Welcome! I’m Holly Grace (Talarchyk)
I’m a Certified Hypnotherapist, and also a Certified HypnoBirthing® Educator.
This is the story of my own personal struggle and my journey back to self-empowerment. Maybe you will see some similarities within your own journey…
In my mid-thirties I had a traumatic and devastating experience.
After that experience, my life took a downward spiral. I could no longer function normally. I felt broken. Worthless. I doubted myself every minute of every day. I had so much anxiety over just completing simple tasks. Always overwhelmed.
I was deeply depressed and, yes, even attempted to take my own life. (The fact that I’m still here to tell this story, I believe is divinely guided.) I tried anti-depressants. (I hated them – they didn’t feel “right,” so I stopped taking them.)
I tried conventional counseling and talk therapy. (THAT only made me feel worse every time I remembered/talked about the event over and over during each session.)
I read every self-help book I could get my hands on, listened to meditation after meditation, studied all the Eastern philosophies, and joined multiple spiritual groups, searching for answers.
Anything I thought could help me change and feel better. I wanted to feel good again. Happy to be alive. Confident. Full of energy when I woke up every morning.
And some of that worked – but only for a brief time. Shortly afterward, I would go back to feeling overwhelmed. Worthless. No motivation. With my mind still racing all the time, and moving through life without direction.
Until one day someone mentioned hypnosis to me.
I’d tried everything else I could think of, so I thought, “why not? What’s the worst that could happen… it doesn’t work?” But it DID WORK!
Hypnosis was THE most powerful influence on my journey of empowerment. It helped me completely change my perspective and outlook about life, for the better.
It helped me overcome the trauma, the anxiety, and the depression.
It helped me gain my confidence back, my sense of self-worth, AND my personal power back.
It helped me realize I’m not a victim. That I am in charge of what I think and how I let events, situations, people, and things affect my well-being.
All at the subconscious level. It all runs on auto-pilot in the background every day, allowing me to focus on life in a positive way again.
If you’re still with me, reading this – GREAT! Keep going!
How it Works:
Today I have a much deeper understanding of how our mind and body work together …that our thoughts control how we feel – both emotionally AND physically. If we have strong negative thoughts, those translate into the body responding with negative health, and vise a versa, if we have healthy, positive thoughts, the body responds with good health, as well.
When you constantly think negative thoughts, you get stuck in a loop. And when you’re consciously aware of what you’re thinking – those negative thoughts – just being aware of them is not enough to make a lasting change. Just talking about it over and over is not enough to make a lasting change.
I’ve said repeatedly over the years, “I know I have a million things to do today, but I just can’t get the motivation to go do any of them…”
That’s because the conscious mind is not in the driver seat. The subconscious mind is, and chances are it’s running on old programming it created years ago… possibly from a traumatic experience, or from repetitive social programming, or something different altogether.
Either way, the secret to quick, long-lasting positive change is getting the subconscious to realize it needs to update (change) the old programming to something healthier.
That’s what hypnosis did for me.
My subconscious updated my old programming, old ways of thinking, and old ways of behaving in different situations to much healthier ways of thinking and behaving.
So if any of my struggles and/or journey sounds familiar to you, just know I totally understand what you’re going through. I’ve gone through it myself.
If you’ve tried everything and nothing has worked yet; if you’ve tried to consciously change or think differently, and just can’t get yourself to do it, I’ve been there.
I’m a researcher of information. I like to know how and why things work. So after having hypnosis and noticing the profound, positive changes it made in me, I learned all I could about the mind and how it works. I also studied hypnosis and how (and why) it works so well.
I also realized helping others make profound, positive, lasting changes like I made, is something I wanted to do moving forward. Educating others about how and why hypnosis works so well is also something I’m passionate about. So I became a Certified Hypnotherapist (CHt) in 2020.
More recently I became a Certified HypnoBirthing® Educator to help pregnant women deliver their babies in the most comfortable and natural way. (Because let’s be real… having a baby can be a scary thought! But it doesn’t have to be. Hypnosis helps with that, too!)
Other things I learned/studied along the way:
I’m certified in NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming).
I also became a Certified Life Coach.
I learned Usui Reiki & how to tap into my intuition.
I earned certifications in Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique (QHHT) and Beyond Quantum Healing (BQH) – two spiritual types of hypnosis that include past life regression.
Why I do this for a living, now:
When working with clients, seeing the moment of realization that a positive change HAS occurred within them really makes me happy. Knowing I helped another human being overcome their struggle and will go on to live a much better life, is what I strive for. Also, finding out a mother gave birth at home and/or without any interventions such as medications, after learning the HypnoBirthing® method, makes my heart melt!
There IS a solution to changing all the negative thoughts, all the worry and “what-if’s,” the fear, the addictions. Whatever you’re struggling with.
And if you’re STILL with me – GREAT!! This means hypnosis might be right for you.
Here is what I specialize in:
I work with people who are ready to make positive, profound, permanent changes in their lives.
The types of issues I help my clients change are:
*Trauma and PTSD relief
*Anxiety and worry (overthinking, overwhelm, etc)
*Confidence and self-worth/self-trust
*Depression
*Drug and alcohol dependence relief
*And of course, Giving birth comfortably and naturally
I have experienced many of these very same issues myself, and have overcome them through the use of hypnosis, so I know what my clients are experiencing both before starting sessions, and afterwards. I’ve experienced the profound positive changes myself.
While each person’s journey is unique, it is always much easier when you have someone along side of you. As a hypnotherapist and life coach I have assisted many on their journey of self-empowerment and transformation through providing a safe, nonjudgmental space.
If you’re ready to actively make profound positive changes in your life today, I am ready to help you.