Below The Surface: Hypnotherapy For Endometriosis and Adenomyosis

Free clinical hypnotherapy for the conversations that follow the pain — the next medical appointment, the partner who doesn’t fully understand, the phone call you’ve been postponing. Episode 9 of Below the Surface uses two established clinical techniques — ego strengthening and covert rehearsal — to build a steadier inner voice for advocating with doctors, partners, employers, and family. The sess...

Glove anaesthesia is one of the oldest hypnotic techniques. James Esdaile used it for surgical anaesthesia in the 1840s and 50s in Calcutta — performing hundreds of operations under hypnotic anaesthesia alone, before chemical anaesthesia was widely available. Milton Erickson refined the technique for chronic pain management in the mid-twentieth century. Mark Jensen incorporates it as a core techni...

This is the recording for anger and grief. The anger of being dismissed for years. The grief of the years that pain has taken. The grief of fertility, for some of you. The anger that nothing was named soon enough. This is a different kind of episode. We are not going to try to make the anger smaller. We are not going to reframe it into something more comfortable. Some things are just unjust. The m...

This is the recording for anxiety. Specifically, the anxiety that lives inside chronic pain. The constant body scanning. The watching for the next twinge. The bracing for the next flare. The way the mind cannot rest because it is always one step ahead of the body. When your body has hurt you for years, of course your mind learns to scan it. Of course the nervous system is on high alert. This is no...

This is the recording for fatigue. The bone-deep tiredness of chronic illness. The fatigue that does not lift after sleep, that feels like the body is running on a battery that won't fully charge. This is different from ordinary tiredness. The fatigue of endometriosis and adenomyosis is the inflammatory tax — the body using energy to manage chronic inflammation, chronic pain, an immune system that...

This is the recording for the belly. The visceral pain. The pressure. The bloating that some of you call endo belly. The way the abdomen swells until clothes don't fit, until you look pregnant by evening even though you ate the same as yesterday. What is happening in your belly is not laziness or eating wrong. It is inflammation. The gut and the pelvic organs share nerve pathways. When one is infl...

Period pain that stops you functioning is not just bad periods. It has never been just bad periods. Your body is doing something real. The technique you are going to learn tonight is called sensory substitution. It is one of the core techniques in Jensen's clinical hypnosis protocol. We are not going to try to silence the cramping. We are going to imagine, in the same place, a different sensation...

This is the recording for a pelvic pain flare. Use this when the pain is loud — the sharp, drawing, deep-down ache of an endo or adeno flare. The technique you are going to learn tonight is called the pain dial. It is drawn from the protocol developed by Mark Jensen at the University of Washington for the clinical hypnotic treatment of chronic pain. The dial gives the brain something to do with th...

Welcome to Below the Surface — a hypnotherapy series for women living with endometriosis and adenomyosis. If you've found your way here, you've probably been carrying pain for a long time. Maybe it took years to get a diagnosis. Maybe you still don't have one. Maybe you've been told it was anxiety, or stress, or just bad periods. This series exists because the gap between what these conditions do...