BFRB Changemakers and HabitAware knows the power of community is crucial to the healing process. We hope you can attend these upcoming events (in person / virtual options available) hosted by various community organizations.
The BFRB Community is one big, wide network. With an estimated 1 in 20 people having a BFRB, it has to be! And it feels so much better to confront our chronic hair pulling, skin picking, and/or nail biting when we're not alone.
If you have the ability to attend one of these events, we highly encourage it. There is something so freeing of walking into a room of people and realizing that each one of them understands the same struggle that you do, that feels impossible to articulate to people who don't get it. Come for community, stay for more!
September 2024: BFRB Retreat in El Reno, Oklahoma
The first-ever BFRB Retreat was held over 30 years ago by one of HabitAware's heroes, Christina Pearson. She continues to provide this amazing opportunity to the BFRB community, along with several other BFRB experts.
The retreat takes place September 12th through 15th!
This is selling out fast, so please can get yours here soon!:
https://www.bfrbretreat.com/home
September 2024: First Ever Oxford BFRB UK+Ireland Conference
Join HabitAware co-founder Aneela Idnani in attending this historic in person and virtaul conference!
The University of Oxford and BFRB UK & Ireland invite you to the first-ever Oxford BFRB Conference on 13-14 September 2024. The event will bring together researchers, clinicians, and individuals with lived experience of BFRBs.
Register here: www.psych.ox.ac.uk/BFRBs (virtual tix avail)
September 2024: The Lyder Foundation's Luncheon in New York, NY
The Lyder Foundation is doing the important work of serving communities of color who also have BFRBs.
If you're in NY on Saturday, September 28th, please join this event.
Learn more about, and register here:
https://www.thelyderfoundation.com/registration
October 2024: BFRB Conference in Washington D.C.
The TLC Foundation's BFRB Conference is an event that's very close to our heart. Team HabitAware will also be in attendance for this one, so come say hi to us October 5th & 6th in Washington DC!
Get tickets here: https://www.bfrb.org/outreach-and-education/tlc-annual-conference
This post was made via a marketing partnership between HabitAware and BFRB Changemakers Non-Profit.
Support BFRB Changemakers
BFRB Changemakers supports BFRB healing through community. Our mission is 3-fold:
- raise awareness of debilitating conditions of Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors (BFRBs) such as compulsive hair pulling (trichtotillomania), nail biting (onychophagia), and skin picking (dermatillomania),
- increase and improve access to care, and
- advance community recovery.
Through the BFRB Changemakers Training Academy we strive to increase access to care by offering Continuing Education training to new and seasoned mental health treatment professionals.
BFRB Changemakers is a 501c3 non-profit (EIN #93-1544492). Please make a donation to support these efforts!
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