Lori Hammond: Group Hypnosis, Somatic Intention Setting, and the Art of Getting Out of Your Own Way

In this episode of AWAKEN, Ryan sits down with Lori Hammond — hypnotist, group work pioneer, and the woman behind trancypants.com — for one of the most joyful, honest, and surprisingly deep conversations the show has produced. Lori came to hypnosis the way a lot of people do: skeptical, a little scared, and quietly desperate for something to actually work. What she didn't expect was that learning hypnosis to lose weight would quietly eradicate decades of clinical depression along the way.Since 2018, Lori has run Trancy Tuesdays — a weekly group hypnosis session that's become something of a sacred container for hypnosis professionals. She's done approximately 500 of them. In this conversation she and Ryan dig into why group hypnosis often works better than one-on-one, why the witnessing field created by a group has more in common with prayer than most people are comfortable admitting, and why getting a person out of their story and into their body is the move that changes everything.They also get into marketing (it's just hypnosis with a different name), niching (your ideal client is usually a mirror of yourself), the surprising overlap between Abraham Hicks and somatic hypnosis, what Bingo and brain surgery have in common, and why the word "try" already has failure baked into it. Lori closes the episode by walking Ryan — and everyone listening — through a live somatic intention setting demo that is worth the price of admission alone.This one goes places. Come ready.Three quotes from Lori worth writing down:"Marketing and hypnosis are pretty much the same thing. When you're good at one, you're a lot better at the other.""What you resist persists. When we stop trying to fix grief and just witness it — from a place of neutrality — things start to shift within 90 seconds without a single suggestion.""It is all about the is-ness of this present moment. That is all. Right here."Connect with Lori Hammond: Website & free hypnosis audio: trancypants.com Connect with Ryan DeJonghe / TranceWell: Website: trancewell.help Email: [email protected]