I was given your book, Your Sixth Sense, a couple of weeks ago and I have read all of part one, and am now trying out the guided imagery exercises.

I have always believed that there is more than the eye sees. I have noticed a lot that I have many experiences with intuition, whether it is just a gut feeling or something more. I have had experiences like, knowing someone is going to call or show up without anyone saying so, or even hearing from them in a while.

I have had feelings in my throat and stomach like a bad feeling and then something bad happens, and I have also had many dreams about things and then they happen or have happened as I was dreaming about them.

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I am a Reiki master and certified aromatherapist. I was a mental health therapist before, and have some experience with guided imagery, and would like to become certified in guided imagery.

The problem is I live on the East Coast and have a toddler, so it is difficult to travel. Is there any way I can become certified by some type of correspondence course?  I would be willing to make tapes of sessions for review and feedback.  I appreciate any guidance you can give me on this matter.

Sincerely,
Tara P.

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Hi there, Belleruth,

Do you have an opinion on Emotional Freedom Techniques for PTSD? Any contact with anyone who has been helped by it? The website says that it's amazing for PTSD, but I don't know anyone who has tried that.

Jared

Dear Belleruth,

Do you remember when AIDS was first discovered?  Do you remember the stigma attached to the illness and how that stigma created much more pain and devastation than the physical illness itself (as if it weren't bad enough)?  Who can forget, actually?  The patients... the disregarded... fought like hell to be recognized and respected, treated and researched.  No one ever thought AIDS could be successfully treated or that people could live productive lives after diagnosis.... but how wrong that was!

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Hello, Ms. Naparstek:
I have been listening to the Control Diabetes CD, having been diagnosed with Insulin Resistance/High Blood Sugar -- and you speak in the CD about opening the body and cells to sweetness and fully opening the body and cells to absorb glucose.

I am slightly puzzled, as I had been under the impression that there was too much glucose in my bloodstream -- and that, for whichever reason, the insulin receptors on the cells are burned out and not absorbing insulin, anymore. I must be wrong, but I am not sure how.

Is the controlling diabetes CD still a good one to listen to for those of us with hyperinsulemia? Thank you so much.
Carrie

Dear Belleruth:

After being married for 33 years to the same man since I was 21 years old, I have asked for a divorce. He has been unable to change his emotionally & verbally abusive behaviors, in spite of counseling. In October, I discovered he was having a sexual affair (2nd time) with a woman younger than him (he is 58, she 45). He said he wanted a divorce, that he has been unhappy a long time. I said fine, I will make this happen.

I am fed up with him, but I feel so sad, heartbroken really, in spite of the problems.  What do you suggest for all the emotional upheavals? Please change my name to Kathie. Do not give my last name or email.

-Kathie
 

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Hi.  I have ptsd and I bought the audio imagery about Ease Grief.  It’s been a week that I am using it and... i don’t know what’s going on, I keep crying and I feel a lot of anxiety.  I don’t have the possibility to see a therapist here in Hawaii, I looked but no expert in the matter.  I don’t know, I just feel like my feelings are all messed up and I can’t control the cry.  Is this normal?

E.

The most viral answer to any question I’ve ever offered - it’s been all over the internet several times over in the past few years - was the answer I gave to “Why do nice girls fall for bad boys?”.
 
I answered this in my erstwhile capacity as special mental health professional advisor to that plucky superhero, Breakup Girl (“When it’s over, she’ll be right over”), created by the ingenious Lynn Harris. I was reminded of my old gig when I began working on the new CD for heartbreak, abandonment and betrayal.

I suspect one reason this was such a popular Q and A was the way Lynn so brilliantly translated my hypotheses into her own dazzling, zippy, GenX prose.  Here it is, one more time.  Breakup Girl writes:

Dear Belleruth,

My wife was diagnosed with PD 14 years ago.  For a long while before that we thought she was depressed.  Now we know it was probably the beginnings of the Parkinsons.  Our kids don’t live in town.  I am her main care partner and do what I can to encourage and support her.  I bring her to support group meetings when she’s willing to go.  Sometimes I go without her anyway, because it helps me either way.

I’m extremely frustrated at the way she resists suggestions for help.  I’ve brought home books, nutritional supplements, suggestions for physical therapy, chair yoga videos and, yes, even your guided imagery for PD.  She mostly acts like a rebellious teenager or a passive resister.  This has caused tension in the home and a lot of anger inside me.

I just don’t understand her attitude.  When I had open heart surgery years ago, I fought hard to get well again, in spite of pain, weakness and depression.  I tried all kinds of life style changes, many of which I still do today.  I know this sounds foolish, but what can I do? Why can’t she be more like me? 

John (who loves but wants to strangle his wife)

Belleruth,
I work as a therapist at an Army hospital on a military base, treating soldiers who have combat stress. I use your CDs regularly and through the years have loaned them out....much of the time they don't find their way back to me. 

Your work is copyrighted.  Do you ever offer professional discounts or discounts for large orders?  Many thanks for all the good work you do in healing.

J. F., LCSW