We spend 10 minutes talking about our highlights from Charmed, and then launch into a 10 minute segment talking about the different ways people use the word "utilization" in hypnosis, including Ericksonian and others!

Our upcoming class at Charmed 2026 has us exploring some theories and technique for touch based hypnosis, with some bonus stuff about kinesthetic hallucinations like phantom sense!

WE'RE SO BACK. Shaking off the rust, we're coming back after 4 years and doing an episode where we start off with some hypnosis and then break down a few of the techniques inside of it in bite-sized pieces.

WE'RE BACK, just in time for the New Year! To ease back in after a wild couple of months, we got more drunk than we expected and just flowed. Enjoy hanging out with us and hearing some frivolous absurdity, including discussions of Hypnotic Realities by Erickson and Rossi, Evangelion (of course), fanfiction, and more. Also, as an amazing treat, hear some of her most truly Ericksonian hypnosis at the end of this episode as sleepingirl levels up her trancing.

One of the most common questions in hypnosis is: "How do we make triggers or suggestions that are longer-lasting and more persistent?" In this episode, we go through a variety of concepts and techniques to help answer this question. We talk about the role of memory, sensory and emotional conditioning, an NLP concept called future pacing, and more. This episode was sponsored by Mindless Matters -- a fun erotic hypnosis podcast hosted by two queer trans gals that includes discussion, frivolity, learning and demonstration, found at anchor.fm/mindless-matters.

Improvising hypnotic trances is a big level-up skill for many hypnotists -- the idea that we can make any concept suggestive is thrown around a lot in the community, but what are some ways we can think of that constructively?

In this topic suggested by @FrozenAmazon on Twitter, we talk about the nuances of playing in public, the value of secrets, and how waking trance fits into our model. Plus, a wild tangent about sexual arousal?? Where do you fit in on our scale? Also, the podcast has its own Twitter account now -- follow @TwoHypChicks to see cute behind the scenes stuff, suggest topic ideas, and keep up with the latest!

We discuss the idea of emotional sadomasochism -- what is it about being mean, making someone uncomfortable, that is so hot? How does this relate to manipulation? This episode contains demonstrations of conversational sadism throughout and calls back to our conversations about being evil or "wrong" in a relationship.

We did a lovely rope scene on the day of recording, and came to a lot of breakthroughs in terms of how kinesthetic elements relate to communication in hypnosis (as well as rope) scenes, ideas about pacing and leading, and our relationship. This was a super fun drunk episode with some good shmoopy stuff and some big thinky stuff too. Enjoy!

In this topic (suggested by GleefulAbandon), we dive into the idea of mixing different kinds of pain with hypnosis -- how does this work? Can pain be an induction method? What kinds of qualities should we be thinking about when considering different aspects of impact? Also, this was one of our favorite trances in a long time :)