Brigid McCuen

“Before working with Grace, I thought life was supposed to feel, at its best, chronically dissatisfying and at its worst, overwhelmingly hopeless.Day-to-day, I couldn’t escape the unhealthy levels of anxiety I was feeling without drinking wine at least four nights a week, emotional eating, or both. Nor could I trace the anxiety back to anything in particular, so I had more or less succumbed to it as “my normal.”I had never been exposed to hypnosis outside of its (wildly inaccurate) portrayal in the Jordan Peele film ​Get Out.​

I began researching this type of treatment for my job and in doing so, I came across some jaw-dropping studies on its effectiveness in curbing a variety of infamously hard-to-kick habits like procrastination, smoking, etc. I was still unfamiliar with HOW hypnosis actually worked, but after looking at the absolutely undeniable evidence that it DID work, I couldn’t help but at least give it a chance.  It started out as something I would “try,” like a free trial of a subscription, or a new diet. From my very first session with Grace, it became clear that the work we were doing went far deeper than anything I had ever tried. It wasn’t just my actions and habits that changed over the course of my sessions with Grace.

My actual motivations and desires recalibrated with my goals and what I actually wanted out of my life. I went from not being able to fathom life without alcohol, to truly feeling joyful thanks to a newfound freedom from alcohol.Food stopped holding any emotional weight and I no longer needed it as a crutch. After 12 transformative sessions with Grace, I’ve lost weight in the double digits, quit drinking completely (when at the beginning of this I wouldn’t have been able to even fathom the thought), stopped procrastinating, and unearthed/confronted the real reasons I was doing all of these unhealthy things in the first place.

All of this has given me more room to be creative in my work, rediscover old hobbies, and achieve a level of presence in my interactions and meaning out of my personal relationships that I haven’t felt or experienced in a very, very long time.

Most importantly, my work with Grace has given me hope that life can amount to so much more than chronic anxiety and discontentment.

Those feelings have been replaced with an overarching and steady sense of excitement of “what comes next,” and a level of mental clarity I didn’t know was possible. My work with Grace has allowed me to access a more vibrant version of myself.”