How to Deal When the Shit Gets Real Podcast · Rietta Boksha

Conny Wladkowski: Hypnosis and Trauma Healing

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SHINE starts with "safe," then moves to healing, forgiveness, negative beliefs, and empowerment.

Marietta opens with the episode's signature question and gives Connie Zatkowski room to answer it plainly. Connie says the first move is to stop, breathe, and collect her thoughts. When stress spikes, she leans on her own hypnotic tools. The idea is to pause long enough to see the situation more clearly, because things often look less bad once the panic settles. Connie introduces herself as a hypnotherapist, author, and speaker. Anxiety and trauma relief sit at the center of her work. Her specialty is helping people heal from trauma without regression. She says she travels and presents all over the world about that approach. The conversation keeps returning to practical preparation. Connie describes helping a client get ready for a stressful shopping trip by choosing a quieter time and writing down five things to get. That kind of setup matters because it gives people tools before the fear hits. She applies the same logic to public speaking. If someone goes in unprepared, she says, they can leave using that mistake as proof that they are not good at it. She shares that her own first presentation felt hard too. What changed was repetition. Doing the hard thing once is not the same as building confidence. The habit comes from doing it again and again until the fear loses its grip. She extends that same patience to people who are nervous about reaching out for help. A free conversation is still just a conversation, and the person always gets to decide whether to work together.

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Practical trauma talk that keeps panic manageable through simple, repeatable steps.

Marietta's conversation with Connie Zatkowski stays close to one simple idea: when panic or old trauma starts to rise, the next move should be smaller, steadier, and easier to repeat.

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You want trauma talk that stays plainspoken.

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