Inspiration, motivation, and encouragement for skin pickers
You are so much more than your skin picking or hair pulling or other body-focused repetitive behavior (BFRB). However, chances are good that you have been over-focused on your behavior to the point where you may feel it dominates who you are, that you are your picking, pulling or other BFRB. There is hope though. A person…
What we pay attention to grows. Just as when you plant seeds, water them and otherwise tend to them, you can grow a plant that may even be a tree that bears fruit for you in the future, we are continually planting seeds in our minds, then “feeding and watering” them. Eventually we reap the…
For those of you working on stopping your hair pulling (trichotillomania), skin picking (dermatillomania), nail biting or any other problematic behavior or habit you have, here is a story that inspired me. It is something I think about whenever I feel impatient about where I am in whatever I’m working towards in my life. More…
I’m thrilled to bring you all this interview with Angela Hartlin, best known as the author of Forever Marked: A Dermatillomania Diary, a memoir about her experiences with compulsive skin picking.
Can you really stop picking? I believe everyone has the capacity to stop or greatly reduce their skin picking to the point that it is not an issue anymore. Our brains are so incredibly changeable, a quality scientists call neuroplasticity. Research has provided us with many examples of neuroplasticity. Even with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), a…
Every one of you is loveable and deserves love. Regardless of how you have been treated in the past, and how you have been treating yourself up to now, the key to love is within you. It is always there, in the present moment, deep inside, hidden and hard to miss when we are caught…
