About the AuthorPatricia Talbot( CEO and Co-Founder )Patti cultivates homegrown changemakers prepared to step into their power and work with others to create the world they want to live in.  Get in touch to find out how you can grow the social changemaker in yourself and those you serve with Blue Roads Changemaker YOU. 

















I've long been fascinated by the potential of hypnotherapy to help people make necessary changes in their lives.  When I met Certified Hypnotherapist Jackie Maclean recently in a business class we took together, I was immediately drawn to her evident knowledge and passion for helping people who were suffering deeply.  The results she gets for her clients using hypnosis are simply astounding.  Learn about Jackie's change-making work and her own Homegrown Solutions that ripple out to have a major impact on others by reading her story below, watching the video of our conversation, and listening to The Blue Roads Changemaker Podcast. 



































Homegrown JackieJackie's mother felt helpless to protect her from the abusive environment surrounding her during her childhood years with a father addicted to alcohol.  She was beaten nearly every day and hunger plagued her waking hours.  It was confusing. I kept wondering, “I haven't done anything. Why am I being beaten?” Alcohol abuse surrounded her early life.  Her brother died at 36 overtaken by the same affliction and the man she married at 19, who also suffered from alcoholism, had a heart attack and died early in their marriage leaving her alone with two young children under the age of three.   Jackie remarried, moved to Dubai with her new husband, and had two more children.  She has beautiful memories of Dubai, but eventually, that marriage dissolved in infidelity leaving her, once again, to make her way in the world on her own.  She started over with a printing business in Vancouver, Canada.  Jackie was determined and resourceful, but also angry and alone. Her devout Catholic upbringing served her throughout her life, but something was missing.  She was plagued by negative thoughts.  Why me? Why am I so unlucky? Jackie spent her evenings searching and doing research around ways to overcome the anxiety,