This post and the beautiful image above (click it to see in full!) are courtesy of Alyssa, a young woman I met once for a Breakthrough Session (get yours when you sign up for the Freedom Kit). She generously shares her experience working with my book to find freedom from her compulsive skin picking here. …
Winter. The air is cold and dry. We’re not getting a lot of sunlight. How does winter affect you? Winter can accentuate depression, anxiety and, as a result, body-focused repetitive behaviors (BFRBs) like skin picking, hair pulling and nail biting. If you feel depressed in winter, be sure you are not deficient in vitamin D, which…
Does what you eat affect your picking? Absolutely. Perhaps you have noticed this although, more likely, it may not be something that has ever occurred to you. Just as you can be under mental and emotional stress, and physical stress from not sleeping or exercising enough (or too much), you can also experience physical stress…
A new study to be published in March 2013 in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics reviews all the relevant scientific literature from 1960-2012 and concludes that there is a clear link between 1) eating dairy and acne and 2) eating foods with high glycemic index/glycemic load and acne. High glycemic foods…
