About Me

Jax the Ripper.

Hello, my name is Jax and my 35 year habit of cuticle ripping was healed with power of hypnosis.

Up until then, I hated my ugly fingers and how they impacted my life.

For example, take a look at the picture of me sitting on the stool.  Happen to notice the position of my fingers?  Probably not and that was by design.  An excellent photographer would aid in the camouflage of unwanted or unsightly focus points and that’s exactly what happened here.   They were curved inward purposely to hide my fingertips for the ripping would create open wounds that tended to brighten up in pictures.  They looked gross.   Behind the smile, I was super stressed and hyper aware of them and purposefully kept them out of the camera’s eye. 

I call it ripping because I didn’t just pick the cuticles, I would rip and peel the skin from the cuticle all the way around the fingertips to the first knuckle mark.  My thumbs, index and middle fingers on both hands were the main targets and the ripping was enough to disfigure my fingerprints. I knew that because at times my fingerprint recognition feature on my phone couldn’t read my thumbprint at times when my fingers were in a bad state.  My fingers were always in stages of healing; from the band-aid stage to protect the rivets and stop the bleeding to having my nails almost grown out and cuticle almost smooth.

Despite many different attempts using will power alone or combined with different forms of self help, the picking remained until I found hypnosis.

RIP Jax the Ripper.

I am no longer Jax the Ripper.

Now I am Jax, a Registered Hypnotherapist with the State of Washington and a Certified Consulting Hypnotist with the National Guild of Hypnotists. Hypnosis changed my life and together we can change yours because hypnosis works when everything else has failed.

Hypnosis showed me the answers within myself by giving insight to what was behind the picking and why I chose that habit.  With that understanding, the habit seemed to disappear and my will power to stop afterwards was 100% successful Best of all, it felt easy to do.  Life now feels free; that feeling is gone and so is the picking. Today I have pretty, natural hands and no longer have the impulse to hide them or need to.

Here is my shortly after picture.  See the position of my hands? You still probably didn’t notice them but my feeling of freedom is evident.  Not a thought was given to my hands or the placement; I was truly in the moment. I am free. I have relief. You can, too.

Hypnosis. It’s better than you think!