Sue Hannibal

The EDIT Process, Emotional Detox Intuitive Therapy^®, is a multi-faceted wholistic body/mind/spirit healing modality that has evolved out of my medical intuitive/healing practice with hundreds of traumatized people. I perform an intuitive reading or "scan" prior to any work, which gives us a blueprint of the client's childhood trauma history, fears, negative, limiting beliefs, etc.

The simple process of "tracing the energetic signature of trauma" is an effective metaphor interpretation tool. It reveals symbolic connections between past trauma and a current seemingly unrelated problem or pattern. Once the energetic signature has been identified, the root(s) of a pattern can be healed and the pattern will either shift into a positive behavior or dissolve.

For example, a case of chronic psoriasis persists for over four years, resisting all medical and psychiatric treatment. It heals in one EDIT^® session when the metaphor of the "persistent, red, angry, weeping" rash all over the client's body is connected to repressed rage and grief from years of childhood abuse. Once the client recognized the symbolic connection, he knew he was still suppressing anger, rage, humiliation, frustration, sadness and injustice from growing up in a chaotic, violent, alcoholic home.

Another client had a phobia of flying. She felt trapped, out of control and panicked on an airplane. When she was seven, a man held her down on a couch and molested her. Her body/mind transferred the frozen trauma of that experience in which she was: held down, trapped, unable to escape and had no control, to the flying experience. In a plane, one is "held down" by the seatbelt, has no control, (the pilot and crew have it) and is unable to "escape" until landing. When the molest trauma was healed, her fear of flying disappeared on its own.

"With trauma, the question is not "What's wrong with you?," it's "What happened to you?"

There are several missing links in the current paradigm of emotional healing. Conventional therapy is expensive and time-consuming, frequently taking months or even years. Although the mainstream therapeutic paradigm endorses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and other forms of "counseling," these techniques have a hit-and-miss reputation with healing trauma, PTSD, repetitive behavior patterns, negative and intrusive thoughts.

Indeed, the website for the National Center for PTSD claims, "Recovery from PTSD is an ongoing, daily, gradual process. It doesn't happen through sudden insight or "cure." That is a correct statement when conventional talk-therapies are used. However, energy psychology methods, properly applied by an experienced clinican or healer, can and do cure PTSD.

Current neurophysiology research does not support talk-therapy as an effective intervention to release trauma imprints from the limbic system, the seat of emotion in the brain. According to psychiatrist and famed trauma expert Bessel van der Kolk of the Boston Trauma Center, "Insight does not bring healing."

Neurologist/traumatologist Robert Scaer, M.D., author of The Body Bears the Burden and The Trauma Spectrum, says, "Talk therapy cannot release trauma from the amygdala, the part of the brain that stores the emotional charge attached to traumatic memories. Energy psychology does."

Cellular biologist Bruce Lipton, author of The Biology of Belief, asserts that cellular changes triggered by our thoughts and environment, not genes, are in most cases the primary determinant of our state of health.

The famous ACE Study, (Adverse Childhood Experiences, www.acestudy.org) was conducted at Kaiser Hospital in San Diego in conjunction with the federal Centers for Disease Control. The study of over 17,000 adults revealed an unmistakable, graded relationship between childhood abuse and the development, sometimes many years later, of life-threatening illness such as addictions, chronic obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and mental/emotional disorders such as PTSD. Once again, science has verified the connection between mind and body.

The EDIT^® Process is a highly effective, multi-dimensional holistic healing method. In some cases, it results in spontaneous or nearly spontaneous physical and/or emotional healing. EDIT^® combines EFT or other energy psychology methods with symbolic (metaphorical) diagnosis of conscious and subconscious core traumas that are the roots of emotional patterns and many physical diseases, with rescue/integration of dissociated child-parts, also known as "dissociative capsules."

The five-step EDIT^® Process contains the components necessary to achieve deep, in most cases permanent mind/body/spirit balance and healing without retraumatization as quickly as possible.

Step One: The "Hard Drive:" Assess personal and family history for physical and emotional trauma. The "hard drive" (one's subconscious or soul,) holds childhood experiences, good, bad and ugly. It stores programs inscribed by parents, siblings, teachers, friends, the church, etc. Often, diseases and physical dysfunctions are connected to emotional trauma. When the trauma is healed, the body usually heals as well.

Step Two: Weave the traumatized body/mind together through the chakra system. Using symbolic vision, correlate physical dysfunctions in organs and systems with the emotional themes also connected to the nearest chakra. A brief overview of the chakra system.

Symbolic vision is the use of metaphor interpretation to energetically (symbolically) diagnose body/mind problems. For example heart, lung, thorasic spine or breast problems could be connected to emotional issues related to the 4th chakra, the heart. Viewed symbolically, heart disease can be due to "a broken heart," heartache, betrayal, deep grief, resentment, (holding a grudge in one's heart) etc. People have suffered heart attacks and died upon hearing shocking news of a loved one's death. The grief may have caused them to suddenly die of a broken heart.

Step Three: Using guided imagery, find, rescue and integrate dissociated child ego-states; (dissociative capsules.) Begin restoration of identity, voice, will, boundaries and power.

Children are inherently helpless. They have no control, no power, and can easily freeze and dissociate into helplessness, overwhelm and voicelessness if traumatized. Dissociation is mentally "checking out," when one's conscious awareness leaves the body. Many times, disconnected child parts are still stuck in the age and state of mind they were when the trauma happened, ie. adults who throw tantrums. These parts need to be rescued and released from that frozen trauma state that negatively affects the adult body/mind.

Step Four: Heal trauma and neutralize negative core beliefs with EFT and other energy psychology techniques. I use EFT, the Emotional Freedom Technique, TAT, Tapas Acupressure Technique and Seemorg Matrixwork to guide my clients on their path to healing, wholeness and empowerment.

Step Five: Dialogue With and Heal Shadow Archetypes

An archetype is a pervasive theme that runs through many facets of one's personality, and tends to permeate one's life and relationships. The words "always" and "never" tend to show up when an archetype is operating. For example, "You always have to be the victim. Everyone else is always to blame, never you. You never accept responsibility, you always have to blame someone else." Like people, archetypes have positive and negative traits. The influence of an archetypal pattern is first brought to awareness, i.e., blaming others, then the wound patterns that cause it to behave negatively, i.e., a need to avoid shame, are healed.

Adoption Trauma Heals in Forty Minutes

Dear Sue,
I wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed the 2-day workshop on your new EDIT^® technique! I found it really stimulating and I am eager to learn more. I am an LCSW for over 20 years, I work in a hospital and am new to EFT.

I was nervous to volunteer for your demonstration but am so glad I did. I have been working with a therapist who uses EMDR and TFT and we have not yet begun to deal with my adoption. I have felt for some time that my being given up for adoption is a core issue that has contributed to feelings of betrayal and abandonment as well as lack of trust and have contributed to difficulties I have creating successful relationships as an adult. In addition to this, my adoptive mother was disappointed with me and often let me know that I wasn't the daughter she had hoped for, so these issues did not heal as I grew up.

Although there was no overt physical or sexual abuse in my home, my mother was not nurturing and she conveyed to me in many ways I was a disappointment. I felt confused as a child, didn't know why I couldn't seem to make my mother happy and when it seemed I did, I would shy away from her physical affection while at the same time I yearned for it. I had a very wonderful relationship with my father but my mother was very jealous of it.

I constantly wondered why I had been given up for adoption, why my birth mother didn't want me, what had been wrong with me etc. My parents never hid the fact that I was adopted and even told the traditional story of, "we got to choose you" but even that seemed like a lie because I knew that they would have gladly taken any the baby the county offered. All I knew about my birthparents were their ages, general physical descriptions and also that my birthmother had a son. That really got to me, because if she had a son, why didn't she keep me? I began to think more and more, "what is wrong with me?" This has continued to haunt me into my adult years. Depression is something I have struggled with for more than 20 years and have been treated with medication most of that time. I have pretty much dealt with the issues of my adoptive mother but have not really spent any time talking about the adoption and its implication.

During the demo, you very quickly got to the core belief of "Something is wrong with me" and it was a 10 on a scale of 1-10. Thank goodness you used some EFT to bring the emotion down because I was feeling pretty overwhelmed at that point. I felt the sensation of this in my abdominal area and tried to remember at what age I might have first felt this. It seemed like ages 2-3. You thought it was earlier, probably in the womb. This is not something I had ever considered. When you asked if I would be able to visualize myself in the womb, to my surprise, after I closed my eyes and sat silently a few moments, I had a clear visual image and visceral feeling of a 7-month-old baby floating in the womb. You asked how she felt and I clearly could feel that she was happy, content and safe. She enjoyed the sensation of floating in the warm fluid and had no sense of fear or thoughts of the future.

You then asked me to move ahead to the delivery day and see what the baby was feeling. The environment was very different at that time. The baby was feeling scared, even angry and didn't want to leave the womb. In fact, the baby almost felt desperate to stay inside and wanted to find something to hold onto to keep from coming out. Sue, when you began to talk to that baby, to tell her it was safe to come out, that it would be O.K., that big Jennifer would take her home, take care of her, nurture her and keep her safe, I felt so much emotion for that innocent baby. I remember thinking through my tears, that of course I would take care of her, that every baby comes to the world deserving to be loved and that I would love her and care for her and she would never need to be afraid or worry or think she was anything but beautiful or wonderful. I could feel the tears rolling down my face as you put the babydoll in my arms and gave her to me to care for. I had this feeling of relief, this sense of safety in my body as you did that, and also a feeling of maternal protectiveness and desired to nurture come over me.

That was the end of the session at the workshop, except you said it must have been between the 7th and 9th month that my birthmother made the decision to relinquish me for adoption. That became important to me later. However, things didn't end there for me. That night at home, I must have "flashed" on the scene in the delivery room dozens of times. Each time the baby was put in my arms I had again that sense of relief and safety. Interestingly, each of these images was accompanied by a sense of relaxation in my chest. Then, in the workshop the next day, I suddenly had an image of myself as a 2 or 3-year-old toddler happy and smiling, holding onto the adult Jennifer's skirts. The felt safe and happy with me.

Later in the afternoon, I again had a visual image of a now 10-11 year-old-girl, slender and with just a hint of a smile; standing next to me, and I had my arm over her shoulders as we stood looking at the horizon. Again the feeling with it was very peaceful, calm and safe. The child-Jennifer has not aged past 11 since then. As I recall that time in my life, it was the beginning of many difficult years and perhaps she is not ready to face them or perhaps I am not yet ready to guide her through them.

So, Sue, I don't know if the belief, "what is wrong with me" will magically go away in my adult life but I definitely don't believe that my birth mother thought that or gave me up for anything having to do with me, and I believe that deep down in my soul. Though our session was only 40 minutes or so in length, you have given me a great gift and I imagine it will continue to change my life. Thank you so much!

Jennifer L.
San Diego
July 30, 2006

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