New Year’s is always an optimistic time, a fresh slate where we make resolutions to change all the things in our lives that we are unhappy with, that we’d like to be better at, etc. I wish you all the best in the New Year – whatever you want, you can make it happen! Yet,…
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I always found I was most vulnerable to starting to pick at my skin when I didn’t know what I was going to do next. It was a huge problem for me when I was unemployed or working part time. Not only did I have the anxiety that came from not enough work and therefore…
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Do you find yourself thinking, “I shouldn’t be doing this” all the time when you pick at your skin, pull out your hair, or bite your nails? Do you need to? Those kind of thoughts imply guilt or lack on your part. You are constantly making yourself wrong, or bad, or “less than” when you…
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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…
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This post is a contribution from one of my program graduates, Patricia: I’ve learned a lot about myself through skin picking. I learned, for example, that I try to escape my negative emotions (and the guilt that I have those emotions) by being detail-oriented and perfectionist – a recipe for skin picking. It comes out…
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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…
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Say hello to your pectoral muscles :-). These are some of the muscles that can get really tight from all the time spent picking. And those muscles are already short and tight for most everyone today from slumping over our keyboards and phones with our arms out in front of us. I bet you also have tight neck and…
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