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Rebuilding After the Fire: How NLP Helped Us Survive and Thrive

Rebuilding After the Fire: How NLP Helped Us Survive and Thrive On September 7, 2024, we lost everything. Our home, our belongings—everything we had ever owned except for what fit into a small bag. We escaped with our lives, our pets, three t-shirts, and a pair of jeans. In the days and weeks that followed, we faced one of the most difficult journeys imaginable. And without NLP, I truly believe we wouldn’t have bounced back

Tracy Hoobyar March 26, 2025

Personal Change & Growth

The Kids Were Running My Classroom

Jeb Arcement taught science at a junior high school in Louisiana. The students at Jeb’s school were so tough that, in some years, the school lost a third of its teachers. Some new teachers didn’t even make it to Christmas. They’d get a new principal every 1-3 years. “It was a very toxic situation, to say the least.” “When I started teaching,” Jeb shared, “The kids were running my classroom. It was just awful.” Early

Tom Dotz October 4, 2024

Random Acts Can Change Lives

One of my passions is sailing so among other things I volunteer as a member evaluator with my sailing club. Recently I needed to go sailing with a newer club member whose membership application I had approved about a year ago. It was one of the easiest approvals ever, as born and raised on boats, she was highly competent and a teacher by profession, ticking all the boxes. Out of the blue, I received a

Tom Dotz October 18, 2022

Miss Information Educates Tom

“It ain’t what you don’t know. It’s what you know that ain’t so.” -Yogi Berra A foundational principle in NLP is the importance of information gathering. Frequently simply getting accurate information is enough to cause a behavior change. In NLP one precise approach is called a “Double description”. Double description means exactly what it sounds like. It means getting a thorough and detailed description from 2 different points of view, ideally from two different perspectives

Tom Dotz August 18, 2022

The Magic of Metaphor

Magical Metaphors Stories for Change Metaphors are one of the coolest and most flexible ways to use NLP. An NLP metaphor is simple a story with embedded NLP processes of suggestions for change. Metaphors or stories (like some of those you’ve read here) are a simple way to use NLP with others, in groups, and with your self. Stores that are seemingly simple can include profound suggestions for change. Embedding the process in a story

Tom Dotz July 19, 2022

There’s Always An Alternative

When NLP started practitioners usually only got to work with friends, college students, and really tough situations. Friends because they’re around, and tough challenges because the established practitioners, whatever the field, will usually only give up the ones they’ve given up on. Oh, and college students because they’re available, work cheap, and will follow almost any instructions if you say “it’s a scientific study.” Ever wonder to what extent our understanding of humans has been

Tom Dotz July 19, 2022

Beginning NLP

What hidden beliefs do you have?

Have you ever had that moment when you say something with very little purpose, just part of a story, and all of a sudden it hits you…a hidden limiting belief you have and when you got it? Something you had no idea you ever believed, you never consciously thought about it, but when you heard yourself speaking you realized that slippery little bugger had embedded itself without you ever knowing? Geez…that just happened to me

Tracy Hoobyar May 17, 2022

Beginning NLP

How do you create your feelings?

Have you ever gone to traditional therapy? I’m talking about a therapist that is trained in traditional behavior change, without and current or new modalities to pull from. When I was 15 I went through a rather difficult phase in life. Well, I should be more clear. My 15 was particularly difficult for my parents. I was having a blast! 🙂 Anyway, I was really testing my limits, hanging out with friends, and starting to

Tracy Hoobyar August 24, 2017

Beginning NLP

SNKRSWM

The other day I was driving down the highway with my daughter and we passed a nice car with personalized plates. I don’t know what it is about personalized plates, but I always love to guess what they say. Some of the license plates are really creative! As we were coming up on this car I could tell it was a personalized plate (all of ours are a combination of letters and numbers and this

Tracy Hoobyar June 19, 2017

Stories

Why I don’t care about the why

How many times have you wondered why you felt a certain way, why you reacted to something a certain way, or why you weren’t able to do what you thought you wanted to do? How much time have you spent searching for the answer to why? If you are like most of us, you have spent more time than you would like trying to understand why you do something or feel something or think something.

Tracy Hoobyar April 7, 2017