Author: danielbelum
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Life Is Improv: One Moment Doesn’t Define You
I’m hanging out in Chicago, Illinois waiting for an improv intensive to start, and now I’m reminded that life is like an improv show. Doesn’t matter how much you prepare—sometimes it just doesn’t go as well as you’d like it to. Not to say that life doesn’t go as well as you would like it…
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Expand Your Schema: Learning Changes Everything
One of the things that’s really useful for improvers as well as just useful for people in general is this idea of increasing your schema. And what that means is learning more about the world a little bit at a time regardless of whether you think it’s a topic that might be interesting or not.…
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Building Perfect Systems as Disguised Avoidance
Recently I had a therapy session where things seem to come down to: I have a problem with control. That is, I like to be in control. And that’s not surprising anyone who knows me. But the interesting part was when I really looked at it…Things like my to-do list, right? I’m always managing my…
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Be Authentic
Oscar Wilde offered a gentle truth: “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” It sounds simple. But for many of us, being ourselves is the work of a lifetime — quietly unlearning the habits, the masks, and the coping patterns that once kept us safe, but no longer serve who we’re becoming. Hypnotherapy can be…
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Lean Into Being Unique
There’s something worth sitting with in the idea that unhappiness often comes not from who we are, but from the effort of trying to be someone we’re not. For many people, years of adapting — to expectations, to environments, to what felt safe — can quietly disconnect us from our own instincts and sense of…
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The Weight We Finally Put Down
Some things don’t leave all at once. They ease away, gradually, in their own time — and that’s okay. Freedom, celebration, hope, the release of burdens: these are not destinations you have to force yourself toward. They arise naturally when the mind is given permission to let go at a pace that feels safe. Hypnotherapy…
