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Dr. Kimberly Walker on Burnout, Belief Shifts & Healing the Root Cause with Hypnotherapy
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On this episode of the Journey Mindfulness Podcast, James sits down with the incomparable Dr. Kimberly Walker, a passionate transformational coach and seasoned psychiatrist who uses Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT) to help high-achieving women of color & entrepreneurs overcome hidden barriers and limiting beliefs. In her private coaching & consulting practice she helps empower clients to reclaim their voice, confidence, and purpose, allowing them to thrive authentically.
In the episode we discuss how our original programming as younger children, simple everyday moments, and environmental influences such as systemic racism can seep into the mind subconsciously to create self-limiting beliefs. Dr. Walker discusses how she uses Rapid Transformation Therapy to help her clients transcend these beliefs and integrate the parts that need healing so they can get UNSTUCK and allow more joy, success, and flow in their lives.
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Introduction to the Journey Mindfulness Podcast
00:00:12
Speaker
Welcome to the Journey Mindfulness Podcast, where we explore the depths of consciousness, human experience, and the mysteries of life and human potential. I
Meet Dr. Kimberly Walker
00:00:21
Speaker
am your host, James O'Neill, a professional counselor, mindfulness teacher, and hypnotherapist. And today we have the wonderful and amazing Dr. Kimberly Walker.
00:00:33
Speaker
Kimberly is, in my opinion, one of the best psychiatrists in the country. I'll say that. Just happens to be located here in Maryland, although originally from Philadelphia. She is a medical director, I believe, and an outpatient mental health clinic.
00:00:49
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um and has her own private practice here in Howard County, Maryland. She has an impressive resume and even more impressive is who she is. She's respectful, compassionate, empathetic, and simply put, she actually cares about her patients and the people that she works with and wants them to be healthy and improve their lives, which is one of the reasons why I love her so much and wanted to have her on to share her experience and wisdom.
Reflections on Professional Relationship
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She also does some counseling and coaching. She's an entrepreneur and doing some very interesting stuff in the world of hypnotherapy. So welcome, Kimberly. Thank you, Jim. Thanks for that wonderful introduction. ah You are deserving of it. um Thanks so much.
00:01:40
Speaker
Well, you're very welcome. We've known each other for some time. And, you know, you I guess I wanted to start out with was just kind of sharing one of the people will pick up on this watching this. ah But you have a a truly amazing presence about you. So in mindfulness, we talk a lot about you know, your being and your presence. Like, how do you show up? And it's it's innate in you, right? it's it's It's not something that you're doing. um But because of that, the people that work with you and your patients, they they love you.
00:02:19
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and and And also the people that work with you, right? like You're able to make very strong connections with the people that you were trying to help, which as a you know counselor, referring people was always you know a no-brainer for me, which you know probably made you really busy.
00:02:40
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to your own detriment. But but it was it was very always very you know reassuring that I knew that I was sending people to to a you know a helper and and a wonderful human being. And that's not always the case ah with physicians. and I mean, it's kind of a known known thing. But what what makes, like, are you aware of this? And what makes you so unique in this way?
00:03:09
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Well, I mean, I have heard, um I mean, obviously everybody has different personalities and and I have heard that ah it is sometimes difficult to deal with certain physicians, certain psychiatrists. I would say for me, you know, I,
00:03:28
Speaker
So I am a Jesus follower, and my faith is important to me, and i I love people, and I have been forgiven much, so I really do try to meet people where they are. So I think that's probably a lot of what, ah I guess, Rosal, what people pick up on. So I guess that's what I would say.
00:03:53
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and Yeah. Well, you're allowed to talk about your faith and anything else on this podcast this yeah because it's not always, ah you know, coming from a very clinical setting. It's not. Right.
00:04:06
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ah welcomed, I guess. It might not be the right way. Yeah. You almost have to hide. It's better. it's I think it's more accepted now, but certainly years ago, you were never supposed to share anything ah about yourself, especially your faith. thing and and You know, psychiatry um has kind of looked down on religion at times. So there's definitely that element. But, you know, I got to be authentic. So that's what I do.
00:04:37
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Well, but that's also part of, you know, from a, as a, as a psychotherapist, you know, like authenticity, you know, who are you in, in figuring out those parts of you and representing yourself in a way that it feels right, you know, so that it's interesting how it can be sometimes at odds with that.
Kimberly's Evolving Psychiatric Practice
00:04:58
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ah So what, You've helped a lot of people over a long period of time. what is What has impacted you the most in your approach to treating people and how has it changed over these years? Okay, that's an interesting question. I think that I've always wanted to treat people the way I would want somebody to treat me, to treat my family. And that's kind of what I keep in mind. I think that psychiatry,
00:05:41
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no excuse me, you know, when I first came out of training, psychiatry really shifted into medication management and that's That's not really what I went into psychiatry for, but I decided I was gonna do my best to do that. And still, I still do therapy, but that was really the push, especially for folks who were taking insurance. you know Insurance companies want to pay psychiatrists to medicate. That's what they do. So I kind of got pushed into that.
00:06:19
Speaker
And I always do the best that I can, but I really love talking to people. I love connecting to people. So I've been in some jobs in the past where it was kind of kind of a mill. you know Every 20 minutes, get the patient in and out. And that did not that did not work for me. So i that's really what made me definitely build up my private practice because I could practice the way I wanted to. um But, you know, 2021 in the height of the COVID pandemic, I really got burned out as a psychiatrist.
00:06:58
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Yeah. um You know, many of us got burned out. Listen, I know it well. That's right oh how I got into mindfulness in the first place. Right. Right. So, um you know, just misery day after day, I found myself feeling very hopeless. You know, I'm sitting in my house because it was shut down with my little iPad screen doing telepsychiatry. And I thought to myself, I don't know if I can continue to do this.
00:07:26
Speaker
So, you know, and looking for answers to my burnout and what I was going to do with my life, I kind of stumbled upon and rapid transformational therapy, or RTT. And yeah, so that's the modality that I am really very excited about. You know, I would love to talk about it, you know, at some point, but You know, that was a huge shift for me, you know, that burnout.
00:08:00
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And what it would have been burned out anyway had it not been for COVID, because I was working way too hard. but Yeah.
Discovery and Impact of RTT
00:08:06
Speaker
Yeah. ah Well, i we can pivot that way, because um write ah right at the beginning of COVID, um so I you know had entrenched myself as this you mindfulness teacher, stress reduction, and meditation.
00:08:29
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ah But what I was running into problems with is with meditation, people that had significant trauma, you need tend to block the trauma out, snippets of it would come up. But I was finding myself kind of stuck navigating where things would come up, but I wasn't able to sort of control it. And so what I ended up doing is going through My own inner child regression work and so the woman that taught me was like listen, I'll i'll teach you Hypnosis, but you're gonna have to go through it first because I want you to to really know the functionality behind it
00:09:12
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and So at twenty in I started to get into hypnosis and learning more about that. So it was fascinating to me at one point when you said, well, I'm i'm learning this new thing, but you know please please tell us how yeah what you know attracted you to that. or and and Tell us a little bit about that. Sure. So I took an online course in 2021 with a yoga teacher and it was called Change.
00:09:41
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And, you know, she exposed me to some stuff that I had some knowledge about, you know, meditation and mindset. ah But one of the assignments was to research different thought leaders. And one of the people on the list was Marissa Peer, who is the founder of rapid transformational therapy. So I researched her and I saw I saw RTT, I saw it in action, and I said to myself, oh my gosh, this is really going to help my patients, and I got got this spark. You know, an RTT uses targeted hypnotherapy to get to the root cause of an issue, and limiting beliefs are what are identified and then worked on in the session. so
00:10:29
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you know, since I was getting certified in it, I obviously had to have sessions. So, um you know, in hypnosis, lo and behold, these limiting beliefs are coming up for me that I did not realize I had. So, you know, so one of them was um I came from Philadelphia, grew up in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, mostly white suburbs.
00:10:56
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Had a nice life, i got a good education, had good friends, but one of the scenes involved me at eight or nine, I'm in my bedroom, and I'm realizing that the thought is nobody thinks I'm beautiful. So my black beauty was not celebrated in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. So the the idea, the limiting belief attached to that was I'm not enough.
00:11:26
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Now, no one could have ever told me that I felt like I wasn't enough. You know, I was a successful psychiatrist, blah, blah, blah. I mean, good life, good marriage, but it was really eye-opening that that living belief was there and probably driving a lot of my overworking.
00:11:46
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um um So to have that exposed and then resolved ah was really it was really mind-blowing to me. You know and the transformation recording is made in the session with the positive suggestions from the session and then you listen to it daily and it really rewires your thinking. So I was like, this is unbelievable. So I had several sessions and other stuff came up and I decided, okay, I really want to use this. So I do use it in my psychiatry practice, but
00:12:24
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I really am using it in coaching ah because it can be so powerful to help people to and move forward. um Yeah. so it's But it's really interesting.
00:12:38
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You know, mindfulness, in the other word for it is awareness, right? Like awareness of, you know, who am I? What are my thoughts? What are my beliefs? What am I walking around with? Now, you know, you can do that and uncover some things, but So many of us are walking around with things that we don't even know we're carrying because they're, they're subconscious. They're, they're lying underneath the surface of what we think. And so, you know, in the world of outward appearances, by any
Personal Growth through RTT
00:13:14
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measure, you were enough and successful. Yes. Yes.
00:13:19
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You know, and no one would ever think anything otherwise. And yet, so what was that like for you to kind of uncover that and be like, wow, like because it. and There's a lot to unpack with that when you start to like recognize that. So, I mean, it was just, it was eyeopening and it.
00:13:42
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and Other beliefs that or other memories that came up were you know kind of related to navigating growing up Black in America and all the stuff that comes with that and all the limiting beliefs that can get deposited from experiences. um So it was really very powerful for me to get some kind of understanding of what kind of stuff I had navigated and was still trying to navigate. Because these behaviors, you know sometimes you you know you know they're not the most adaptive thing, but you don't really know what to do about it. um so it's So it's an amazing tool to get to get an idea of, okay, this is not a great behavior. And if I can figure out where it comes from,
00:14:39
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ah I can really do something about it. Because a lot of the, you know, kind of conventional talk therapies, you know, are great, you know, kind of behavioral therapy, there are some great elements to it. But sometimes logically, you know, that this idea that you have this thought pattern that you've had, you know, it's crap. But sometimes you can't really get to the root of it, and sometimes you really can't fix it, because logic is not enough. You know, we are emotional beings, you know? So it's, yeah, it's pretty amazing. And I went to Ghana in March of this year, 2024, and to step onto the continent of Africa,
00:15:31
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having dealt with a lot of the crap that was deposited from growing up black in America was just an amazing, amazing experience for me. And so it's just even more valuable to be able to kind of deal with some of the stuff that we're carrying around. Was there like a release or a grounding or catharsis? In God?
00:15:59
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I would say that there was definitely a catharsis. there was you know and And they say to you when you're there, welcome home. And when you know some of the tours of the slave dungeons and you see what I see what my ancestors went through, the abject cruelty that they dealt with, yet the strength that they carried and then so we're told you know your ancestors were taken away never to come back but you have come back and it's full circle so it is just so catharsis is one of them grounding feeling at home that's another experience so it's
00:16:50
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You know, it's multidimensional. It's it's hard to really put my wrap my head around it. I've done some writing about it, but it's if amazing.
00:17:03
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Well, you're more than welcome to throw multidimensional around here. It's not a scary word. i But that ah coming full circle, you know, the the circle of life, and you know, that is very fascinating to me, you know, sometimes, you know, and notice some of the work I do is to talk about, you know, breaking cycles or this ancestral ah healing that needs to take place that you know, these patterns that occur in families over generations and things like that.
00:17:42
Speaker
So you went through this, your own sort of transformation and then, you know, physically going through these these travels and and kind of making it physical. and And obviously there's a deep emotional connection with all of that. Yeah. Very interesting. What?
00:18:02
Speaker
Now, you you uncovered this and you talked about, you know, talk therapies and things like that. It's it is not enough to know. Like, I could tell you, you know, Kimberly, you're you are enough.
00:18:17
Speaker
I could say that to you and you could say, I am enough. And yet that's not enough. So could you maybe say a little bit more about you know how you, for people that are listening, you know they may, it's it's one of those things where it's like, you know someone says self-limiting beliefs. Well, they they don't know what they are. Maybe they don't know if they have them or not.
00:18:45
Speaker
ah what a Like in your opinion, like how do you start, like in the process of of rapid transformation, how do you start to identify it? I know in some of the work I do, it it's it's kind of finding an emotion maybe, or some event that's happening now, but how do you go about working on that, uncovering that? So do you need, how do you kind of identify you may have limiting
Childhood Influence on Adult Behaviors
00:19:12
Speaker
beliefs? I want to make sure I understand your question.
00:19:14
Speaker
Yeah, like someone comes to you like, hey, i did this I'm having this issue in my life. I'm not sure where to maybe start. This is kind of what's going on. Like, where do you how do you get to the root? How do you start that process? So if someone identifies some issue that they they want to work on, you know, we really, for instance,
00:19:36
Speaker
um let's say procrastination. And the procrastination is such that it is really getting in the way of what they want to do, whether it's work, whether it's life. you know and And they've obviously tried to deal with it, ah but it has not been successful, their efforts. So we talk about how does that show up for them? you know I kind of do an evaluation, how does that show up?
00:20:04
Speaker
um talk about their childhood, look for any kind of family patterns, have you know how are their siblings doing, want to see if they have any trauma. So just try to get an idea of what it's like. Then I asked them to really think about, try to use their imagination,
00:20:27
Speaker
What do they think their life is going to look like without this when this thing is fixed? So really start to use their imagination because that helps to helps to set up what kind of positive suggestions may come out of the session. and Okay. And so if someone is open to this, you know, we really, I prepare them for, you know, the hypnosis. I talked to them about what hypnosis, what it is and try to dispel the beliefs. Cause the media certainly had ah has, uh, hasn't made it difficult for us. Yeah. Great that they're going to, you know, I'm going to make them do something weird or, you know, take over their will. And of course,
00:21:08
Speaker
That's not what it is. It's this very deep relaxation ah you know and accessing the subconscious mind, which is ready for change, you know open for change. So I do all that preparation and then um show them how we're going to go into hypnosis, which is you know pretty easy. It doesn't take long. and And then I send them a relaxation recording, which helps them to be able to have comfort with the with the ah the process. And then when we meet back, typically in about a week, then we then we get started.
00:21:47
Speaker
so And the sessions themselves are, you know, 90 minutes to two hours. So the, you know, they, the induction is only a few minutes. And then we have lots of time to um identify the beliefs and then kind of go through some strategies to refute with them. um Using the adult, you know, we use the adult intellect.
00:22:09
Speaker
but while in hypnosis to deal with these beliefs, which are often deposited, you know, in childhood often, you know, with child logic. So. Yes. Can you.
00:22:23
Speaker
i but Okay, but that's a really important point you just made because a lot of times some of the resistance that I i have faced with ah clients is is they are looking at everything through their adult mind and you know, my childhood wasn't that bad and I get it, but the events, your original, ah the terminology I use, your original programming, you you didn't have you weren't holding onto your You weren't seeing the world through an adult intellect. You were seeing the world through the mind of a child. And so it installed differently. But what. How do you work with that with your patients? Because I know that that's. I want to make sure people understand that clearly. So and I can give you an example. OK. So I worked with a client who um
00:23:21
Speaker
She had to do a certain amount of public speaking and she was also in sales. So she had to make those sales calls and she would just have this terrible reluctance to make the sales calls, even though she was a competent person and she was a good public speaker, but there was just this.
00:23:40
Speaker
this reluctance and it kind of, it was visceral. You know, she just kind of felt it kind of tugging at her at times. So in an RTT session, what came out was, you know, it wasn't anything, it wasn't a big deal, but as a child, she had asked um four for breakfast, she asked for some kind of sugary cereal or some kind of sugary treat beat.
00:24:09
Speaker
And the caretaker, ah who was not her parent, my babysitter, you know, she said no. And the way the babysitter said it, she kind of felt condemned by it. Kind of like, no, we don't do sugar for breakfast or something like that. So it really wasn't anything horrible. But as a child, she took in, ooh, I did something bad. I made a mistake.
00:24:38
Speaker
So those were kind of feelings that this child had. And so as an adult, she was reluctant to do certain things because she both felt like she was bad and she was reluctant to make a mistake. So a very kind of innocent thing still can really affect how we're dealing in our adult lives. And you would you know she didn't really remember that. She didn't remember that and memory. um It happened, been but it was something she kind of brushed off. So this that's just an example of how the child logic can really mess with us as adults. So I love that example um because it's as an adult, it's it's really a non-event.
Coaching High-Achieving Women
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Yes.
00:25:29
Speaker
You wouldn't think twice about it. ah I'll ask clients to list any high impact moments that they've had in their life, which, you know, but that event that you just described was a high impact moment. Yeah.
00:25:46
Speaker
And that's what's what's interesting about um some of these techniques is when you look back and and kind of where these beliefs that we have about ourselves come from, the events that are connected to it through the mind of a child are very different. And so you know these moments are very powerful in our programming and in how we are navigating our life in the in the present moment as adults. Right.
00:26:15
Speaker
Yeah. And, you know, in a perfect example, let's, it's a very common, you know, when, if a child's parents break up, the child almost always assume it's my fault. And if I had just behaved better or if I had tried harder.
00:26:36
Speaker
you know, whichever parent left, that parent would not have left. And that is a common issue. And of course, adults know that, you know, divorce separation affects us, but to know that that is kind of the belief, and then to be able to have that belief refuted and lose its power, it's it's very, you know, it's amazing what that can do for somebody. Yeah.
00:27:04
Speaker
and Yeah. Well, clearly you're excited about it. I mean, what have you, how have your parents patients received this? Like if they... Well, so some folks who, so I i use it with patients and of course I use it with clients and the coaching. So some people, some of my patients They don't necessarily want to be hypnotized, but those that undergo it, they have most of them have had a really great um great response. you know I've helped certain things, certain issues like smoking cessation, ah fear of flying. um I've helped with ah procrastination. And procrastination is really interesting because there are so many routes
00:27:55
Speaker
to it, potential roots to it. And stuff you just might not, you might not um you wouldn't assume that's what's causing the procrastination. But um that you know it's it's really It's, like you said, I'm excited about it because it can make such a huge difference ah in people's lives. It's very rewarding to see them kind of get free from stuff they didn't know was a barrier for them. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, anything you know to see a client or a patient you or to have success is one of, there's no dollar amount
00:28:41
Speaker
You know to that that you it's it's it's really a wonderful thing to to see right and and really I think why why we do what we do. ah Also what I'm hearing you say too and I think is there's a curiosity.
00:29:00
Speaker
Like I'm having this problem in in a sense you're a detective like you don't know. What that is that's underneath that but there's a certain amount of like alright well let's see what's here and let's like fix it. So curiosity there's a lot of curiosity that that's exciting to me.
00:29:21
Speaker
Yeah, sometimes you have an idea of what, what might be, never get but sometimes you just don't know, you know, what's, what's, what's there. So yeah, it's, it's, it is exciting. but So so you you are, you do a number of different things, but what you said you have shifted into coaching. What, tell me about that. What is,
00:29:50
Speaker
You said you were working with someone who's public speaking, so like confidence, what are some of the things that ah you focus on with your coaching practice? So i um I am focusing a lot with women who are feeling stuck in some way, need to make some kind of pivot. And that might be ah because they want to do something different vocationally. It may be their phase of life. So I've had i've had clients who do you know who are public speakers, who are um deciding to do a different business,
00:30:29
Speaker
And um I've worked with some some female physicians who were just stuck and burned out. you know and in um you know In medicine, we you know the training obviously is rigorous. And um the women that I've worked with, they've they've been Black women like me. And there are certain things that we certain things we all kind of dealt with. You know, we dealt with some level of racism in training. um We dealt with seeing some of our patients not treated well, and ah sometimes due to class, sometimes due to race, and those kinds of experiences, even though we were adults when it happened, it did kind of deposit some limiting beliefs, probably kind of
00:31:21
Speaker
piggybacking off of stuff that had occurred when we were younger. So I i really like to work with high achieving women who are feeling stuck and ah needing a shift or whatever reason. ah So it's it's a pretty cool population to work with.
00:31:39
Speaker
it sounds like it's there's a
00:31:43
Speaker
I don't know, it's like a spirit of entrepreneurship in that, like in your own transformation, starting your own business, branching out into different things, but helping other women do the same thing, you know whatever their passion is. There's a lot going on. There's a lot of interesting people out there doing a lot of cool stuff. no Yeah.
00:32:06
Speaker
Yeah. And you mentioned entrepreneurship, you know, when I, you know, you and I spoke earlier about just the, the challenges involved in that. And I'm, you know, I'm still working through that. You know, I still, I know I still got my own limiting beliefs that I have to continue to, to challenge like, okay. Oh, I gotta write this email nurture sequence and oh, I gotta, ah I gotta do a video. So it's, you know, I am helping people as I work through the stuff myself. So it's, it's interesting.
00:32:38
Speaker
We're always working on ourselves, right? yes i trying to like
00:32:44
Speaker
We're constantly expanding and growing. and you know we might have a bigger toolkit, but there's always things that are popping up and there's always, like you know, with a meditation practice or maybe there's some other, um you know, we you can work through a limiting belief and be well, but then maybe something else happens and there's this echo.
00:33:10
Speaker
You know, so, so my, my mentor would say, like, you know, it's like this rubber band effect, sometimes know you're good for a while and then something happens and just kind of it it hits on that nerve again. Um, you can get through it just like you got through it the last time you've done the work, but it's just a reminder. You got to do a little bit more work to tidy things up. Indeed.
00:33:35
Speaker
But I hope that gives people too, each moment is a new moment. right like its You can always begin again, change things up, even if you're mid-career and you're feeling stuck. like There's people that you can see and things that you can do to work through them.
00:33:55
Speaker
So there's a lot of of hope that you're offering, but you being able to work on it through your own. And, you know, it's kind of like you've had, you have that wisdom, you have that experience.
Transformation and Emotional Freedom
00:34:09
Speaker
You're not just doing things that you you've learned. It's not just an intellectual thing. ah What would you say?
00:34:23
Speaker
Again, the work that you're doing now, like what, what have you seen that excites you the most that you've enjoyed or maybe that you've enjoyed the most? Hmm. I think that what I enjoy the most it is is in the session itself, when someone is able to understand that the limiting belief is it no longer has power over them. And to kind of see their facial expression when we work through it, to see the illumination on their face to realize, oh, that is no longer relevant. So it's just the freedom.
00:35:09
Speaker
that people experience when they're able to let go of these limiting beliefs. you know And then to hear later when we do our check-ins about how things have shifted.
00:35:22
Speaker
You know, i I just I worked with a woman some weeks ago and just she is so much more confident now. She walks in a room and she knows that her energy is different. She knows that she is more open. She is not. She doesn't have that concern about being judged.
00:35:41
Speaker
You know, because she was judged early in life, but she can let that go. So just to see the shift and the freedom and the potential that is just um unleashed, that is super, super rewarding. So, yeah. How does, can you sense, are you able to sense that shift in people? Because sometimes Like when they've come to that realization or they they feel it, can you, do you feel that release? So I, sometimes it's, you know, and I do it over a screen, so its it's virtual. Okay. So I i sometimes can sense, I can sense a shift. I can see,
00:36:30
Speaker
their facial expression, I can hear it in their voice sometimes. um And, you know, when we are doing some of the exercises, I will ask, ah you know, we do some parts work, you know, because, you know, we do some inner child work, we do some parts work and the part sometimes that part has
00:36:54
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has really engaged the behavior that they want that they want to get rid of, and it was in a protective kind of way. So once the- Could you share a little bit just about parts work for people that don't know, just if you don't mind? ah Yeah, so I mean, I don't do i don't do huge parts work, but what we do is we identify, help the client identify a part Usually her because I usually work within it a part of her that has Developed or come up with the behavior That they want to get rid of okay, and we asked the part in hypnosis You know kind of what is the function? What is the intention of this behavior? and it usually
00:37:51
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Usually, I find it's protective, and especially for the child, it's, you know, whether the, let's say it's procrastination, protecting the child from whether it was ridicule, or protecting the child from um I'm gonna use the word, I'm gonna use ridicule. So the child had been ridiculed. So now the part has the child holding back, not showing their brilliance or not doing certain things that's gonna get them the attention to protect the child from ridicule. But as an adult, this is not serving them. So we kind of,
00:38:37
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you know we are kind of negotiating with the part, you know you know can we kind of let this behavior go? So that's that's part of what we're doing. And once we're able to do that, it you know it really does kind of free up.
00:38:53
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free up the the client to to do what they need to do. I don't know if I answered your question, but. You did. I was just for people that aren't familiar with that, you know, you you're getting to the root, you know, where sometimes we have ah the part might be a a maladaptive behavior or something that, you know, we do or maybe we're because we're afraid of getting ridiculed, that we're afraid of being seen. And so we hide.
00:39:19
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you know, and maybe we get passed over for a promotion or something like that because we're hiding, it's it's protective in nature, but it's not helping us. It's it's hindering our us in our lives in some way. But then- It's limiting. It's It's a nice word.
00:39:37
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No, no, I'm just saying that, you know, it is it's a limiting belief that is limiting what we're doing. So. Yeah. And so what you're saying through through the screen, like once you have done that, you worked on those parts that you're able to sense that some some aspect of relief with the person that you're working with.
00:39:59
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Yeah, and sometimes I will ask the client, do you feel anything in your body that lets you know that this this part you know is either going or is allowing this behavior to you know to dissipate? so So often people will feel a certain sensation, whether it's you know, their chest opens up or their throat opens up or ah they feel warm, you know, all kinds of bodily sensations. Or is there any kind of visualization that they, that they get from that? Yeah. Well, we just drifted into mindfulness, although all these things are connected. writers Right. It's not separate, but the physical sensations um sometimes
00:40:48
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Well, how do you answer when people sometimes I have ah clients say, ah well, how will they know worked? ah What do you say to that? Well, you'll know it worked because you are no longer.
00:41:06
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So you're no longer engaging in that behavior, or if you find yourself starting to, you are able to then shift out of it. um So you'll just see it, you know, you'll see a difference in your behavior or, um yeah, so somebody I helped with procrastination, she would have this very physical sense sensation. And whilst we did it,
00:41:33
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It's not like she never procrastinated again, but she did not have that paralysis and she was able to do what she needed to do. She was able to work through it, whereas before she was really held bound by it. So, yeah, you know, you act differently. It shifts your perspective, your awareness. You can see it, you know, it sounds like you can see it coming and and work with it in ah in a new way.
00:42:01
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And some of it is kind of immediate. You really know a difference. And some of it is definitely more you know more gradual, more cumulative, the the changes that that people note. Well, you mentioned like the body and physical sensations. ah One of the things that I've noticed too sometimes is people, they feel lighter. like They've let something go. So that there's a ah palpable shift or like this distinct lack of heaviness, where in their own minds, sometimes I can feel it too, or like I can sense that they've let something go that was yeah really weighing them down. But it was interesting, you you mentioned like the throat opening up. So like clearing that, in a sense, like that blockage, right you know, that that might have been kind of clamping down on that ah physically. So that's interesting.
00:42:56
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Yeah, and that has definitely corresponded to some clients who felt like they didn't really have a voice, you know, so that's a correlation. Yeah. Yeah, I would imagine that that's like, I would and say common, but that that is, that is one, right? Being afraid to speak up. Yeah.
00:43:19
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and and really in terms of empowerment and you're working with you know women who are you know entrepreneurial and and strong and and
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00:43:29
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creative in that sense. like You need your voice to share your, I would imagine, your your vision.
00:43:37
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right if Interesting. You're doing some cool stuff. Yeah, it is cool.
00:43:48
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Where can people learn more about you and the work that you're doing and how can they find you to work with you? Okay. Well, I am on Facebook. ah Kimberly Walker. I am on LinkedIn. Kimberly C. Walker, MD.
00:44:12
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Uh, I'm, you know, I'm supposed to be on Instagram, but I don't do much there, but I am on Instagram. Okay. And that's a doctor spelled out D O C T O R K underscore.
00:44:26
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Oh, shucks. I think Walker, I will, I will link to all of these. So you do not have to worry about getting it. ready yeah Appreciate that. And my website is a DR Walker coach.com. So you can reach me at those, those spots.
00:44:43
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OK. Well, thank you, Kimberly. Is there for people that are potentially looking to work with you or just because they're one last positive message that you would like to share to the audience? Well, I do share that I do have kind of a free I have a free PDF by step got getting unstuck. So, you know, I'll I'll drop that link for you. OK. Folks just kind of want to You know, check it out. i um I just want to say that if you ever want to just set up a call, there really is no pressure. um I think that it's it's an amazing opportunity, but um I understand that, um you know, folks gotta to be careful. so Careful they work with?
00:45:40
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Be careful, of course. Of course you have to be careful who you work with. You know, I think one thing that I've become aware of is that there are a lot of folks out here who call themselves coaches and unfortunately, you know, people have gotten a bad taste in their mouth. So folks are very careful as they should be. So, um you know, check me out. I'm legit. You are legit.
00:46:12
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ah you know i I wanted to have you on the show for, you know, since I started it because of, you know, just you've helped. i mean I wouldn't even be able to quantify it, like you but you've helped a lot of people in your career. and they I've known many of your patients for a number of years, and they love you and in speak very glowingly of you and in your in their time and their work with you. so
00:46:43
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you know, anyone that is looking to get unstuck or to really propel themselves in their careers or shift the careers, um you know, you would be a wonderful person to work with. Thank you, Jim. I really appreciate your you're endorsement.
00:47:01
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Uh, well, you got it. Um, and it was a pleasure having you on and I will link to all of your socials and website below and uh, thank you again. My pleasure. Thank you for having me. Thank you so much for tuning in today and being with us. May you find joy, flow and adventure on your journey. And if you got something from it, please like, share and subscribe and or comment. It means a lot. Thank you.