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Hypnotherapy & Deep Repentance: Healing the Root Beliefs Behind Shame, Anxiety, and Addiction, with Nelson Whiting

Meghan Farner

In this episode of Hidden Wisdom, Meghan sits down with Nelson Whiting—bestselling author of Your Problem Isn’t Pornography, certified clinical hypnotherapist, and founder of No Limits Hypnotherapy—for a grounded, expansive conversation about hypnotherapy as a form of deep repentance: getting beneath behavior to the belief systems that drive shame cycles, anxiety, compulsions, and spiritual disconnection.

Nelson explains how real change happens when the conscious and subconscious mind come into agreement, why “time heals” is often a myth, and how prayer, meditation, and clinical hypnosis can help quiet survival mode, restore inner safety, and create rapid transformation through new perspective and new choices. They explore the spiritual implications of inner work, the role of agency, and why healing often requires moving from self-criticism into self-love—so you can reconnect with God, truth, and your highest identity.

You’ll also hear discussion on spiritual discernment (including “false spirits”), the balance of masculine and feminine within healing, and a powerful closing reflection on being “born again” as a spiritual rebirth—held in what Meghan calls the cosmic womb.

Learn more about Nelson: NoLimitsHypnotherapy.com (sessions + resources)

0:00 Meet Nelson Whiting + what this episode covers

1:50 Nelson’s story: seminary teaching → illness → calling to hypnotherapy

4:00 Early hypnosis experience + the power of the mind

6:05 Training with Dennis Parker: “gospel foundation” + adversarial protocols

9:04 Faith as decision-making; bringing subconscious online

12:21 “Your Problem Isn’t Pornography”: why behavior isn’t the root

13:22 How lust patterns form: imagination → memory → emotion → action

17:41 Why common “solutions” are slow (support groups, blockers, confession)

20:49 Repentance as inner work: thoughts → emotions → beliefs

22:37 Repentance = learning; freedom to get it wrong (baseball study)

27:54 Prayer as therapy: “be still and know” + intention behind stillness

30:55 Survival mode, the amygdala, and rapid change through neuroplasticity

32:01 Synaptic pruning: creating “space” between you and temptation

36:19 Spiritual impact: self-criticism, energy depletion, separation from God

41:12 Anxiety/depression as thought-patterns; perspective changes everything

45:38 Hypnotherapy vs guided meditation (why customization matters)

52:24 Nonlinear change: “you can jump to the new self”

54:56 Agency: why “God take it away” can keep people powerless

57:35

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