Carol’s Lives was my second book. Many Blessings Will Come was my third. But before either of them, I wrote a book that grew directly out of my early years as a clinical hypnotherapist.
My first book, Past Life Regression: A Manual for Hypnotherapists to Conduct Effective Past Life Regression Sessions, came from a gap I kept encountering in my own work.
When I began practising clinical hypnotherapy, I was trained in structured methods: how to induce trance, deepen the state, work with the subconscious, and guide clients through change. But when it came to past life regression, there was very little practical instruction. I read widely on the subject, but the guidance I found was often either overly abstract or overly certain. There was little that addressed what actually happened in the room, in real sessions, with real people.
So I learned by doing, in a process that felt very much like experimenting.
In the early stages of my practice, I found myself drawn to past life regression without fully understanding why. It was not something I had mastered, nor something I felt entirely prepared for. Yet, session after session, I began to notice patterns: how clients entered those states, how their stories unfolded, and how emotional themes emerged in ways that were often consistent and meaningful, regardless of how one chose to interpret them.
At some point, I realised I was no longer experimenting. I was working.
In 2015, ARCH Canada invited me to deliver a keynote speech on conducting past life regression sessions. Preparing that talk gave me an opportunity to reflect on what I had learned through practice. This book grew out of that preparation and reflection.
The book is not written to convince you that past lives are real, nor to argue for a particular belief system. You will not find attempts to prove or defend the phenomenon. Instead, it is a practical manual grounded in experience: what to do, what to watch for, what tends to work, and what does not.
I wrote it for practitioners who, like me, wanted something more directional and practical. Not just scripts, but understanding. Not just theory, but application. Not simply confidence on paper, but the ability to work with greater steadiness in a session.
You will find structure in these pages: how to prepare, how to guide, and how to respond to difficult questions and unexpected situations. But you will also find room for something less defined. No matter how many techniques we learn, past life regression does not unfold in a perfectly controlled way. It requires attention, flexibility, and a willingness to meet the client where they are, even when the material challenges our expectations.
Writing this book also clarified something for me: the value of this work does not depend on what we believe about it.
Some clients may experience these sessions as memories. Others may experience them as symbolic narratives, and still others as something in between. From a therapeutic perspective, what matters is what becomes visible through the process—the patterns, emotions, and unresolved dynamics that emerge—and how those insights might translate into meaningful change.
If my later work moves more into reflection and narrative, this book represents my foundation. It comes from a time when I was focused on doing the work, refining my approach, and understanding the process through direct experience.
If you are looking for certainty, this book may not give it to you. But if you are looking for clarity in practice, it will serve you well.
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