20. Holly Anne Mitchell - the "Tony Robbins of Teeth": Hypnosis for Dentists

<p class="p1">Perhaps my most favorite thing ever is that Holly Anne Mitchell is known as "The Tony Robbins of Teeth." </p> <p class="p1">We'll get to that in a minute.</p> <p class="p1">But before Holly could step into the shoes (err, teeth?) of a 'Tony Robbins' persona, she looked to hypnosis for a very particular personal life challenge that she had her entire life.</p> <p class="p1">She first learned about hypnosis after meditating for the first time and receiving a clear message. She took that message and made some major life changes (ie ending an 8 year relationship & quitting her job due to the realization of burnout) and enrolled herself in a Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) course. </p> <p class="p1">During her time studying NLP, she learned about hypnosis and the Ericksonian method and that is when she <em>really </em>got interested, because...</p> <p class="p1">Holly had a phobia of vomit (also known as emetophobia) and wanted to have children at some point in her life.</p> <p class="p1">In case you don't know much about children: they tend to vomit a lot.</p> <p class="p1" style="text-align: center;"><em>"<span style= "font-weight: 400;">I would faint if I saw a movie, if I was around someone, who's like, I don't feel well. Like my whole nervous system would just go."</span></em></p> <p class="p1">So Holly knew that before she went down the "start a family" route, she needed to take an inner journey to heal this vomit phobia. </p> <p class="p1">And she was cured of her phobia in one hypnosis session. </p> <p class="p1" style="text-align: center;"><em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">"It was like someone opened a door. To a world that I didn't even know was there inside of me. And it was a world where I could change and feel and see and experience anything that I desired. And I just wanted to be a hypnotist. And that's how I got started."</span></em></p> <p class="p1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Holly and I also chatted about how shared past experiences as singers and how that has influenced and