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Interview with Holly Duckworth, PhD

Holly Duckworth, PhD · August 12, 2025

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Interview with Holly Duckworth, PhD

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August 12, 2025 · 49 min

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Key topicsGratitude as a Spiritual TechnologyGratitude is often reduced to a daily habit or positivity exercise, but Holly reframes it as a powerful spiritual technology that activates transformation at the soul level. Drawing from her new book 'Finding Gratitude: Surprising Growth from the Higher Self' and years of client experiences, she explores how living in a state of true, unconditional gratitude, even for illness, loss, or trauma, can accelerate growth in this incarnation and beyond. This conversation helps listeners move beyond surface-level “thankfulness” to understand how deep, embodied gratitude rewires how we experience suffering and connect to our higher self. The Hidden Power of Self-ForgivenessMany people speak about the importance of forgiveness, but few are taught how to actually do it. Holly shares why all forgiveness ultimately comes back to self-forgiveness, and how this shift in perspective can unlock healing from years of guilt, resentment, and emotional stagnation. Based on her book 'Finding Forgiveness', she introduces a practical method and brings real client stories to illustrate how self-forgiveness can resolve buried wounds and restore inner peace. often more powerfully than any external apology. What the Higher Self Wants You to KnowAfter facilitating over 1,500 Quantum Healing Hypnosis sessions, Holly began to notice a remarkable pattern; clients were asking the same life questions, and their higher selves were offering strikingly similar answers. These weren’t vague affirmations, but specific, consistent insights about purpose, healing, and the nature of consciousness. In this conversation, Holly shares what she’s learned from sitting with hundreds of people in deep subconscious states and what the higher self really wants us to understand about who we are, why we’re here, and how to navigate life with more peace and clarity. View all topics →

About Holly Duckworth, PhD

Psychotherapist, Hypnosis Practitioner & Author of the Spiritual Growth Trilogy

20 years Corporate leadership experience1,500+ QHHT sessions facilitated3 books The Higher Self Trilogy13 years QHHT practice

Before becoming a guide for spiritual transformation, Dr. Holly Duckworth spent two decades in corporate leadership, managing engineering teams, implementing Six Sigma systems, and leading professional development initiatives across global manufacturing firms. Her transition from boardroom to therapy room wasn’t a rejection of structure, but a return to deeper alignment. After earning her PhD in Psychology, she began integrating clinical insight with spiritual exploration in her work as a therapist and hypnosis practitioner.

For the past 13 years, Holly has facilitated over 1,500 sessions using Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique (QHHT). Her work invites clients into direct conversation with the Higher Self to access intuitive guidance, reframe suffering, and engage with their lives from a soul-centered perspective. What began as private practice evolved into public teaching through her books and speaking.

She is the author of 'The Higher Self Trilogy', a three-part series that blends channeled wisdom, clinical experience, and anonymized client stories. The trilogy explores the spiritual dimensions of purpose, forgiveness, and gratitude - culminating in her latest release, 'Finding Gratitude: Surprising Growth from the Higher Self', which reframes gratitude as a transformative state of being, not a fleeting mindset.

Together, the trilogy offers a path: from discovering purpose, to healing through self-forgiveness, to embracing gratitude as a tool for spiritual evolution.

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About this episode

On this episode Brian Berneman sits down with Dr. Holly Duckworth, a QHHT (Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique) practitioner and author, to explore the profound wisdom and healing potential of connecting with the higher self.

Key Highlights:

Holly's transformative journey from a family tragedy to discovering Dolores Cannon's work and dedicating herself to QHHTDetailed explanation of the QHHT process and how it facilitates deep trance states to access higher wisdomCommon themes that emerge from Holly's extensive QHHT sessions, including:The surprising simplicity of one's life purposeThe crucial role of forgiveness in physical healingThe concept of gratitude as a state of being that can enrich the soul's growthThe purpose of life and the role of gratitude:

Brian & Holly discusses the key insights from her book "Finding Purpose", where she shares that the most common answer from higher selves about life purpose is simply "to be" - to be the unique individual you are. They also explore the importance of gratitude, not just as a practice but as a state of being that can enhance one's spiritual growth and soul evolution.

Explore:

A deeper understanding of the transformative potential of quantum hypnosisPractical insights on cultivating presence, self-forgiveness, and a grateful mindset in the face of life's challengesA thought-provoking exploration of the intersection between spirituality, psychology, and the healing power of the higher self.For more about Holly find her on Instagram, Youtube and https://www.awarecaredurango.com/.

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