Alexandra Janelli

Thank you.

It's a pleasure to be here.

Yeah, so I'm a hypnotherapist and also a certified coach.

I live over in the United States on the other side of the pond here in Philadelphia, but have a practice up in New York.

And I landed in hypnotherapy on a lark, I would say, similar to so many people.

For my whole life, I'm 45 now, but at the time was 26 or so.

And I was a very...

curious finger picker, meaning I would pick the skin off my cuticles, thumbs, you name it, I would want to pick it.

And while there's parts of that that might be reasonable if you have a hangnail, it was to the point where my hands would be bloody.

My friends called me hamburger hands.

It wasn't a cute look, always embarrassing, always had my thumbs sort of tucked in, hands in pockets.

And

my doctors wanted to put me on high doses of OCD medication of which I'm a complete advocate for medication you know if you need glasses you get glasses and but I just knew in my heart of hearts that wasn't the path I wanted to go down but I didn't know what else to do about it so I tried everything gloves certain creams I tried you know you name it I've probably tried it

And so finally, I was at a nutritionist and he noticed my hands because you can't not notice that and asked if I'd ever seen a hypnotherapist that he had one within his center.

And I said, I haven't.

That's crazy.

Should I try it?

And he's like, what do you have to lose?

And I said, maybe a couple hundred bucks, but it can't be any more expensive than the embarrassment I feel with my hands.

So