Workshop Graduate Testimonials

I sat through HBLU Level I training with jaw dropped open thinking, "This is absolutely amazing!" and I knew that my practice would change completely from that first experience. Since then, my income has steadily increased and my client load has moved from "ebb & flow" to consistent flow. 6 weeks after the training, my client load doubled somehow without any different marketing effort on my part. Now, one year into using HBLU with my clients, I have a waiting list of people who'd like to work with me and I am looking into hiring an administrative person to help me run my business and the healing Center I have created with colleagues. I am so grateful to Judith and HBLU for giving me wonderful tools and a very comprehensive methodology to help people really, truly heal on all levels. It makes my work so much fun and instead of having a handful of great "breakthrough, miracle" sessions each year, I have that many each day. Also, I love meeting people and hearing what they are up against and feeling very confident that working together using HBLU, we will find what is going on and help them move forward. Finally after so many years of insight-oriented therapies in the field and the idea that "awareness is half the battle" I can say to people who report having all the insight in the world, but the same old problems, "Well then, let's get to the other half, after all, we have the technology." HBLU is integrative healing technology for all levels of a person's being...and I love to experience and be a part of that! 

Amy St. Hilaire, MFT
the Center: Therapies for Mind-Body-Spirit
Laguna Hills, CA 
949-929-5470
www.Get-Centered.com

"I have trained in many different therapeutic modalities and HBLU pulls together everything I know and works when no other modality does. Eighty percent of the work I do with patients is HBLU."

Sierra Levy, N.D.

Healing From The Body Level Up I

Of the many workshops I have attended, none has compared with Judith Swack’s for sheer intellectual excitement, psychotherapeutic innovativeness, and practical effectiveness. This workshop opens up new and important territory.

 - Nathaniel Branden, Ph.D., author

I walked out of your workshop Healing from the Body Level Up with a bag full of goodies that I use almost on a daily basis. Your techniques were astonishingly easy to learn and the results have been proven to me over and over again. It never fails to amaze me how we can use our bodies to figure out what ails us and then use it to heal ourselves. Such a simple yet such a power concept. I feel the entire world of traditional therapy better watch out. The revolution has started! 

- Sonia Trindade

Thank you for allowing me to attend your workshop last fall. For the past year, I have been the health care provider for community health workers dealing with victims of Hurricane Andrew. I have taught them to use the Callahan Tapping to clear themselves from the trauma and daily stress of their work. It has proven to be an invaluable tool for self stress management. I commend your work and encourage you to continue to bring this to the community.

 - Janet Konefal, Ph.D., M.P.H., University of Miami School of Medicine

This workshop was outstanding, the best I’ve ever attended. It gave us hands-on techniques that were powerful and easy to administer that resulted in positive results.

 - Dianne Ballard M.S, C.M.H.C

I came to this workshop with high expectations. This is truly the first time in any workshop that my expectations were exceeded.

 -- Michelle DuBois, M.A. Chemical Dependency Specialist III

A wonderful integration of science and mysticism, of conscious, unconscious, body and soul processes. For me, it’s cutting edge. It’s not opposition, its integration, a process that transcends the opposites. Judith does it beautifully! 

- Donna Shin, MA, Counseling in private practice

These techniques are immediately useful, on the cutting edge of healing, and offer a measurable way to gauge the success of treatment. If I had only one workshop I could attend, this would be it!

 - Wendy Rawlings M.S., C.M.H.C.

Are there seminars that are turning points in the lives of all participants? This is a seminar that is just that. 

- Luana Richards

The best cure for burn-out I've ever seen! This workshop has given me the tools to increase my own resourcefulness as well as the resourcefulness of students and other professionals.

 - Ruthe Monahan, Educator

Judith was absolutely correct: patients who do not hold their adjustments almost invariably have a trauma frozen in their bodies. Once I release that body imprint, patients respond beautifully.  

- Richard Herbold, Chiropractor

Judith is sensitive, responsive and knowledgeable. She engenders tremendous trust and confidence throughout the learning process which allowed me to go to the next step.  

- Myrna Socol, Career Counselor

To detraumatize a patient in three hours when years of therapy had virtually little impact is profound.
The results I'm seeing in my clients are dramatic.  

- Dr. Cal Robert Regula, Psychologist

Judith Swack has presented a system of healing that works. That’s the amazing part. She also is witty, fun, and passionate about the work and also very supportive of the individual participant. 

- Susan Alt, Artist

It has been over a week since I completed your introductory course in HBLU and I want to share with you how HBLU has changed my life. I have a degree in sociology, a strong interest in alternative healing methods, and was a non-profit executive for many years. I discovered your work more than two years ago, when I went to your presentation at the National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine (NICABM) Conference in Hilton Head, SC.  This was less than a month after the personal trauma of checking in on a neighbor to discover that he had shot himself two days earlier. I felt very uneasy and, during one of your group healing sessions,  HBLU helped me discover that the source of my anxiety was not just the suicide, but was rooted in childhood violence and loss trauma that I had dealt with extensively in therapy. As you know counselors refer to these episodes as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). After I returned from the conference I got help from an HBLU-trained LCSW. She assisted me in healing my anxiety. With only a few sessions I uncovered issues that I had pushed away or made light of. In the process I learned a lot about myself. It is amazing to me how easily we brush off both large and small traumas, dismissing the fact that they often drive the way we respond to life.

After more than two years without any recurrence of my anxiety something triggered another episode. I began working briefly with Normal Feldman (HBLU-trained) who fortunately was there when I needed help. I feel privileged to have Norma guide me, as she is such a delightful, intelligent and loving person. Again, I found the process of dealing with my current crisis to be quick and relatively painless. There were no long talk sessions where you must relive all the unfortunate events in your life. That work was very deep and eventually dealt with the Enneagram wound, through a process you developed with Andrew Hahn, Psy.D. As a result, I have experienced what feels to me like, "a miraculous personal transformation." I am still the same person but the ground I stand on is firmer.

This led me to an interest in taking your level one course. I praise the fact that you are willing to train lay people. One big change that has occurred through my healing was that in preparing for your course I did not look up all the answers to the questions that might be asked. I didn’t feel like I had to be the "know it all." I’m still a very serious individual, but I could sit back and enjoy your lively descriptions and then practice the techniques with classmates.

During the course we did some rather intense work. But, I was able to move at a gentler pace, which I am sure was beneficial to the healing under way. It is a great relief to not have to be a top performer. And I now realize that this old way of doing things led to my burnout in my former profession as an executive.

One of the most touching experiences I encountered during the course was using HBLU with a classmate. We were helping each other clear phobias. My friend had a fear of flying which had generalized into a fear of leaving home. This touched me deeply because the energy of my youth had been expended on figuring out how many ways I could leave home. It really touched my heart to imagine someone being imprisoned by fear.

Using the protocol you taught us, I was to guide her to discover the root cause of her problem. Through muscle testing we discovered that she had a limiting core belief, "phobias kept her safe." Using techniques we had learned we healed that and moved on to the phobias themselves. Within two hours, she uncovered two traumas that her body indicated were the root cause. These were things that happened when she was a toddler and fell into harms way. It suddenly made sense that she had to find another way to be safe. The phobias worked for a while but as she phrased it "they held me back." I didn’t have to solve the problem for my friend, only guide her to uncover her deepest wisdom. It was a beautiful process and to help her was a great gift.

This and other experiences have prompted me to make another big change in the way I relate to others. As a friend said to me once, "Kay, you are almost a pathological problem solver." I had to agree and noted that I have been consistently rewarded for being a good problem solver. However, I now find that I can stand back and let others figure out their own solutions. In the long run this will be better for those people in my life that have become dependent on my skill. I can see that friends and family appreciated a quick answer but learned nothing. In short now they can be empowered to trust their deepest wisdom and find their own answers. This is the essence of HBLU.

Thanks for all you are doing to give this to the world. And thank you for giving me a tool that I can use for self-healing should the need arise. I feel lighter and wonderfully alive.

Kay Powell, retired and still devoted to personal growth and self-actualization

HBLU LEVEL I  February 2003, Needham, MA

I was previously trained in energy psychology techniques and furthermore came from Arizona to take HBLU I in Needham. I found that the value of the beginning course far outweighs the cost. Incredible value for the money. I greatly enjoyed the training and feel that I learned a great deal. I also did wonderful personal work.

Jan Langford, therapist, Mesa, AZ

This work has taken the discoveries of Goodheart and Diamond to the Ph.D. level! It is comprehensive, impressive, systematic, and reproducible, and obviously helpful. I can foresee infinite uses for this work.

Elisa Adams, nutrition specialist, Boston, MA

Other representative comments from participants of HBLU I, Needham, MA February, 2003:

• Wonderful! Educational, Friendly, Helpful, Intellectually Stimulating. Great Balance between instruction and practice time. Sorry it’s time to leave.

• I enjoyed the class and the people I worked with. It was great to have hands on practice of the techniques. Judith’s analogies and explanations were great, easy to understand, and relative to the training.

• I really enjoyed this class – the material, the people and the progress everyone had. Thank you – a great start in this work.

LIMITING IDENTITIES AND THE ESSENCE PROCESS September 2002, Portland, OR

Success! The HBLU limiting identities workshop is life-changing. I’m not the same person I was before the workshop – or should I say I am now " A Person" J . Handling the Void layers of the Enneagram wounds are like giving a person back their life. HBLU never ceases to amaze me at its speed and the incredible changes it makes in the client. Thank you Judith for your brilliance and for caring enough to make sure others have this information to heal the ego.

Aerial Long, therapist, MS, CMF, Beaverton, OR

Thanks again for a great training on Limiting Identities. A day after our training ended I flew to San Diego for a week and got to work on some of my friends there. We cleared two double binds, a family secrecy contract and several Enneagram layers. On myself, I cleared the I’m not Safe layer, the I am Lazy, and another overtangle. Yesterday I cleared some grudges I had. I use the F/O holding and the tapping techniques nearly everyday. I feel like a totally different person. My San Diego friends noticed a huge difference in me since the last time I visited. HBLU has made a very significant difference in the peace I feel day to day; in particular I am considerably less reactive to things. And it is so fun to use this knowledge with others. Now when people tell me their stories I can recognize double binds, grudges, and overtangles and Enneagram layer wounds. As soon as I see one I recognize, I’m thrilled because I know what to do. I love this work! It is so effective and transformational. Thank you so much, Judith. I am so grateful for you.

Julie Matheson, Master's degree candidate, Boston, MA

Dear Judith,

Wow!…and the beat goes on . One would think after a 5-day workshop as high energy as this one, than a drive to central Maine, there would be several hours, if not days rest required. (I’m not an 8) I once again found myself driving home, singing to the radio, dancing in my car, and feeling so much energy from this workshop that I couldn’t even go to bed for a couple of hours. (a similar thing happened after HBLU I). I continued to process the work through my dreams, and believe I continued with the work, transforming MORE…e.g. And OLD phobia to spiders, some sexual hangups, and many more old patterns that have just hung on. I woke up around 3:00 a.m. after "dreaming" that I had integrated new energy into my body that my soul has been waiting for so that I can finish my Mission….now, at 6:30 a.m. I am sending this email to you. NOT my usual schedule, I can assure you. I could go on, but feel I need not say more….except "GRATITUDE!"

Candace Green, therapist, Camden, ME

Other representative comments from participants of Limiting Identities, Portland OR, September, 2002:

• Judith is organized, clear, and extremely adept at communicating. Her explanations, overviews, and connection with the participants are superb. Also, she is wonderfully entertaining and energetic. She obviously loves her work.

• I love the stories and the pearls. The stories are the best part about the Enneagram and the wisdom Judith has gathered.

• Not only would I love to share this information with my colleagues of how HBLU could help psychotherapists – with all of their/our work with their/our clients – I would like to introduce all Primary Care Physicians and other medical doctors to HBLU- so it can be incorporated into medical practice! for all of our sakes. Thank you Judith – for your work and sharing it with us – and making 6 days far too short. I’m experiencing some loss trauma that the class is over!

• What I got is totally what I needed.

• The workshop’s greatest weakness is its best strength. It’s intense and unrelenting in quality, content, and practice. Judith’s intention for all of us is to able to apply the protocol, understand the material, and get results.

Boston University School of Social Work April 2004, Boston, MA