JoAnn Brickley

The work I do is transformational in nature, combining the physical, emotional and spiritual, which are all naturally interconnected. By spiritual, I mean tapping into a higher intelligence that’s bigger than yourself – whether you experience that as God, “fellow man,” nature, the universe etc. This higher intelligence has much to offer, and is available to even the most devout atheist.

Transformation
Transformation is different from change. The baby caterpillar changes into an adult caterpillar but then there is a metamorphosis as it transforms into a butterfly.

A similar metamorphosis occurs within a human being when we awaken to the fact that our entire construct of reality, who we think we are, what we think we are capable of, and our perception of our world, is not real! Rather, it is based on reactions to things that happened to us at an early age.

How could it be otherwise! All your initial learning happened when you were a small child without an adult ability to distinguish reality.

A simple event like your mother not coming immediately as you cry in your crib leaves you less trusting, and making decisions about people and all of life. Later, you may learn that people don’t abandon us that easily, but you learn it on top of a deeply held, primal “knowing” that you may be abandoned.

In our work together, I use several processes to assist you in:

• Unconcealing how you have been programmed by your early environment;
• Understanding how you came to the world view you currently inhabit;
• Learning how to quiet your mind and see past the early childhood and societal programming;
• Learning how to increasingly diminish the hold this programming has on you; and,
• Taking on your challenges (fitness, work, relationships, and so on) with a newfound sense of commitment and a greatly enhanced ability for success.

Clients who undergo this metamorphosis wind up taking on life in a new way – healing long-damaged relationships, engaging in enterprises they never would have thought themselves capable of, and gaining a fearlessness of interacting with life – a sense of anything to which one commits oneself is possible.

Such a transformation has issues in life clear up without effort, and opportunities arise serendipitously. Suddenly, losing weight or quitting smoking is a na