My Lost Opportunity

Have you ever been hypnotized? I was always the one they led up to the stage from the audience. I could be so easily hypnotized it was nuts. Infatuated by it, I took some classes Teaching me how to hypnotize others. Dr. Hickman was teaching them. She gave me a book. Hypnotherapy by Dr. Irene Hickman. I was not ready for this. I thought it was a bunch of hooey. I did not appreciate the book or her autograph. Ten years later fate threw me into a hypnotherapy course. I am now a licensed hypnotherapist. Wishing I had not been so hasty. I had thrown away the book. Feel badly now, as Dr. Irene Hickman Was one of three people instrumental in Introducing hypnotherapy to the United States. I was shocked when I took the course, And learned that the woman who desperately Wanted to intern me years earlier was one of The pioneers. She was a calm, quiet, older, eighty-year old who spoke softly….