Why Your Subconscious is the Missing Link to Physical Healing with Dr. Brandy Cummings

Have you ever felt like you’re running against the wind with a parachute strapped to your back? You’re doing the detoxes, taking the supplements, and following the protocols, yet the results just aren't sticking.

In this episode of the Will Power Podcast, we sit down with Dr. Brandy Cummings, a clinical nutritionist and functional medicine expert who discovered that the "missing link" in chronic illness isn't always a physical one. After uncovering her own deep-seated traumas and seeing her physical health transform overnight, Dr. Brandy now helps patients and practitioners address the 95% of the mind that actually runs the show: the subconscious.

In This Episode, We Discuss:

• The 5% vs. 95% Rule: Why your conscious "goal-setter" mind is often at war with your subconscious "goal-getter" programing.
• The "Away-From" Motivation Trap: How the language you use (e.g., "I don't want to be in pain") actually calls in more of the symptoms you're trying to avoid.
• The Physicality of Emotion: How unresolved anger, shame, and fear manifest as chronic neck pain, thyroid issues, and skin conditions.
• Dr. Brandy’s Personal Transformation: A vulnerable look at how clearing 30 years of stagnant emotional energy led to her body releasing 40 pounds of "emotional inflammation" and purging physical toxins.
• The "Analytical Wedge": What hypnosis actually is (and isn't) and how it helps align your mind to stop self-sabotage.
• Perception is Projection: Using your "difficult" patients or relationships as a mirror to find your own areas for growth.

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Transcript

Introducing The Missing Link

SPEAKER_00 0:00

So, Rockstars, you know as a healer, the connection between the mind and the body. But have you ever wondered if there was a lot more to it? If there was a way that you could increase the physical healing by understanding the mind's connection to the body? This episode is for you. We're talking to Dr. Brandy Cummings, a clinician who found a powerful pivot after realizing something was missing between the mind-body connection. We're going to get right into her journey, and it is mind-blowing, no pun intended, on how she was able to make impact in people's lives by understanding this connection. So we're going to dive into the missing link between the subconscious mind and the body, why so many patients keep looping despite doing everything right, and how emotional and energetic health may be the key to faster, deeper, and more lasting outcomes. So if you've ever thought there has to be more to the healing than this, this conversation is just for you. Enjoy the show. All right, Dr. B, please introduce yourself and uh tell us about what you do and why you're passionate about it.

SPEAKER_01 1:06

Hey, well, it's good to be here. I am Dr. Brandi Cummings, and I actually my doctorate degree is in clinical nutrition. My educational background is very much in nutrition. Um, but after experiencing, kind of going through a really transformational experience that I'm sure we can get to later in the show, I have really pivoted my practice in a way that I feel gets my clients better, faster results, and really addressing a missing piece of emotional and energetic health that I wasn't taught in nutrition school, in when I was learning functional medicine. It wasn't there beyond, you know, things like breath work and journaling and meditation, but really clearing out the um what's happening in the subconscious, I didn't learn about until I experienced it myself. And so now I'm really passionate about making sure that that piece is included so that people can have integration between their conscious and their subconscious mind and actually get the results that they want in their health, but really in all areas of life.

SPEAKER_00 2:17

Yeah, I am so excited for today's episode, um, Dr. B, because at the end of the day, physical therapists who make up the largest part of my audience, and it's their business owners, our leaders in that space. They are obviously very passionate about the physical healing of their patients. But the reason I think they become PTs or OTs or SLPs is because they're so passionate about the emotional impact that they make on their patients. And most PTs get into this field, like me, through a personal injury. And the therapist that they worked with didn't just help them regain their physical function, but there's this emotional healing. What we hear a lot in physical therapy practices when we're doing it right, a patient will come in and go, I don't know if I'm getting more mental therapy or physical therapy. Yeah. Because they feel the emotional. So when we talk about emotional or energetic, what we're talking about are those elements besides the physical that are playing into someone's injuries. Can you speak a little bit into how that is and why that works? Because I think my audience already has a baseline like acceptance of that fact. This isn't going to be a cold audience of like, what? Emotional and physical. I think my audience is going to be like, yeah, I totally understand that, but you have an expertise in this. Can you talk into that emotional impact on the physical body?

Conscious Vs Subconscious Explained

Emotions Mapped To Body Symptoms

SPEAKER_01 3:33

Absolutely. So when it comes to, I think it's important we have a baseline understanding of what the mind is. And so if we think about the conscious mind, the conscious mind is really 5%. And so this is our, this is our logic and our reasoning and our creativity. So if we think about our health and health goals, the conscious mind is our goal setter. We can consciously say, I don't want to be in pain anymore, I want to lose weight, I want to not be bloated, whatever it is. But then we have the subconscious mind, which is the 95% under the hood that's actually running the show. So this is your attitudes and your beliefs and your past experiences and programming that you picked up when you were a child and your responses to things. Any unresolved negative emotions are also there as well. And so the subconscious mind is really the part that is running the show. And so this is your goal getter. We can set a goal consciously based on whatever programming, limiting beliefs, unresolved negative emotions we have under the hood, that is our goal getter, and that's going to call in whatever results are in alignment with whatever programming we're running in the background, kind of like a software program. So if we have significant emotional events or traumas that have happened in our past life, or if we grew up with certain negative programming or limiting beliefs, like a really easy example is like how many people grew up in a house where money didn't grab on trees, right? You had that limiting belief from the jump, or like in health, I hear a lot, oh, every, all the women in my family have thyroid issues, right? That's a that's a belief that they have. If that's what we believe, those are the results we're going to call in. And so whatever past experiences we have, either in our own lifetime or passed down through the D uh through the DNA, through epigenetics, impacts that part of our mind, that 95% part of our mind. And so how this translates into the physical body, it impacts our fascia, it impacts our neurological connections and the and the wiring in our brain. And when we have, especially in the realm of negative emotions, specifically anger, hurt, sadness, fear, shame, and guilt, when we have those negative emotions that have not had resolution to them, the body is so brilliant and so smart, so much smarter than we will ever be, and will continue to bring you messages and opportunities to the surface in an effort to get resolution because hanging on to those negative emotions are not helpful to the body. So it will continue to bring opportunities. Sometimes that is in the form of symptomology, and it's really fascinating how we can see the correlations. I'll just give us a few that I think will resonate with your audience. So oftentimes a lot of people with chronic like neck and shoulder pain really feel like they're uh carrying the weight of the world on their shoulders. You know, like they have to do it all themselves, they have to carry the burden or they don't trust other people. Like these are the people who didn't who don't like group work. That was me and my story. Just let me do it all myself. I can't trust you to do it. Um and then, you know, a lot of thyroid issues can correlate with people who feel like they've been silenced, unable to speak their truth, unable to use their voice. A lot of skin issues and eczema have a correlation to separation conflict or abandonment conflict. And so the body is sending us messages that there's something else under the hood in our subconscious mind. It's just up to us to listen to the message.

unknown 7:30

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 7:30

Beautifully stated. What if someone's having heart palpitations? Does that correlate to anything?

SPEAKER_01 7:35

Heart palpitations. So uh cardiovascular oftentimes can correlate with um emotions of unresolved anger.

Why Patients Loop And Stall

Palpitations, Anger, And Proof Points

SPEAKER_00 7:45

Yeah, okay. Yeah, that makes sense. I've had those off and on, and I I've had to be Mr. Nice Guy because of a self-limiting belief around things. So, guys, this is therapy for me in real time. But it's true because I not only have seen that in my own world, uh, I've seen it in the lives of others. I have a very good friend who stutters really bad, and he has debilitating back pain, and he's done everything, including surgery. And um, I had another guest, uh, Beth Winkler, who's a physical therapist, who's starting to actually bridge, it's not what you're doing, but it's in an overlapping space where it's called brain body, where they're they're recognizing that unhealed trauma plays into things. So I'm excited to learn more about your particular expertise in this because I'm starting to physical again, physical therapist, occupational therapist, speech therapist, we know this. We know this. There's no quantifiable data for it. We have seen it when I've worked on someone's back and they start laughing hysterically because we were hit a release point emotionally for them. Yeah. So that connection is real for us, where I think I'm sure a lot of people in the traditional Western world will roll their eyes, but it's it's it's real. So in those cases where someone's coming in with those symptoms, like how how do you work with those people to help them alleviate these symptoms?

Language Matters: Toward Motivation

SPEAKER_01 9:00

Great question. So a big tip-off to me, I mean, obviously, I do a thorough, a thorough intake and take a thorough history. And for me, this is actually an interesting um in-house statistic that I discovered not too long ago. Me and my health coach were sitting down and looking at all of our past clients, and we realized that over 90% of them, we were not their first functional medicine practitioner that they came to see, which really kind of hit me over the head because I was like, well, that doesn't seem like good statistics. I mean, I realize I'm only one practitioner. I would love for other practitioners to give me their data on this as well. But I was like, why are we missing the mark here? What is happening? And so the patterns that I see in people where that really give me a clue to look into the emotional and energetic side of things, are they looping? Are they looping? Are they practitioner jumping? Have they tried all of the things where maybe they'll get results and then they and then you know fall back? And I think that there's several reasons for that. You know, there could be things under the hood in the subconscious, so to speak, but also thinking about everybody has a motivation strategy, and this is this is really fascinating. This is also a tidbit that people can walk away from and implement into their lives like today after listening to this episode. But one of the first things is to bring incredible awareness to the language that you're using about yourself and about your life. So, for example, if I say to somebody, Thank you so much for scheduling this appointment, what are your biggest goals? What would you love to get out of our time together? And they say things like, Oh, I don't want to have headaches, I don't want to be bloated, I don't want to, whatever it is, I don't want my hair to be falling out. So if you listen to that language, all of that language is what we call away from motivated. They're away from motivated. There's a pain point that they're trying to get away from. Well, the subconscious doesn't register the negative. So if I ask you, Will, do not think of a purple elephant, you're immediately thinking of a purple elephant.

SPEAKER_00 11:18

It's just many, many purple elephants.

SPEAKER_01 11:21

Right. The subconscious doesn't process the negative. And so if that's the language we're constantly sending to our subconscious that we don't want headaches or to be bloated or to be in pain or whatever it is, we're calling more of that in. It's like your subconscious wants to make you happy. Your wish is my command. Here you go. And so they are away from motivated and they don't realize it. So they're trying to get away from this pain. So let's say it's weight loss, right? They have a weight, they don't like it, so they get motivated. I don't want to be fat. New Year's is coming up. This is my resolution. So they start losing weight, right? Then they get over here. Well, now they're too far away from the pain. This is no longer very motivating anymore. And so what happens?

SPEAKER_00 12:03

They cycle back.

SPEAKER_01 12:04

They cycle back. Oh shoot, now I'm right next to that pain again. I don't like that. That's my motivation strategy. Let me get away from that. And they start again. So they're in this loop. So uh uh just a quick tip to even just start bringing awareness to this is to start shifting your mindset to be toward motivated instead of getting whipped by the stick and running away from the stick, chase the carrot. What do you want instead? Which is literally what I tell my new um clients. Thank you so much for sharing that with me. And what would you like instead of that? And will sometimes just asking that question, people will break down because nobody's ever held space and allowed them to dream about what it is that they would actually love. And so and sometimes this question is so hard for people like somebody will be in pain. Thank you for sharing that with me. What would you like instead? Well, I want to wake up and not be in pain. Like it's so hard for them to literally even contemplate what it is that they would love. Oh, I'd love to be on the floor playing with my grandkids, I'd love to be hiking, I'd love to be mobile, I'd love to be able to put my shoes on, whatever it is. What would you love? Where are we going? What's our outcome? Where are we headed? And if you just like my challenge to everybody who's listening is if you just challenge yourself for three days to bring awareness to your language, how many times do you are you away from motivated? And how can you switch that to start being toward motivated?

SPEAKER_00 13:41

Well, I'm having all sorts of thoughts about my own world right now. I think it's a very powerful concept because I'm even familiar with some of this stuff, but even then, the away from language, having it that spelled out, it's like, oh yeah, I I've definitely think for me, I've been better about myself, but there's things with my family where I'm like, I just I don't want my son to feel this. It's like, no, I want my son to be independent, happy, thriving. Like, why can't I that language is such a big deal? And it's, you know, as people are listening to this, I think they're gonna help identify these things in their patients and their employees. Yes. You know, when you're working with employees, one of my retention strategies I've always used is to work with them, and we call it a vision meeting where once a year we go out to to lunch, unstructured, and just say, What do you want? Yeah. Literally, I've got this documented, Brandy. And it's so funny because it follows what you just said. Because what I tell my my clients is when you have an employee dreaming with you, and they can see what they want down the road, and you can offer suggestions. Like most people don't even know what they want. So you just sit there and go, Well, you could become a specialist, you could have your own practice one day, you could have you know, a yacht. Like, what do you want? You want to travel the world? Like, what do you want? And then you start coming up with things they attach the positive emotion to you as a coach. And then where did that lead them? Back into your company because no one's even sh they don't even know what they want. So if they don't know, then they default to money or certain little perks that don't even matter, versus, well, here I'm seen and heard. Here I'm growing into a vision. And it sounds like it's the same parallel with patients where patients come in and they're like, I just don't want to hurt anymore. It's like, well, what do you want? I I'm thinking a lot about my friend that I'm that that stutters who's in severe pain. He just had this really severe surgery, and of course, he's not any better. And it's been such a tragic thing to watch on the sidelines. I know there's some of this going on with this individual. And so it sounds like this is a whole side of medicine that I mean, as a physical therapist, Brandy, sorry, Dr. B, she and I are friends. I had this whole world where I I treated, and every everyone, everyone who's treating listen has heard this before where or seen this, where you have a patient come in who's been in pain for 30 years and they're in such excruciating pain and none of it even makes sense. You're you're like they are tight and they're encumbered in all these things, but they react emotionally to some of the physical movements with such excruciation, it doesn't correlate. It's like, oh, and so they just put them on medications and they send them to therapy. And and honestly, our stretches and exercises aren't gonna help those people, and we kind of know that, don't we? Right. So so you start by helping transition them into this mindset of language and helping them release some of this this creative damning language. Um, and then like when you work with people, how long do you see them typically? Kind of give me more of a general overview. How long are you seeing these people? What are some of the results you've had?

Visioning For Patients And Teams

SPEAKER_01 16:32

Yeah, great question. So I had a your story about pain made me think of a particular um person that I worked with, and she had really severe neck pain. So bad that I was sitting with her and she was like, Oh, the pain is so bad, I'm feeling really nauseous. I don't know, I might need to go lay down. Like she really couldn't even like turn her neck, and she was really wincing, and it was so painful and it was so hard. And I'm walking through her through this process of helping her to really identify the emotions that she's feeling, accompanied with that. Um it's called the pain paradigm, and it's a process that I walk people through, which that really links the physical pain to the emotions that in the beginning most they're they're not aware of, they're unconscious that there's a connection here. But I'm walking her through this, and we're doing this process, and she actually she had four children who were all um, they all had severe autism. And it was her perspective that this was caused by negligence in the medical system, and so she had a lot of anger and bitterness and resentment about that. And she spent the last two decades of her life recovering all four kids, getting them from a place where they were completely nonverbal to a place where they're completely functioning and healed and thriving now. But it took so much effort in her, and she had so much bitterness and anger because she felt like this was a result of bad decisions made by um the people that were on her medical team that she was supposed to be able to trust. And so you know, these are decades old wounds that she has of and these unresolved emotions. So we we finally get to the bottom of it. I we were going through this process and maybe I think probably took 30 minutes, maybe 40, and her pain was really bad. She she labeled it an eight, and at the end, her pain popped, it went to the zero. And the very next day, I jumped off a 20-foot cliff with her into the water.

When Pain Defies Biomechanics

SPEAKER_00 18:54

Come on, she couldn't even sit.

SPEAKER_01 18:56

Like, she literally was like, I can't do this, I have to lay down, I can't even function. And I'm just like, her pain has not come back. This was um five months ago.

Case Study: Neck Pain To Zero

SPEAKER_00 19:10

This in the stories that I'm hearing, and having lived in this space now as a patient, because I had a uh a child who needed different types of emotional healing, and there wasn't physical symptoms present, it was other stuff. And so we were going through these different treatments, and like there's a whole bunch that are emerging now. That's what I'm seeing is the development of a missing critical part of healthcare that is starting to form around what you're doing. It's we were talking before we hit record how this is gonna be as common in in a hundred years that people are are going to be going to get these types of treatments just like they get a shot. Except that if the world is doing this in 50 years, in a hundred years, it's gonna be as close to heaven on earth as there can be. Because if everyone's healed or knows how to heal and they're helping each other, you know, we'd only be doing singular outpoint cases when something traumatic happens, like an accident versus like compounded familial trauma that happens generation to generation because hurt people hurt people. So by doing this, we can cause healing and heal people, heal people. It's an exciting, it's an exciting and frustrating time for me because we're just early enough stages to where I know it's real. I've seen it in my own world. I've seen it in now just not just with your patients, but other people who are doing similar energy and emotional work, that it's actually fixing some of these physic physical symptoms, but it's not far enough along yet to where it's more standardized. So you are a pioneer, but you're there's a lot of there's starting to emerge more and more pioneers around this. So when you told me, I said, hey, what's the main thing you'd want to do on this podcast? Your main thing was I want to get the word out to this stuff.

SPEAKER_01 20:53

Yeah. Why is that the more practitioners and health professionals that we have that have these tools, the faster we're going to be able to help our patients and clients heal. And that is why we're all in this industry. That's why we all got into this. And if people are not getting results, if they're looping, if they're practitioner jumping, if they're trying all the things, if they're um, you know, like in a functional medicine practice, which is my arena, so that's what I'm most familiar with. But for example, if somebody is doing the mold test and the Lyme test and doing the detoxes and doing the gut health protocols and doing and taking all the supplements and then going on this 10 month protocol of different supplements and lifestyle recommendations, and they're they're wearing the blue light blockers and they're being mindful of their light and they're moving their body, and they're they've done every diet that there is, and they're still not. Getting results, we're missing something, and the practitioners are not equipped with the tools to know what they're missing. And so, what do we do? Well, okay, let's try to pivot. What else could we do? Maybe we should run a brain test, maybe we should, you know, try this supplement or this protocol. And all of that stuff is amazing and life-changing and incredible. And I'm so grateful that we have it. And it's like if you're running against the wind with a parachute on your back, yeah. It's really hard. But if you could just reach down and unclick the parachute, you're off. And then everything gets easier and faster and better. And that's what this work does. And that was my experience when I went through this process myself. I um I wondered if you were going to bring it up.

SPEAKER_00 22:54

I I wondered if you were gonna bring it up. It was so personal I didn't know.

SPEAKER_01 22:56

Please bring it up because I think like for me, vulnerable here.

A New Frontier In Care

SPEAKER_00 23:00

Absolutely. When I when I talk when I talk to physical therapists and I tell them about how I started by falling off a mountain and breaking 21 bones, it sets the stage for authenticity because it so I let's hear about where you came from on this. I'd love to I'd love if you're willing to share, I'd love for the audience to hear it.

SPEAKER_01 23:14

Yeah. So I opened my functional medicine practice in 2016, right? And I had these, what I thought were personality traits, uh, where I was more controlling, more rigid. I said, Oh, I'm just very type A, I'm very O C D. These are the these are the stories I would tell myself about my personality traits. Like I was the type of person that didn't like group work, as I mentioned. I like math, I like spreadsheets, I like structure. If you're not early, you're late, just very rigid and trying to control things. And I was in business, I was looping, I would get results, and then I wouldn't, I would get results, and then I wouldn't. And I was also in the past couple of years, I was really losing a lot of traction in my physical health. And I didn't have a bad diet, I was eating all of the things, I had done all of the detoxes, I did have a, you know, uh, an experience about a decade ago with some pretty severe mold exposure. I went through all of that, and but I was like, something is really amiss, and then I'm learning more about this work and these this these different pillars of health, and I'm like, oh my gosh, it was like the the clouds parted, and all of a sudden I had so much clarity because for me when I was a child, starting at the age of five years old, I was sexually abused by my grandfather, and what I didn't realize is that from that experience, I had this very strong protector part that was born. That's where all those what I thought were personality traits from trying to keep me safe, trying to create some sort of structure, which impacted all areas of my life, but it also impacted my relationships and how physically intimate, how physically intimate I was able to get with somebody was negatively correlated with how emotionally attached I was to them, which causes a lot of problems.

SPEAKER_00 25:38

Yeah, and I can see that when you it's interesting when you begin with the end in mind, and thank you so much for being so vulnerable to share that truth for us, because when you're using it from a from a learning perspective, you go, Yeah, I can see how that would be created in that way and how it wouldn't serve, but at the end of the day, it it's like if you don't see that connection as the person living through it, how hard that must be.

Unclipping The Parachute

Dr. Brandi’s Origin Story

SPEAKER_01 25:59

Right, exactly. And it was also, you know, I had this mentality of like, I just gotta work harder, faster, better, stronger, longer. I just gotta keep grinding. I just surely something's gonna pop at some point. And I didn't realize that all of the results really that I was experiencing in my life could be traced back to this really significant emotional event. And so I started learning this work and I started um implementing these tools, and then I went through a very transformational experience um for myself, where I mean the toolbox is huge, but it was a lot of neurolinguistic programming, hypnosis, parts integration, inner child healing, past life regression, and I was able to break free, like you have kids, Will. So I know you've seen the movie Aladdin. And you know, at the end of Aladdin, when Aladdin sets the genie free and like his cuffs are coming off of his wrists, right? That's what I felt like. I was just like, I felt like I could take a breath for the first time in my life, and I was like, oh my gosh, like it was just completely lifted. Because here's the thing about your subconscious mind it has a blueprint for exactly where you are now, and it has a blueprint of perfect health and healing. It's already inside of you. There's nothing you have to go get from your external environment, it's already inside of you. We have to reach down and unclick that parachute. And so after I went through this experience, and this is wild. So, first of all, that experience was a two-day experience. So fast, right?

SPEAKER_00 27:42

It doesn't take a lot of time.

SPEAKER_01 27:43

It doesn't take a lot of time, it doesn't have to take decades, it doesn't have to take decades. My goodness, it doesn't have to take decades. And so, talk about a mind-body connection immediately afterwards, like the next day, all of a sudden, my body is just purging. I will spare you some of the details, but every possible bodily fluid that there is, I was purging. I was hacking up black mucus. We went hiking the next day. I was pure mucus on the mountain. Yeah, black mucus. Which I think was like amazing. Residual mold. But my body was just like getting rid of it.

SPEAKER_00 28:25

So it was able to just expel it completely. That's amazing.

SPEAKER_01 28:28

Exactly. Yeah. I mean, every bodily fluid. My next period was crazy. Like every bodily fluid I was purging.

SPEAKER_00 28:36

So I went through that period of just my body was like, oh I appreciate I appreciate the heads up for those of us who are gonna go through the process of like, what's going on? Because there is a physiological release, and your body only has so many releases. It's it's the thing.

SPEAKER_01 28:51

Oh, a hundred percent. And then, so then within the next three months after that, my body released 40 pounds of emotional inflammation that I was hanging on to.

SPEAKER_00 29:07

Oh my gosh, you weren't trying to lose weight.

SPEAKER_01 29:09

No peptides, like I wasn't using anything, and and I was like, I knew it. I knew something was up. I was doing all the right things, but my body was hanging on to all of this emotional inflammation, and then I just it just released all of it, and like I mean, all areas of my life changed from that experience. And so once I went through that, it's kind of like you know, once you see something, you can't unsee it. And I was like, this is such a valuable missing piece that so many practitioners of all kinds are missing, and so, like you said a little bit ago, my biggest goal for this conversation and this podcast is to bring awareness to that. And if we're not addressing the emotional and energetic piece in our patients and clients, but also in ourself because I felt like I was not acting in my highest and best, I was not being integrous when I was hanging on to all of this stuff, but posturing as if I had it all figured out and trying to pass that along to my clients. When you clear your own cup and do this emotional and energetic work, your external environment has no choice but to recalibrate, to be in alignment with this new frequency and vibration, and it will positively impact your life, your patient's life, or your client's life, and then the ripple from all the people that are quantumly entangled in their lives and also future generations, and that's how we actually turn this ship around, I feel.

SPEAKER_00 30:56

Wow, this ship called existence, the ship called people going through life and wanting to make impact. I mean, so can you share some of the way that your external environment has aligned with your new frequency? Is there what has happened since that work that you could show as like point to as like, yeah, this is different now because of that?

Breaking Patterns With Subconscious Work

A Rapid Mind‑Body Shift

SPEAKER_01 31:16

Yeah. So a really fun concept that I like um to share with people is something called perception is projection, meaning that the people and the experiences that come into our life and our circle of awareness is a mirror. It is a projection of us. And so if we have, if we have, let's say we have a bunch of of patients right now or clients where they're just like, oh my gosh, they're like, these, they're the worst. They're not compliant, they're not doing what I say, like they're complaining, they're abusing, they're trying to contact me too much. Like, we've all experienced that, right? Where we've had those clients or patients where they're just like draining us. Okay, so you applying this concept of perception as projection, instead of getting triggered by them, how about we ask ourselves, how are they a projection of me? Why, what are they here to teach me? What can I learn? Where in my life am I not being compliant? Where in my life am I maybe blurring a boundary of somebody else's time boundary? Where in my life am I not following through with what I said I was gonna do? When we can get curious about our own behavior and take radical responsibility for the results in our life, all of a sudden, those types of patients will fall away as if like magic. And by the way, the reverse is true. Somebody comes into your life that you're just obsessed with and can't get enough with, you love them, you love their energy, you want to be around them at all times. That's also because that is in you. Every person and every opportunity that comes into your life is a projection and a mirror of you. And so for me, it's been fascinating how the type of clients I'm calling in have changed. The relationships with certain family members have fallen away or resolved themselves. The type of friends, the caliber of human that I'm calling into my life to like have this human experience with is so rich and great. I'm just in awe and just so unbelievably grateful for it. So that's been a really interesting thing that I've noticed as well. I've noticed shifts in my business, of course, shifts in my physical health, as I've mentioned, shifts in my relationships. I've actually been able to go back um to many of my past relationships where things did not end well because of that inverse relationship between emotional and intimate connection. And I've been able to share my story and give context and information that I didn't have back then. And that has been one of the most healing experiences I've ever been through because every person has been so loving and willing to listen and forgiving and caring. And the fact that like these people were able to see all of the good parts of me at a time in my life where I wasn't able to see them myself.

SPEAKER_00 34:22

Wow.

Emotional Inflammation And Weight

SPEAKER_01 34:23

And so it's just I think about it like this. If you think about your life, and then think about your ideal life. If you had a magic wand and could curate anything that you wanted, and then take that ideal life, and then that would be a 10 out of 10, right? And then ask yourself what if that was just a two out of ten? How much better could it get? And that's what happens when we start clearing our cup and and moving this energy that was stagnant for for me for 31 years of my life, and then all of a sudden now I'm unlocking all of these this energy flow through my body, results are incredible.

Perception Is Projection

SPEAKER_00 35:06

I love how you went into that. Brand, listen, Dr. B, it's so powerful that you have modeled it yourself. I think that's what's so special because we could this isn't a call to send patients to you. This is a call of awareness of what's possible for all of us. And I I love the way that these things have shown up for you. And um I've just been mesmerized as you're talking because I I'm forgetting them on a podcast. I'm sitting there literally thinking about there's two relationships in my world that are incredibly frustrating. And I'm just thinking about, like, oh, maybe I should be curious to see what I'm supposed to learn. How am I like that? And then, you know, there's some great self-affirmation of these people that I get to most people, I'm very grateful to say the vast majority of the people around me are so wonderful and so inspiring. And it's just like, oh, well, maybe I'm I'm vibrating at a good frequency these days, you know? Because like it's never been like this as it is now for me, but it's come from deep mental and emotional work. I will I will say that although I haven't done the process exactly, I've been chasing processes because there's someone very near and dear to me who's been struggling emotionally for years, and so everything I do hasn't been because I wanted help, it was because I wanted to test the waters before he would test the waters. And so I did EMDR therapy. Hypnosis, by the way, for those of you who've never heard this before, get used to it. Like, if you've never heard of healing hypnosis, these types of techniques that Dr. B was mentioning, and that was just one of many for her. There is so much more data that's coming out around how we can actually rewire these traumatic uh events that have created programming in our CPU. Like, there's these really cool things that I have personally experienced that have transformed my physical health as a result of this. Um, and I just think it's one of those that we have to keep an open mind. We have to realize that connection is real. There's enough scientific evidence to prove that how we think or the mindset we're in literally manifests different physiological states all the way to more extreme cases that have less data, but more uh subjective personal experiences that are many of when people do shift their mindsets and they do have these clearing of the cups, like you mentioned, their the literal universe starts shifting around them. Their experience of life changes in a way that feels effortless, in a way that feels for you, not against you. Like when the resistance in our lives that we experience is us in not clearing those elements internally. But what again, what's so hard about it is that's not conscious, it's all these subconscious things that we build around us. Um there's a really interesting video I have that I show people from time to time of Tony Robbins helping somebody in seconds get rid of a stutter that they've had for decades.

SPEAKER_01 37:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 37:57

Have you seen that video?

SPEAKER_01 37:58

Yeah, I have.

SPEAKER_00 37:59

It's pretty powerful. He just he he does a very he does a regressive child healing thing where he's like, okay, when did you start stuttering? Three years old. What was the moment right? What's the last thing you remember before you started stuttering? And of course it was this traumatic thing. And the stutter was built because the kid was watching Rocky and Bullwinkle and Bullwinkle Bullwinkle Bullwinkle stutters, and when he does, Rocky shows up for help. So he made that connection as a smart, you know, three-year-year-old that he was developing that to protect himself. And then when he realized that and was able to go back and do some other things, like literally within minutes, it's all on video, he stopped stuttering, and then the next thing you see is a video of him on stage talking to thousands of people without a stutter. There's these things that show up physiologically that are completely baked and based in these emotional elements. And so, how do people learn more? Brandy, like what what do people do from this point? If everyone's listening, whoever's listening at this point is clearly dialed in on this.

SPEAKER_01 38:53

Yeah, great.

SPEAKER_00 38:54

I'm aware of it now. What next?

SPEAKER_01 38:56

Yeah. Well, start getting curious, start getting really curious and have an open mind. And so that's the first part. And I wanna I want to touch on something that you said about hypnosis, because I think this is a really important point that I want to drive home because it is such an extremely powerful tool, but there's the misconceptions are abundant.

SPEAKER_00 39:18

So And there's a lot of practitioners popping up around it that I'm like, how do I know which ones, you know what I'm saying? Like there's a lot of hypnosis, it's becoming so popular.

Relationships, Business, And Health Shifts

SPEAKER_01 39:25

Right. So, first of all, hypnosis is just a state of trance. So it doesn't mean that anybody's controlling you or doing anything against your will. Um, nobody's gonna make you do something that you don't want to do. It's just a state of trance. If you've ever meditated, if you've ever been in a deep state state of prayer, if you've ever driven home and you pulled into your driveway and all of a sudden you were like, oh, that was weird. I kind of zoned out for a minute. That's hypnosis, it's just a state of trance. And why it's so beneficial is because, like I said, we had the conscious mind and the subconscious mind. I know that those people that don't have, that aren't watching us, can't see me do this. But in between the two, there's like an analytical wedge. That's what this is called. The analytical wedge is there to keep us safe so that things don't go into our subconscious mind that we don't want to. But this is all but this is why, like, if if like people who have done affirmations and feel like, oh, that didn't work for me. Because if you're telling yourself, like, oh, I'm a money magnet, I'm abundant, I'm healthy, or whatever it is, if you have a strong, thick analytical wedge there, it's kind of like your brain is like, uh, no, you're not. What are you talking about? No. So in hypnosis, which is just a state of trance, we can remove the analytical wedge so that we have integration of the conscious and the subconscious so that both are on board and on the same plane and moving towards the same goal. So that's all hypnosis is. Um people like go to the state fair and see the hypnosis shows, and then they have this like it's not the same thing.

SPEAKER_00 41:01

It's not even really, you know, it's so funny because I my the the therapist that I went to for my hypnosis before I sent my family member. It was crazy the way that like things were just so immediate. And there were story, she told me story after story after story. Her calendar was booked out. I mean, we were talking about people who've been to traditional therapy for years going in three sessions and completely like never having any more issues. Right. Some of them are physiological. There, this is this is, in my opinion, 100% as real as a passive range of motion stretches to the knee. Right. It's just it's just that we are just starting to really understand it at a deeper level. And the studies need to come. And but again, 100 years from now, they're gonna look back and go, those poor people who didn't know this. Like the way we look back in the the dark ages and go, they weren't even washing their hands before surgeries. Like, whoa.

SPEAKER_01 41:57

Right, right.

SPEAKER_00 41:58

That's literally how they're gonna view us. And yeah, um, and hopefully thank us because people like you who are pioneering this are making such a large impact globally.

SPEAKER_01 42:07

Um the first step is oh go sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you.

SPEAKER_00 42:11

No, I was cutting, I was cutting right back to you. So the first step was keep an open mind.

Practical Tools: EMDR To Hypnosis

SPEAKER_01 42:15

Keep an open mind and get curious, especially if you like think of the patients in your mind where you're like, I kind of had a wall with them. You know, I did, I'd like I did threw everything I had at it. We all have those people. Call them up, like get curious, and so and then next, I really recommend working with somebody to do this work for yourself, like so that you are in integrity, so that you can clear your own cup, so that you are coming from a place where you're not running against the wind with a um parachute on your back. And so, whether that's me or whether that's somebody else, I really recommend going through this process yourself and seeing all the results and what can happen in the shifts in your own life first, and then continuing to share this these modalities and this uh pillar of health with your patients and clients, whether that means referring them to uh, you know, people who are trained in this, like myself or many others, or going and learning the tools yourself, that is how the ripple that we need is gonna happen.

SPEAKER_00 43:24

I love it. I um I'm thinking about having you speak to my buddy who's got the stutter issue with all the pain and those kinds of things. How would I how would I begin that conversation?

SPEAKER_01 43:34

I would love to. Um, well, you can just text me, but but yeah.

SPEAKER_00 43:40

I mean, I mean, how do I have that conversation with him about you? Like I I'm not worried about how to get a hold of you because like if you're gonna send me your information you'll or whatever, how people can get a hold of you professionally, but how do I have that discussion with him? He's he's he's probably your ri regular guy who knows nothing about this, who's gonna possibly hear this from a place of uh Cuckoo for Cocoa Pops. Like what would I say to him?

SPEAKER_01 44:02

So what I really like for people like that, what do you want? What do you want? You want to not stutter? Okay, that's a way for up motivated. What do you want instead of stuttering? And get cured, like ask questions, get clear on what it is that he really wants. And then, you know, okay, when once you have that, what are you gonna be able to see, hear, and feel once you have that? What will that allow you to be, do, and have once you have that? And how good is that gonna feel once you achieve that outcome? And allowing them to really step into the possibility, because so many people put limitations on the capabilities of their own life and their the just the magic that this vessel that they're using to have this human experience can actually accomplish. So allowing him to step into the possibility of what is possible, I think is so helpful. And then having a conversation around like, okay, what have you tried so far? Great. But we haven't got the results that they want. Just because you haven't found answers doesn't mean that there are not answers. Would you be open to trying something different? Would you be are you willing to do to take radical responsibility for the results in your life and do whatever it takes and lean into the reality that anything is possible for you? And I think that having those types of conversations where they're really sitting into what that life would look like is really so much more powerful than like, hey, let me tell you about hypnosis and parts integration, you know.

Demystifying Hypnosis

SPEAKER_00 45:47

I like that idea. I like the idea of framing it from like, hey, what do you want? Would you be willing to hear something that is probably something you're not used to that absolutely has made a difference for people who want the same things you do? I think that's the next step for me. And I'll just say there's this element of emotional components that are actually being correlated to physical, and we have some experts that that could talk to you and explain to you what this looked like. Would you be interested in learning more about it? I think that's how I'll approach it. Exactly. And um, yeah, I think it's exciting because you know, people who are listening, they can also I'll have your information in the notes, but can you just say how how do people get a hold of you if they want to talk to you about some patients or even themselves?

SPEAKER_01 46:24

Um so currently I'm right in the middle of a rebrand, but currently my my Instagram handle is resilientmotherhood.health, and that's also my website.

SPEAKER_00 46:38

Got it. So that's gonna shift. So for now, resilient motherhood.health.health. Okay, fantastic. Brandy, thank you so much for being and give me when you rebrand, just send me this stuff and I'll put it in the notes as well. Perfect. But it has been a joy to be with you. Um I don't know what I was excited to talk to you just because I I think so much of you, but uh, this has completely transformed uh elements of my life. So thank you for being on the show. It means a lot to me that you do this for us.

SPEAKER_01 47:03

Well, it was my pleasure. I love connecting with you.

SPEAKER_00 47:06

All right, Rockstars, thank you for tuning in. As always, this is Will Humphreys reminding you to lead with love, live on purpose, and remember to never give up until next time.