Like all of us Sam experiences change all the time. Her life journey has gone from a single young woman to a mother of 5. Now she’s doing something neither one of us could have imagined.

The top photo is a portrait I took as a photography student at Brooks Institute of Photography in 1997. Sam and I were freshly married. We felt excited about our future together. She was working at The Territory Ahead, a clothing company, and was a student at SBCC in Santa Barbara, California where I was attending photography school.

I’m amazed at how little Sam has changed in 28 years, but the entire world has changed. In 1996 we didn’t have cell phones, computers or even the internet. She was only 21 years old.

28 years from now it’ll be 2052! Can you imagine how much the world will change in the upcoming 28 years?

When Sam and I got married we wanted to raise a family. We had 5 children in 13 years. It was crazy. Crazy but amazing. We still have 3 of our children living at home. The busiest years of babies, young children and the chaos of life are over now but they kept Sam very busy from 1998 until recently. Our youngest is 14 years old.

Now that the kids can mostly take care of themselves, Sam has experienced another change, one she wasn’t expecting. She has started to experience more freedom in her schedule. We’ve had many discussions about her future and the changes that she’s experiencing.

But the kids growing up isn’t the only way that Sam’s life has changed in the last 5 years.

Sam’s dad died suddenly in December 2018. My mom died September 2020. These losses deeply affected Sam’s sensitive nature. The COVID lock down aggravated the situation and since 2020 Sam has battled anxiety and a host of physical problems including rapid heartbeat and chest pain. 2021 was an extremely difficult year for her and I.

We visited the ER that year a few times and she had appointments with a cardiologist only to discover that her heart was perfectly healthy. Still she suffered from sometimes crushing anxiety and pain. She went into survival mode and sought help from anywhere she could find it. At her peak she had 5 or 6 appointments a week with different health care providers. She explored meditation with Joe Dispenza. That led to videos about the power of the mind. That’s where she found RTT.

I stood by her hoping, praying for a solution for her pain. We’ve been healthy our entire lives so this was a new experience for both of us. Sometimes I’d see her crying silently, wiping away tears. It gave me a new understanding of the words “In sickness and in health.”

RTT stands for Rapid Transformational Therapy. It was developed by an accomplished therapist named Marissa Peer in the UK. It’s a unique method to find the root problem of a symptom and resolve it. RTT is so effective because it resolves the root cause of the symptom.

Life experiences happen to everyone and everyone interprets their experiences differently. People develop beliefs that dictate how they live their lives based on these experiences. In RTT they call these “scenes.” Sometimes these beliefs can negatively affect your life. These negative beliefs boil down to 3 distinctive beliefs that people carry with them their entire lives.

I’m not enough

I’m different

It’s not possible for me

RTT aims to reframe these beliefs by exploring the subconscious mind for the scenes that created these beliefs. Often you don’t know why you developed these negative beliefs. So, a mild brand of hypnosis is used to accesses the subconscious mind for the scenes that led to your decisions. Once those scenes are found and discussed, the RTT therapist uses a powerful selection of tools to help you overcome these limiting beliefs creating a lasting change that can be very profound.

Sam fell in love with the process and loved the results that she got from RTT. When she came to me to discuss whether or not she should become an RTT therapist I immediately knew that it was perfect for her. She’s a talented communicator and empathic. It’s the perfect confluence of her God given talents. She enrolled in January of 2024 and worked diligently for 6 months to earn the title of RTT therapist. We even took a trip to the UK to attend an RTT workshop. She graduated in early August.

She’s very good at RTT. The people she’s worked with have experienced significant progress. Now she’s booked out into January 2025.

Doing RTT is a lot of work. The sessions are often 2 hours long and there’s work to do for Sam before and after the session. After a day or sessions Sam is very tired. The first couple of months the sessions wiped her out. She’s more accustomed to it now.

She respects the privacy of her clientele so I don’t know any details about her sessions but I hear about the success stories. She revels in the feedback her clients give her. She’s working on a website that can house all of the positive reviews she’s received.

During her training period she worked with many members of our family. I was an early client of Sam’s.

My experience with RTT

I was suffering from a feeling of hopelessness and depression earlier this year. I just couldn’t get excited about anything. It was new for me. I’m usually positive and optimistic. During my RTT session my subconscious mind revealed scenes that gave an explanation for my malaise.

One scene I had was when I was a 13 year old kid. I was camping with my scout troop and during a hiking trip I got too close to the edge of a drop off. I fell off the cliff and fell about 15 feet right onto my butt. My back and butt hurt for a few weeks but no one ever asked me about it. Not the leaders, other kids or my parents when I got home. This experience taught me that I can’t rely on anyone to help me. I’m alone.

I started to believe that I’m insignificant. I’m not worthy of other people’s attention. I’m not good enough to have this help. This developed further into the belief that it’s not possible for me to get help. Everything is up to me.

I was experiencing a lot of stress with my company, Page One Power. This stress ignited a feeling of hopelessness because I couldn’t find a way to overcome the problem and because I believed that no one could or would help me it would remain unresolved. Hopeless.

Sam quickly discovered the problem and talked me through the illogical reality of that belief. I’m actually surrounded by people who love me and are willing to help. She reframed that belief and had me repeat it. Of course it made sense. My 13 year old self was controlling my behavior these 38 years later.

Another scene was when I was about 10 years old. I joined a tackle football team. I found the forms, filled them out and got signatures from my parents. The scene that emerged was one day at practice. Many of the kids had their parents with them. I usually didn’t care but this time I felt alone. I knew that my parents had 7 other children to care for but I made the decision that I wasn’t enough for them to show up for me. That decision reinforced the belief that I was alone and that help wasn’t possible for me.

I would have never discovered these crippling beliefs that were controlling me like a puppet. Beliefs are the operating system that we interpret the world through.

Then Sam made an audio recording supporting all the beliefs that I experienced. This 15 minute audio recording countered these beliefs and helped me reframe them. I listened to the recording every day for 3 weeks. The depression lifted. I was happy again.

RTT works. Sam has helped many people overcome life’s problems. Root beliefs can manifest themselves in infinite ways. Everyone displays different symptoms to limiting beliefs.

Some might be depressed, some have anxiety. Some people turn to drugs or alcohol. Others mask the feelings with addictions or self harm, eating disorders or any other problem that can be imagined. But it all stems from a belief that you can’t change unless you intentionally challenge it. But it can be changed. You can get relief.

Sam has now found something to pour her heart into. She thrives on helping others. I love hearing about her success stories.

With her abilities and talents I’m excited to see where the next 28 years will take her.