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Hypnotherapy for Insomnia: How to Retrain Your Brain and Finally Sleep Deeply (Plus Client Success Story)
If you’ve ever found yourself lying in bed, exhausted but wide awake, you know how frustrating insomnia can be. You try deep breathing, herbal tea, even meditating before bed—but your body still won’t relax. Your mind races, your chest feels tight, and no matter how tired you are, you can’t drift off—or you wake up in the middle of the night and can’t get back to sleep. Here’s the truth that most people don’t realize: insomnia isn’t just a sleep problem—it’s a nervous system

Katie Potratz
8 min read


Why Talking About Trauma Isn’t Enough and Why Hypnotherapy is Different
You’ve read the books. You’ve journaled for hours. Maybe you’ve spent years in therapy, uncovering patterns and connecting the dots of your past — yet somehow, you still feel unsafe, anxious, or reactive. You understand your trauma logically, but your body doesn’t seem to get the memo. If that sounds familiar, you’re not broken or “resistant” to healing — you’re just missing one crucial step: working with the parts of your mind and body where trauma actually lives. Because t

Katie Potratz
5 min read


How Nervous System Regulation Can Alleviate Chronic Anxiety
Chronic anxiety isn’t just a mindset—it’s a full-body experience. If you constantly feel on edge, struggle to relax, or feel like your mind is racing no matter what you do, your nervous system might be stuck in survival mode. While talk therapy and medication can offer some relief, they often don’t address a crucial part of the puzzle: nervous system regulation . In this post, we’ll explore how the state of your nervous system affects your anxiety, why regulation is a root-ca

Katie Potratz
4 min read


How to Shift from Passive Patient to Empowered Healer: Rewire Your Brain and Body for Natural Healing
If you've been living with chronic pain, illness, or ongoing symptoms, it's easy to fall into the mindset of waiting —waiting for the right diagnosis, treatment, or specialist to finally fix what feels broken. This is what I call the passive patient identity . It’s not your fault—it’s how our medical system trains us: to outsource our healing, suppress symptoms, and rely on external experts. That the doctors have the answers. That our bodies are unpredictable or broken. That

Katie Potratz
3 min read


3 Steps to Heal the Effects of Childhood Trauma
It’s that T word nobody wants to talk about. It’s the elephant in the room. Most people would rather run from it for a lifetime than turn around and face it. Yes, I’m talking about your childhood trauma. If you’re anything like me, you want to just pretend it never happened, sweep it under the rug and move on with life. Which is exactly what I did for a huge portion of my life. I thought I was unscathed, like I was “stronger than my trauma”. But the truth is, it was affecting

Katie Potratz
4 min read
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