would lovingly answer. Over these many years Josie has certified thousands of hypnotherapy graduates who have assisted her in raising hypnotherapy to the field it has now become.

FOR MEN AND WOMEN IN RECOVERY FROM ALCOHOL AND DRUG ADDICTION

By Josie Hadley, R.H.A.

Another support group, another round of therapy, and another new group of friends who are on the same journey. Their destination is the same, sobriety. Staying clean and sober for many people is a one day at a time accomplishment. For some people it has been a long road back to health. Remembering a healthier lifestyle may have been long forgotten. The daily stress of overcoming addictions can contribute to or intensify feelings of depression as well as physical and emotional pain.

HIV: Human Immunodeficiency virus. This virus is carried and transmitted through bodily fluids. The virus may lay dormant for a time, however, eventually the virus attacks and weakens the immune system.

AIDS: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome is a disease in which the body’s natural defense system is compromised and cannot defend itself against other organisms which become deadly.

CASE: Allen, 38, Male

The Palo Alto School of Hypnotherapy offers an exciting volunteer Field Program. Graduate students can provide hypnotherapy to clients at health care agencies in the community. In addition to individual sessions, volunteers offer workshops and seminars for clients and staff. Our successful Field Program has become a regularly scheduled event in many agencies.

The School maintains collaborative relationships with local agencies. Graduate Medical Hypnosis students can be available for volunteer services to healthcare center and hospitals upon request.