A Small bit of History

I believe I first became interested in hypnosis after seeing the word "hypnotize" in My Grandmother's Webster's Dictionary. I thought that was the most interesting word my six-year-old eyes had ever seen! I knew by its complexity that I would have to be a bit older before I was able to fully explore the meaning.

Well...not MUCH older, for I hypnotized My first subject, a cousin, successfully at age 11. I played hypno-games with several cousins and classmates until I reached college. I learned more there by raiding the Psychology section of the University library.

I took My first professional hypnotist under when I was 17.

The gent actually thought I was name-dropping when I told him the name of the head of the psych lab, and that perhaps I did not know how to hypno, but was only attempting to impress. He got quite a surprise as I demonstrated the effect known as "intantaneous transport", where the hypnotic subject starts out awake in one place, then suddenly seems to be somewhere totally different, with no idea how he got there, as there was no apparent passage of time.

I met My now-separated husband shortly afterward, and naturally, we decided to use hypnosis for all of our children's births. After our last child was born, I finally went for My Certification in clinical hypnosis, as I felt I should have years before. It has now been nearly 20 years since My Certification in 1984 was approved by the California Professional Hypnotists' Licensing Board.