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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Did you hear about this recent study? Undertaken in a collaboration between a public health professor and an economics professor, the study of 80,000 people in the U.K. found that happiness and mental well-being rose with the number of servings of vegetables and fruits eaten per day, topping out at seven. That means if you’d…
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We tend to believe our thoughts. After all, we each have this voice in our head, thinking thoughts incessantly. Since our thoughts are always with us, it doesn’t naturally occur to us to question whether they accurately represent reality. We assume our thoughts tell it like it is, but they actually veil a deeper truth,…
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We’re more likely to engage in skin picking and related behaviors when we’re feeling more “airy” and scattered, all in our thoughts, than when we’re grounded in our bodies. Here’s a nice practice called “squeezies”, that can really help get you grounded and satisfy your need for healthy touch. You can do it fully clothed.…
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