I hope this first edition of my newsletter finds you well and in the process of setting and actualizing your intentions for a positive and growthful year to come.

I want to take this opportunity to share with you some of my own plans for 2007. I am excited about taking my work further through my writing, teaching, and clinical work. I hope you will be able to join me in some of these opportunities you will read about below.

Best Wishes,

I have completed the manuscript of Reversing Chronic Pain: How to Create A Personal Treatment Plan for Lasting Relief. The book is being published by North Atlantic Books in Berkeley, California (yes, there is a story there!). They are a small publisher with a speciality in somatic healing and psychotherapy so will provide a good home for my work. The publication date is September 2007, so please check future issues of this newsletter for more information.

My chapter on Hypnosis, Depression, and Chronic Pain was published in Hypnosis and Treating Depression: Applications in Clinical Practice, edited by Michael Yapko, Ph.D., in 2006. I am happy to announce that this book was just nominated as best book of the year on hypnosis by the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis.

Another chapter I wrote entitled ?Combining Hypnosis with EMDR/Ego-State Therapy for Ego Strengthening? will be pubished by Springer Publications in 2007. The book is called Healing the Heart of Trauma and will be edited by Carol Forgash, one of the EMDR facilitators who is very active in using EMDR /Ego-state therapy.

The fourth cycle of my chronic pain course, ?Reversing Chronic Pain: 10 Weeks to Lasting Relief?, will begin on Monday, April 2nd, and run for 10 weeks. The format this time will be organized around 10 skill-based lessons in somatic awareness provided by email with audio downloads of the practice exercises. Five live teleconference calls, included in the fee, will enhance the learning experience. Both therapists and chronic pain patients are welcome to participate.

As space is limited in this valuable course, it is recommended that you register soon to ensure your participation.

For full details, including past participants? endorsements and help with registration, please visit my website, at: http://www.maggiephillipsphd.com/chronicpain_phone.html or

I am completing a teaching tour in Singapore, Malaysia, and Hong Kong. I was here in May 2006 and found Asia to be such a stimulating place that I was delighted when asked to return. I have been teaching material based on "The Body as the Ultimate Healer," a course that I developed and taught with Robert Scaer at the NICABM conference at Hilton Head, South Carolina in December.

Bob and I will repeat the 2-day workshop at the Association of Comprehensive Energy Psychology (ACEP) conference in Westfields Marriott in Chantilly, Virginia (near Washington D.C.), April 22-23, 2007. Don?t miss this exciting post-conference course. Check out the conference information at www.energypsych.org.

During this Asian trip, I have been impressed by the striking need for training in treating trauma and have been teaching introductory workshops on Somatic Experiencing, and more intermediate courses on "The Power of Somatic Experiencing." During one of the workshops, I had the pleasure of working with a young woman, whom we'll call Mary, who has suffered from multiple traumas, several of them involving sexual abuse. She reported several somatic symptoms ranging from partial paralysis down one side of her body, pain in her neck and lower back, and intense symptoms of anxiety. As I worked with her, we were able to complete several fight/flight/freeze responses. She told me later that that was the first time she had shared the traumatic incidents with anyone, and that she felt hope for the first time that she might be able to recover.

Although there are traumatized individuals like Mary in every country, it was particularly satisfying to be of help here because there are so few people trained and experienced in how to work with the physical aspects of trauma.

I will be returning to California on February 8, 2007, and will continue my consultative practice. Please visit my website www.maggiephillipsphd.com/consultation.html for information and a consultation form, which should be completed and sent to me in order to schedule a consultation appointment.

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