Suzanne Matthiessen's Page

Where do you live?

somewhere in the west

Hypnosis Experience:

Currently Studying, Full Time Practice

What are you looking for on this site?

to discuss, share and learn from other's experiences

Areas of Specialty:

Mind-Body Wellness Educator, Coach and Writer.
Combining hypnosis, therapeutic imagery and secular mindfulness practices to assist clients in proactively managing stress and attaining greater balance and equanimity.

Mindful Stress Management
Mindful Communication
Mindful Eating and Healthy Weight Loss
Optimizing Creative, Professional and Athletic Performance

About Me:

Suzanne has been teaching and coaching others about integrated mind-body approaches to personal and group performance and integrated well-being for over two decades. She has successfully employed proactive holistic wellness awareness tools and techniques to help individuals and teams strengthen attention and focus, shape positive and productive thoughts, choices, actions and behaviors, proactively manage stress and conflict internally and externally, and build empathy, compassion and interconnection.

Suzanne's Passion Statement

Suzanne specializes in teaching others to honestly and fearlessly address their shadow thoughts, choices, actions and behaviors, and owning the importance of the impact they have upon all they come into contact with as well as themselves, and how they can actualize lasting, authentic, transparent change in their lives.

Mind-Body Well Being

Suzanne has been passionate about healthy, natural approaches to diet and lifestyle since her teenage years. When she was pregnant with her daughter Jessica in 1978, she chose to use the Bradley Method® of relaxed meditative breathing for a drug-free labor and delivery that would allow her to be calm, centered and present. When Jessica entered the world after a five hour labor at 10 pounds one-and-one half ounces, Suzanne knew there was something to what is now referred to as the mind-body connection. Soon afterward she became a certified massage therapist and bodyworker. Since the breathing technique she learned to help manage pain and anxiety when giving birth worked so well for her, she taught the same process to her massage clients in resort spas and in conjunction with chiropractic professionals - with remarkable results. Suzanne's work with automobile accident patients with severe body trauma found them healing faster than with chiropractic work alone.

After over a decade working primarily with her clients' physical well-being, Suzanne wanted to know more about how the mind and body work together, so she became certified in hypnotherapy in 1990. She went on to receive advanced training and a diploma in hypnotherapy from the nationally accredited college Hypnosis Motivation Institute located in Los Angeles, California. Suzanne also completed three additional specialized hypnosis certification programs through HMI as well: Hypnosis and Weight Loss, Hypnosis for Pain Management and Hypnosis for Sports Performance.

Proactive Mindfulness

A student of meditation since her high school years, Suzanne began studying mindfulness practices in the late 1980s and immediately saw that hypnosis and mindfulness were extremely compatible modalities that provide similar mind-body benefits. Although she has deep respect for the Buddhist roots of mindfulness, her approach is entirely secular as she believes her work and teachings must be inclusive, open, and approachable for all people, regardless of their spiritual or religious framework. Choosing to purposefully work with people in real life situations and not within academic or clinical settings, she often refers to her approach as "Street Mindfulness" - teaching mindfulness as a Life Skill that can benefit literally every aspect of anyone's day-to-day life, personal as well as professional.

The Written Word

For over eight years Suzanne wrote a monthly column for Atlanta-based Oracle Magazine called "Living Mindfully" that now continues through her blog and podcast of the same name. In 2005, she composed and published a book titled Affirmative Actions: Eyes Open Meditations for Women via her own publishing company innerevolution media that is currently under revision.

Mindfulness in the Corporate Environment

Suzanne is also honored to be a Mindfulness Practice Guide and "Mindfulness At Work" corporate mindfulness instructor for eMindful.com.

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http://themind-bodycoach.com

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