Every Therapist Needs a Therapist Sometimes

Copyright 2023 Judith A. Swack, Ph.D. • November 7, 2023

Paula is a social worker in the social work department of a downtown Boston hospital.   

She had been working with me on the goal of getting happily married, and we were making good progress clearing dysfunctional family system patterns so she wouldn’t reproduce them in her relationships. One day she came in complaining that she had been feeling lethargic and depressed for the last month and she had no idea why.  Further inquiry revealed that six weeks prior, she had helped a woman who came to the Emergency room after being beaten by her husband.  Paula arranged for safe housing and a restraining order against the husband.  Although Paula had done everything she could to keep the woman safe, the woman returned to her husband, and he killed her.  The woman arrived at the Emergency room dead. Paula had to do the paperwork and hadn’t felt right since. 


I was surprised that Paula didn’t recognize that she had been traumatized.  I said, “Do you think you are not human?  You put on your professional social worker uniform when you go into work and that makes you impervious to tragedy, frustration and disappointment?  Professional social workers don’t have feelings?  Inside the costume you are human, and someone you tried to help got herself killed despite your best efforts.  Of course you are traumatized.” 


So, we treated Paula for the trauma, and she felt immediately better.  

Frank is a very experienced Licensed Psychologist and practitioner of Energy Psychology. 

Although he had done a lot of work on himself, he was still experiencing mysterious physical and emotional symptoms of burnout.  He came to me to help him find the missing piece.  Sure enough, he had a series of traumas that were blocked to conscious access, which is why he hadn’t been able to find them.   


I showed him the structure, we followed the HBLU™ protocol to clear it, and his symptoms went away. 

Claira is an emergency room nurse who showed up valiantly every day during Covid.

After a year, she started drinking too much, became depressed and prone to outbursts of anger, and could no longer tolerate social interactions.  Her partner threatened to leave her. Claira, who had never had any kind of therapy and thought that as a nurse, she could just tough it out, realized she had a serious problem that wasn’t going away by itself.  Claira found me through a wholistic nurse who had seen me present at a conference.  I explained to Claira how the unconscious mind and body held emotional patterns that influenced behavior and reactions and even caused physical symptoms.


Although skeptical at first, Claira eventually came to understand that there was more going on inside than she was consciously aware of and stepped up to do the work.   


In the last year, Clara has recovered from burnout and repaired her relationship with her partner. 

We all need a little help sometimes.

At the most fundamental level, we are all multi-level beings with a conscious mind, an unconscious mind, a body and a soul. Despite the roles we play in everyday life, and the skills and abilities we have accumulated as mental and physical health-care providers we all have blind spots about what is running our reactions, behaviors, and maps of reality. Nobody knows everything. We all need help sometimes. 


Healing from the Body Level Up™ methodology (HBLU™) is designed to find hidden patterns of suffering, patterns that no one else can find or even knows where to look.  Even for experienced mental health professionals or people who have been in therapy for years, HBLU is designed to help clear what you haven’t yet been able to find. My mission is to support helping professionals be fully in service so that together we make the world a better place. 


If you or anyone you know has problems you haven’t yet been able to heal, HBLU™ methodology can help you. Especially for healing professionals, if you would like to protect yourself from absorbing negativity from your clients, we recommend you start by watching HBLU™: Heal The Top Five Patterns That Cause You To Absorb Other People’s Problems, Illnesses, And Symptoms. 

To learn more or schedule an appointment, please call 781-444-6940, email [email protected], or gohere. 

  

Blessings, Judith   

Healing from the Body Level Up (HBLU™) is an innovative, rapid, and powerful new mind/body/spirit healing methodology developed by Judith A. Swack, Ph.D., a Biochemist/Immunologist, Master NLP Practitioner, Mind/Body Healer, and leader in the field of Energy Psychology.  HBLU integrates biomedical science, psychology, hypnosis, Neuro Linguistic Programming, applied kinesiology, spirituality and Energy Psychology techniques with original research on the structure of complex damage patterns. 


HBLU™ is so effective because: 

  1. The client's deepest wisdom guides the healing, 
  2. It has menus of well characterized patterns and effective healing techniques, 
  3. It clears blocks to success at the conscious, unconscious, body, and soul levels. 

  

HBLU™ helps people rapidly achieve the results they want to live full, happy, healthy, and satisfying lives. Maybe it can help you, too. Dr. Swack and her associates work with people in person or by phone. Healing from the Body Level Up, Inc. is located in Needham, MA.  Call 781-444-6940 to book an appointment, order a free information package, and order CDs and DVDs.Visit our website.  

Open Does Not Mean Vulnerable

By Judith A. Swack, Ph.D. • August 26, 2025
Copyright 2025 Judith A. Swack, Ph.D. Jane was dating two men at once and having trouble deciding who to choose. She listed all of John’s wonderful qualities and all of Steven’s wonderful qualities and remarked, “If I could just put the two of them together I’d have the perfect man.” When asked why she didn’t just date one man who had everything, she said she was keeping one man as a backup because she didn’t feel safe with either one of them. Puzzled, I asked, “Why would you date, let alone marry, anyone you didn’t feel safe with? Clearly, you’ll never marry either of these men.” Jane simply looked astonished. Love is a beautiful thing. We all need to love and be loved. Sadly, many of us have been hurt by the people we love and who are supposed to love us. When that happens, we no longer feel safe, and we shut down the ability to give and receive love. The tragedy is that we can no longer feel loved or experience ourselves as loving beings. We no longer experience the nourishing flow of warm golden buttery energy that uplifts the heart/soul, connects us all, and soothes all pain. And everyone else we could be loving is robbed. According to the dictionary, the word “vulnerable” means open to attack. When someone says, “I’m afraid to be vulnerable” he/she should be afraid to be vulnerable, but he/she should not be afraid to be emotionally open, emotionally present, or emotionally close. Opening to give and receive love should not make one vulnerable. So what to do about it? With HBLU we acknowledge the fear and heal the traumas, dysfunctional family system and cultural brainwashing patterns that caused it. This allows people to reach out with their hearts and share one of the greatest gifts in life. If you or anyone you know would like to open your heart to love, get happily married, or improve your marriage or other relationships, HBLU methodology can help you. If you would like to learn more or schedule an appointment, please call 781-444-6940 , email [email protected] , or go to www.hblu.org . Blessings, Judith
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June's Miracle

By C. C. Life Coach • June 24, 2025
Dear Judith, Of all the work we have done, of all the monumental healings and shifts you and your work has helped to facilitate in my life- this piece was the most hidden, the most perverse, the most subconscious- and was driving my life into oblivion. I could not live one more day enslaving myself to my family, being stuck in a loveless abusive marriage. I was exhausted and stuck begging G-d for a way out (any way out). Until you your work and my soul discovered that we needed to unblock my energy fields from using evil to seduce- by running a pathologically self-serving and self-absorbed seduction pattern. Here I was a slave to my family, doing everything, getting nothing- I was the last person self-serving. How did my soul and you even find this. At first I thought no… Until you pointed out that this is what Enneagram 4s do to get love. And it all clicked. This was the seduction. IF I enslave myself, I will get love- so it was all my agenda my mission- I was “doing everything for them” which was the illusion, the seduction I was under- but it was truly a manipulative pattern I ran to try to get love from everyone I could. Only to fail miserably- and to feel even worse. I felt powerless and stuck. Until you said those words…. And through your work- we prayed- and the seduction and illusion vanished. Poof just like that! I can’t believe this has all been me all this time. I WAS DESPERATE TO GET: Love, safety, approval, success and wealth and WORSHIP AND WORLD DOMINATION What I learned was that I created a pattern of need. Everyone had to need me- I had to do it all- so people would love me. Because deep inside I doubted they could just love me for me. And that I truly don’t have to do anything for love. And neither does anyone… And that I just give it up and teach my family to be self-sufficient so they DON'T NEED me and we can establish love for the sake of love. OR SCREW UP MY WHOLE FAMILY AND LIFE PERPETRATING EVIL BY BEING PATHOLOGICALLY SELFISH. Here are my learnings: I’m just another cog in the wheel and that’s ok. We all are working together. No one better or worse. There is no need to dominate just to do each of our missions. I was seduced into thinking I was so selfless and altruistic because I was working for what I thought “was everyone else’s good” but was really still what I thought- and my agenda I have been self-abusing all this time, putting myself last so I could get sympathy and love. I was acting like a victim and poor me to myself & failing because I got no sympathy gratitude or love… When we interviewed my husband - I sat still. It was the first time I could listen to him and learn. I was still - like air. Without an agenda. And It’s the first time I feel still. And my nervous system relaxed. The first time I’m not working to get something in every action. Today I put my agenda down. It feels so light and relaxing and freeing It’s all been one big undercover operation to get love shrouded in a mission to do for others so no one would ever find me out. That it was all about me. And it didn’t make sense until you said I was pathologically selfish and self-absorbed. Me? No!!!… oh my gosh yes…. And the shell around me shattered. I can relax and just be me for the first time in decades…. You and your work- Judith- I’m just in disbelief- after being in disbelief many times- you’ve changed my life. Thank you Thank you Thank you. You’re a true genius Judith. I can never thank you enough. You are my teacher my mentor and I’m so grateful to have been given you to guide me in this life. I only hope to help your work reach millions. All the Best! C. C. Life Coach

Nothing Is Impossible.

By Copyright 2025 Judith A. Swack, Ph.D. • January 31, 2025
James ’s brother, Samuel , sustained severe traumatic brain injury from a car accident. He spent the year going to many doctors for treatment, but could barely function. Samuel complained that not only did standard medical care not help him, but the doctors ignored and mistreated him. Whenever James suggested any complementary therapies, such as acupuncture, chiropractic, or HBLU, Samuel immediately came up with excuses as to why going for that kind of treatment was impossible. (Notice that he didn’t claim that that kind of treatment wouldn’t work. He just made it impossible to get there.) James said, “Even though I feel really guilty about it, I’ve stopped trying to help him because he makes everything impossible.” Monica ’s 25-year-old son, Ed , suffers from such severe debilitating Crohn’s disease that he couldn’t finish high school, can’t work, can’t leave the house, and can barely leave his room. Traditional medical care and medication is not helping. Monica and her husband bought him a dog thinking that would cheer him up, but Ed does not interact with it. Monica has suggested and made appointments for many complementary therapies such as nutrition, naturopathy, family therapy, and HBLU, but Ed refuses to go to these appointments. Monica experiences guilt and deep sorrow that her son is so ill, and she and her husband haven’t been able to help him. Valerie ’s partner, Nancy , is 200 pounds overweight, suffers from ADD and severe anxiety, and hates her job. Nancy had been on medication for the ADD and anxiety, but when her psychiatrist retired, never attempted to find another provider and let her medication lapse. When Valerie suggested that Nancy find new doctors and get back on medication to help her mental function and treatment for overweight, Nancy refused to make any follow-up phone calls or emails. Although they had gotten engaged in the Spring, by Fall, Valerie had asked for the ring back. Valerie said, “I don’t think I can live with her if she refuses to take care of herself and won’t let me help her.” What do James, Monica, and Valerie all have in common? They feel deep sorrow, guilt, and frustration that they can’t help someone they care about deeply. But the people who are suffering are also trapped in a pattern that continues to cause them suffering. Both the impotent helpers and the perpetual sufferers are trapped in a seducer strategy called, “I’m impossible.” What is a Seduction Pattern? Seduction patterns are some of the most energy draining, perverse, and frustrating patterns a person can experience. People with seduction patterns get tricked into doing things they don’t want to do. They are unable to leave bad relationships, jobs, family, or other upsetting situations.