# The Patient Whisperers

> Relax, Renew, Rejuvenate, Re-Emerge, and Re-Engage


## Posts

- [Hello world!](https://patientwhisperers.com/2023/12/07/hello-world/): Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
- [Scheduled](https://patientwhisperers.com/2020/01/01/scheduled/): This post is scheduled to be published in the future. It should not be displayed by the theme.
- [Template: More Tag](https://patientwhisperers.com/2016/03/15/template-more-tag/): This content is before the more tag. Right after this sentence should be a “continue reading” button of some sort.
- [Hello world!](https://patientwhisperers.com/2016/02/23/hello-world-2/): Welcome to colorlib.com. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
- [Markup: HTML Tags and Formatting](https://patientwhisperers.com/2016/01/11/markup-html-tags-and-formatting/): Headings Header one Header two Header three Header four Header five Header six Blockquotes Single line blockquote: Stay hungry. Stay foolish. Multi line blockquote with a cite reference: People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I’m actually as proud of the things we haven’t done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things. Steve Jobs – Apple Worldwide Developers’ Conference, 1997 Tables … Continue reading Products
- [Markup: Image Alignment](https://patientwhisperers.com/2016/01/10/markup-image-alignment/): Welcome to image alignment! The best way to demonstrate the ebb and flow of the various image positioning options is to nestle them snuggly among an ocean of words. Grab a paddle and let’s get started. On the topic of alignment, it should be noted that users can choose from the options of None, Left, Right, and Center. In addition, they also get the options of Thumbnail, Medium, Large & Fullsize. The image above happens to be centered. The rest of this paragraph is filler for the sake of seeing the text wrap around the 150×150 image, which is left aligned.  As you can see the should be some space above, … Continue reading Products
- [Markup: Text Alignment](https://patientwhisperers.com/2016/01/09/markup-text-alignment/): Default This is a paragraph. It should not have any alignment of any kind. It should just flow like you would normally expect. Nothing fancy. Just straight up text, free flowing, with love. Completely neutral and not picking a side or sitting on the fence. It just is. It just freaking is. It likes where it is. It does not feel compelled to pick a side. Leave him be. It will just be better that way. Trust me. Left Align This is a paragraph. It is left aligned. Because of this, it is a bit more liberal in it’s views. … Continue reading Products
- [Template: Sticky](https://patientwhisperers.com/2016/01/07/template-sticky/): This is a sticky post. There are a few things to verify: The sticky post should be distinctly recognizable in some way in comparison to normal posts. You can style the .sticky class if you are using the post_class() function to generate your post classes, which is a best practice. They should show at the very top of the blog index page, even though they could be several posts back chronologically. They should still show up again in their chronologically correct postion in time, but without the sticky indicator. If you have a plugin or widget that lists popular posts or comments, … Continue reading Products
- [Markup: Title With Special Characters](https://patientwhisperers.com/2016/01/05/title-with-special-characters/): Putting special characters in the title should have no adverse effect on the layout or functionality. Special characters in the post title have been known to cause issues with JavaScript when it is minified, especially in the admin when editing the post itself (ie. issues with metaboxes, media upload, etc.). Latin Character Tests This is a test to see if the fonts used in this theme support basic Latin characters. ! “ # $ % & ‘ ( ) * + , – . / 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : ; > = < … Continue reading Products
- [Markup: Title With Markup](https://patientwhisperers.com/2016/01/05/markup-title-with-markup/): Verify that: The post title renders the word “with” in italics and the word “markup” in bold. The post title markup should be removed from the browser window / tab.
- [Edge Case: Nested And Mixed Lists](https://patientwhisperers.com/2015/05/15/edge-case-nested-and-mixed-lists/): Nested and mixed lists are an interesting beast. It’s a corner case to make sure that Lists within lists do not break the ordered list numbering order Your list styles go deep enough. Ordered – Unordered – Ordered ordered item ordered item unordered unordered ordered item ordered item ordered item ordered item Ordered – Unordered – Unordered ordered item ordered item unordered unordered unordered item unordered item ordered item ordered item Unordered – Ordered – Unordered unordered item unordered item ordered ordered unordered item unordered item unordered item unordered item Unordered – Unordered – Ordered unordered item unordered item unordered … Continue reading Products
- [Template: Featured Image (Vertical)](https://patientwhisperers.com/2015/03/15/template-featured-image-vertical/): This post should display a featured image, if the theme supports it. Non-square images can provide some unique styling issues. This post tests a vertical featured image.
- [Template: Featured Image (Horizontal)](https://patientwhisperers.com/2015/03/15/template-featured-image-horizontal/): This post should display a featured image, if the theme supports it. Non-square images can provide some unique styling issues. This post tests a horizontal featured image.
- [Template: Excerpt (Defined)](https://patientwhisperers.com/2015/03/15/template-excerpt-defined/): This is a user-defined post excerpt. It should be displayed in place of the post content in archive-index pages.
- [Template: Excerpt (Generated)](https://patientwhisperers.com/2012/03/14/template-excerpt-generated/): This is the post content. It should be displayed in place of the auto-generated excerpt in single-page views. Archive-index pages should display an auto-generated excerpt of this content. Depending on Theme-defined filters, the length of the auto-generated excerpt will vary from Theme-to-Theme. The default length for auto-generated excerpts is 55 words, so to test the excerpt auto-generation, this post must have more than 55 words. Be sure to test the formatting of the auto-generated excerpt, to ensure that it doesn’t create any layout problems. Also, ensure that any filters applied to the excerpt, such as <code>excerpt_length</code> and <code>excerpt_more</code>, display properly.
- [Template: Paginated](https://patientwhisperers.com/2012/01/08/template-paginated/): Post Page 1
- [Template: Password Protected (the password is "enter")](https://patientwhisperers.com/2012/01/04/template-password-protected/): This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below: Password: Submit
- [Template: Comments](https://patientwhisperers.com/2012/01/03/template-comments/): This post tests comments in the following ways. Threaded comments up to 10 levels deep Paginated comments (set Settings > Discussion > Break comments into pages to 5 top level comments per page) Comment markup / formatting Comment images Comment videos Author comments Gravatars and default fallbacks
- [Template: Comments Disabled](https://patientwhisperers.com/2012/01/02/template-comments-disabled/): This post has its comments, pingbacks, and trackbacks disabled. There should be no comment reply form, but should display pingbacks and trackbacks.
- [Template: Pingbacks And Trackbacks](https://patientwhisperers.com/2012/01/01/template-pingbacks-an-trackbacks/): This post has many pingpacks and trackbacks. There are a few ways to list them. Above the comments Below the comments Included within the normal flow of comments
- [Media: Twitter Embeds](https://patientwhisperers.com/2011/03/15/media-twitter-embeds/): Really cool to read through and find so much awesomeness added to WordPress 3.6 while I was gone. I should take three weeks off more often. — Andrew Nacin (@nacin) April 3, 2013 This post tests WordPress’ Twitter Embeds feature.
- [Post Format: Standard](https://patientwhisperers.com/2010/10/05/post-format-standard/): All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs. Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, “Oh, why can’t you remain like this for ever!” This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are … Continue reading Products
- [Post Format: Gallery](https://patientwhisperers.com/2010/09/10/post-format-gallery/)
- [Post Format: Gallery (Tiled)](https://patientwhisperers.com/2010/09/09/post-format-gallery-tiled/): This is a test for Jetpack’s Tiled Gallery. Install Jetpack to test. This is some text after the Tiled Gallery just to make sure that everything spaces nicely.
- [Post Format: Image](https://patientwhisperers.com/2010/08/08/post-format-image/):  
- [Post Format: Image (Caption)](https://patientwhisperers.com/2010/08/07/post-format-image-caption/)
- [Post Format: Image (Linked)](https://patientwhisperers.com/2010/08/06/post-format-image-linked/)
- [Post Format: Video (WordPress.tv)](https://patientwhisperers.com/2010/06/03/post-format-video-wordpresstv/): Posted as per the instructions in the Codex.
- [Post Format: Video (VideoPress)](https://patientwhisperers.com/2010/06/02/post-format-video-videopress/): [wpvideo tFnqC9XQ w=680] VideoPress, especially as a video post format, usually provides some unique styling issues. You will need to install Jetpack or Slim Jetpack plugin to turn the shortcode into a viewable video.
- [Post Format: Video (YouTube)](https://patientwhisperers.com/2010/06/02/post-format-video-youtube/): Learn more about WordPress Embeds.
- [Post Format: Aside](https://patientwhisperers.com/2010/05/09/post-format-aside/): “I never tried to prove nothing, just wanted to give a good show. My life has always been my music, it’s always come first, but the music ain’t worth nothing if you can’t lay it on the public. The main thing is to live for that audience, ’cause what you’re there for is to please the people.”
- [Post Format: Link](https://patientwhisperers.com/2010/03/07/post-format-link/): The WordPress Theme Review Team Website
- [Post Format: Quote](https://patientwhisperers.com/2010/02/05/post-format-quote/): Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet. Mark Twain
- [Post Format: Chat](https://patientwhisperers.com/2010/01/08/post-format-chat/): Abbott: Strange as it may seem, they give ball players nowadays very peculiar names. Costello: Funny names? Abbott: Nicknames, nicknames. Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who’s on first, What’s on second, I Don’t Know is on third– Costello: That’s what I want to find out. I want you to tell me the names of the fellows on the St. Louis team. Abbott: I’m telling you. Who’s on first, What’s on second, I Don’t Know is on third– Costello: You know the fellows’ names? Abbott: Yes. Costello: Well, then who’s playing first? Abbott: Yes. Costello: I mean the … Continue reading Products
- [Antidisestablishmentarianism](https://patientwhisperers.com/2009/10/05/title-should-not-overflow-the-content-area/): Title should not overflow the content area A few things to check for: Non-breaking text in the title, content, and comments should have no adverse effects on layout or functionality. Check the browser window / tab title. If you are a plugin or widget developer, check that this text does not break anything. The following CSS properties will help you support non-breaking text. -ms-word-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;  
- [](https://patientwhisperers.com/2009/09/05/edge-case-no-title/): This post has no title, but it still must link to the single post view somehow. This is typically done by placing the permalink on the post date.

## Pages

- [NLP](https://patientwhisperers.com/nlp/): NLP stands for Neuro Linguistic Programming. Hear from our mentor Dr Matt James about what NLP is and what it can do! Click here. “The conscious mind is the goal setter, and the unconscious mind is the goal getter.” Dr. Matt James
- [Hypnosis](https://patientwhisperers.com/hypnosis/): Overview What is hypnosis? Hypnosis, also called hypnotherapy, is a state of deep relaxation and focused concentration. It’s a type of mind-body medicine. A trained and certified hypnotist or hypnotherapist guides you into this deep state of focus and relaxation with verbal cues, repetition and imagery. When you’re under hypnosis, this intense level of concentration and focus allows you to ignore ordinary distractions and be more open to guided suggestions to make changes to improve your health. How does hypnosis work? How hypnosis works isn’t completely understood. However, it’s commonly believed that in the deep state of focus and relaxation … Continue reading Products
- [Services](https://patientwhisperers.com/services/)
- [Products](https://patientwhisperers.com/products/): The Patient Whisperers Youtube Channel Free downloads
- [Contact](https://patientwhisperers.com/contact/): Contact us at the emails listed below. We look forward to speaking with you soon!
- [News](https://patientwhisperers.com/news/): The Patient Whisperers publish their latest book! Vermont — October 2025 — The Patient Whisperers, Marc Sacco, RN, EMT-P [Ret.], BCH, OB and Roger Woods, RN, BCH, CI, OB, internationally recognized leaders in the use of hypnosis in healthcare, just released their new book, Gentle Shifts, Everyday Hypnosis for a Calmer, Happier Life, on Amazon. See our product page for a full description. In Memory of Col. H. Larry Elman Who could have imagined that a long and lasting friendship with Larry and Cheryl Elman would begin with a scream in a public restaurant? And yet, that’s exactly how we—The … Continue reading Products
- [About Us](https://patientwhisperers.com/about/): We are The Patient Whisperers. Marc and Roger are working Emergency Department nurses who learned Hypnosis and Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) and started using it in a busy trauma center in 2015. Over the next 6 years and more than 35,000 patients they honed their techniques into what they called Verbal Medicine™. As word of their successes spread, healthcare professionals across the country were asking them to teach Verbal Medicine™ so they could also be “Better at the Bedside and Happier at Home.“ Together, they co-authored the book Verbal Medicine™, The Language of Healing and have created and developed several … Continue reading Products
- [Blog](https://patientwhisperers.com/blog/)
- [Front Page](https://patientwhisperers.com/)
- [Sample Page](https://patientwhisperers.com/sample-page/)
- [Page Markup And Formatting](https://patientwhisperers.com/about-2/page-markup-and-formatting/): Headings Header one Header two Header three Header four Header five Header six Blockquotes Single line blockquote: Stay hungry. Stay foolish. Multi line blockquote with a cite reference: People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I’m actually as proud of the things we haven’t done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things. Steve Jobs – Apple Worldwide Developers’ Conference, 1997 Tables … Continue reading Products
- [Page Image Alignment](https://patientwhisperers.com/about-2/page-image-alignment/): Welcome to image alignment! The best way to demonstrate the ebb and flow of the various image positioning options is to nestle them snuggly among an ocean of words. Grab a paddle and let’s get started. On the topic of alignment, it should be noted that users can choose from the options of None, Left, Right, and Center. In addition, they also get the options of Thumbnail, Medium, Large & Fullsize. The image above happens to be centered. The rest of this paragraph is filler for the sake of seeing the text wrap around the 150×150 image, which is left aligned.  As you can see the should be some space above, … Continue reading Products
- [Level 3b](https://patientwhisperers.com/level-1/level-2/level-3b/): (lorem ipsum)
- [Level 3a](https://patientwhisperers.com/level-1/level-2/level-3a/): (lorem ipsum)
- [Level 2b](https://patientwhisperers.com/level-1/level-2b/): (lorem ipsum)
- [Level 2a](https://patientwhisperers.com/level-1/level-2a/): (lorem ipsum)
- [Page B](https://patientwhisperers.com/page-b/): (lorem ipsum)
- [Page A](https://patientwhisperers.com/page-a/): Integer posuere erat a ante venenatis dapibus posuere velit aliquet. Aenean lacinia bibendum nulla sed consectetur. Etiam porta sem malesuada magna mollis euismod. Fusce dapibus, tellus ac cursus commodo, tortor mauris condimentum nibh, ut fermentum massa justo sit amet risus.
- [Blog](https://patientwhisperers.com/blog-2/): Use this static Page to test the Theme’s handling of the Blog Posts Index page. If the site is set to display a static Page on the Front Page, and this Page is set to display the Blog Posts Index, then this text should not appear.
- [Front Page](https://patientwhisperers.com/front-page-2/): Use this static Page to test the Theme’s handling of the Front Page template file. This is the Front Page content. Use this static Page to test the Front Page output of the Theme. The Theme should properly handle both Blog Posts Index as Front Page and static Page as Front Page. If the site is set to display the Blog Posts Index as the Front Page, then this text should not be visible. If the site is set to display a static Page as the Front Page, then this text may or may not be visible. If the Theme … Continue reading Products
- [Clearing Floats](https://patientwhisperers.com/about-2/clearing-floats/): The last item in this page’s content is a floated image. Make sure any elements after it are clearing properly.
- [About The Tests](https://patientwhisperers.com/about-2/): This site is using the standard WordPress Theme Unit Test Data for content. The Theme Unit Test is a series of posts and pages that match up with a checklist on the WordPress codex. You can use the data and checklist together to test your theme. WordPress Theme Development Resources See Theme Development for code standards, examples of best practices, and resources for Theme development. See Theme Unit Test for a robust test suite for your Theme and get the latest version of the test data you see here. See Theme Review for a guide to submitting your Theme to … Continue reading Products
- [Level 1](https://patientwhisperers.com/level-1/): Level 1 of the reverse hierarchy test. This is to make sure the importer correctly assigns parents and children even when the children come first in the export file.
- [Level 2](https://patientwhisperers.com/level-1/level-2/): Level 2 of the reverse hierarchy test.
- [Level 3](https://patientwhisperers.com/level-1/level-2/level-3/): Level 3 of the reverse hierarchy test.
- [Page with comments disabled](https://patientwhisperers.com/about-2/page-with-comments-disabled/): This static Page is set not to allow comments. Verify that the Page does not display a comment list, comment reply links, or comment reply form. Also, verify that the Page does not display a “comments are closed” type message. Such messages are not suitable for static Pages, and should only be used on blog Posts.
- [Page with comments](https://patientwhisperers.com/about-2/page-with-comments/): Repository-hosted Themes are required to support display of comments on static Pages as well as on single blog Posts.  This static Page has comments, and these comments should be displayed. If the Theme includes a custom option to prevent static Pages from displaying comments, such option must be disabled (i.e. so that static Pages display comments) by default. Also, verify that this Page does not display taxonomy information (e.g. categories or tags) or time-stamp information (Page publish date/time).
- [Lorem Ipsum](https://patientwhisperers.com/lorem-ipsum/): Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Donec mollis. Quisque convallis libero in sapien pharetra tincidunt. Aliquam elit ante, malesuada id, tempor eu, gravida id, odio. Maecenas suscipit, risus et eleifend imperdiet, nisi orci ullamcorper massa, et adipiscing orci velit quis magna. Praesent sit amet ligula id orci venenatis auctor. Phasellus porttitor, metus non tincidunt dapibus, orci pede pretium neque, sit amet adipiscing ipsum lectus et libero. Aenean bibendum. Curabitur mattis quam id urna. Vivamus dui. Donec nonummy lacinia lorem. Cras risus arcu, sodales ac, ultrices ac, mollis quis, justo. Sed a libero. Quisque risus erat, posuere at, tristique … Continue reading Products


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