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Articles by Dr. Flávio Souza-Campos on the problems that take too much of us, and what actually helps. Written for high achievers, such as physicians, surgeons, attorneys, and executives, who carry more than they show.
Most of us believe we know ourselves. A simple thought experiment shows where our attention really goes, and why that matters for love.
Read the article: Know Thyself: The Ancient Question We Still Get WrongWhy the mind keeps circling a breakdown, and why explaining what happened is not the same as recovering your ability to respond.
Read the article: When Burnout Becomes a Mental PrisonHeartbreak registers in the brain much like physical pain. Why waiting, a new relationship, or talking it through often fails, and what helps instead.
Read the article: Why Time Doesn't Heal Heartbreak (And What Actually Does)An umbrella review of 49 meta-analyses and 261 studies shows where clinical hypnosis helps most: pain, surgery preparation, anxiety, and sleep.
Read the article: Clinical Hypnosis Works: Twenty Years of Research Show Hypnotherapy Is EffectiveWhy some people who want a partner cannot find one: the single person who is looking is often already coupled to something else.
Read the article: Who Is Really Single?The International Association of Counselors and Therapists honored Dr. Flávio Souza-Campos with its 2025 Pen & Quill Award for transformational writing.
Read the article: Dr. Flávio Souza-Campos Named 2025 Author of the Year by IACTThe four stations we cycle through in love, Ready, Joy/Flow, Conflict, and Heartbreak, why we get stuck in one, and how to return to joy.
Read the article: The Spiral of LoveHow Dr. Flávio helps couples without diagnosing or treating anyone: five ideas from five books, and hypnosis to make the change real.
Read the article: Therapy Without Diagnosis or Treatment?Emotional eating is driven by the self-image below conscious awareness. Why willpower fails and how hypnotherapy supports mindful eating.
Read the article: How to Stop Emotional EatingWhy diets built on hunger fail, and why the key to changing your weight lies in the part of the mind below conscious awareness.
Read the article: What Part of the Mind Causes Weight Loss and Weight Gain?Emptiness, restlessness, and the feeling that something is missing may share one cause. Why changing the world outside does not fill the void inside.
Read the article: The Solution to That Mysterious Sense of Void WithinThree very different cases with one thing in common: an old hurt that closed the heart. Why opening it matters more than retelling the story.
Read the article: Is Your Heart Locked Shut?Betrayal makes us close the heart to protect ourselves. What that costs us in relationships, finances, and health, and how to come back.
Read the article: Healing the Pain of Deep BetrayalYou are not who you think you are. On the persona built from borrowed thoughts, and the journey back to the self underneath it.
Read the article: A Radical Discovery, Not for the FaintheartedA short history of hypnosis for anesthesia, from James Esdaile to today, and where it still helps: pain, dental work, childbirth, and emotional pain.
Read the article: Some Thoughts on Hypno-AnesthesiaA first-person account of a headache relieved by a three-minute hypnosis session in a hotel lobby, and the questions it raised.
Read the article: Analgesia: Insensibility to Pain Without Loss of ConsciousnessSystemic anger, not the explosive kind, quietly erodes quality of life. Three signs that unresolved anger may be holding you back.
Read the article: Do Not Just Manage Anger: Resolve ItStrong emotional experiences hypnotize us into limiting lessons. Two stories of how de-hypnosis frees a person from them.
Read the article: What Is De-Hypnosis?Why willpower cannot hold a new life in place for long, and how changing the self-image below conscious awareness makes change last.
Read the article: How to Live a Life You LoveWhat hypnotherapy is, how the conscious and subconscious mind differ, and why the self-image always wins against willpower.
Read the article: Could We Become What We Want by Realizing Who We Really Are?A Charité study showed that posthypnotic suggestion can change how the brain values choices. What that means for cravings and decisions.
Read the article: Science Proves Again the Value of HypnosisThe world is like a gym and life is the set of weights. Why we see problems instead of opportunities, and how forgiveness changes that.
Read the article: The Mind and BeyondForgiveness of self and others is the key to moving forward. A simple image for putting down the weight you have been carrying.
Read the article: It Gets Easier, I Promise… to ForgiveWhat if every person and circumstance in your life were a lesson to be completed, like a level in a game? How perception changes the journey.
Read the article: What Would Happen If…The short answer is no. Hypnotherapy is a personal journey into yourself, and remembering moments of this life is often enough.
Read the article: Do I Need to Believe in Reincarnation to Benefit from Hypnosis?Private engagement, billed per six-week period
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