Inspiration, motivation, and encouragement for skin pickers
In the last month or two we’ve been experiencing new and added challenges. Many people are experiencing increased worry and anxiety, and naturally that has translated into many people who pick having a hard time with more or renewed picking. Is this you? It’s common but not universal. Some people are experiencing less anxiety, especially…
Last week I had the great pleasure of meeting Lauren McKeaney at the TLC Foundation Conference for BFRBs (body-focused repetitive behaviors). (Btw, if you want to see the talk I gave at the conference on Diet and Skin Picking, you can watch it here.) Lauren is a relatively new voice on the scene of BFRB’s, and…
How many times have you made a New Year’s resolution to stop picking? I’m guessing it could be many times, right? Is it on your agenda for 2017 too? With so many failed attempts in the past, should you even make one? Well, if it’s something you’ve done every year with no results, I want you…
One of my recent clients wrote her story, which I share with you here: “I am a 30 year old woman. When I was about 7 or 8 years old I began to pick at my skin, mainly my legs. I would sit on the bathroom floor for what felt like at least an…
Your chance to ask me your questions on skin picking (or hair pulling or other BFRBs): For about a month, maybe more if I’m loving it, I’ll be broadcasting live videos on periscope. Do you know about periscope? I had been hearing good things about it, so after opening an account and checking out a…
I would love to meet you in Colorado this September for this one-of-a-kind event, Christina Pearson’s annual retreat for those living with skin picking, hair pulling and related behaviors. Christina is the founder of the Trichotillomania Learning Center (TLC) and grew that organization as its director to bring into the world scientific research, public awareness,…
“Let me touch, so very gently, your aching, balding, bleeding scalp, and release the shaming, binding ties.” So begins Christina Pearson’s heartfelt and poetic book Pearls: Meditations on Recovery from Hair Pulling and Skin Picking. Further into the opening poem: “Your wounded, punctured, mottled skin, Endless landscape of hypnotic entrapment” … “Let me ease your…
