Hypnotherapy & Your Nervous System | Garrett Wood, NBC-HWC

Forget the swinging watch. We go straight into the lived reality of burnout, broken sleep, and the quiet tug-of-war between what you want and what your body will allow. Garrett Wood—clinical hypnotherapist, board certified health and wellness coach, and founder of Gnosis Therapy—joins us to unpack how hypnotherapy restores the nervous system, reshapes memory, and turns grit from a struggle into a side effect of safety.

We explore why the most effective therapies leverage memory reconsolidation, how hypnosis differs from stage tricks, and what actually changes when you revisit a charged memory in a regulated state. The payoff is practical: fewer triggers, steadier energy, and decisions that feel easy because they match who you are becoming.

We also zoom out to the environment. Sensory thresholds—light, sound, scent, texture—can make or break executive function. If your world overwhelms your system, self-control drains fast. Garrett reframes “self-sabotage” as a protective part guarding immediate safety, not a flaw to fix. Through hypnotic work and tools like cognitive belief inventories, we surface hidden beliefs (I’m not enough, I’m not safe) and pair them with real, embodied evidence of worth and capability. That’s where identity-level change happens: not “I should be calm,” but “I am calm and confident.”

If you’re curious about hypnotherapy for sleep, stress, trauma, or that stubborn gap between goals and behavior, this conversation offers clear explanations, real stories, and next steps you can use. Listen, share it with someone who needs steady ground, and subscribe to get more grounded, practical conversations each week. If it resonated, leave a review—what belief are you ready to update?

Connect with Garrett at https://www.gnosistherapy.com/ or on IG @gnosistherapy 

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