We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Natalie Candela. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Natalie below.

Natalie, appreciate you joining us today. We’d love to hear the backstory behind a risk you’ve taken – whether big or small, walk us through what it was like and how it ultimately turned out.

I have taken many risks in my life, but two are specifically relevant to my current work. The first one was deciding to change the whole direction of my career from an established job in the field of education to being self-employed in the field of health and wellness. I was choosing to move from a regular paycheck, security, and benefits to a world of unknowns and uncertainty. After losing my husband, I was left alone with two children, and there was not much room for error. However, I have always been driven by purpose and guided by intuition that allows me to assess if I am moving in alignment with my path. At that time, I had a very strong sense that no matter how uncertain the future, I had to continue moving forward. As I always do during major transitions, I took one step at a time and kept going despite the fear. It took a few years to get established, but my family survived, and I have succeeded at staying true to my purpose.

By the time I took my next major risk, I had been working as a hypnotherapist for a few years. Throughout that time my focus was on establishing my business, and I felt that I had to be everything for everyone. In other words, if people had a need, I had to meet it. At some point, however, I began to feel a disconnect between my intuitive sense of my path and how I was approaching my work. My work was becoming more deeply grounded in my spiritual, though non-religious. beliefs. I felt, however, that I had to keep those hidden. I felt that they could not interfere with my work, and in
a way, I continued to remain in a spiritual “closet.”

The more I continued to compartmentalize my life and work, however, the more dissatisfied I became with both. It was hard for me to separate my work from the spiritual lens that helped me understand the behavioral patterns of my clients and guide them through transformations. I was also losing interest in being everything to everyone. I felt that I needed to develop a specialization, but I wasn’t allowing myself to do that. Then finally, I decided that it was time to re-evaluate my path and to decide who I was and how I wanted to proceed.

I have known since childhood that I was meant to be a teacher, and it was in the education field that I spent most of my career. When I became a hypnotherapist, I thought that I left that path, but as I went along, I began to realize that I was simply meant to shift into a different type of teaching. I wasn’t meant to teach spirituality by standing in front of students. I was meant to incorporate what I knew into my work and help people transform through the knowledge and the application of spiritual truths. My own inner insecurities made it difficult for me to call myself a spiritual teacher. For the longest time, I felt that if I acknowledged it, I would be an imposter. I also realized that what I truly wanted to focus on was life transformations that helped people remember who they truly are, reclaim their power, and create the positive changes they want to see in their lives.

After a long internal struggle, I decided that it was time for me to come out of the “closet” and openly declare that my work was guided by spiritual truths. My biggest fear was that people would turn away from me and I would lose clients. Despite my fears, however, I revised my website to state that I was not only a hypnotherapist but also a transformation coach and a spiritual teacher. I shared my philosophy and my approach to work. And what I found was that I started attracting clients that were much more in alignment with what I had to offer. I became unapologetic about my skills, my knowledge, my passion, and my path. By putting it all out in the open, I gave potential clients an opportunity to decide if engaging in spiritually grounded transformation work was best for them. I never force my views and perceptions on anyone, but now I can be authentic about who I am and my perceptions of reality. By taking this risk and accepting my path, I have allowed myself to come into greater alignment with my purpose and thus become a better instrument of transformation for those whom I am meant to serve.

Natalie, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

I am a hypnotherapist with a background in education and conflict resolution. I am also a spiritual (non-religious) teacher. Everything I do focuses on helping individuals awaken to the greater reality, remember who they truly are, and reconnect with their inner power so they can learn from their past and create the life they wish to live. I individualize my work to the needs and beliefs of every client. Those who come in strictly for hypnotherapy, receive that. To those who are open to more, I offer a combination of teaching, coaching, and hypnosis. The issues that I most enjoy helping my clients with are knowing who they are and improving self-esteem, releasing grief and trauma, alleviating anxiety, fears, and other limiting emotions, as well as finding their path and engaging in conscious creation,

In addition to hypnotherapy, I do hypnotic regressions. I work with people who are interested in past-life work, and with those who have had unusual experiences or contact with non-human life forms in this life. Some of my clients have regressions purely out of curiosity, but the majority of what I do is done for therapeutic reasons. When doing past life regressions, whether regular or QHHT (Dolores Cannon’s Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique), I look for patterns that can help me trace the origin of a current issue and help the client clear the old energy or reclaim the skills or knowledge acquired in the past that can be useful now.

I am a systemic, big-picture thinker, and I see every person as a system with multiple moving parts. Figuring out why a person has certain behavioral patterns or certain recurrent issues is like putting together a puzzle, and I love putting the pieces together to reveal the bigger picture and bring clarity and relief to my clients.

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

I think that what is most helpful to me in succeeding is being authentic and honest. I have no intention of trapping a person into becoming my client. I only want to work with people who want to work with me, and I only want to work with them for as long as I can help them. I always share my honest thoughts and expectations about what I can do, and if I don’t yet have enough information to tell them how we will proceed or how long it will take, then I tell them that. I never utilize the sales techniques that force prospective clients to make quick decisions (i.e., if you schedule with me during this call, you will receive a discount), and I don’t offer packages of sessions for hypnotherapy. I explain to those who ask me about such discounts that I can never predict how many sessions a person will need. I respond to issues. I as I identify them. I will never sell five sessions to someone in advance because I have no idea if they will even need five sessions. I also spend time with prospective clients answering their questions and addressing their concerns. Many people have told me at the end of the free phone consultation that they believed me to be open and honest and felt comfortable with me. Finally, I always encourage people to consult their intuition before deciding whether I am a good fit for their needs. Since my intention is always to empower my clients, I want them to know from the very beginning that I will never force or coerce them and that their inner wisdom should always serve as their compass.

Do you think you’d choose a different profession or specialty if you were starting now?

I believe that at every point in our life, we make the best decisions we can based on the information and resources we have, and based on the knowledge of self and the world at that time. As we move through life and perhaps evolve, we become ready to make different decisions. As such, if I could go back to any point of my life, I know I would make the same choices I made at that time. No choice is ever wasted. Would I become a hypnotherapist if I had to do it again, absolutely. I love what I do, It fulfills me, and it allows me to help people in the best way I can. However, before I became a hypnotherapist, I was an educator. Would I go back and erase that and become a hypnotherapist from the beginning? No, absolutely not. There was a lot of learning I had to do during that stage of my life that contributed to me becoming a better hypnotherapist and coach. In other words, I value everything I have done in my life, and I would not go back and change anything. Would I go back to the time when I became a hypnotherapist and choose that profession again? Absolutely. I love what I do. I love that I can combine coaching with hypnotherapy. I love that I can infuse spiritual conversations into what I do for clients that are open to them. I don’t believe I am meant to work with large groups, but when I work one-on-one with someone, I can make a real difference. I am in the right line of work and at the right time in my journey.

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