Hannibal,S. – Beyond Reason

Presented by Susan Hannibal
Holistic Trauma Expert
www.SueHannibal.com
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According to psychiatrist Judith Herman,
author of Trauma and Recovery, helplessness
and overwhelm are precursors of panic,
phobias and anxiety in trauma survivors.
According to the ACE Study, Adverse
Childhood Experiences, early trauma triggers
changes in the brain and body that form the
roots of emotional and physical illness. See
www.acestoohigh.org
www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/acestudy/
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There are dozens of issues that conventional
education and training do not address and for
which conventional techniques are ineffective.
For example, alternate and non-verbal states
of consciousness: past life, womb, birth,
infancy, dissociation, DID.
Shock trauma such as complex PTSD from
war or growing up in a warzone at home,
produces deeply imprinted trauma and may
include dissociation. See ACE Study on your
EDIT Chart.
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3 kinds of panic attacks: cued, (direct trigger)
uncued, (no known trigger) and situationally
triggered (a combination.) Phobias follow a
similar pattern.
A combat vet panics when hearing Spanish.
An incest survivor has phobia and panic on an
airplane.
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Trace the energetic signature.
Look for a pattern of CAUSE and EFFECT.
Repetition or re-enactment patterns, links,
triggers, connections, ask client “what or
who does this remind you of?”
Find the symbolic common denominators.
Detach from literal interpretations, engage
metaphorical interpretations.
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Trace the energetic signature backwards:
X +A=B
Step 1: presenting symptom is B (present time)
Step 2: Engage metaphor diagnosis: What sort of
trauma could cause that? (cause and effect)
Step 3: Ask client re: presenting symptoms or
issue—”What or who does this remind you of?”
Find the missing diagnostic link.
There is one page of metaphors in your handout
and four additional pages on the CD.
Take brief physical history, correlate to EDIT.
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2nd chakra through 5th: “Get off my back.”
criticized, unsupported, betrayed, carrying
others problems on your back. Lower back:
money issues ($ is fundamental support and
survival.) Betrayed, stabbed in the back. Fear,
anxiety, distrust, “I can’t turn my back on
him.” “Back off!” Carrying the weight of
problems on your back or shoulders. Backed
into a corner, back up against the wall. Can
also be grief, in back heart chakra.
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According to the ACE Study, unhealed trauma
can cause life-threatening disease in
adulthood. Always diagnose and treat actual
or perceived threats to survival. Panic is a
feeling that one is dying. If the hidden root of
panic is a dissociated survival issue, i.e., birth
trauma, treating other issues will be
incomplete or ineffective unless the
dissociated issue is treated. See EDIT chart
root chakra, survival, and ACE triangle.
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problem is not what’s
wrong with you, it’s what
happened to you.”
 Ask them: “What or who does
this remind you of ?” (If they
don’t know, then engage
symbolic sight and look for X;
dissociated or pre-verbal.
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Zack: presenting symptom, eczema on hands,
cause: emotional abuse and sibling bullying.
Army Major Jill, RN: snake phobia, cause: fear
of rape by troops in Afghanistan.
Molly: claustrophobia in open MRI, cause:
date rape in a car 40 years prior.
Nancy: phobia of flying, cause: sexual abuse
age 7.
Bill: psoriasis, cause: alcoholic, abusive
parents (case history with EDIT treatment on
the CD).
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Army officer, age 45, 2008: eight years of
uncued panic attacks healed in one session
with EDIT Process. Cause: dissociated
traumatic birth.
Engage symbolic sight: his panic ideation:
“I’m suffocating, I’m dying, the whole world is
dying.”
Repetitive dreams: being trapped in small
places, i.e., suitcase, toy box.. a birth canal??
Call your mother…
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Businessman hoards books and files. Metaphor:
he didn’t have the information to prevent the
attack by enemy forces in a past life. Everyone
died.
An RN is allergic to wheat, salt, corn & butter.
Metaphor: “murdered for stealing food from the
children.”
Female age 20 has chronic anxiety rooted in a
hanging execution in what appeared to be the
Dark Ages. Fear of authority figures, crowds,
police, courts, judges, fear of going to prison.
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The body/mind speaks to us in metaphor
language. Dreams are evidence of the
influence of metaphor in the unconscious,
and we’ve seen with the back, how the body
uses metaphors to get our attention.
Learn to listen between the lines to your
clients and you will hear them speak
metaphor. Then bring it to their attention and
connect the dots in their physical and
emotional history.
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To date there are over 60 peer reviewed
published research studies in the field of
Energy Psychology. One study in the Journal
of Nervous and Mental Disease documented
the stunning efficacy and safety of EFT for
combat PTSD. February 2013 - Volume 201 Issue 2 - p 153–160. The APA, American
Psychological Assn. has approved CE for
psychologists for energy psychology training,
joining every other psychotherapeutic
profession, plus RN, L.Ac., D.C. etc.
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1) Bio Sue Hannibal
2) Energy Psychology Research: A Hierarchy of Evidence
3) 5-page list of body/mind metaphors
4) Article: Panic Attacks and Phobias: Three Case Histories and the Hidden Metaphors That Diagnosed
Them
5) Article: Spontaneous Healing with the EDIT Process: Treating Dissociation at the Intersection of Body
and Mind
6) Article: Beyond Reason: Using Metaphor Language to Diagnose the Roots of Phobias, Panic, Complex
PTSD and Dissociation
7) Transcript of 90-minute EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) healing session with Sgt. Joshua, Iraq
PTSD, Fort Bragg, NC April 2009
8) Color copy of the EDIT Chart: Emotional Detox Intuitive Therapy, a new healing paradigm
9) ACE Study Pyramid and 10-question child abuse survey from www.cdc.gov/ace/
10) Book excerpt Parts Psychology by Jay Noricks, Ph.D.
11) Book chapter excerpt with case histories: “The Many Faces of Panic,” from Emotional Detox: True
Stories of Ordinary People Who Found Extraordinary Healing by Sue Hannibal
12) Article “Normal and Abnormal Dissociation”, http://www.partspsychology.org/2008/12/normaland-abnormal-dissociation.html
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If you have a client that is “treatment resistant” I
can do a written intuitive reading on them, with
their consent, that will give you both a healing
blueprint. Readings are usually 1-1.5 pages
single spaced. A 90-minute session done by
phone, ( doesn’t affect accuracy) is $225. A
reading alone, with no interpretation or client
interaction, is $150.
My work with clients is covered under the SB577
law which gives consumers informed consent to
work with unlicensed counselors, healers and
coaches.
Sue Hannibal
Holistic Trauma Expert
[email protected]
www.SueHannibal.com
(760) 420-9897