Why I am passionate about Hypnosis to the point I got certified as a Hypnotherapist

I grew up in a far right Christian cult. It was a culture of abuse and grief for women and children at the hands of highly controlling and narcissistic men in my family I was born into. It was the fear mongering that captured and held more people to join our home churches. I had no concept of the rules as a young girl. I learned through punishments for things like dancing, questioning authority and the belief systems we were under, or even trying to live authentically as all that came natural to me was somehow against God, including the desire to wear pants, dream of a career or decide I didn’t want kids at points I thought I might achieve my dreams and travel the world. I couldn’t dream. I couldn’t consider life outside of the system. I couldn’t go beyond the determined future of being barefoot and pregnant in the home, subject permanently to my father and eventually to a man. It was unconscionable that I might be a lesbian and non-binary. Yet, here I am.

I accumulated loads of trauma over the first maybe 22 years of my life. I ran out on my own at the age of 19 years old vented on my bike where I biked anywhere from 7-15 miles a day going to appointments with government and college entities to get all the documents I needed to begin my fight for a dependency override so I could put myself through college and university. CPTSD and Stockholm Syndrome began to set in and due to the overwhelming and prolonged stress to my body I developed gastroparesis and hypothyroidism. I was in and out of the hospital and at appointment after appointment with specialists fighting for my mental and physical health. It was a fight to get through my day to day life and I had no energy to go out and socialize and learn how to have healthy relationships in my life, so I would sleep around the clock when I wasn’t working and eventually studying after being awarded the dependency override and grants necessary to pay for my education.

While building and rebuilding my life I went through a lot of traumatic events as a lesbian alone. I only recently came out again, this time as non-binary. My biological family hunted me down like an animal and protested on my campus. It was all so relentless, and to make matters worse I was kicked out of two church communities and lost most everyone I ever knew and loved growing up in St. Petersburg, Florida. I thought that if all of this was how my life was going to continue being, I don’t want to be here. Nevertheless, I persisted. Deep down I knew there was better for me.

Fast forward, after 7 years more years, building a new life with my wife Darlene, we got married in 2019 and then moved to the state of Washington during the COVID pandemic. After being pushed by my chosen mom Marlene to go to therapy I went through 2 years of talk therapy and EMDR and then 2 years of Hypnotherapy. I wouldn’t be here as healthy and happy as I am now if it weren’t for the push of my chosen family, particularly my chosen Mama Mar and my chosen Auntie Chris who pushed me the hardest. They are my beacons of hope for wholeness. Those first two forms of therapy only brought me so far and then I learned about hypnotherapy and it was hypnotherapy that reached me. I received full healing over my body. I have had cartilage regenerate in my spine with fully healing, cancelling the need for spinal surgery, healed my gastric and intestinal systems, and my mental health. I healed from all of my mental, physical and emotional health ailments with only remnants left as I work towards my confidence levels in relationships and learn new ways of living and how to best nurture healthy relationships I didn’t have when I was growing up.

How could I finally achieve the healing that I desperately sought out for so many years and not help others? I heard the call during my time in hypnotherapy too and I heed it. Today I am stand as not only whole but certified as a hypnotherapist and a medium. My work is as much about empowerment as it is healing, and also as much about community. I teach people to connect with their intuitive gifts to guide them on their journeys and in hypnosis set behaviors or keywords used to easily take you into self-hypnosis so you can help yourself at any time. Our greatest individual resources are our intuition and subconscious that work hand in hand as our internal compass to guide us through this life. I learned in my hypnosis sessions that this work is my calling and to teach what love is. I am learning in this life what love is through what love isn’t and it is making me sharper and better as a soul in a human body. My lens as adjusted for the better as I am not at all a victim. I am a victorious person with so much to give the world, including love and safe community and spaces for rest and breath. The things I desired from the time I was a young girl.

If you are interested in learning more and perhaps booking a session you can go to my website: YourEtherealConnections.com.

Love and Light and Hugs,

Shae Rosemary Limtiaco, Ethereal Connections