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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Here’s a technique I use with my clients that’s amazingly useful. It’s called Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT, or meridian tapping) and here Tammy Fletcher, Ph.D., MFT shows you one way to use it specifically for skin picking. The nice thing is you can just follow along with her, tapping on yourself as you watch the video. Once…
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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…
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Sorry to be a bummer today guys, but it’s important that we face reality! Here are 6 hard truths about what is keeping you picking your skin or pulling your hair, and what needs to happen to greatly reduce or stop picking or pulling altogether. 1) You have to accept the reality that you are…
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Whether your issue is trichotillomania (hair pulling), skin picking, nail biting or or other compulsive behaviors, you may find it helps to go gluten-free. This is a communication from Gina, a registered dietitian who writes the poetry blog The Kitchen Ink. Even if you do not have celiac disease, like Gina, you may still be sensitive…
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