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Change Your Life with Laser, Stop your Pain #30  July 2024

Venice Sullivan discusses the natural, non-prescription approach of Hope Wellness Institute, emphasizing the importance of addressing the root cause of pain and promoting overall wellness through various therapies. She highlights the effectiveness of these therapies in reducing pain and improving mobility, showcasing a client's successful experience with radiation burns. Sullivan and Speaker 1 discuss the importance of addressing the mind-body connection in pain management, emphasizing the need for a comprehensive approach that includes nutrition, stress management, and biomechanics. Both emphasize the importance of understanding the root cause of pain and seeking professional help when needed.

Holistic health and pain management with natural therapies.

Pain relief and massage therapy with a personal story.

Pain management using laser therapy.

Laser therapy for pain relief and overall wellness.

Venice Sullivan

Hi, I'm Venice Sullivan from Hope Wellness Institute. And we're here with the newest edition of "Relax. My Mind" Are you having issues with low energy, tiredness, allergies, or just a whole host of things that you're not finding answers for? Well, that's what we do at HOPE Wellness Institute. 

So many of our clients come in because of back pain, neck pain, or whiplash. And a lot of times, they don't even know what happened. They just know that they have pain. And as we chat with them, we find out oh, 20 years ago, they were in a car accident or had a back injury. They don't think that has anything to do with today. But what we know is all those injuries you had 10, 20, or 30 years ago, have changed your body, and changed how your body functions. And now after all these years, you're in major pain. So today we're going to talk about pain changes, a lot of holistic health, and the way we can help you. All of our therapies at HOPE Wellness Institute are natural. What that means is a there are no prescriptions, there are no side effects to anything we do we look at ourselves as a holistic health care clinic. So we're here to help you be a whole you not just treat your individual bits and pieces. I had a client in the other day who says, "Well, I go to this doctor, but she only looks you know, my right ear because I have pain there". Well, you know what, if you've been in a car accident, maybe that right ear pain is coming from your left hip. So we look at the whole body, we look at your stress level, we look at your nutrition. You know, if you're eating bonbons and ice cream all day long, then your nutrition isn't there to help your body heal. So again, we're not the food police. We're not any police, but we're trying to help educate you. So we can all learn together how to help your body be you. Everything we do, as we're helping you be you, is based on individual healing. If you go on YouTube and say, Okay, I have a pain in my rear. Then they're saying, Oh, here's the sciatic exercise for you. Well, you know what, that might not be the right exercise for you. It might not have anything to do with your set with your sciatic nerve. But all you know is hey, I've got pain in my rear end. So this is what must be right. 

We want to make sure everything we do is focused on you. Sometimes that means medical massage therapy, or primarily what we use is neuromuscular therapy, it might be using one of our lasers that helps the body reboot itself, it literally talks to the cells of your body that may have gotten tired and just shorted out and turned off. Well, our lasers help turn those cells back on, so that your body heals at a deeper level. We use essential oils, ancient healing practices, and just a whole lot of things. 

You might be so mentally stressed, you may have had some sort of trauma, or the world at large just may be stressing you to such a point that you're just done. And you can't think anymore, you can't heal, you know, you're just totally overwhelmed. Well, in that case, we use Cereset, which is our brain reset session to literally relax your brain. And as we are doing Cereset, what we do is we put sensors on your head, we pick up your brainwaves. As your brain hears itself I call this an acoustic mirror. As it hears itself, it realizes, Oh, I don't need to do that anymore. That's not the way I should be working. So it starts changing itself to help your behavior be different.

 So what prompted me to do what I do? Again, I'm Venice, Sullivan, and I've been at this a day or two, I started HOPE Wellness Institute here in Fair Oaks in 1988. I've been a medical massage therapist for a couple of years longer than that. So if you want to do the math. I was born seemed like I was always rubbing somebody's back or head or, you know, whatever. And they would just look at me and go, "How did you know that hurt there?" I don't know how I know where it hurts. That's God's gift to me of my ability to help others feel better. Any of the therapies where you do are not about healing you we're not here to fix you. We're here to wake up your body and educate you and your body to help it heal itself. That's our goal. 

So if you're interested, please pick up your cell phone, dial pound 250 Give us a call. When you call say "Relax My Mind" Someone will pick up you will also receive a copy of my book called "Pain Lies, Five Ways to Instantly Decrease Your Pain". So dial pound 250 and say "Relax My Mind" And if you're not quite ready to pick up that phone you want more information. But yeah, I don't want to talk to anybody yet, I want to check them out, go to hopewellnessinstitute.com. You can also if you're hearing me on the radio today, go to the previous podcasts at "Relax, My Mind". And many of our previous shows have been on there where you'll gain even more information. We're here for you when you're ready. And at any time, you can pick up that phone and dial pound 250 and say "Relax, My Mind". 

But when I was young, my mom was always in a lot of pain. And at the time, the doctor said, hey, "You know, it's all in your mind. There's nothing wrong with you". They did what they could do. But, you know, there was really nothing wrong with her, their statement. 20 years later, they finally came up with the fact that she had lupus, and it was lupus of the soft tissues. So I had started doing a little bit of massage by then. And we found that massage gave her a lot of comfort. And you know, I mean, it was so bad that at one point, when the doctors were telling her there was nothing wrong with her she was in so much pain, she had to crawl to get to the bathroom. That made a big impact on me and who I am and why I am determined to try everything I can to bring pain relief to my clients. 

We know now that pain can come from all sorts of things, it can be your accident, your injuries, it can be when you fell down at two and hit your chin on the fireplace. And you've now had lifelong migraines because of it. And when I look at the head, we find, Oh, because these bones are out of place. And that actually gave you a mini whiplash at the age of two, that that's actually caused those migraines that you've lived now 40 years worth. So we do a very thorough history with everyone we work with, we go back to the age of two, we want to know every accident or injury you had, we look at like I said, your nutrition, we look at the stress that's going on in your life, all those things add up to why you're in pain today. And that pain isn't always just physical pain. It could be mental or emotional pain, it can be the pains because of your relationships. There's no and of the type of pain that we can have that we work with at HOPE Wellness Institute and Cereset. 

So again, you know, that impact of my mom way back when and with her pain and the frustration of seeing that. And then I was a dental tech in the Navy for a few years. And I worked a lot with dental and with TMJ issues, things like that. So I bring that experience with me. I was a bookkeeper for a number of years. So I understand the biomechanics of sitting at a desk and doing the bookkeeping or the biomechanics of being a dentist or a dental assistant or a hygienist. So I always look at every client with the physics of the body, how they're standing, how they sit, you know, with many people who drive a lot, we go out to their car and see how they sit in the car, see if their car fits them and how we can adjust their car to home because it's like, well, I'm fine all day till I get in my car, and then I'm in pain. So how do we help with that? All those things? 

Well, finally it came down to it was time for a change in my life. And well what do I want to do when I grow up? Of course, I was 35 or whatever at that point. But believe it or not, for those who have never heard of such things, I went through the Yellow Pages, and I just started going down listings until, oh, that sounds cool. That's what I want to do. I went to massage school down in Emeryville and never looked back. I'm not a spring chicken anymore, but I can tell you what I look forward every day to going to work because I get to help people feel better. And that is my drive, my mission in life. And I can tell you that every one of my therapists no matter what side of the house they work on, is the same. We are motivated by helping people have a better life. 

What kind of things does HOPE Wellness Institute help? People!  We've talked about migraines and back pain, and this can be old stuff you've had and dealt with for years, or it can be a brand-new injury, it doesn't matter, we work with it. The sooner we work with someone after an injury, the easier it is for you to heal. So we had somebody fall off of a ladder, you know, that's a big deal. digestion issues are a big thing right now, with the amount of medications, the amount of chemicals in our foods, just all sorts of stuff. It's interesting because everybody goes, well, I'm following this diet, or that diet, or the next diet, and all these foods I'm eating are really good for me, well, they may be good for a lot of people, but are they good for you?  That's one of the things we work with all the time is making sure that the therapies that you're doing, and the nutrition that you're doing are the right thing for you specifically. 

Plantar fasciitis is another big one that we're working a lot with people go well, you know, I automatically have to have arch supports, maybe, maybe not, maybe it's just because you've had an injury somewhere along the line that your body has changed enough that now you've got a pain in your foot. And you know, we can work that out fairly easily. A number of years ago, I had foot pain. I walked into the doctor and I said hey, I have foot pain. And they said you have plantar fasciitis. No, I didn't. Even when I explained what the foot pain was I go oh, no, that's not plantar fasciitis. So don't assume and don't get so hung up on the answers on the internet. To diagnose yourself, because you may need something really simple. Like just some body work, some soft tissue work to help you. 

So again, pick up your phone, and give us a call if any of this resonates with you, on your mobile phone, dial pound 250. and when prompted, say "Relax My Mind". We have team members waiting right now for your call and to answer your questions. If our office is busy, please leave us your name and number and when you call, you will receive a copy of my book called "Pain Lies, Five Ways to Instantly Decrease Your Pain. Again, dial pound 250 on your cell phone, say "Relax My Mind". And while you're at it, you know if you're not quite ready to pick up that cell phone, but you want to know a little bit more about who we are and what we do. Check out our website at Hope, wellness institute.com That's H O P E wellness institute.com. You can also check out my podcast, literally "Relax My Mind". 

And, you know I was so excited after working with a client the other day that I had to call somebody it was night. Well, it was 630 my time and it was this person was in Atlanta at 930 their time, but I was over the moon with the success we had just had with a client who had been in pain for years. What caused the success was our incredible lasers. This person had cancer 20-plus years ago, it was throat cancer. He had 20 sessions of radiation after the surgery. Now he's been great, no more cancer except for the radiation cooked the tissues so bad that he has problems swallowing. There's a lot of deformity because the muscles aren't working the way they're supposed to. And more important than either one of those, he's in constant pain. The pain was significant when I first started working with him as a medical massage client. If you could imagine laying your hand on somebody with the lightest pressure possible. That's the pressure I was using with this guy to try to relax the muscles and get him to have less pain. I've worked with him for a couple of years with the massage and we were making extremely slow progress, which is the other clients with radiation burns that I've worked with. It's always really, really slow progress. Because as soon as you loosen it up, it tightens right back up. So I think it was about two months ago now I was talking to him about the laser and I said, you need to do this. This is going to change your life and change your pain. He says "Well, what's going to change"? "This is well, my number one goal is that we're not constantly starting over with every session. We work with you. We're going to make progress. You're going to have less pain, you're going to have better mobility. And as you have less pain, you're going to have more energy and your brain is going to function better." So we start with five sessions. As I started working with him on the table after his fifth session he's going, "so why are you being more gentle with me"?

And I said, "I'm not, I'm always gentle. But I'm actually using twice as much pressure on you today, as I usually do". He goes, "No, you're not because there's no pain". And each successive area that I worked with him on was normally more painful on a regular session than the one before we got done with our session, and he goes, "This blows me away, there was not a spot of pain on anything you did". And it was like, as I was working into the areas that were the most stuck, the tissue was already giving before I got to it.

So there's a gazillion types of lasers out there, there are medical lasers, which you know, cut and do surgery with which are awesome. Our laser is a cold laser, it has no heat, and it cannot do any damage, you'll also hear it referred to as low-level light therapy. There are many, many names for these types of lasers, but the most important thing to remember is they cannot do any damage. Our particular laser is the same frequency as your body. So your body is more responsive and respective to it. If you think about telephone waves, it's the same thing as you're hearing me over the radio, it's all frequency, it's all waves. So the waves of our particular laser again, are programmed at the same frequency as your body. And that's what carries the information into your body. Riding on those waves is the frequency of specific things to help you heal. So let's say you're having muscle issues, we have the frequencies programmed into this laser for muscles, or bones or your heart. There are 300 different programs automatically built into our laser that can help you heal. And what it's really doing is it's talking to your cells. Each of these frequencies is built for the cells of a specific area in your body, your heart, your blood, your brain, your muscles, your nerves, whatever. And so as those cells through life through drama, trauma, injury, toxins, foods, whatever we have ingested or been exposed to, it affects our whole body, it affects those cells. And after a while, they just don't work anymore. They've gotten tired, they've gone to sleep, whatever. So I can't begin to tell you the level of excitement and joy I had working with him that it had overcome the increasing pain over the last 20-some years from his radiation. Again, he's happy he's still alive. But the amount of pain was mind-boggling. He's done a couple more sessions, I worked on him again and again and was able to access things I've never been able to touch before. What I find with every client that we're working with with the laser, the areas are more quickly relaxed, there's less discomfort. And it lasts.

It's like we had a gal come in the other day that fell on her head. Eight years ago off of a 12-foot ladder. She's a set designer. And again, she fell on her head and ended up with a TBI. This is where the cool part of our clinic is that she started with Cereset with our brain program for TBI. That got better her balance and walking and doing things improved. And then we started working with her for the whiplash on the massage table. And she had a lot of improvement. And then we started with her a few weeks ago with the laser. And she's a rarity. I do not expect this with any other client. But in two sessions, she came in and said I have not had any pain for two weeks. When her normal pain level is at an eight and it spikes up, you know beyond that regularly. So I can't tell you how excited I am to have this kind of result. With many, many clients. This is just two short stories of the incredible results we have. 

So again, if you're interested, give us a call on your mobile phone dial pound 250 and when prompted, say "Relax My Mind" And remember, whether it's physical, mental, or emotional pain, whether you're looking for medical massage, whether you're working looking for laser therapy, whether you just want more information about natural therapies, holistic therapies, again, dial pound 250, say "Relax, My Mind". And if you want more information, but yeah, I don't want to talk to anybody yet, I want to check them out, go to hope wellness institute.com. You can also if you're hearing me on the radio today, go to the previous podcasts at "Relax, My Mind". And many of our previous shows have been on there where you'll gain even more information, we're here for you when you're ready. 

What our particular laser is doing is, it's waking up your cells, the more things you've got wrong, the more cells are injured, and the longer it may take for you to be able to get back to 100%. And sometimes we have an exciting one, like with this gal, she fell off the ladder, she's done a tremendous amount of work to get back to where she was. And, you know, it was just the right settings and the right everything to go, wow, she got amazing results. Just give us a call and ask questions. Part of what we do. A lot of times if you've got specific issues, say for allergies, or one thing and another, we work on specific acupuncture points. Anybody familiar with acupuncture knows that in certain conditions, you use certain points. So what this is doing is it's stimulating those points without the needle and I was working with an acupuncturist. She was excited and amazed, she said, "This is better than acupuncture. With a needle, I'm just stimulating the point with this laser you're stimulating the point with specific healing information. So, you know, with that coming from, you know, an acupuncturist, who's also an MD, that just kind of blew me away with that type of information and feedback from her. Again, for each of these programs that we work with, yes, there are specific programs programmed into the laser. But we choose after working with you and working with your history and stuff what is the right program for you and what is the right combination. We pair that up with making sure you're talking again about your nutrition, we have specific supplements that we may suggest that are all micronutrients. So they go into the body and the cells easier. So as we are creating your program. 

People ask me all the time, well, what does HOPE Wellness Institute mean? H O P E is Healing Options for your Personal Excellence. So we provide these various options and combine them in just the right recipe for you to make sure you're getting the care and the healing that you need. The bottom line, we provide holistic health care and complementary alternative therapies that are going to give you the best life you can have. If you're sick and tired of being sick and tired. If you've been in pain for way too long. If you're just looking for help for you or a family member, give us a call. We will combine our therapies of nutrition, medical massage, neuromuscular bodywork, or whatever modality it is that works best for you. And with the laser, with our Cereset brain reset therapy. Between the people and just on the bodywork side of my office, we've got about 100 years of experience. And we collaborate all the time. And it's not just me talking about a client, it's like bouncing off my other therapists, hey, I've got this person and this and this is happening. And I haven't quite got it dialed in what can you suggest? Sometimes, like, I may not be the right person to work with you. That's why we have as a therapist, because Jessica has come from a dance background. I have all my dancers that come in to work with Jessica. Heather has got a background in high school band shows and stuff like that. So she works with musicians and things. So we each have our expertise and we're going to make sure you get the exact right therapy and therapists for you. So if you're experiencing pain, nutrition problems, digestion problems, stress problems, got a pain in your neck and it's sometimes I asked "Who it is". Still, you know, or you got depression, anxiety, or whatever is going on, give us a call on your mobile phone, dial pound 250, and when prompted, say "Relax, My Mind" We have team members waiting to pick up the phone and answer your questions about how our complementary and alternative therapies can help you. If we're busy, please leave us your name and number and when you call, you'll receive a copy of my book called Pain Lies Five Ways to Instantly Decrease Your Pain. Again, pick up your phone and say "Relax My Mind" after dialing pound 250 For HOPE Wellness Institute, we're here every week. And we'll always be talking about different things and how you can help your body be the best it can be. So join us next week and if you missed that one, the following week. Have a great week everybody bye