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ESM & You  This website represents my invitation to you to learn about and participate in the process of Energetic Self-Manifestation or ESM. Moreover, I am recommending this "life approach" and "journey of self-love" to you because I know it both professionally and personally to offer the deepest and most comprehensive changes to oneself and the way one relates to the world, than any therapy I have come across. Furthermore, the changes realized, regardless of where you elect to stop on this transformative journey, are lasting. There is no honey-moon effect with behavioural gains and changes fading over time. Let me begin by sharing my experience with you.I have been a psychologist and psychotherapist for over 25 years now. Throughout those years I have studied and acquired skills in many psychological approaches for helping people with a wide range of emotional and behavioural problems. I also graduated with my doctorate degree from an empirically-driven psychology department at the University of Western Ontario. In this context I studied advance courses in statistics and scientific methodology and applied multivariate statistics to my dissertation data. In short, as a well-trained scientist-practitioner and clinician, I possess a breadth of knowledge concerning the scientific method as well as what can and cannot be accomplished therapeutically by way of psychological interventions available, to date. Too often as a therapist, however, I have felt frustrated as I experienced the limitations of my psychological training to help my patients to heal fully. It seemed that they were often forced to accommodate to emotional problems and behavioural patterns which would not completely resolve. Thus, they were left, at best, managing symptoms or coping in their lives rather than thriving. This was the case, especially, for individuals who had experienced lives of repeated neglect and trauma. This is why I have felt so excited to be working with Energetic Self-Manifestation or ESM and why, through my website, I wish to extend an invitation to you to give ESM a try. While ESM has yet to be empirically validated through controlled studies, my observations on a case by case basis has shown me the tremendous potential it has to support individuals in realizing their potential through realizing their innate wholeness as human Energy Beings. In my opinion, there is truth to that old adage "the proof is in the pudding". That proof has been realized for me, not only in my work as a psychologist and therapist, but through my personal journey of self-change and self-growth in working with the Energy from an ESM perspective. More specifically, I have learned to let go of fear I never even knew I had - fear which contributed to many sources of anxiety in me which prevented me from moving forward in my life with ease and joy. Of late, my reality has involved a series of challenges, involving repeated financial and emotional betrayal from individuals I once held dear to my heart. Believe me, some of these challenges have felt huge! It felt particularly painful when I eventually understood that at a deep level all betrayal is self-betrayal - and, thus, the reality that through the years I had betrayed myself in many ways! Nevertheless, I have gradually come to look upon such challenges as opportunities for growth as I have begun to embrace my pain while letting go of anger, fear and resentment. This has led me to an experience of loving much more unconditionally than I ever thought possible. This includes loving and accepting myself, imperfections, self-betrayals and all! Despite all my training and degrees, what I hadn't fully understood up until now was the impact of the presence or absence of self-love in one's life. When we love ourselves, we make such different choices for ourselves than when we dislike, hate or barely tolerate ourselves. Based upon my experience, I agree with the ESM perspective that the root cause of all our psychological ills - whether it be depression, anxiety, anger, addictive behaviours, post-traumatic stress disorder etc. arises out of: disconnection from self an absence of self-love and self-appreciation and the avoidance of the emotional pain stemming from this. I am telling you this as someone who has had several years of talk therapy and who owns and has read enough self-help books to fill a library - truth be told, I have a library! And yet before my experience with the Energy and ESM, lasting self-change seemed elusive and at times, downright futile. Professionally, I value the Energy and ESM because it lets me off the hook. I don't need to know everything. I simply need to trust that if the client is open, they will receive what they need and always what they receive is beneficial in moving them forward on their journey of self-love and acceptance. Sometimes the changes aren't immediately apparent, as the Energy seeks to build a solid foundation in the individual - a necessity for the changes which lie ahead. But eventually it all comes together and, suddenly, the individual is moving ahead in their chosen direction by leaps and bounds. It is especially exciting because ESM addresses the root cause of psychological problems. Thus, the goal is one of eliminating symptoms of anxiety, depression or anger rather than teaching ways of managing them. Trusting in such a fabulous Co-therapist has made my job so much easier and less stressful. Throughout the years I have met with many clients suffering from the effects of childhood abuse, including sexual abuse and trauma. The gifts of the Energy are so apparent in such cases. Clients consistently report feeling "cocooned" by the Energy as they relive their traumatic memories and are found to be calm and grounded at the end of an ESM session. This is in contrast to clients of bygone years who, despite attempts to ground them, were too often left reeling out the office door at the end of such a session. In fact, in ESM, it is the clients who complete their sessions feeling "euphoric" (a "high" without drugs as some clients claim) who may need grounding. The Energy "dialogues" as a medium of "love" with everyone from a baby in the womb to the very elderly. As a psychologist, however, I am currently registered to only see men and women from ages 17 to 70 years of age. Such individuals may choose to see themselves as "straight", "gay", "bi", or "otherwise". The only requirement that I have in order to work with you is that you are committed to doing whatever it takes to make changes in yourself and your life. This means that you are prepared to put your Intent to work with the Energy towards self-change first, an important act of self-love in and of itself. Similarly, the only criterion required to work successfully with the Energy is that you "show up with intent". You do not need to be highly educated or very smart. You don't even need to be very psychologically minded (although this might change with the Energy!). If any of the foregoing resonates with you and you honestly wish to pursue deep and lasting change - or if you simply have questions to which you are seeking answers and possess an openness to exploring new options - I invite you to get in touch with me for an initial consultation. I look forward to hearing from you. Should you feel any apprehension about taking that first step in contacting me - remember the antidote to fear proposed by Susan Jeffers (1987, 2006) in her book of the same name, Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway! I wish you all the very best, whatever you may choose for yourself. Yours sincerely,  Gayle M. Way Ph. D., R. Psych. Jeffers, Susan. Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway. New York: A Fawcett Columbine book (Ballantine), 1987, 1988. |
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