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Trauma-informed hypnotherapy, somatic breathwork & Nervous System Regulation coaching in Orlando, FL. In-person & online.

We help you heal anxiety, grief & stuck patterns through the subconscious & nervous system.

10/21/2026

Can't turn your brain off at night? Waking up at 2 or 3am with racing thoughts isn't about the noise. It's your nervous system staying on alert after a stressful day, scanning for problems to solve.

Here are 4 steps back to sleep: don't argue with the thoughts, just label them as thinking. Breathe slower than you think, in for 4 and out for 6 to 8. Soften your jaw, shoulders and hands one by one. And leave the phone alone, because a bright screen tells your brain it's time to be awake.

Hypnotherapy can help quiet the patterns behind sleep anxiety, in person in Orlando or online from anywhere. Book a free 15 minute phone consultation: https://shannonrollins.as.me/schedule/38706298/appointment/54686196/calendar/4875163?appointmentTypeIds[]=54686196

10/19/2026

How to stop people pleasing starts with knowing what it is. People pleasing isn't a personality trait. Often it's the fawn response: fight, flight, freeze, and fawn, the urge to keep the peace by keeping everyone else happy.

If you say yes before you've checked in with yourself, apologize for things that aren't yours, or feel guilty when you rest, your nervous system may have learned that pleasing others is how to stay safe. That's why it feels automatic, and why willpower alone rarely changes it.

Try this: before your next yes, take one slow breath and ask, do I want to, or am I afraid not to? Hypnotherapy can help with the subconscious patterns behind people pleasing, in person in Orlando or online from anywhere. Free 15 minute phone consultation: https://shannonrollins.as.me/schedule/38706298/appointment/54686196/calendar/4875163?appointmentTypeIds[]=54686196

10/17/2026

How to regulate your nervous system when your mind is calm but your body is panicking. You know you're okay, and your heart is still racing. That's because your nervous system decides before your mind does.

When you can't think your way out of anxiety, go through the body. Try a long exhale (in for 4, out for 6 to 8), hum slowly on the out breath, or orient to the room by naming five things you can see. Each one gives your body a signal of safety it can feel.

Hypnotherapy and HeartMath® coherence training work with the body, not just the mind, in person in Orlando or online from anywhere. Book a free 15 minute phone consultation: https://shannonrollins.as.me/schedule/38706298/appointment/54686196/calendar/4875163?appointmentTypeIds[]=54686196

10/15/2026

Breathwork for anxiety shouldn't leave you dizzy. If you've ever felt lightheaded, tingly or shaky after an intense session, you may have been breathing too much, not too little.

For an anxious nervous system, gentle beats intense. Let the exhale lead. The cyclic sigh is a simple breathing exercise for anxiety: two inhales through the nose, one long exhale through the mouth, for 5 minutes. In a Stanford study, 5 minutes a day for a month improved mood more than the same time spent in mindfulness meditation.

Want breathwork that feels safe in your body? Sessions are available in person in Orlando and online from anywhere. Book a free 15 minute phone consultation: https://shannonrollins.as.me/schedule/38706298/appointment/54686196/calendar/4875163?appointmentTypeIds[]=54686196

10/14/2026

Why do I keep attracting the same partner? Breadcrumbing, love bombing, hot and cold. Having a name for a relationship pattern helps, but naming it is only step one. Your body can still be pulled toward the rush long after your mind knows better.

Clinical Hypnotherapist Shannon Rollins-Rodriguez explains how hypnotherapy works with the subconscious mind to change what your body reads as chemistry. Sessions are available in person in Orlando and online from anywhere. Book a free 15 minute phone consultation: https://shannonrollins.as.me/schedule/38706298/appointment/54686196/calendar/4875163?appointmentTypeIds[]=54686196

10/14/2026

What does hypnotherapy feel like, and will you lose control? It's the number one question we hear before someone books.

The short answer is no. In clinical hypnotherapy you stay aware, you can speak, and you can open your eyes any time. It's a focused, deeply relaxed state, closer to being absorbed in a good book than being asleep, and you're in charge the whole way through. Research supports it too: across 15 studies, people who received hypnosis for anxiety reduced it more than about 79% of people in control groups.

Sessions are available in person in Orlando and online from anywhere. Book a free 15 minute phone consultation with one of our Clinical Hypnotherapists: https://shannonrollins.as.me/schedule/38706298/appointment/54686196/calendar/4875163?appointmentTypeIds[]=54686196

05/27/2026

A lot of women come to me thinking secure attachment is something you either have or you don't, like it was assigned at birth. It wasn't. It's a set of practiced responses that your nervous system can absolutely learn at any age. What makes it hard isn't willpower or awareness. It's that your body keeps defaulting to the old pattern because that pattern kept you safe once. The work is teaching it a new one. That's exactly what we do inside Self-Led & Sovereign.

Link in bio as enrollment opens next week!

05/14/2026

This is a somatic anchoring technique and it works because it interrupts the nervous system's threat loop before your brain starts building a story around it. Most of us skip straight to the story. (The story is almost never accurate when we're activated.) Three seconds. Hand on body. One sentence. Practice it enough times and the pause starts to happen automatically. Drop a 🤍 if you're saving this.

05/13/2026

Something I see over and over in hypnotherapy sessions:
The shame we all carry usually doesn’t belong to us.

It belongs to a younger version of her or him. A little girl or boy who learned, somewhere along the way, that being too much, too emotional, too needy, or angry means she or he is bad.

So what what any smart kid would do, we make our self manageable.

And the nervous system filed that away as: this is how we stay safe.

Here’s what’s wild. That belief doesn’t just live in the memory. It lives in the body. It shows up as the collapsed chest, the tight throat, the urge to disappear when you feel exposed.

This is why you can not just think your way out of shame. The part of you that’s carrying it is not your logical adult mind. It’s a much younger part who needed something they never got.

In inner child work, we go back to meet them. Not to relive what happened, but to give the nervous system something different. Safety. Warmth. A witness who isn’t going to leave.
And slowly, the belief starts to shift.

Not because you convinced yourself out of it. Because a part of you finally felt safe enough to let it go.

Save this if shame shows up for you. And if you want to go deeper, the link in my bio is a good place to start.

Rooting for you,
Shannon🤍

05/12/2026

The conversation you keep putting off? Timing is actually a strategy.

Pick your moment. A regulated nervous system is more open to hearing you. Catching someone when they’re already frustrated, hungry, or checked out means they’re not actually available for connection …they’re just managing.

And before you say what you need to say, get ahead of the resistance. Something like: “I know you’ve mentioned before that…” or “I hear that this hasn’t felt easy for you either…”

That’s meeting people where they are.

One more thing …..watch how often “you” shows up in the conversation. The more it sounds like a case being built against someone, the more their walls go up.🤍

Everyone, at the end of the day, just wants to feel understood. Lead with that and the rest gets a lot easier.🫶🏼

Address

5850 T G Lee Boulevard, Suite 205
Orlando, FL
32822

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	10am - 7pm
Wednesday	10am - 7pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 2pm

Telephone

+14074763828

Website

https://www.awayforwardhypnosis.com/, https://www.awayforwardhypnosis.com/consultation

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