Laurie James
Welcome to Confessions of a Freebird podcast. I'm your host, Laurie James. A mother, divorcee, a recovering caregiver, the author of Sandwiched A Memoir of Holding On and Letting Go, a therapy junkie, relationship coach, somatic healer, and now podcaster. I'm a free spirit and here to lift you up. On this podcast, I'll share soulful confessions, and empowering conversations with influential experts so you can learn to spread your wings and make the most of your second half. So pop in those earbuds, turn up the volume, and let's get inspired because my mission is to help you create your most joyful, purpose driven life. One confession at a time.
Laurie James
Hello there Freebirds. Thank you so much for being with me, today. And I have to say you are all in for a treat today. And I have to confess that I am super interested in the topic. And I love that that my guest today reached out to me so that we can discuss this. So my guest today is Christina Woods, and she is a clinical hypnotherapist, a rapid transformational therapist empowerment coach and Reiki Master. She combines her background in corporate leadership along with her life experiences in dealing with trauma and abandonment, to empower other women to trust their intuition and set themselves free of self-doubt. As a CEO and founder Christina has expertise working on complex challenges and pulling potential out of others so that they can become self reliant individuals through deep hypnotherapy. So welcome, Christina, thank you so much for being here.
Christina Woods
Thank you, Laurie. I'm really happy to be here excited.
Laurie James
Yes. I love, love, love what you're doing. Can you tell our listeners a little bit more about how you got into this field of coaching hypnotherapy and being coming a Reiki Master after being in the corporate world for so many years?
Christina Woods
Yeah, this is absolutely my second gig, if you will. So as I was approaching fifty, like many people do, I found myself having a meltdown in many areas of my life. So my twenty something year marriage was falling apart, my body was definitely falling apart, I was stressed out to the max. And I'll even back up a little further. I was the oldest of four. And in a very chaotic youth, some trauma that I experienced. And my way of dealing with that was being a perfectionist and over achiever, get good grades, do what you're supposed to do. And check all those boxes, and everything is supposed to be okay, so I did that.
Christina Woods
And obviously, everything wasn't okay, because all my validation came from the outside. And as I was approaching 50, the corporate life, the big fat paycheck, the perfect, quote and quote, perfect marriage and the two kids and a dog. It wasn't perfect, because I wasn't dealing with what I needed to on the inside. So as I found myself divorced, and my kids going away to college, and here I am with the dog and lots of autoimmune diseases. I just really felt like, gosh, I have all this experience, but I'm not happy. Why am I not happy? And I felt so guilty. So I knew I had to go inside.
Christina Woods
And I started a really deep dive into why do I always feel this way or do these things and it was through that process, that I started to really heal some wounds inside and not to use that word, but heal parts of me that I had never paid attention to. And from that really grew a part of me that wanted to connect more deeply with other women people and use all that great experience I had, and just deeply connect with people who I know have felt the way that I did.
Christina Woods
And I came across hypnotherapy when I was really struggling with some health issues. And I was blown away because my kids thought, oh my gosh, Mom, you're gonna be like the guy at the Orange County Fair, who makes people act like a chicken or something. And I had no idea how quick and effective and incredible it was. And it was my own experience. I wanted to combine coaching and some other tools and I was just fascinated.
Christina Woods
And I thought boy, there's so many myths about it, but it gets to the root so quickly and I think we deserve this awareness of these other tools that are out there. Therapy's great. I do it. But also, there's these ways that we can get to the root. And that's what I do is I help people get to the root. So now I get to use all these tools, energy healing, as well, as a Reiki Master, and the courage I had through the healing to take a leap and leave that paycheck and benefits. And here you go.
Christina Woods
And now you're on your own. But can you imagine yourself back in the corporate world or doing anything other than what you're doing now?
Christina Woods
No. I mean, really, that I feel like a different person and a different life. Because as many wonderful things that happened in that I learned, my inner voices were I need to be the person they can call it 10pm and say, I need to report first thing in the morning. I was always in that fight or flight mode constantly. What if this job goes away, my entire life is going to collapse. And when you're constantly in that mode, boy, my nervous system was literally fried.
Laurie James
Oh, yeah. I couldn't relate to that fried nervous system. And like you, my listeners know, I had a lot of health issues, too. It was after I left my marriage, and I went down really hard. And if any of my friends are listening, thank you again, because I had to rely on my friends to pick me up and to literally feed me and I couldn't drive. I couldn't do anything for a solid two weeks, and it was in the hospital twice. I get that fried. And that's what it felt like. It felt like my nervous system has blown a fuse and I was fried.
Christina Woods
Yeah. And even through that process, even healing and leaving corporate when I found my youngest son leaving. So I thought I knew what it felt like to have my kids leave. And I had even started to leave corporate. But when my second son left, I had another sort of little nervous system explosion, and I started to get vertigo. And I really had this internal battle with who am I now. And I had to go even deeper. And hypnosis really helped me but also just all the tools to calm my nervous system, because I was triggered right back into being a child out of control so many things, but my identity of who are you if you're not running to the store, buying snacks, and doing these things? So yeah, those things are real in my nervous system, and our bodies. They're really trying to keep us safe and do what they believe is best. And so once I had a lot more compassion for these parts, I really value being able to share that with other people. And we don't need to get mad at these parts of us. We just need to understand them more and learn what we can do about it.
Laurie James
Yeah, so I want to jump into the hypnosis piece. But I want to stop here for a second. So in your opinion, and I'm in total agreement with you of because we are so hard on ourselves. And I can remember being hard on myself about why is this happening to me or feeling less than in various stages. But how can we love, in your opinion, based off of your experience, and your training, love ourselves more when we are going through something so horrific or something, we've had this traumatic experience or our bodies are starting to shut down. Because as we know, our bodies keep the score. And we don't listen to our bodies. And I think you and I both have learned through different training modalities that's important.
Christina Woods
Yeah, I think even just a basic explanation to understand that this is just a part of us. It's not all of us, and just this part of us. And when we understand our mind really is only doing what it believes is best to keep us safe and alive. And when I understood and learned that my mind doesn't care if it's right or wrong or good or bad. It doesn't care. It only cares if it believes it's going to keep me alive and keep me safe. And it's, wait what? Is it procrastinating doing that project or that anxiety keeping me inside the house not going out? If it believes that's best, that's what it's going to do.
Christina Woods
So just even understanding it's not all of me. It's only a part of you. And then being able to really listen to the words that we say to ourselves and just having more compassion and the words we use because if we just kind of dial into what words are we saying to ourselves, just dialing in In that awareness, boy, we start to really hear some of those harsh, critical words that we say. And our mind responds to those words. And it believes every word that we say, again, whether it's true or not, it's responding to those words.
Laurie James
And then we hold that in our bodies. And the other point along that, that I often say, but I'm gonna say it again, is our amygdala, our brains, if we've had a traumatic experience in our childhood, let's just take abandonment, if we had a parent that we felt abandoned by, our brains do not know past from present. So if it's happened in the past, and then it's happening now. And if we can understand that part of us, and understand oh, and from an observation standpoint, this is my amygdala, this is my brain. It doesn't know past from present and connecting that this is related to when x happened when I was a child, then that's the first step in that awareness of okay, yes, I'm feeling triggered, yes, I'm beating myself up or whatever it is. But can we take a step back and observe with compassion?
Christina Woods
Yeah, when I learned ourselves all the work that Joe Dispenza does, and ourselves, Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself, when I read that book, and I just had healers and therapists share with me how our cells are addicted to emotions and the chemicals. I actually was so relieved. And another clients feel that way too, because you feel like, okay, there's an explanation that my body keeps being pulled back to that experience and that emotion. And yes, we can retrain and reprogram ourselves. And actually, I don't think people realize with hypnotherapy so much our mind and body are so connected.
Christina Woods
That's why so many people, you know, will talk about this, but so many people will come to me for physical issues, and medical issues. Obviously, I'm not a doctor, I still want you to go to your doctor. But why? Why does it work? Because our mind and our body we're speaking and communicating with ourselves and helping them feel. And really, we're just so powerful when we change our thoughts. And we can influence the chemicals in our body.
Laurie James
And that relationship with the mind body. And I know, I haven't always listened to my body. But I do so now. But the majority of our society lives from the neck up. So that's super key as we are healing is to develop that mind body relationship. So can you tell us what hypnosis is exactly? Because I don't know that I like, I've seen it in the movies. But I've never had hypnosis. I have friends who have had hypnosis, and they've told me about their experience. So I'm curious.
Christina Woods
Yeah. So a good little image to have is that good old picture of an iceberg where a little bit is above the water, but 95% is below the water. And we have a conscious mind in a subconscious mind. And so our subconscious is 95% of our mind. It's below the water. So our logical mind, which you say is this above the neck, our logical mind is only the 5%. Yeah, and we need it. It's great. It's great to have the analytical mind, the black and white, the critical mind, but 95% underwater, our subconscious mind, which is also our body, our auto pilot, we just breathe, we just do these things. We just drive home from the grocery store and don't remember how we got home or we're on the phone, we're thinking about dinner, we just do it. Our autopilot also is our autopilot for our beliefs.
Christina Woods
So our emotions are in our subconscious. So in hypnotherapy, we have a place in our consciousness in our subconscious, where we're just very open to suggestions, the power of suggestions. So in hypnosis, what we do, which is a very natural state, by the way, we are able to quiet the critical analytical chitty chat mind. And we go into the subconscious mind, which is these delta theta brainwaves, which is where we go and we daydream or when you kind of started to fall asleep. Or you can hear the TV but your eyes are starting to get droopy. You hear someone talking, but not really. In Shabbat, sauna, and yoga. And your taking that Zen state.
Christina Woods
Yes, exactly. So it's natural to go there. This isn't a weird place to go. We do it all the time or you're doing dishes and someone's talking to you and you have no idea what they're talking about because you're somewhere else. So we go here all the time. So in hypnosis, we're just using a technique to have to help you get there. So we can quiet the conscious mind the stuff that's bossing you around. Yeah, the chatter and find out what is the root cause and reason for, I'll say, some this self sabotage, or this overspending, or this belief that there's no good men out there, or that you're just not one of those people that will ever be thin or have a healthy body or money's just not for people in your family, or whatever it might be that belief might be, I'm not good enough.
Christina Woods
So we go there. And we find out when and where, how, and why a very belief started to be planted. And since you're open to suggestions in this state, you're also open to not that great suggestions. But you're also open to great suggestions. So we're able to find out the root cause. And then we can change that by giving you better suggestions. But we need to find out the root because if you don't, you can just go on the Google some affirmations. Give yourself some affirmations. But you're not finding out the root of why you have that belief.
Christina Woods
So we really need to find out why you have a belief why it was formed, because everything is the only the meaning we attach to something. So I don't know about you. But when I go see my siblings, I have three others, we talk about a holiday or a vacation. And we all have something different to say, what are you talking about? That was not fun? Mine was terrible that day or whatever?
Christina Woods
Three different experiences? Yes.
Christina Woods
Or my own kids will say and I'll say wasn't that great? No, that was terrible. Mom, you were in a bad mood. Wait, what? So it's the meaning we attach that all is the only thing that matters. So we find out what it was the meaning you attached. Because some people will feel guilty like I had a great childhood. I shouldn't feel this way. It doesn't mean you didn't it means what is the meaning you attached? When your mom kept picking you up late from soccer practice? Yes, we know she had three jobs, but also maybe the belief of seven years old was that she might have loved her brother more. And it was through the lens of a seven year old. So that belief is there. It gets shut in your subconscious. Now you're 45. And you have that belief still.
Christina Woods
And it shows up in your adult relationships.
Christina Woods
It sure does. So the belief you're open to suggestions in hypnosis, you get an audio recording that you listen to every day for either 21 days, even 45 or 60 days to rewire and reprogram in a new belief.
Laurie James
I guess it would depend on what they're working through. But is one session enough typically for clients? Or do you typically need to have three, four or five? How does that work?
Christina Woods
One session can make a difference. But typically, yes, it's two, three sessions, which isn't very many. When you think about how many sessions sometimes you'll see your doctor for something or therapy. So yes, one session, it very much depends on something. But you know, when we have a belief for our entire life, the mind wants to resist anything that's unfamiliar, even if it's a good thing.
Laurie James
Say that one more time. Because I want the listeners to hear that.
Christina Woods
Yeah, the mind wants to stay with what's familiar and reject what's unfamiliar. Even if it's good. What do you thinking, you're trying to love yourself, or put yourself out there that could be scary, dangerous, you might get hurt rejected so many things. So we're trying to make a new belief familiar, we really literally need to let your entire body feel safe with it. So it's not just you can't logic yourself out of this. You can't say duh, obviously.
Laurie James
That's why, in my opinion, and I think a lot of people, that's why talk therapy is good. But it only takes you so far.
Christina Woods
Right. And I find the most common thing when people will reach out to me in the beginning they'll say is, I don't know why this makes no sense. This is so annoying. Why I still feel this way. Or why I still eat cookies in the middle of night or I do this or do that makes no sense. I should know better. And the sabotage or the self critical voice starts really getting loud because they're trying to fix something with logic and 95% is your emotions will always trump logic. Your subconscious is a million times more powerful than your conscious mind. So if you're going to make any change in your life, make it from your subconscious mind.
Laurie James
Yeah, period. Yeah, absolutely. So what would you say to someone who is sitting here listening to this and like you now I'm still a little skeptical about hypnosis like I've seen stuff on movies, and I'm not sure I believe in it. What do you want to say to them?
Christina Woods
I think everyone is afraid that they will be out of control. They're going to be put in a trance and not having brainwash.
Christina Woods
I don't think anyone would sign up for that. I know, I wouldn't sign up for that. So I assure you, you're not taken over. You are powerful. Each and every one of us is powerful. I didn't create this. You have your own subconscious mind. And so you get to decide, do you want to remove the limiting beliefs? They aren't even true. A woman that created RTT hypnotherapy, wrote a book called tell yourself a better lie. If you're gonna believe something that's not even true. Just tell yourself a better lie. It's not the truth about you. So find out why you have it.
Laurie James
Well, In Michael Singer, if you know him. He's a dual spiritual healer. In his book, The Untethered Soul, he talks about the roommate that's living in your head. It's like, why do you allow that roommate to live in your head? So it's, kick him out or her out and get a new roommate.
Christina Woods
A new roommate. Exactly. So you don't lose control. And everyone can be put into hypnotherapy. That's another big fear. Obviously, if you have anxiety, and some of that there's different techniques and ways in which I can help you relax and ease into it. But as a perfectionist, as someone that doesn't ever want to get anything wrong, I get it. And I don't want to do it wrong, either. So I understand and have a lot of empathy. And I think the universe brings those clients to me, so you know, I'm able to really work with them really well.
Laurie James
And you can relate to him because you were in a similar place. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So how can hypnosis lead to empowerment?
Christina Woods
Well, when you have a voice inside that, which is frankly, an epidemic, that I'm not enough, or I'm not worthy, or lovable, I mean, the most common beliefs are I'm not enough, I'm unlovable, or something's not available to me. Yeah. So when you just have this shut down, like that is not available to me, then, really, that's the core of all your actions and the events in your life. So through change the core belief that you are enough, and you are worthy, and you're lovable, and you are open to these things, you feel safe, that's empowerment from the inside out. That is people might come to me for they want a relationship, or they want to grow their savings account, or they want to lose weight, but it is absolutely the little pebble and it just ripples out into all areas. Yeah. Because empowerment, you just feel so much more capable in your life, your relationships improve, because you're changing a core beliefs about yourself. And to me when you start to trust your intuition and your inner voice, that you're enough, and you can trust when something feels right or not. Boy, that's very important.
Laurie James
Yeah. And that is a practice, though. Right to it is, we don't just have one session with Christina and all of a sudden, boom, we feel like we're enough that we can take on the world. Right, right. But it's a stepping stone. Am I wrong on that?
Christina Woods
You're right, I think you can work. And I think that's important is we can do all sorts of things. But if we're not finding those, the root of those voices and the meaning we've attached to things, I think most of my life, I did a lot of spiritual things I thought. And read a lot of books, but I had a core belief I was bad. I'm bad. I'm bad. That's why I spend too much money. That's why I boss my husband around that's why I do these bad yell at my kids. I'm just bad. But when I really got to the core belief, it was because of some trauma that I believed as a little kid was my fault. I'm not bad.
Laurie James
You were in that instance, maybe you were told you were bad because you did something quote and quote, wrong. And then you carried that in and then you overcompensated by trying to be perfect. So that way you wouldn't be bad.
Christina Woods
Right. Because as a child, I could not put that on my, the adults around me because obviously I needed them to take care of me so I internalized it must be my fault. But I needed really to understand that to not quote and quote label myself bad before so once I did that, then I it start to say, oh, this voice inside yes, I can trust that voice. But everything else was a bandaid until then. But once you understand your intuition, and it is a practice, it's a daily practice. So of course, I doubt myself still. But now when I doubt myself, I'm able to rein back in and pivot and say, wait a second, this is me comparing myself to everyone else, or the shoulds out there that I should do. I'm not listening to what feels in alignment.
Laurie James
Yeah, beautifully said. And I think that's a daily practice for a lot of us because all of us are going to have good days, where we feel like we're on top of the world. And because we got whatever, three new clients or you got more people into your program than you expected, or whatever it is, or you feel like you're making a difference, or somebody, like this morning, my neighbor came up to me, she said, Laurie, I bought your book six months ago, and I finally read it, and I read it in a day. So she's like, thank you, I am going through what you went through on so many levels. And I just want to thank you for writing that.
Laurie James
And just that alone was like, okay, and not that I needed that outside validation for what I did. But it was just a reminder of yes, I'm on my right path, my intuition to write that book, so I could reach people to make sure because that was my goal is so other people wouldn't feel alone. It's just another reminder of yeah, even though I knew, and I followed that intuition, this was the universe, or God saying, yeah, just letting you know that you did the right thing. And when you have that belief, our minds goal is to find evidence to support the belief. But it goes the opposite. When we have a negative negative out. We find lots of it. Lots of no and it's so easy. Our brain loves to go to the negative. It's oh, my God, danger there. See, I knew it. So does hypnotherapy help to train you to find the positive evidence?
Christina Woods
Absolutely. So I mean, even a powerful line in hypnosis audio is, your mind is like a heat seeking missile finding evidence every day, just support this belief, these words are having a powerful, so the more visual and powerful our mind responds to images and words. So you know, the way we talk to ourself, is not just the silly thing, we say, our mind is literally listening and believing everything we tell it, I'm just not a morning person, this traffic's gonna kill me. Okay, then maybe you need to stay in bed for three days with a migraine or you don't really want to go to that meeting. So really, giving your mind this, this doesn't feel good a little bit to be on the freeway. But once I get home, I'll be able to take a nice warm bath, and be able to have a calming cup of tea and really enjoy my time at home. So it's really how do we talk to ourselves. The images we give our mind, you know.
Laurie James
Yeah, so true. This ties into coaching, too, and finding evidence of the opposite and all of that, but I think the hypnotherapy takes it to a whole different level. How does hypnotherapy fit into, in your opinion, somebody's healing journey, if somebody's just going, they found themselves in a very difficult situation, whatever it is a pivotal moment. We don't get to midlife without them. And if you do, you're probably lying to yourself. But let's say somebody's listening is in a pivotal moment in their life around something. What would you say to that person? And how does hypnotherapy play into their healing journey?
Christina Woods
I don't think that we're getting triggered not for the first time. And I think sometimes we think that thing happened, it was just that thing. That's how it manifested. In our journey, hypnotherapy is able to really just, it's very simple. It's very natural. It's very simple. And it's just a very calming, simple way of cutting right to the truth. And just asking your mind, your mind knows exactly when and where these beliefs started to happen that created that trigger in that moment where you're responding in that way, or you're reacting because we're all going to have people that aren't nice or situations that don't work out or things that happen. And why do some of us respond a certain way or others and it's these internal voices these internal parts.
Christina Woods
And there's nothing wrong with us that has these parts that feel a certain way. But once we can identify them, then we can have a relationship with these parts. So, in hypnotherapy, we get to go in and find out. Alright, who are these parts? And what do they need? And if it's your inner child or an inner archetype, what is it? And like you said earlier within who's on the opposite, because what I find if we're having a conflict in hypnotherapy, we can find out, we're having this inner child here, but you're also having your C.E.O boss over here, who's attacking your inner child and your inner child feels like they don't have a voice. And guess what? Both are trying to show up to solve this problem. And your mind cannot accept conflicting beliefs. They cancel each other out. So you're sabotaging yourself.
Christina Woods
So you're able in hypnosis to go through and really see the parts. And when you quiet your critical mind and hypnosis, you look at something like you're watching TV with fascination, and clients say, oh, wow, that's why I feel that way. Oh, my gosh, that makes sense. Okay, yes. Now, I can love that little part of me so much better. And then we upgrade those parts and change them. But you can't sit down and just explain it to someone, they got to see it for themselves. And it's so it just keeps it very simple and easy. And I'm not the one who puts the puzzle together the clients will do and I'll say, wow, I never would have even come up with that belief for you. Or I didn't see that. And I don't need, too. A client needs to put their parts together.
Laurie James
Yeah, that's the beautiful thing about coaching, too, is we are the guide, I always talk about being the passenger in the car. They're the driver, we're just the passenger. And sometimes were just the guide and maybe help navigate a little bit. They're driving the car. And can hypnosis help heal generational trauma, or past lives? Do you get into that at all too with your hypnosis?
Christina Woods
I do. I do almost every day. So a big component of what I do is work with spiritually open women and people. And at some point it past life regression, we sort of move in and out experiences in this life or another life. And it really ends up being it doesn't really matter what life it is but absolutely. So if that's someone's belief, what we find in hypnosis is that many times we will carry trauma or beliefs that weren't completed in one life. And they continue on. So we're able to heal those. And it's absolutely fascinating. It's incredibly healing. And we're able to do it very quickly. And I'm also a medical intuitive therapist, which is a method of hypnotherapy that really does some deep work and an energy healer. So we're able to move and clear energy, all combined together, making it really powerful.
Laurie James
Love that. Love that. I'm always fascinated about different modalities, because different things work for different people and different things speak to different people. And I've done a variety of stuff through my spiritual and healing journey over the last 10 plus years. This is all fascinating to me. So thank you so much for sharing this information. As we come to a close here, what's one confession that you'd like to share with our listeners and a takeaway or something you've learned from this experience that maybe we haven't talked about already.
Christina Woods
Yeah, I want people to know that I still do a session a week, I have a healing session, at least a week. And I just share that because I think people sometimes think, three months and wham, that's it. That's all you're going to need. And I don't say that to make people think they have to do it forever. For me, that's what works for me. It keeps me in alignment and feeling good and empowered. And some clients I've shared that with were surprised and I find it very empowering. I find I continually just give myself tools and compassion by doing it. But I have a talk therapist, I have an energy healer, and I just pick and choose whatever feels right to go to. And that's fine.
Christina Woods
I do hypnotherapy, I do other things, I do EMDR, I've done all those things, and they're all wonderful. And they do different things. So you find what works for you. So that's my confession as I'm doing something. Every week I had trauma and my nervous system is constantly needing to be regulated and my soul needs to be constantly reminded. And that's what I do for myself and it works.
Laurie James
And that's self care. That's emotional and spiritual self care right there. And took a long time to learn that now we grew up in a generation that basically told us to take care of yourself. And the message that I heard I don't know about you, but like, I had to take care of myself. There's always a lot of people there to take care of me growing up. Yes, all my basic needs were taken care of and I had a roof over my house, and we did some really fun stuff. But emotionally, there wasn't a lot of emotional care happening in my house.
Christina Woods
Oh, no, it was suck it up, buttercup. This is the way it goes.
Laurie James
Or stop crying or I'll give you something to cry about. Italian mom, single mom of four. I got that. Single mom. Oh, wow.
Christina Woods
Yeah. So I understand that. And so I had to learn those things. And I used to judge myself, like, when are you going to be done healing. And now I don't judge myself with that. I think it's a luxury I get to give myself and I want to always keep doing that for now. Maybe in six months, I'll decide I don't want to do that. But when I share that with some people or clients, I see the surprise in their face. So I just want to share that with maybe some of your listeners who think maybe they should be healed by now that you do whatever feels right
Laurie James
for you. And it's okay to also take a break if you take a break, and then you can come back to it. But I always hated I say this often. And I owe to myself, to my listeners and to friends. It's a journey. Goddamnit it's not a destination.
Christina Woods
Exactly, exactly. And yeah, and I've taken breaks, and I feel like yoga would cut it. And then I'm like, Wait, this isn't cutting it. I gotta go back and do something else.
Laurie James
And that's going back to that intuitive place to have listening and honoring what you need, intuitively what our bodies and are telling us that we need and honoring that without the self judgment, without that negative critical thoughts and messages.
Christina Woods
Yeah, without comparing yourself with the neighbors and somebody else tells you.
Laurie James
Yeah, because everybody's different. And it's like, why are you still doing that? So thank you, Christina, for all this wonderful information. How can people find you? And if somebody did want to work with you? Do you have something coming up that you want to share?
Christina Woods
Sure, sure. So the best way to find me is my website, which is Christina with a ch. christinalwoods.com and I have a free download on there a hypno meditation if anyone wants to try that. But I'm actually part of a big nonprofit right now, a self-care summit, which all the money goes towards helping survivors of human trafficking. And the nonprofit helps them after they've been rescued with holistic self-care techniques and tools. It's on my website. And it's just, it's really a beautiful. I'm one of over 30 teachers teaching different self-care techniques and tools. So that's on my website and on some of my social media that people can find. And if you buy a ticket, they have access all years so.
Laurie James
Wonderful. I love that you're combining your spiritual and healing journey with giving back and because that's dear to my heart, too. Thank you so much, Christina, for being here, and I look forward to staying connected with you.
Christina Woods
Likewise. Thank you so much, Laurie.
Laurie James
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