Renée Miereanu – Happiness Coach Master Neuro-Linguistics & Magic Mushroom Chaperone
Master Neuro-Linguistics/Hypnotherapist now includes herself as a chaperone for Magic Mushroom Preparation, Journey and Integration to her Private Practice for people over 21 in Ashland, Oregon
The Rogue Valley/Ashland, Oregon – Renée Miereanu formally announced she has been honorably graduated from an extensive 240-hour, in-person and online training at InnerTrek.org and has now reached Oregon State Certification as a Psilocybin Facilitator. She is a leading specialist of Neuro-Linguistics/Hypnotherapy in the areas of nicotine cessation, weight control, depression, end of life, post-traumatic stress, and several addictions. She also specializes in senior issues before and after retirement entitled “What’s Next.”
Miereanu has gone through rigorous education with par-excellent training at InnerTrek.org. Along with her 35-plus years of experience as a coach, mentor, and illuminator, her qualifications are intricate and inspirational. She will be working with Oregon State Certified Service Centers in the Rogue Valley.
Ms. Miereanu explains there is a vetting process to begin an online application and determine a prospective client’s compatibility with a psilocybin journey. If qualified, upon completion of the Preparation, Journey, and Integration, clients will be offered ongoing sliding-scale sessions that will enable Miereanu to deepen her specialized expertise while providing follow-up sessions. She, of course, also continues in Ashland, Oregon in her private practice of Neuro-Linguistics/Hypnotherapy.
It is amazing and significant to recognize that Oregon is the very first state in the U.S. to offer this unique form of illumination journeys. OR Measure 109 was voted on and passed in 2020 as the first state in the U.S.A. to include psilocybin as an inclusion in relief of human suffering. Various important funded experiments and studies within the past three decades have been done at Stanford, Harvard, and other universities as well as the U.S. Veterans Association, to name only a few. As we are in integrity and continue to provide journeys to people who are residents and non-residents from other states and countries, these practices may continue to be legally available across the country in due time.
As one of the first licensed facilitators in the country, I believe that psilocybin mushrooms are a powerful catalyst for healing, self-acceptance, and self-love. Although this journeying is not for everyone, whether this is your first psychedelic experience or you’ve done this before, I welcome you to experience psilocybin in a safe, supportive, and legal environment. This allows clients who are qualified to consciously be open to new kingdoms of consciousness into a future where these medicines might finally serve healing on a global scale. Yes, it faces new regulatory challenges, and while the field grapples with commercialization versus community values, Oregon—and now Colorado—have stepped forward because the movement needs to remember why that approach matters more than ever. Again, I say, magic mushroom journeys are not for everyone, but if you want to know more about this and, of course, my coaching practice, please call The Breathe Center to discuss my work and/or schedule an initial appointment: 541-778-4380.
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Founder of The Breathe Center in 1982, Renée Miereanu began her private practice on the Big Island, Hawaii, living there for 14 years after studying at university in Los Angeles, CA. She continued her education, personal counseling, and coaching in Seattle for another 14 years before moving to Ashland, Oregon. She is a master of Neuro-Linguistics, Clinical Hypnotherapy, self-hypnosis training, self-esteem enhancement, stress management, 12-Step support, weight control, and women’s issues. Other methods include the use of Interactive Guided Imagery, insomnia prevention, Behavioral Modification, Advanced Ericksonian Hypnosis (NLP), Inner Parts Dialogue, sports performance, retired couples counseling, fears and regrets, cognitive and transpersonal techniques, and much more. She creates personal counseling with customized approaches for each individual client to transform their problems into strengths. She specializes in Neuro-Linguistics and Advanced Hypnotherapy and she is a Happiness Coach.
Hi Renée, thanks so much for speaking with us today and for being a part of the LocalsGuide!
I am grateful for this opportunity to be recognized in this gorgeous forum. The LocalsGuide is such a wonderful magazine in our precious Rogue Valley community. Thank you so much for inviting me to speak with you and your dedicated readers.
“I will guide you how you can choose happiness for absolutely no reason … rather than upset about it all.” – Renée Miereanu
Renée, please begin by telling us a little bit about your life and training.
I was born on the East Coast, grew up in Texas, moved to Los Angeles, California, and mothered three children. My three children are now grown and I have three beautiful grandchildren. I was nationally certified 35+ years ago with the American Council Hypnotist Examiners as a Master Hypnotherapist. I then moved to the Big Island, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, and lived there for 14 years offering NLP, hypnotherapy, and counseling services to individuals and groups. I was also licensed by the State of Hawaii Department of Health as a Certified Substance Abuse Counselor. Eventually, I also became involved with Hospice and beloved death and dying work. Then in 1995, wanting to bring my work to this continent, I moved to Seattle, where I was a Washington State Registered Counselor and State Registered Hypnotherapist in private practice for another 14 years.
I also participated in a five-year certification with R.A. Masters, Ph.D., in Integral Psychotherapy and Gestalt therapy in British Columbia, Canada.
While living in Hawaii I traveled abroad and took a myriad of trainings from great teachers including Tibetan Buddhists, Hindus, Siddha Yogis, Hawaiian Huna, Christian, Native American, and Mystical Jewish Tradition Kabbalah. I traveled to countries such as Canada, Egypt, Israel, India, Thailand, and the Caribbean. I could mention details of my studies with Elenore Field, Ph.D., Dr. David Cheek, T. Harv Eker, Satyen and Susanne Raja, Werner Ehrhardt’s EST Training, and by first-generation students of Milton H. Erickson, M.D.
What first brought you to Ashland and why did you decide to make this your new home?
I came to Ashland in 2009 to attend the final in a five-year study in a Gestalt therapy workshop with R.A. Masters, Ph.D. I was only in town for several days and fell in love with gorgeous Ashland and the wonderful residents, art, culture, and theater. I instantly decided to move out of Seattle. I’ve been living in Ashland now for 15 years and actively running my Master of Neuro-Linguistics, Spiritual Counseling, Happiness Coaching, and Master of Hypnotherapy practice as well as three years as an Oregon State Licensed Psilocybin Facilitator.
I think being of service is very important, so I also began volunteering as an all-denomination Spiritual Care Chaplain and Spiritual Counselor with both Asante Ashland Community Hospital and Asante Rogue Valley Medical Center for seven years (until COVID came upon us) with the beloved Reverend Pandora Canton and honorable Reverend Laurence Blight as my supervisors. I also had the opportunity to volunteer at The Rogue Valley Manor with Father Joel Mariano and the Reverend Elizabeth Olson as a chaplain there. These have been such precious experiences of opening my heart into unconditional love as I am with the dying and gravely ill patients and their families. This has taught me so much about many different religions and beliefs and also many, many people who have no religious affiliation. I have high regard for the principles of all religious and spiritual beliefs. Most of all, being a spiritual counselor taught me to appreciate life, the dying process, and to be grateful for each moment of our lives and each and every person I encounter.
Tell us about your experiences in prison. (Wow!)
After I moved to Seattle, I volunteered in a full-security prison for 11 years while continuing to have my therapy practice on the side. I began my five-year facilitation of two-day group Gestalt Seminars entitled Love and Forgiveness. I co-facilitated this group with my mentor Leonard Shaw, M.S.W. (rest his precious soul). I sponsored many volunteers from outside the greater Seattle area who had attended the trainings and were inspired to come into the prison for the day to participate in the seminar along with the inmates.
This seminar was done in a circle with inmates and their families: parents, wives or girlfriends, and children (if they were over 18) if they chose to invite them. Under our guidance, we did art and other group exercises. One of our exercises was to help inmates experience their crimes through their victims’ eyes. There were two chairs in the center of the circle where an inmate would sit and experience their crime in the now moment and then move to the other chair to think about their own victim’s experience. At times, family members would literally do the work with them or other inmates would play roles for the one in the center. Amazing healings and forgiveness occurred. Most of our students were in prison for life sentences with, or without, the possibility of parole. Their crimes included murder, gang violence, drug offenses, drug dealing, and three strikes offenders. Most of their crimes were done under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs. We also worked closely in cooperation with the prison staff, warden, and correctional officers.
I loved serving these prisoners, assisting them to release their self-punishment so they could become loving contributors in their community, and live more productive lives as they served out their sentences. They loved and respected Leonard Shaw and myself and demonstrated that by their work in the seminars.
Renée, over the course of your life you have had the opportunity to meet and work with spiritual teachers. Please say more.
Yes, I have met Tibetan Buddhist Dechen Lama Yeshe Wangmo, Lama Tarchin Rinpoche, and young Anam Rinpoche when he was still a young monk. I studied the Vedanta teachings of Nisargadatta, Robert Adams, Mooji, and Ramana Maharshi. I met Ram Dass (formerly known as Richard Alpert, Ph.D., former Harvard professor), whom I deeply respect and love with all my heart. I met Mother Amma ~ Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, “the hugging saint,” in the year 2000 and continue to hold her as my Spiritual Mother.
As a part of your interview today we are curious about your identity as a Happiness Coach. You told us you teach people “How to be Happy … in Spite of It All.” Please tell us more.
Anyone with whom this resonates is welcome to call and schedule your first private appointment. If this philosophy interests you, I’d love to work with you to explore our lives in many ways. I will assist you in knowing how to practice being unreasonably happy in your life in the now … one moment at a time.
Renée, what do you see as the foundation of happiness?
This philosophy is about becoming unreasonably happy rather than reasonably unhappy. As Amma said, “The mind is a very effective tool. We can use it to create both hell and heaven—it’s about choice.”
It’s a natural instinct for everyone to strive for happiness. However, society has us thinking that if we keep looking for something to make us happy, we will find happiness.
Including looking for the right person, the right car, the right house, the right dessert, etc. Certainly, if our relationships are not going well, our financial situation is not optimal, or our job is not serving us, we rely on external things to determine whether we are happy or unhappy. So, I asked myself this question: Is that true?
I thought about it and realized that when we rely on external situations, we are giving our power away. We tend to create happiness when persons, places, and things are going well, and unhappiness when they are not. Think of the amazing power we give to our partner, friends, or parents. If they say one little (or big) thing, then our happiness evaporates in seconds. Everyone who has important input into our lives seems to have control over our happiness.
Not only people, but also random events like the economy changing, harsh weather, smoke, or other occurrences that are completely outside of our internal control. I say, be happy for no reason. Just be happy. Let your internal state be the part of you that determines your mood. You cannot control those external factors, but you can control your internal emotions, thoughts, and feelings. This does not mean you should push away your emotions or feelings—instead you need to keep in mind that the duration of most of our feelings can change. Of course, we are human beings so we certainly have times when we react instantly into anger, sadness, or even rage. With practice, completely accepting ourselves with those emotions certainly assists us in experiencing them in a more succinct duration.
One of my clients told me, “I want to live with the intensity of life and not the mediocrity of a boring emotional landscape.” There is a place without highs and lows, which is an emotional middle ground. There is a place of peace and happiness. Even though we do not consciously know it, we choose to create our emotions 100%. When we are aware of this fact, we are more stable and less likely to be knocked off balance by external forces. Consider not going for extreme emotional intensity but going for stability and lots of fun. It may be time to choose safe and enjoyable adventures such as camping, sailing, hiking, boating, and maybe travel to unusual places.
Renée, please talk about the transformations that you observe in your literally thousands of clients in your many years as a coach.
This is the biggest thrill to observe in my business and my life. It is a daily practice—not necessarily to sit in meditation for 10 to 30 minutes, but being sure your thought process is intentionally loving and accepting of your Self. It is about the teaching of being comfortably aware of your moment-by-moment thoughts and re-directing them toward acceptance.
I love this quote by Bill Wilson: “Acceptance is the answer to all of our problems today… Unless I accept my life completely on life’s terms, I cannot be happy.”
Renée, you are also working with organizations to have more connection rather than competition.
Many people do not realize they are following a pattern of what their parents did, and this happens in all kinds of relationships.
There are instances when, in intimacy with spouses and partners, people unconsciously regress into a sort of sibling rivalry or mother/father issues. When I work with committed partners, I endeavor to bring them into awareness of these unconscious patterns so they can be more grounded and stronger within themselves. I am of service to them to become more giving, without becoming doormats or bullies. A lot of this is about learning how to move into the moment rather than being stuck in the past or being fearful of the future.
“The past has disappeared forever and the future is imaginary, all that exists is this now moment.” Please explain this statement.
In our brain we make up all sorts of fantastical stories that create stress. Stress is such a generic word, but when we work through the thoughts and incidents from our past that cause the stress, we can find more ways to be calm and peaceful. This is where unreasonable happiness is found.
Stress is suffering; when we feel this, we miss the beauty of life. We all have the right to be happy no matter what is going on in our lives, in our country, in our work, the planet, or the government. One of the keys to unreasonable happiness is to be entertained by your mind’s thoughts instead of getting caught up in its made-up stories. This work is gently re-parenting ourselves and retraining the mind to be happy. Yet, it’s important to feel everything and not suppress your feelings. In this work you will be surprised to see, feel, and hear yourself suffer less so that more and then UNreasonable happiness can occur.
Renée, please tell us more about your nicotine cessation programs and how you discovered the Breathe®© method.
I am happy to tell you all about the Breathe®© method because over the years, thousands of my private counseling clients have taught me how to teach my future clients how to stop using tobacco in the easiest and most gentle ways possible. First, you will be thrilled to know that you get to continue to use nicotine to quit smoking, vaping, and chew or snuff tobacco!
I believe that the use of nicotine, as in any drug addiction, is mostly an emotional as well as physical addiction. So, I assist you in gently adjusting your physical addiction and then we work specifically and kindly with your emotional addiction. My private practice clients usually purchase a one-month series of sessions so I can support them in stopping comfortably, and staying stopped for good and for life. I am, of course, offering specifically designed, in-person, private sessions and am able to include pre-planned psilocybin facilitation journeys if clients choose to do so.
I am closely collaborating in monthly meetings with local cohorts who have received their Oregon State certifications as well as supporting others as they experience education with state-certified local schools such as InnerTrek, The Entheogen Training Institute, and The Leela School here in Ashland. We continually celebrate each other’s progress and always support our continuing education.
I host the radio show “Life Matters with Renée Miereanu” on KSKQ Community Radio 89.5 FM Ashland, 94.1 FM Medford, and KSKQ.org every Thursday morning at 10 a.m.
Will you share some recent client testimonials about your work with us?
“Renée surprised me with logic that helped me to overcome and improve issues that I’ve had for 20, 40, and 50 years … and for good! She explained in easy-to-grasp ways that my issues did not magically appear and helped me understand they don’t just magically disappear by trying to do this work by myself. Again, I want to emphasize that although her techniques are called hypnotherapy ~~ they are not magic or hocus-pocus … although sometimes they felt magical.” ~ Doug F., Ashland
“I have always been a gal with a rather pessimistic view of life … easily agitated, excitable, and prone to worry and depression. I have utilized talk therapy many times over the years with no major or lasting improvement. I am happy to say that Renée Miereanu’s unique trainings, knowledge, and personal insights have been a gift—one that is changing my life for the better. I am especially impressed with her recorded guided meditation CD entitled I Love MySelf Always. Listening to her melodic voice, calming words, and detailed verbal imagery has allowed me to begin my day with a much-improved attitude and converts a negative outlook into a more positive one. Best of all, I fall back asleep quickly if I awaken in the middle of the night! I am very grateful for Renée’s experience and counseling expertise.” ~ K.R., Medford
“To say that my time together with Renée has changed my life would be an understatement. Truly, I haven’t been quite the same since—but in the best and most welcomed of ways. For many years I stood upon the precept of myself looking across the vastness completely bewildered. I could not make heads or tails of what I seemed to be looking at. She has greatly helped me make sense of it all and gave me tools that I continue to make use of every single day. Thank you for showing me the light through your love, patience, and understanding. I am extremely grateful!” ~ Jessica K., Medford
Renée, you have a specialty in working with addictions. Please say more.
I work with all types of addictions—from drugs and alcohol to internet, drama, and misery addiction. Healing these addictions is about learning how to move through emotions and acceptance of our precious human self.
You also work with newly retired couples. What does this look like?
When folks are no longer working, they spend some time asking themselves this question. As couples, they are usually not accustomed to being with each other 100% of the time. They have been busy working, raising children, and have gotten used to being “the boss” of their individual lives and coming home in the evenings to gather with each other and their family. All of this changes when retirement comes into the picture.
Sometimes the working partner doesn’t know what to do with him or herself, so they try to live vicariously through their spouse. Some couples just need a few sessions of coaching separately and together to make new agreements and learn new and easy communication techniques to create more harmony in their relationship. I love helping them get more enjoyment out of their lives and blossom into retirement together. I have created a “What’s Next?” process introducing psilocybin facilitation in the mix for those who choose to have the experience.
Renée, are there any last thoughts or comments you would like to share with our readers?
I promise to witness your process and your advancement and create a safe, supportive environment for you to hear your truths. I will lovingly challenge you to take responsibility (not blame) for your experiences and your actions. I promise to encourage you to release the held emotions that are no longer serving your personal growth. I will help assist you in transforming negative beliefs about yourself into positive beliefs and actions. I will also instruct you with inner parts-work, the utilization of self-hypnosis, and daily self-talk. I always encourage unconditional love of yourself and others in your life.
We all have access to vast inner resources that can be utilized to transform our problems into strengths. Unconditional love of the self is a true door to positive change. Supporting people to make those changes is one of the greatest joys of my life! I invite you to call for appointments and come to my class—I promise deep learning and lots of fun!
Thank you so much Shields for this longass article! I hope your readers got through it easily and enjoyed my life story .
Love and Blessings, Renée
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