About

Hi! And I’m so glad you’re here!

You know, it’s taken me a long time to get here and I would love to share all that I’ve learned in my 70 years on this planet. I’ve been through challenges like every other human but I spent a lot of time suffering because most everything I did or tried didn’t get me the answers I was needing. It all helped but nothing gave me the minbody healing I was so desperately searching for until I found integrative hypnosis, which got me over the proverbial “hump”. We, as a people, have been through trauma. It is inescapable in today’s world. I am no exception. And I’ve had the physical maladies that can accompany this kind of stress, which has included recovering from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

I’ve also been through many big life transitions but didn’t honor them let alone think in terms of that was what I was going through because I was in a different frame of mind. I was just trying to get through it. To survive, without support.

Three years ago, I knew retirement was on the horizon. I knew I couldn’t just retire and be content to not work. I began searching for something that would give my life meaning - an “encore” career. It needed to be bigger than myself, and to give me a sense of giving back, from a place where I had gone through it and really knew, from the trenches, what it was like and how to thrive while moving through it and then getting to the other side.

It was at that time that I decided to re-instate my clinical hypnosis certification and embarked upon a journey that has changed my life using the modality of integrative hypnosis.

My specialty is helping women over 50 move through major life transitions. We are in transition all the time; both small and large transitions. But it’s the big ones that are the most challenging. Things like grief, confusion, anger, planning, and even excitement can make major life transitions messy and stressful. In working through my own major life transition of retirement, I created a way to untangle the many facets and nuances and realized that big transitions have a core structure that can be approached in a non-linear way giving one a sense of manageability and empowerment to one’s unique experience.

I also help humans with limiting beliefs, break habits, insomnia, and weight management.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

• 2025: Certified in Coaching the Unconscious Mind with world renowned trainer, clinical hypnotist and author, Melissa Tiers

• 2025: Certified in Integrative Hypnosis 2.0 with world renowned trainer, clinical hypnotist and author, Melissa Tiers

• 2025: Certified Grief-Informed Professional Training: Redefining Grief Work

• 2025: Vagal Nerve Toning Certification

• 2019: Southwest Institute of Healing Arts, Certified Clinical Hypnosis

• 2011-2012: Southwest Institute of Healing Arts: Holistic Practitioner with a specialization in hypnosis.

• 2009: UCLA

• 2000-2004 University of Illinois at Springfield

• 1974-1985: Lincoln Land Community College

My clinical certification is through ACHE (American Council of Hypnotist Examiners).

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HIGHLIGHTS AND ACCOLADES

• Graphic designer

• Documentary producer

• Member of the rock band, Zolar X

• Co-wrote and self-published the book Out of This World: The Story of Zolar X with my husband, Ygarr Ygarrist and Zory Zenith.

• Shamanic & Reiki practitioner

• 2012: Holistic practitioner, hypnosis private practice in Virginia City, NV

• 2013-2025: Manufacturing/Scheduler, Document Control

• You can find me on Substack and my publications are Living in the Edges where I write my life experiences that shaped me into the human I have become and Big Sky Integrative Hypnosis with Rhaine Della Bosca where I will be sharing educational pieces and videos on the art and science of hypnosis.