Sample Case Study

Lynn had struggled with her weight for as long as she could remember. It had been a source of embarrassment for her as a teen-ager, and as an adult she found herself ashamed of the way she looked, and too self-conscious to go out with friends or to spend any time in public where she was certain people would stare at the body she felt was betraying her. She felt depressed and hopeless about the years of effort (and money) she had put into numerous diets and exercise programs, only to find that very few had any effect, and any positive results she did experience lasted for only a short time, with the weight she had let go of quickly coming back with a vengeance.

With the assistance of a Core Transformation-trained counselor, Lynn found, to her surprise, that there was a positive intention behind the weight, an intention that the aspect of her that was “in charge” of hanging on to the weight was committed to.

“What do you want?” she quietly asked the part of her that generated the weight challenge, and then waited for a response from within. “The word that keeps coming to mind is ‘protection’,” she spoke up a moment later, as the counselor slowly nodded her head. “Now,” her Core Transformation guide suggested, “invite that part of you to step into what it’s like to already have protection. . . . and when it’s there, ask this part of you ‘when you already have protection, what is it you want through having protection that’s even more important, even deeper’”. As Lynn followed the suggestions, her posture began to shift as a new level of relaxation moved through her. “I hear the word ‘safety’,” she responded. “Oh, my god, is it possible that this part of me is trying to help me feel safe?”

As the process continued, Lynn discovered that the part of her was seeking relaxation through the safety, and through relaxation, it wanted to be able to reach out to others; by reaching out to others, this part wanted to feel accepted, and through feeling accepted, it was looking for love. From love, this important part of her wanted to find peace, and through peace, wholeness.

Lynn continued the Core Transformation process, allowing the part of her to experience wholeness and to allow the wholeness to spread fully throughout her body.

She found, as a result, that her perspective shifted. By moving into the Core State (wholeness) she had been seeking all along, everything else began to change. Finally, she was able to bring the wholeness she had not thought possible into her whole life, filling the past, present, and even the future with this remarkable internal state that changed everything.

The part of Lynn that had been so committed to finding wholeness through protection, safety, relaxation, connection with others, acceptance, love, and peace had learned to simply step into that wholeness without all the interim steps it had struggled with for so long. A happy result (one of several for Lynn) was that weight began to come off with almost no effort. With no more need to hang on to it for protection and safety, her body was free to let go of what no longer belonged.

Core Transformation and Weight Loss

As a Licensed Psychotherapist (LCSW), I was the Eating Disorder specialist in my community for the past 35 years, working with hundreds of clients presenting with a wide variety of issues around food. In my experience, people with issues around food (and other addictions), come in to Therapy with deep ambivalence, due to wanting to be in control of food/other substance, while feeling an urgency to hold on to using these substances as a deep survival mechanism: as an attempt to meet underlying emotional needs. My primary method of intervention is Core Transformation, because of its effectiveness with a wide range of issues, helping to find other better ways for people to get their needs met, so they do not need to keep using the unwanted behaviors. Here is one example of a weight-loss client.

The Client’s Presenting Problem

“Susie,” a woman in her 60’s, came in for therapy to lose weight, stating she had “tried everything and nothing worked.” She said she was 60 pounds overweight and for the previous 3 months had been working with a Nutritionist in a weekly weight loss group. She was trying to eat the prescribed diet, and exercise regularly, but experienced times of feeling out of control with food. She was having no success losing weight.

What Susie had already tried

Susie reported being depressed and feeling hopeless. She would lose a pound or two in a week, then would gain back more weight than she’d lost. She described having been in long-term counseling 4 different times over the years. She’d learned about her past and understood why she was stuck in her unwanted eating patterns, but had made no progress toward her goal of losing weight. She’d been called a resistant client and was told she was self-sabotaging, which contributed to her feeling like a failure. She had put in a great deal of effort and was understandably discouraged.

Initial Framing

Susie came in saying with a sigh, “I wonder if there is any use even trying anymore.”

I empathized with how difficult it must have been for her to have expended so much effort without results. We all have unwanted thoughts, feelings and behaviors. It is very important to respect these patterns and responses and what they have been trying to do for us. Even the most undesirable behaviors and responses have an underlying purpose and positive intention. I explained to Susie how it is so useful to learn to work with these aspects of herself, which in Core Transformation we refer to as “parts.” We agreed to focus on Susie creating other choices that would better meet her needs and enable her to reach her weight loss goals.

What was in the way of change?

Susie shared that in her current relationships with friends and family, she was in the role of “being there for others and putting their needs first.” As a child, she had been the dependable one in the family. Her father was always at work and her mother was emotionally unstable. She became the caretaker to her younger brother, as a way to feel she belonged in her family. She turned to food as her way of coping emotionally. Food was the only “safe” way she gave to herself. This pattern continued throughout her life, despite all her attempts to change it.

Susie’s motivation for change

I routinely ask clients about their motivation to take on the challenges of making changes. What was the driving force that got Susie to pick up the phone and make an appointment to give it “one more try”? She hoped to lose weight before a planned vacation with her brother, who had always been critical of her being overweight. Susie wanted to improve her relationship with her brother instead of dreading being with him. She also wanted to create physical and emotional health and wellbeing for herself.

Choosing Parts to work with

Knowing Susie’s motivation, I asked her: “Since you know you want to lose weight prior to the vacation, what stops you from doing what you want to do?” She replied that she has no way to express her anger, despite her resentment toward her brother for all she had given up for him. She used food to stuff her anger and resentment: “With everything I have given up, at least I deserve to be able to eat what I want.” Susie’s conflicting parts guided me to interventions with Core Transformation.

With Core Transformation nothing is “resistance” and she wouldn’t need to feel like a failure. Everything in Susie’s experience that relates to her eating when she didn’t want to, can be included in the process. This article won’t teach you the full CT process, but I want to give you a glimpse of how this played out in my work with Susie.

The next step with Core Transformation is to find the inner “parts” that are causing the over-weight. As I’ll soon explain, we found several inner “parts” that were key to Susie’s making the changes that she wanted.

Susie’s response already let me know of parts that were sure to be key in helping her finally resolve this issue. She described a part “that eats food to meet my emotional needs.” I chose to begin using Core Transformation with this part.

The Core Transformation process gives us a carefully designed series of questions that uncover the deeper goals that our inner parts want. Using this line of questioning, we discovered that the part of her that drove her to use food to meet emotional needs was attempting to get a sense of ”Comfort.” Through Comfort, this part of her wanted “Acceptance and Belonging.” Through this, it wanted to “Feel Safe,” and through feeling safe, this brought her a sense of “Deep Peace.” This “Deep Peace” was the resource that transformed the experience of this part of herself. (For more information about the Core Transformation process, and what we mean by a “part,” here’s a free webinar that teaches the basics of the process.)

In the session, we just had time to work with one part related to Susie’s issue. I knew there would be more, and looked forward to assisting Susie in transforming the next parts involved. We did this in a series of sessions. Each inner part that’s transformed makes it easier to find and transform/heal the next part.

The second session, Susie reported feeling less cravings for food and was able to cut back on the number of times she overate during the week. However, she said she was still not losing weight. I asked her what she thought was contributing to holding onto weight? In a moment of personal revelation, Susie exclaimed “it is a way to protect myself and be free to be myself.” The part that got in the way was the need to be the dependable one for others.

This part became the focus of our second session with Core Transformation. We began by eliciting the experience of a time when she felt compelled to put others’ needs before her own, and then uncovering the deeper needs of this part. This part had been trying to help her “Avoid Blame/Be Accepted,” in order to feel a “Sense of Belonging,” bringing her “Love and Feelings of Self-worth.” This part’s deepest goal was a “Sense of Peace.” She recognized that this pattern was created when she was 4 years old. When she invited “Peace” into her experience at the age of 4, she found a deep sense of healing and transformation.

In our third session, she reported feeling more open in her interactions with others, while experiencing less fear of judgment. This was progress, but still something was triggering her overeating. We identified one more part to work with: In times of stress, she tells herself: “I never do anything right.” After guiding her into a recent experience of this, we discovered the part was trying to get a “Sense of Acceptance” in order to feel a “Sense of OKness,” thereby bringing “Peace.”

Susie and I had several additional sessions. Each time we used Core Transformation with another part, and each time Susie’s experience of the process became richer, deeper, and more transformative. Having the deep Core State experience of Peace allowed her to release unwanted feelings and generate new desired behaviors.

The results and improvements

We checked in by phone one month after our last session. Susie and her brother had gone on their vacation. She reported very positive interactions with him. Susie said she was able to express herself for the first time, finding ways to get her own needs met. She was also more confident speaking with others, had choices about what she eats and was losing weight consistently: 2 pounds a week for 5 weeks, something she had not experienced before.

While we began our work focusing on issues of weight loss, through Core Transformation, Susie got a lot more. She learned to set boundaries, began to confidently advocate for herself, and experienced being “OK.” From her newfound sense of peace and wellbeing, Susie then made her desired behavioral changes. Eating was no longer her primary coping strategy, and she was experiencing a consistent weight reduction. Often people’s presenting problems are wonderful gateways to deeper change and inner healing.

Common patterns

Each person has unique qualities, strengths and self-limiting patterns. At the same time, a common theme has emerged in my work with people with over-eating issues: that is, assuming the role of Caretaker/People Pleaser. Many of the clients I’ve worked with learned at a very young age to take care of family members as their best attempt to get their own needs met. Food became the safest way to meet their own emotional needs. This sets the stage for their adult relationships: they work hard to meet other’s needs at the expense of their own.

However, it can be helpful to realize that when using CT as the primary transformation method, it doesn’t actually matter what led to the client’s issues historically. We can even make the needed changes without understanding the root causes. This is because we discover the “parts” that are active and causing the client’s issues right now. However, frequently in the process of the healing transformation, the person does become aware of incidents from childhood or from the past that were formative. And it can provide some satisfaction for the client to realize these things as the old patterns are released.

Using CT it’s possible to help clients transform their weight loss issues, whatever the historical cause may have been.

About the Authors:

Betsy Koos has been a Licensed Psychotherapist for 40 years, working with literally thousands of individuals, families and couples. She has used Core Transformation, NLP and other tools throughout her career. She has been very successful helping clients who have been in other therapies without change. Her clients often report that they have reached their goals, as well as experienced deep and generative change.

Tamara Andreas is co-author of the book, Core Transformation: Reaching the Wellspring Within. She designs and teaches Core Transformation Trainings at all levels, including the Core Transformation Coach Certification Training in partnership with Mark Andreas.

Connirae Andreas is developer of the Core Transformation method, and primary co-author of the book, Core Transformation: Reaching the Wellspring Within.

Contribution of each author:

Betsy Koos is the therapist for this case study, and she wrote the initial draft of this article. Tamara Andreas collaborated with Betsy on creating a complete written account, and Connirae Andreas added final editing notes.

“The Core Transformation story: How the process came to be”

The Beginning:

It was a week-long visit to Milton Erickson in 1979, that is probably responsible for beginning my quest to find the Core Transformation process. During the last year of his life, Dr. Erickson had the policy of only accepting mental health professionals as “visitors.” As we understood it, this was because he wanted to devote his remaining time to helping the next generation of counselors and therapists. One small group would come in for a week at a time, spending each morning in a small circle in Dr. Erickson’s home office, listening to him tell stories about his clients. A therapist friend of mine signed up for a week and invited me to join her small group of friends and colleagues in Phoenix AZ.

When I went, I was dealing with a very difficult personal issue. My friend encouraged me to ask Dr. Erickson for a private session, since he had helped her with a similar issue within the past year. I felt more than a bit intimidated by the “famous Dr. Erickson”, but on the first day we were there, when I said “hello” and introduced myself, I got my courage up and asked him if he would work with me privately. He said “Yes,” smiling and nodding his head, but then turned away without anything further—no explanation about how to set up appointment; no next step. I was confused.

Everyone was getting seated, and Dr. Erickson was definitely “in charge,” so I didn’t ask any questions, but waited for him to let me know when this private session would happen. During the morning group session, at some point Erickson mentioned offhand and with a big smile, that his license had expired, so he could no longer work with anyone privately.

Now I was really confused! Was he really going to work with me, then? Maybe he had meant he would use me as a demonstration person in the small group… This thought gave me a little reassurance, so every time he demonstrated a trance technique with someone, I did my best to be responsive. I noticed that he sometimes demonstrated with the person sitting next to him in the small circle. So the next day I made sure I sat in that place. But he didn’t work with me. The next day, when I sat farther away, he finally did use me as a demonstration person, but nothing much happened. Once more I was disappointed. Each day I would get my hopes up, and each day I was disappointed.

Finally, on the last day, I gave up. I resigned myself to not getting anything for myself personally, so I thought I may as well just learn as much as I could about what he was doing with others during this last session. Instead of trying to trance out, I just stayed alert and watched for the analogue marking, etc., that he was doing with everyone else. Since I knew some of the other people, it made more sense.

About an hour or more into the morning, as I sat there, all of a sudden I became a different person—that’s the only way I know how to describe it. Within a matter of seconds, I suddenly felt like I had never felt before. I still don’t know how to put it into words, but looking back on it I felt a sense of complete wellbeing. Plus I had a kind of wordless inner “knowing” that whatever happened, I would be OK—things would be fine no matter what. I had never felt that way before, in such a complete way. I assumed the man sitting on the other side of the circle in the purple suit had something to do with this, but I sure didn’t have any idea how.

At this moment, Erickson looked straight at me and said in his slow, rhythmic voice, “And your unconscious mind has just made an important decision.” (OK, so that’s pretty clear—he not only had something to do with this, but knew exactly when it took effect.) “…and you don’t know what it is,” he continued. That is exactly what I was thinking. I thought about the major issue in my life that I had been in such turmoil about, and realized I still didn’t have a clue what I would do, or how I would “solve” the situation. But somehow I knew things would be fine. The thought went through my mind, “I’m not sure if I would have anything to work with him about—maybe I don’t need a private session now.”

And that was the moment Erickson said, “And do you still feel a need to work with me privately?”

I said, “No, I don’t think so.” I was still very puzzled. I didn’t know what had happened, and I had no idea what I was going to do about my life situation. Yet I had a knowing that it was handled.

Over the next several weeks, this feeling of wellbeing and clarity stayed with me very strongly. What I needed to do gradually came to me over the next several days, without any conscious thinking or planning. My experience was that it sort of “bubbled up” without my doing anything. I carried out my new plan in a way that felt more congruent than I can remember ever having felt before. Even though it was something difficult, I felt I could act from a place of love and respect, and without an attachment to what would happen as a result.

This experience left me with the clear knowledge that rapid and very deep change was definitely possible, and possible for me. Before this time, I had been doing and teaching NLP. I loved it because of the reliable results it would get with other people, but I was frustrated that it usually didn’t seem to work with me. Other people looked different and said they were getting good changes, but with rare exception, that didn’t seem to happen when I went through the processes.

My experience with Erickson stayed with me as a “puzzle” to be solved. Many times over the following years I pondered the question, “How did he get that dramatic and deep change in me?” The full results I experienced over those first few weeks didn’t completely “stick,” and I wanted a way to get back to the experience of wellbeing I had felt so strongly. Plus, I thought if I could find some all-purpose method for having that kind of experience, many people could benefit.

I don’t think I ever answered my question of What Erickson did with me—the audiotapes of the session were so garbled I couldn’t make them out, and I had no awareness of what might have happened. When I attempted to model my “pre” and “post” experience with submodalities, it didn’t seem to capture the full depth of what had happened. But having that experience made me persistent in seeking a deeper change method than we had to date within NLP.

The Threads from NLP:

The main threads leading to the CT process itself, came from the field of NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming). One contributing element is the parts model, and the other is the language models: presuppositions and language patterns.

The Parts Model:

I had always been drawn to the “parts” methods; 6-step reframing and the parts/polarities integration. {I believe that credit for developing the 6-step reframing format goes to John Grinder. He says his unconscious mind came up with it once when he was too sick to teach, and he programmed his unconscious mind to teach for him. Virginia Satir deserves the credit for the main idea behind 6-step reframing—of finding positive outcomes—she did this within the family system, and also did “Parts Parties” for identifying and integrating parts within an individual. John and Richard developed their parts model formats by studying her work, and the work of Perls and Erickson. We assume Richard and John also developed the Visual Squash (an explicit method for integrating polarities/parts by using two hands) because it appears in Structure of Magic Vol II (P. 86-88), and was on early audiotapes of their seminars that they gave Steve to use in putting together the book, Frogs into Princes ( pp 129-135) }

For me personally, the parts methods worked better than the anchoring-based methods. Very early on, when I did parts work I intuitively started going to a “higher” level of positive purpose than what I had been taught to do. It just felt like a good idea, and I often did this with clients when I taught the Visual Squash Parts Integration. I remember once when Robert Dilts came to Colorado and did a demonstration of the Visual Squash. (This is the method where you find two opposite parts, place one in each hand, ask each its positive intention, create recognition and appreciation of the other part & its outcomes, and then bring the hands together for integration.) Robert took each part to the level of a positive purpose, and then began to negotiate an integration. It took a long time, because the two polarities had major objections to each other. I don’t remember the content, but it was the kind of thing where one part wants to work harder to “be successful”, while the other part wants to take it easy to “relax and enjoy oneself”. The part that wanted to enjoy life didn’t care about being successful, and didn’t want to be involved with the other part, and vice versa. Robert did a great job of reframing for both sides, so that finally the parts were willing to do the integration. Everyone was extremely impressed with his negotiation skills and the resolution he was able to get in a difficult situation, and learned a lot.

When Steve commented to me about it afterwards, I remember saying, “Yes, it did work well, but you know, I’m almost certain he wouldn’t have had to do any of that negotiating work if he’d just taken both parts one or perhaps two levels higher in getting the meta-outcome. That would have made the objections evaporate without any effort.” I was clear it would have worked that way, because I’d done it myself many times with people. That was when I realized that I was doing and teaching Parts Integration differently than it was being taught in the NLP field in general.

I am saying this in the context of my high regard for Robert Dilts as a person and trainer. He was one of my/our early teachers of NLP—and we were one of his first sponsors. We used to hire him to do trainings in our basement back in the early days of NLP (1978), and I learned a huge amount from him. He so obviously has offered so much to the field (and to me personally) and continues to do so. This is just about the Japanese proverb, “No one of us is as smart as all of us.” We each have something to add.

The Language Pattern Thread:

The other thread that led me to the CT process is the language patterns. I had always enjoyed working with and teaching language patterns, especially what is called “Meta-Model III” and conversational change. (For those not already familiar, Meta-Model III is a training format rather than a change procedure. Very briefly, the “guide” thinks of the first thing he/she wants to say in an interaction. Rather than saying it, you write it down, and then find all the presuppositions in this sentence, along with the direction you think this will shift the client’s experience. As guide, you rewrite your opening sentence, with better presuppositions, etc. Once you’ve honed your opening sentence, you finally say it, and then the “client responds with one sentence. You write this down also, listing all the presuppositions. Slowing things down in this way allows you to be very purposeful in your interaction, and glean a lot from only a few words.)

When you get experienced at this, you go for the “smoke coming out of the ears” response, which tends to happen when the limiting presuppositions dissolve. What I’ve described is the brief version. There are several examples of me doing public demonstrations of this on the Advanced Language Patterns audio CD set that NLP Comprehensive has. The end of that CD set is from one or two conference presentations I made where I asked for volunteers from the audience, and demonstrated “conversational change” with one person after another.

Our understanding is that the Meta-Model III training format came out of Richard Bandler’s work with clients. Again, with this training format, you are not using any particular process, but you are attending to presuppositions in such a way that you (hopefully) find a unique doorway to change for the specific person in front of you.

The other relevant part is that when Steve and I designed our own Advanced Language Patterns training segment, we added several patterns not in the original set of sleight-of-mouth patterns. (The original sleight-of-mouth patterns were from Robert Dilts’ modeling of Richard Bandler’s work.) Most notably, these extra patterns we called “reversing presuppositions” and “reversing cause-effect.” We got these patterns by modeling my demonstrations of conversational change. We noticed in my demonstrations, I often used several patterns that weren’t in the original set of SOM but that were quite powerful. I also did my best to create a “Language Patterns Flowchart” with the goal of making it easier for people to do conversational change. This flowchart maps out in a very general way how one can systematically and conversationally go from an outcome (or problem) through a complete change. (The flowchart is also part of the “Advanced Language Patterns” set available from NLP Compprehensive.) This background work fairly directly fed into what became the Core Transformation Process.

Finding Core Transformation:

The CT process itself came together in complete form in the summer of 1989, when I gave myself the challenge of working with people who had “tried everything” on their biggest issue, and nothing had worked. I set myself the task of going for the outcome in any way, except that I wouldn’t use any method I knew how to do. I wanted to find something that would go deeper and do more than the methods currently in NLP. I wanted to find something that got the level of change that Milton Erickson had gotten with me, and that would last through time. I wanted to find something that felt deeply healing and transformative. It seemed possible, and I think the audacity of my teachers (such as Richard Bandler and John Grinder) in exploring and finding new ways was catching. I sometimes told people (half-joking but also serious) that we would be working with their life’s biggest issue and they could go home when they had what they wanted. They knew it was an exploration.

I sat down with people, listened carefully for presuppositions in every word they spoke, carefully embedded presuppositions in my own language, and tracked nonverbal states. On top of that, I just trusted that somehow, something would come to me/us to do, that would bring about this deep level change. With the first person I worked with in this way, I found myself asking for a deeper level of positive purpose than I’d done before. I just kept going, waaay beyond the level of “positive.” At some point my client was in a state they couldn’t really describe, but it didn’t take any great sensory acuity on my part to notice that they were in an incredibly positive, powerful state. I don’t recall ever seeing someone in such a strongly, deeply positive state before. I didn’t know exactly what it was, but stepping into their shoes, I could feel some of it myself and I recognized its healing power. It came to me immediately to do something that basically combined the “reversing presuppositions/reversing cause-effect” that I’d been using for years, to manifest the healing potential of this state.

That’s what I did, and those two phases are what I called “Eliciting the Outcome Chain” and “Reversing the Outcome Chain,” which are the keys to the Core Transformation process. Several people later, I added Parental Timeline Reimprinting. This happened when I had guided one client through the CT process, and the intensity of her core state seemed a bit weak for me to trust that she would get a complete shift in her life situation. I thought she needed something to deepen and intensify her experience to ensure that it would “hold.”

That’s pretty much the story. I still have the handouts I created from those 1989 client sessions. The steps are all there in the original notes (used in the March 1990 Post-Master Practitioner training in Colorado), along with criteria for the Core State of Being. While I’ve tweaked the wording over time to maximize response with a wide range of people, both the steps and wording are still very close to my original notes.

Looking back on it, I don’t think that CT is what Erickson did with me. That remains a mystery. The man was an incredible genius and I would still love to know how he did it. But my experience with him is part of the unfolding of the method for me—it is what gave me the clarity that deep change was possible.

A Footnote: Leslie Cameron-Bandler’s work: Leslie is a wonderful therapist and teacher, for whom I have the deepest respect. (While Leslie is not working actively now, you can still sample some excellent therapy demonstrations by Leslie on DVD from NLP Comprehensive—Lasting Feelings and Making Futures Real, and of course her book, Solutions remains a classic introduction to the field.)

Leslie Cameron-Bandler was doing work that had some parallels to my work with Core Transformation, and I would like to acknowledge that. She called it “Imperative Self.” I first learned about Leslie’s method from Metha Singleton, in a presentation at an NLP conference, sometime after I had developed the CT work—so as far as I know her work didn’t influence how CT formed. However Steve suggested that I include a section about the similarities and differences here. The main similarity is that Leslie’s Imperative Self has a “chain” of criteria (similar to the CT outcome chain), and goes to an “overarching criteria.” (I think that’s what she called it.) I went ahead with presenting CT work because I thought CT offered a more complete and deep change method in several ways:

1) With Imperative Self (IS), the “overarching criteria” frequently fell short of a Core State, so its transformative potential was more limited. (As I recall, half the examples Metha presented didn’t get to a Core State level.) With CT work the elicitation procedure makes it possible to always go to that level, and we have specific criteria to know when we are there.

2) The CT elicitation procedure is associated–it guides the client to “step in” to each step in the outcome chain, making it easier to actually get to a deep core state, and easier to experience it once elicited. As presented, the IS work was more conceptual, and the client did not end with a felt experience.

3) Once the Core State is discovered, CT provides an immediate way to utilize it to transform the client’s experience. This wasn’t the case with IS work. It was presented as an elicitation procedure, i.e. “Now you know what your overarching criteria is” without a specific change procedure.

4) With IS, one attempted to find an “overarching criteria” for the whole person by asking questions of the person’s conscious mind. With CT, one works with unconscious parts. This respects that there really isn’t ever a single “criteria chain” that works for the whole person. There are usually multiple parts, each with their own unique “criteria chains” as well as unique and different Core States. By working with “parts” or “aspects” of ourself that arise in different life situations, we can use CT as an ongoing pathway to reaching deeper and deeper aspects of wholeness or oneness that is our nature. Each has a slightly different hue or flavor, and like the different facets of a gem, each adds uniquely to the full result of Wholeness.

Want to Learn More about NLP? What it is, who is interested, etc?

click here for “What is NLP” on Real People Press’s website.