What if you could transform a hard, spinning, overwhelming emotion into something useful — in as little as thirty seconds? This episode teaches exactly that.
The Metaphoric Two-Step is a tool rooted in Marie's training as a hypnotist, and it's applicable to anyone at any age. It's how she helped her son navigate panic attacks around bullying in kindergarten. It's what left her mom — a retired therapist who literally wrote her thesis on the use of metaphor in psychology — completely astounded. And it's a practice Marie returns to again and again to clear her emotional space so her mind can follow.
What you'll learn in this episode:
- Why dropping into your body first thing in the morning — before trying to "fix" your mindset — is the move that actually works
- How emotions carry data, and what you miss when you shove them down or act them out instead of feeling them
- The 90-second practice for sensing where an emotion lives in your body and using metaphor to understand it more deeply
- How metaphor allows the brain to access both hemispheres, decreasing anxiety and lowering resistance to the emotional state
- Why allowing emotions should be followed by alchemizing them into something that serves you
- How to use visualization to transform that metaphor into something more helpful — a keystone image you can return to anytime, anywhere
- How to anchor that image to invoke it and change your emotional state at any time you need to
- Why this tool works for kids, adults, seasoned therapists, and everyone in between. (And yes — it's a little bit like the Boggart in Harry Potter. If you know, you know.)
Mentioned in this episode:
- The Metaphoric Two-Step tool (from Marie's hypnosis training)
- Harry Potter — the Boggart scene
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