Meet Kimberly Sheahan

We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Kimberly Sheahan. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Kimberly below.

Hi Kimberly , we’re so appreciative of you taking the time to share your nuggets of wisdom with our community. One of the topics we think is most important for folks looking to level up their lives is building up their self-confidence and self-esteem. Can you share how you developed your confidence?
In the depths of my subconscious mind lies a great power. One to create and shape my world with the power of my beliefs.

For most of my life these beliefs whispered in my mind:

“Somethings wrong with you.”
“Why can’t you be like everyone else.”
“Keep your thoughts and feelings to yourself, no one cares.”
“If only you did better, then this relationship would be better.”
“It’s all your fault.”
“Why are you such a burden.”

Therefore, my world resembled these beliefs and I struggled deeply with hating myself and feeling lost and alone in this world. And even though I spent a lot of my twenties wishing to not exist I didn’t seek out much help.

Who was I to receive help?

I’d been taught from youth that my needs didn’t matter and I better keep them to myself, so why would I meet my own need of getting help via some sort of therapy?

Finally, the Universe made the decision for me and I developed a chronic illness at age 32 and this was the push I needed to start dealing with all my inner crap. Because the illness I had was created from pushing down all my trauma and not feeling my emotions. The only out, was in as the say. Or in other words to heal it, I had to go through and process it all.

Hypnotherapy was the first modality I found that really helped me because it went straight to the root causes that lived in my subconscious mind. Where all those beliefs I listed above lived with all their insidious friends and created illness, pain and emotional suffering in each moment of my life.

As I began to process through and release all the junk stored in my body, I was able to bring healing into my body. To direct and command my body to heal with that same power of belief. Because the power itself is neither good nor bad. It simply works off of what was programmed into the subconscious mind in childhood. And if it’s not updated as you age then you can spend your whole adult life repeating the same patterns one after another the way I did.

So, I used the great power within my subconscious mind to believe nicer things about myself and create a new world:

“I am lovable. I am more than good enough”
“I am brave therefore I act on my intuition”
“I trust my inner wisdom and act on what I hear”
“I know that each mistake has simply been a stepping stone to greater understanding and greater opportunity.”
“I love and accept myself as I am.”

As these thoughts grew in my subconscious mind, I developed a kind and compassionate voice in my head that would shut down the negative nelly voice. It built self-esteem as these caring thoughts about myself were repeated to me over and over. And my confidence grew from the courage and bravery that I programmed in. Because confidence doesn’t just magically exist because you tell yourself that you’re now confident. It is built from taking brave and courageous action.

Brave and courageous actions such as:

– Speaking up for myself
– Saying no instead of yes to everything
– Caring for my body better
– Daring to strike out on a wildly different path than the one I was on
– Opening myself up to being loved for who I am
– Being brave enough to share my true inner self

This is how I developed my confidence and self-esteem. By going to the source of where my low self-esteem lived and planting new beliefs in my subconscious mind.

Within you also lies this great power. This ability to re-shape and create a new world for yourself. You don’t have to live the life you were conditioned to live; you can choose to free yourself and live the one you desire.

Thanks, so before we move on maybe you can share a bit more about yourself?
I am a Clinical Hypnotherapist with a wholly virtual practice. I’ve found the most exciting part of helping people with hypnotherapy is watching them develop self-compassion, inner peace and the confidence to make the changes in their lives that they want. Most of my clients have tried a lot of other things like traditional therapy, coaching, and self-help books, but find they aren’t getting the results they want.

They know what to do, they just can’t make themselves do it or still have an inner critic voice tearing them down. And that’s where using the power of the hypnotic state comes in. It opens the doorway to get new ideas into the subconscious mind and make it easier to take action because they now have an inner voice supporting them instead of tearing them down.

My goal as a Hypnotherapist is to act as a guide and hold space for my client to explore and find their way forward. Also, I believe in them and hold that belief in them until they are able to hold it for themselves. When you have someone believing in you deeply from a place of love and acceptance it makes it easier for you to believe it too.

I support women who are several years into their healing journey and still not getting the results they want. I have three primary offerings:

1. One-on-one hypnotherapy and energetic work. Make real, lasting change as you build courage, become a person of action, and receive the wealth and health that is your birthright.

2. Monthly virtual hypnosis experiences for small groups. Discover unexpected ways you may be sabotaging your success and experience a more energetic and complete transformation with hypnosis.

3. Rapid Energetic Healing. This is for women with a high level of awareness and who have made great progress in their healing journey and just need support to keep going and expanding.

I am known for meeting my clients where they’re at emotionally and energetically. Each session is customized to their needs at that moment. Since most of my clients have already tried the one-size-fits-all approach, they appreciate how hypnotherapy with me is designed specifically for them.

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?

1. Learning the power of the subconscious mind and how to leverage its power to make the lasting changes I needed in my life with greater ease.

2. Developing self-compassion so I can give myself grace and support even when things are rough.

3. Knowing that I’m not alone, there are many people on this healing journey who are going through the same things and are a great source of support and love.

Seeking out ways that help you access the subconscious mind, so you can fill it with new ideas is my advice for those who are early in their journey. This includes hypnosis, meditation, and the time right after you wake up or as you’re falling to sleep.

The reason I recommend this is because as I tell my new clients the subconscious mind is like a night club with a bouncer and if you’re not on the list you’re not getting in.

Let me explain.

The night club has a certain demographic (set of beliefs) and the bouncer will only let in people (ideas) who are on the list and match that demographic (set of beliefs). This is known as confirmation bias.

A hypnotic (trance) state gives the bouncer a break. This allows you to change out the demographic (beliefs) in the club and update the bouncers list of who is allowed in. When the bouncer comes back after the break it simply lets in people (beliefs) who match the new list.

This is why I recommend doing work that allows you to access the subconscious mind. It is one of the most efficient methods I’ve found for upgrading my inner world and it creates lasting change. And the only way I found for achieving number two on my list above.

Before we go, any advice you can share with people who are feeling overwhelmed?
I sit under running water.

Water is a natural energetic cleanser and I find when I’m in no state to use my inner tools, just sitting in the shower letting water run over me helps to shift the energy, so I can get out of being stuck.

Overwhelm is also a way my body asks for rest and removing things from my to-do list. So, I find a way to create more space and less tasks for myself.

If needed I seek out one of my support systems to help me as well.

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