We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Beth Sullivan-Jawitz a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Alright, Beth thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Was there a moment in your career that meaningfully altered your trajectory? If so, we’d love to hear the backstory.

In 2007, I graduated from Florida International University with a Master’s degree in Nursing to pursue a career as a psychiatric nurse practitioner. I struggled with addiction many years prior and am so grateful that I reclaimed my life in addiction recovery. It was passion to provide valuable services under the umbrella of addiction, alcoholism, and mental health, and I did so in a formal setting for many years.

In 2018, I began struggling with significant medical issues. It took nearly 2 years to determine a diagnosis, and during this time I began a journey of self-healing. This included meditation, yoga, transformational workshops, and taking a hard look at my perception and negative self-communication. As my health declined, I discovered that the holistic care including supplements was the only thing keeping me going. The ah-ha moment occurred when I changed the way I communicated to my unconscious mind. I stopped speaking of all I feared and began inputting the direction I wanted to go in statements such as “I am healing or healed, or I am healing.” I had prior exposure to Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and began exploring options to shift my health and my perception of my circumstances. A few of the techniques that were invaluable included setting positive resource anchors, releasing negative emotions, utilizing sensory cues to get a clear picture of my desired state, and changing my self-communication. I had begun a healing journey before I received a formal diagnosis that I was able to treat with a holistic protocol.

Going through this process was extremely eye-opening! It dawned on me that so much more could be done in the realm of mental health and empowering others to have the life they desired. There is certainly a place for psychotropic medication and traditional psychiatry has helped many people. However, all too often I encountered people with the belief that having a bad week or two required psychotropic medication. In many cases medication can be beneficial, but unfortunately it is in competition with how we communicate to ourselves and our limiting beliefs.

This was truly very loud defining moment for me. I wanted to bring more to the table and offer alternative measures for healing. In 2019, I certified as a practitioner in Neuro-Linguistic Programming, hypnotherapy, and Time Line Therapy ™. I completed a master certification in September 2021 and trained in additional modalities. This has allowed me to create value in the lives of many through individual sessions, coaching, corporate wellness, and presenting workshops in underserved and trauma impacted communities.

Beth, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

I am so grateful for the defining moment that prompted a change in my career. Prior to my experience with illness, I did not fully understand the tremendous impact of holistic healing and how much is in our control.

In 2019, I opened my company Full Moon Transformation. I provide several individualized services allowing my clients to discover their purpose, release negative emotions, develop effective strategies, conquer limiting beliefs, release phobias, create self-communication patterns that produce results, integrate internal conflict, create effective resource states, build resilience, release the fear of public speaking, and much more. My clientele includes professional clients as well with the focus on building rapport and effective communication, employee satisfaction, stress management, attaining powerful goals, and holistic wellness.

I believe my unique approach and my psychiatric training sets me apart from other practitioners. In the realm of trauma and mental health I can quickly identify when other resources are needed such as general psychiatric care and therapy. My approach is extremely individualized, and I have received extensive training allowing me to introduce many tools and processes that are not mainstream.

Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?

For the great majority of my time practicing as a full-time psychiatric nurse practitioner I met with my patients in person. I was told, and fully believed, the connection and energy in person made a session more impactful. I started my new business just prior to the beginning of Covid. Everything went virtual quickly and I had the opportunity to readjust my thinking. If my thought process was that the sessions will be less impactful, I would be creating that exact result. What I found was rapport and value can easily be created whether contact is in person, virtual, or by phone. In fact, I made a great effort to be even more present. My lesson was results are unlimited and not context specific.

Putting training and knowledge aside, what else do you think really matters in terms of succeeding in your field?

I am extremely grateful that my NLP, hypnotherapy, and Time Line Therapy ™ training gave me an opportunity to go through the different processes. I have utilized a great majority of the tools and techniques that I use with clients for my own personal break throughs. This includes a long-term fear of public speaking. I continue to coach with my mentor and trainer, Debra Heslin. There is tremendous value in experiencing the transformation firsthand.

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