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Our team has been busy at multiple community health fairs, four golf tournaments, presentations on stress management and overall health, various corporate trainings, picnics during summer, Relay for Life-walk for cancer and other hospital health fairs, plus all the corporate chair massages that we tend to as our client base.

Liza Boubari has also been busy conducting her STEPS workshops for companies
at various locations. To find out more on the seminars and workshops, please visit
Corporate Stress Management, or call our office for bookings.

The first Wednesday of each month we conduct a workshop/seminar at our center.
Please join us afterwork and meet other like minded folks! Great revelations and connections have been made!

Are You feeling the Change? Your Body & Menopause 
Wed / March 3 /6-8 pm
Cost: $25

Past traumas still keeping you stuck?
Wed / April 7 / 6-8 pm
Cost: $25   

We were published on the Front page of The Spirited Women's Newsletter!
Weekly Blogger News Bulletin  1/29/10
Sponsored by  Liza Boubari

For more information on our Group sessions and Workshops, click here.

Listen to Your Body Talk
Every Month (starting September '09)
Time: 6-8 pm Cost: $15 One week prior RSVP is a must!
Experience a powerful transformation - Within.

This group session/workshop is created to lead you through a process of self-discovery.
A powerful connection between body and mind. Isn't it time to accept and appreciate
yourself for who you are? Re-discover your wonderful self! We utilize hypnosis
hypnotherapy techniques of suggestions and affirmations for emotional release. When we look at what it is we have to offer or give each other, we see that it is only ourselves. We at InnerSite commit to help you bring more harmony and balance of mind, body and emotions in your life. 

Who should join? Anyone who is interested in a better life! Hypnosis/hypnotherapy can help you through gaining self-confidence, lose weight, stop smoking, release anxiety, fears, emotional blocks and phobias that stand in your way to success. Due to space availability, you must RSVP

MANIFESTING TOTAL WELLNESS & HEALTHY LIFESTYLE
Saturday, Sept 8th 2008
Speakers: S. Mike Neskovic, M.D. and Liza Boubari, CCHT
Learn how Western medicine in conjunction with Alternative health can help YOU heal and feel better... Physically, Mentally and Emotionally!
Glendale Main Library 222 E. Harvard St. Glendale

De-Stress Day at Harley-Davidson of Glendale
October 20, 2008 3717 San Fernando Rd., Glendale
Join us for De-Stress day at the Glendale Harley where you can Relax, check your Blood pressure and eyes, get a Massage, learn Tai Chi!

WOW - Women of Wellness
May 24 6-9 pm.
Manifesting Physical, Mental & Emotional Wellness -seminar at the Glendale Main Library!

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Articles & Information

Can Hypnosis Snuff Out a Smoker's Cigarette Habit?     9.11.2009
Study shows hypnotism is an effective smoking-cessation technique.
By Lindsay Chura, U.S. News & World Report

Smokers trying to quit sometimes use nicotine patches to fight their tobacco dependence. But patches don't work for everyone. Research suggests that patches might be made more effective if used in combination with hypnosis, just as they tend to work better when used in conjunction with professional counseling. A study showed hypnotherapy to be as effective as standard behavioral counseling when combined with nicotine patches in helping smokers to quit and stay off cigarettes for one year.

"This study provides much-needed evidence that hypnosis is indeed a very helpful treatment," says lead author Timothy Carmody.

During hypnotherapy, Carmody explained, patients are coaxed into a relaxed state and then provided with a series of skills for coping with withdrawal symptoms and the urge to smoke. Patients are given an audiotape of this training to reinforce these messages at home, and over time it is hoped they will gain increased confidence in their ability to stay off cigarettes for the long term.

Hypnotherapy is one of many alternative therapies gaining wider acceptance at some of the nation's best hospitals and medical research institutes.

The study, conducted at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California-San Francisco, was published in the May 2008 issue of Nicotine & Tobacco Research. A total of 286 participants were randomly divided and received either hypnosis or standard behavioral counseling aimed at smoking cessation. During standard behavioral counseling, patient and counselor discussed the dangers of smoking and the benefits of quitting. Participants in both groups were seen for two 60-minute sessions and received three 20-minute follow-up calls to reinforce the messages discussed in either the hypnosis or behavioral counseling treatment sessions.

Hypnosis was particularly helpful for would-be quitters who reported a history of depression. That finding suggests that smokers who have struggled with depression—or perhaps with other psychiatric conditions, Carmody says—might someday receive hypnosis as part of the quitting process.   Continued:  http://health.msn.com/health-topics/quit-smoking/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100244399>1=31020

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ON AIR STORIES
FOX 11- Monday June 14, 2004
Fox11-Lisa's LA - aired Liza Boubari during one of her Hypno-Massages. This is one of the most profound ways of healing. Having massage while hypnotic suggestions are given for weight loss, pain control, healing and much more. See: Hypno-Massage

April 25, 2006 — It's conventional wisdom that if you want to shed some weight, you head to the gym and eat less. It turns out, however, that sleeping may be one of the best things people can do to get thin. "There's convincing evidence that a good night's sleep really can pay dividends in terms of weight control," said "Good Morning America" medical contributor Dr. David Katz. Other Alternatives - For those who feel that sleep alone cannot possibly help you lose weight, hypnosis is catching on as a tool in the battle of the bulge. Experts say it can boost determination and will
power. Australian hypnotherapist Rick Collingwood has been having some success with his hypnosis CDs. About 60 percent of his patients noticed a difference when they played the CDs imploring them to lay off the food intake. They play the CDs 45 minutes a day, six days a week.

Dateline NBC - January 5, 2004
Losing it: Six alumni pursue different diets before High School reunion. By: John Larson Los Angeles Times - Health - January 5, 2004
Hypnotic reach - Doctors find recovery is aided by helping patients into healing trances. By: Benedict Carey.

Business Week - Health - February 2, 2004
There's Entrancing News About Hypnosis
It's gaining credibility as a treatment for multitude of troubles, from nicotine addiction to post-traumatic stress disorder. By: Kate Murphy

Los AngelesTimes L - Health - February 5, 2001
The Healing, Human Touch of Massage By: Barrie Cassileth

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN - July 2001
Shattering Myths about Hypnosis - By: Michael R. Nash
Though often denigrated as fakery or wishful thinking, hypnosis has been shown to be a real phenomenon with a variety of therapeutic uses - especially in controlling pain.

AMERICAN HEALTH FOR WOMEN - October 1998
Healing with Hypnosis - The age-old technique is garnering new respect for its ability to treat everything from dental anxiety to back pain. Are you a candidate? By: Susan Davis

St. Luke Hospitals; Massage Therapy
At The St. Luke Hospitals, our certified massage therapist practices the art of therapeutic massage to relieve everyday stress and anxiety and to promote long-term health and wellness. These services are provided at The St. Luke Hospital East. Hour-long massages are available.

Kiwanis Magazine 1998
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Hypnosis Works
The power of trance can no longer be disputed, a psychiatrist at Stanford University says. Now we just have to use it.
By Michael Abrams Photography by Dan Winters

DISCOVER Vol. 25 No. 11 | November 2004 | Mind & Brain
The patient is 80 years old. She is lying under the bright lights of an operating room at Harvard’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where radiologist Elvira Lang is about to thread a catheter through her arteries. The tiny tube will work its way to one of the woman’s kidneys, where it will block the organ’s blood supply. A surgeon is scheduled to remove the kidney the next day.
Embolizing the kidney will help keep the operation simple, safe, and tidy. But the woman is running a fever, and her kidney may be infected. Because she ate earlier in the day, she can’t be given a sedative. What should have been a routine procedure has become an ordeal. “This is your safe and pleasant place to be,” one of Lang’s associates reads from a laminated card. “You can use it in a sense to play a trick on the doctors. Your body has to be here, but you don’t.” (to be continued...)

Hospitals Getting a Grip: Massage Therapy Finds Place in Patient Care for FM and More ImmuneSupport.com
12-28-2004 By Hilary E. MacGregor ( Los Angeles Times)
You lie on the crisp, white sheet of the massage table in semidarkness. The scent of almond oil fills the air. Then come the hands, gently kneading the necklace of knots that rings your back, your neck, your shoulders. You close your eyes, breathe deeply and let yourself relax. Beyond the pleasures of the moment, though, are there medical benefits to massage? Hospitals and medical clinics around the United States are beginning to integrate massage into patient care. Massage is currently the most common nontraditional therapy offered in U.S. hospitals, according to an American Hospital Association survey in 2003. The most common uses for massage in hospitals: helping patients cope with pain and stress, and as a therapeutic service for cancer and maternity patients.

At Martha Jefferson Hospital in Charlottesville , Va. , cancer patients are offered therapeutic massage by one of eight trained therapists. Longmont United Hospital in Colorado has a massage therapist on staff around the clock for patients who need or request it. At Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York , 11 massage therapists are on a staff team working with hundreds of patients admitted to the hospital or seen at its various clinics. And at the UCLA Center for East-West Medicine, a team of four therapists uses massage to alleviate pain and symptoms for patients suffering from illnesses such as fibromyalgia, migraines and back pain. (continued...)