Word: hypnotherapist
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...sales revenue - a rate that Jon Sinton, AAR's president, expects to continue for the next two years. Commercials for national brands like Geico and Volkswagen can now be heard along with spots for Verbal Advantage vocabulary builders (one of Limbaugh's early sponsors), sexual potency pills and "clinical hypnotherapist" Wendi Friesen's promises of happiness, weight loss and freedom from nicotine addiction if you'll just let her talk in your sleep...
Marie Mongan, 71, a Concord, N.H., hypnotherapist, invented the technique and has taught it at her institute since 1989. When I told her I was afraid of failing at hypnobirthing, Mongan gave me simple advice: "Trust your body and your baby. They know what...
...specific tasks and milestones as you go. The site even sends e-mail reminders to help keep you on schedule. The tips can be surprisingly helpful and creative. For weight loss, the site suggests everything from the obvious (eat fewer calories than you burn) to the offbeat (consult a hypnotherapist). If you want to become a vegetarian, myGoals.com includes links to veggie websites and support groups. The site falls short, however, in its awkward, blank templates that users are supposed to fill out to achieve goals not already mapped by the site. And while the e-mail reminders are handy...
...Perlman's Ordeal (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 329 pages; $24), novelist Brooks Hansen has some serious fun imagining the case of Sylvie Blum, a.k.a. Nina, the pubescent bringer of confusion and disarray into the physician's otherwise detached and antiseptic existence. As a hypnotherapist, Perlman is a hands-off healer. As a closet onanist, he is a hands-on pioneer of safe...
...impetus for the story begins when Gibbons relents to his yuppie girlfriend's importuning and visits an occupational hypnotherapist. On the verge of taking Gibbons under, the corpulent therapist keels over and dies of a heart attack. However, Gibbons remains unfazed and leaves the office in a Zen state of unshakable relaxation, having finally decided simply "not to go" to his job. The transition is complete when he breaks up with the girlfriend and begins courting a waitress, played by Jennifer Aniston, who fits in perfectly with this under-talented cast. Gibbons does return to work, however...