What Brad Pitt Showed Me About Dirty Laundry

I'm writing to you from rainy-sunny-humid Los Angeles and, per usual, as soon as I got my feet on the ground here, magic started happening.

I know what you're thinking. I ran into Brad Pitt.

I did not.

Sorry to disappoint.

But I'll be working with someone today who's got Brad's number in their phone (they probably holiday together, tbh).

It got me thinking about how I'd introduce myself and talk about what I do should Brad swing by today (it never hurts to be prepared), and what I realized went beyond a simple introduction.

It would go something like this: "Hi Brad, nice to meet you. I loved F1, saw it twice in the theater. I'm Heidi. (And then he'd ask what I do, at which point I'd say...) I help powerful people heal beyond therapy without airing their dirty laundry to anyone."

That was new language to me, the dirty laundry part. But I like it.

As I sat with that image, I remembered that a year or two ago, I had a client who lived across the street from Angelina Jolie. And that made me think about the fact that celebrities have to keep things so close to the vest because their lives are rarely as private as they'd like them to be.

Sure, there are elite-level therapists who work with Hollywood's A-listers who can probably be trusted to keep their mouths shut.

But do you think these A-listers feel completely comfortable and confident to really, truly open up with anyone?

Who would be safe enough to actually share the real stuff with without fearing that it would "get out"?

1) Safety creates space for vulnerability. I have no doubt that therapists can create a safe space.

2) Therapy is a "safer" modality because you're still in control. You're in the conscious state so you can say or not say whatever you want, which means you'll only heal as deep as you are willing to be vulnerable.

3) When you stop outsourcing your healing by becoming both the client and the healer, you stack the deck entirely in your favor.

You're only airing your dirty laundry to yourself. No risk of the unhealed parts you've been keeping in the dark getting out there.

This imaginary conversation Brad and I had was like a little magical miracle of insight delivered on a cloud.

I realized that what I've created in Soul Forward Method is the holy grail for people who want to be free of what they carry but don't want to divulge the pain or shadowy parts of themselves or what's happened in their lives (at all, or again to a new therapist).

They don't want to risk things coming out in a guided plant ceremony session where they lose control of what they might say.

The beauty of SFM is that your healer is your soul, not someone with a wall of certifications like a halo of authority displayed in their office.

It's your soul.

I stopped offering one-on-one hypnotherapy sessions years ago because I know I'll never be able to help you like your soul can.

Everything you need to heal beyond where you've been able to heal with all you've already done is inside Soul Forward Method. It's about as efficient, pure, whole, private, and transformational as it gets in the healing world.

Seven weeks to get through it is nothing.

How many seven-week periods have gone by since you first considered going through this gorgeous work? How long could you have been reunited with your soul if you'd gone through it when you first had that intuitive ping that you wanted to do it?

Your human and your soul are in a tug-of-war for control of the steering wheel of your life. One is living in the limitations of the legacy you inherited. The other is trying to move you into the freedom beyond it.

Who are you letting win?

Why is that your choice?

Leaving you with these prompts to ponder.