Is Free Will an Illusion? What Automatic Behavior Reveals About Choice
Is free will an illusion? Science shows your brain acts before you’re aware of deciding, but that’s not the whole story. Here’s what actually determines how much choice you have.
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Posts related to emotional patterns in Wellbeing Blog of New Empowered You by Olga Willemsen, Ph.D., certified hypnotherapist and transformational coach.
How to Stop Overthinking and Come Back to Your Body
Why the brain filters out almost everything the body is telling you, why overthinking works like scratching an itch, and how a loving body scan retrains where attention goes.
How to Cultivate Joy: Presence, Wonder, and What Children Already Know
How to cultivate joy and why it is not the same as pursuing happiness. Discover what science knows about joy as a distinct emotion, why adults lose access to it, and what children can teach us about presence and wonder.
Why do I procrastinate even when I want to do it?
Procrastination isn’t a laziness problem. Neuroscience shows it’s your brain’s protection response and understanding that changes everything about how you break free.
The Prediction Machine: What Neuroscience Reveals About How Hypnotherapy Really Works
Your brain doesn’t react to life — it predicts it. Learn how Karl Friston’s predictive processing theory explains how hypnotherapy works at the deepest level of the mind.
The Missing Piece: Addressing the Psychology of Sustainable Weight Loss
Discover the top 3 weight-loss myths holding you back. Learn how metabolism, hormones, food quality, and stress—not “eat less, move more”—shape real results.
Understanding Disappointment and Other Difficult Emotions — and How to Move Through Them
Understanding disappointment is the first step to releasing it. Learn what disappointment, guilt, and resentment really mean — and how to take back your power by taking responsibility for your feelings and actions.
Hypnotherapy for Tourette Syndrome: A Case of Transformation
When someone arrives with a diagnosis — whether it’s Tourette Syndrome, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, or Trichotillomania — I don’t treat the label.
I work with the person.In this post, I want to show how hypnotherapy can support clients with complex neurological or psychological conditions. Not by “fixing” them, but by helping them access what their symptoms are really trying to express — and offering the mind a healthier, more empowering way forward.
Why Mental Self-Care Is Essential in the Emotionally Overwhelming Modern World
Despite modern comfort, mental health care is often ignored. Learn why we struggle and how to take charge of your emotional well-being.
3 Reasons to Avoid Setting Boundaries and What to Do Instead
Are you also concerned about setting boundaries? It’s a very popular topic in the media and a recurring theme I hear from most of my hypnotherapy clients.
In this vlog, I’ll share three reasons not to set boundaries—and offer a powerful alternative.
