Creating positive change within the therapy room
The Healing Metaphor is a book of unique metaphors that creates the connecting strategy for the client to affect change.
Author Zeta Thomelin explains how we use metaphors in everyday language to enhance and empower communication, they are a familiar tool for the listener, trained in the hidden messages of stories from the parables and fables of childhood.
In essence therapeutic metaphors reflect universal truths, which help to bypass resistance and create that Eureka! moment of understanding for the client. Her other books have included an examination of The Trauma Effect and tips to give us all a bit of TLC with Self Help: Self Hypnosis.
They reach into the subconscious mind unhindered by the critical faculty of the conscious mind, like the medicine for a pet concealed in their food.
This book provides a wide range of developed metaphors dealing with emotional issues such as grief and relationship break-ups; habitual problems like trichotillomania and anorexia and physical issues such as labyrinthitis and pain.
What makes this book different to other script books is the nature of metaphors used and the poetic style of language and the book covers treatment areas where there is little material available, hence their inception.
The book has an introduction explaining the power of the metaphor and then it is divided into treatment areas for easy reference.
The Healing Metaphor examines the power of the metaphor and presents a collection of metaphorical scripts to create the connecting strategy for the client to create change.
Metaphors are familiar to everyone as a way to enhance communication, we are trained in the hidden messages or stories from the parables and fables of childhood.
This understanding is utilised within The Healing Metaphor, using familiar and universal truths, helping to bypass resistance and create the ‘eureka’ moment of understanding.
The metaphors reach into the subconscious mind unhindered by the critical faculty of the conscious mind, like a medicine for a pet concealed within their food.
The book provides a wide range of developed metaphors dealing with psychological and emotional issues including addiction, grief and anxiety and physical issues such as migraine, cancer and IBS. The scripts can be adapted to different situations as outlined in the book.
The Healing Metaphor is a valuable tool for therapists and hypnotherapists in professional practice and training.
Zetta Thomelin is a therapist in private practice, involved in the governance of complementary medicine as Chair of BAThH, as Vice-Chair of UKCHO and as a Trustee of Research Council for Complementary Medicine
Prior to her career in therapy, she worked in the media at News International and Chronos Group Publishing and later in the Third Sector as CEO of Children with AIDS Charity and Vice Chair of Mama Biashara.
She is the author of two other books, Self Help? Self-Hypnosis and The Trauma Effect.
The Healing Metaphor. Published by: Grosvenor House Publishing. Genre: Non-Fiction / Pages: 122. Availability: Print or E-book through bookshops and online stores.
