I’m excited to announce the publication of my new books, “The Freedom Companion for Stopping Skin Picking” and “The Freedom Companion for Stopping Hair Pulling“. A nail biting book is on the way in just another week or so. These are beautiful, functional, well thought-out journals designed to help you stop your unwanted behavior. Although…
“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…
Someone in my writing group gave me a far-out book to read. Called The Afterlife of Billy Fingers: How my Bad-Boy Brother Proved to Me There’s Life After Death, it was fascinating and beautiful and prodded me to think about things in a different way. The book was written by a woman whose older brother…
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,…
Many of us notice our skin picking, hair pulling or nail biting becomes worse in the week or so before our menstrual periods. We might feel completely out of control and not like ourselves. It may even seem like everything bad that happens in our lives happens in that one week or so every month.…
Ah, the stress of modern life. Do you notice how it manifests in your body and causes you to have greater urges to pick your skin, pull your hair or bite your nails? Very often physical or emotional stress triggers the tendon guard reflex, whose purpose is to ready us to fight, freeze or flight…
