Today we’d like to introduce you to Valerie Grimes.
Valerie, please share your story with us. How did you get to where you are today?
It was 2001 and my advertising agency was winding down, I had 20 years invested and was stressed out, drinking too much and my 11 year marriage was also winding down. I got a call from Ann of the Dallas Hypnosis Institute who asked me if I could create a brochure for her school. Working with her a learned a lot about repressed emotions and situational triggers. Since I had to opportunity to make a career transition, I attended the school and opened a hypnosis practice in 2002. Four years ago I branded my practice and approach as The Flow Center.
Great, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
Not smooth at all. Mainly because of my own self-defeating beliefs. Beliefs about women in business, money, success, hard work. All from earlier programming. I am happy to say the last 4 years have been smoother, but to say I have “arrived” means I have stopped learning. Those struggles are blessed and transformed into success.
Please tell us about The Flow Center.
As a hypnotist I help clients access their subconscious minds where all of their habits, beliefs, and memories reside. The subconscious is 90% of the way we show up in the world.
I am known for removing the obstacles (self-imposed obstacles) that get in the way of someone’s success, health and/or relationships. Alcohol addiction/dependency is my most popular program. I created that program after using hypnosis to help myself with my own alcohol depending. And I wrote a book about it, it is called, “Licking Honey Off A Razor Blade”.
I am authentic (which sounds unauthentic to say) and that sets me apart. I tell clients the truth, don’t candy coat anything. But I guide them in a nurturing way towards healing.
Hypnosis also helps with anxiety, phobias, smoking, sugar addiction and improving a skill or accessing creativity.
Do you look back particularly fondly on any memories from childhood?
My father teaching me and my sisters how to sail a small sail boat on Cedar Creek Lake, and wandering in the wooded area near our cabin. That is where I realized the importance of nature on how it creates balance in us.
Contact Info:
- Address: 5310 Harvest Hill Rd, #266
Dallas TX 75230 - Website: www.theflowcenter.com
- Phone: 972-974-2094
- Email: valerie@theflowcenter.com
- Instagram: hip_gnosis_dallas
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FlowCenterforHypnosis/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/valerie_grimes
- Other: www.getoffthebooze.com
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