This was a great webinar with five former clients of mine who generously gave their time on Monday to tell you their stories and answer questions. I’m sure you will find it a helpful listen. Two current clients of mine who were on the call live have already emailed me to say how encouraged and inspired…
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You’ve been doing great, maybe even thought your skin picking was unquestionably a thing of the past. Then you started slipping a little bit. Maybe it’s so little you barely noticed it creeping back in. Or maybe, like Fanney describes below, you haven’t been picking at all and suddenly have a full-on breakdown. What do…
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Here is the audio recording from today’s “ask me anything” related to skin picking webinar. A lot of great questions were asked and I did my best to answer them all. Some of the topics: how best to help an adult daughter who picks, how do my coaching sessions go, what are some helpful books,…
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This post is a reflection on some things I’ve learned from my first two years of coaching individuals to break free from the compulsive cycle of destructive skin picking. I feel like I have a good sense now of who will succeed when I am working with people. Here are seven possible answers to the…
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I got an email yesterday (including the picture above) from one of my dear clients whose story you may have already read. I asked her if I could share its contents to inspire you, and she was happy to share. “I wanted to give you a small update – my best friends wedding was a…
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“Why do I do this to myself?” You’ve probably asked yourself this question many times, without receiving any kind of a real answer. I’ve got a succinct answer for you: Simply put, we all have in common a strong tendency to want to avoid pain and pursue pleasure. This tendency is natural, yet it gets…
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I recently did a workshop (at the Trichotillomania Learning Center national conference) on the deeper lessons of yoga for skin pickers and hair pullers. In this article I’m going to focus on what I believe is the single most important one. First, a little background. What most of us think of as yoga is a…
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