Excerpt from Licking Honey Off a Razor Blade by Valerie Grimes, CHt Chapter 9 Florida Break (Up) A book on alcohol dependency and alcohol addiction written by a hypnotist Available on Amazon and Medium When family expectations of you are to be perfect all the time and you have hit bottom, it is hard to […]
Chapter 8 True Story of Alcohol Addiction and Hypnosis
Excerpt from Licking Honey Off a Razor Blade by Valerie Grimes A book on alcohol dependency and alcohol addiction written by a hypnotist Available on Amazon and Medium Chapter 8 A Visit to the Suburbs Getting over someone is always a process, like drug detoxing. The mental, emotional and physical aspects rarely align themselves quickly. […]
Chapter 7 True Story Alcohol Addiction and Hypnosis
Excerpt from Licking Honey Off a Razor Blade by Valerie Grimes True Story About Alcohol Addiction and Hypnosis Available on Amazon and Medium Chapter 7 Santa Sal “Hi Valerie, did you get your invitation to the annual company holiday party? We need your rsvp today.” Cindy was on the line from the corporate office. “Yes, […]
Chapter 6 What Do I Call You?
Excerpt from Licking Honey Off a Razor Blade by Valerie Grimes Available on Amazon and Medium Sunlight must have just entered the darkened room because now I was awake. The sun is my alarm clock. Fortunately I have one of those jobs that doesn’t require an alarm to get out of bed. The mornings are […]
Chapter 5 That Man is a Loose Cannon
Excerpt from Licking Honey Off a Razor Blade by Valerie Grimes Available on Amazon and Medium In an effort to make us feel normal to me, I insisted on him going out in public with me, which was risky. My dad would have said, ‘That man is a loose cannon.’ He resisted because he was […]
Chapter 4 Licking Honey Off a Razor Blade
Excerpt from Licking Honey Off a Razor Blade by Valerie Grimes Available on Amazon and Medium Being in a relationship with him was like licking honey off a razor blade. The sweet times were rare, but powerful. I saw something in him that no one else seemed to. Those times he would let me into […]
Chapter 3 Separate Paths Converge
Excerpt from “Licking Honey Off A Razor Blade” by Valerie Grimes Available on Amazon and Medium Being with my clients feels so natural. I love what I do and do what I love. Hypnosis is access to self-care, and I enjoy the positive results my clients share with me. My friends call me a healer, […]
Chapter 2 She Wore Blue Jeans and a Rosary
Excerpt from “Licking Honey Off A Razor Blade” by Valerie Grimes Available on Amazon and Medium I sang along to Kid Rock’s newest release, ‘She wore blue jeans and a rosary, believed in God and believed in me…’ then I added as an explanation to my audience of one, “From the moment we met, I […]
How I Overcame Alcohol Dependency
One chapter at a time. Each week I am posting a chapter from my book “Licking Honey Off A Razor Blade.” Here is the synopsis. Why does an intelligent, independent forty-something woman fall heart-first for a whisky-drinking, unemployed, young hottie? To help him change, of course, but it turns out that she needs to help […]
The Summer of Love 50 Years Later.
By William L. White, Drug Treatment Blogger Fifty years ago, young people from all over American descended on San Francisco in what was billed as “The Summer of Love.” Historians have often portrayed this event as the detonation point of a youth-oriented, polydrug culture whose legacies continue to ripple. The Summer of Love events served […]