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Mental Health Awareness
Reflection: What does Trichotillomania Recovery mean to me?
This is the first time Iâm really thinking about this question. For so long Iâve focused on the opposite: the loss & the deterioration that comes with compulsive hair pulling, skin picking or nail biting. I know it sounds silly, but to answer this question, I first started by googling âdefinition of recovery.â The result ⌠Continue reading Reflection: What does Trichotillomania Recovery mean to me?
Guest Post: Behavior Patterns, Triggers & Replacements
Each new school year brings new experiences - and new stresses - for parents and kids to learn and grow. School is stressful, often resulting in an uptick of skin picking or hair pulling behaviors that we thought magically disappeared in the glow of the summer sun.
Today, our Keen family member, Amy Hiller, shares her experience as an educator and behavioral coach to help parents and kids transition back to school without losing their cool (or their hair, or nails, or skin!). Thank you Amy, for taking time from your life to share these tips with your Keen family around the world!
love + awareness,
Aneela and the HabitAware team
Relapse: A Lesson in Learning to Accept Myself
In January 2017, after six years of picking at my split ends and two years of pulling out my hair, I finally told my parents about my compulsions to pull out hair from my scalp. It took them about a week or two to do some research and understand that this was not just âwantingâ to pull out my hair, but ânot being able to stopâ pulling. My parents understanding meant a lot to me. For the first time, I believed I could actually stop! This âembarrassingâ habit of mine had a name - trichotillomania, researchers that studied people like me, and tons of ways to stop were listed both online and in the several books my father ordered home. I was going to be cured!
Community Spotlight: Alison Dotson: Showing Up for OCD Awareness
Alison Dotson is a mental health advocate & a new friend! Though Alison & I both live in the Twin Cities, it took Mental Health friends across the globe to make our introduction happen! I met Alison through Stuart Ralph, a Brit whom I met virtually via Liz Atkin & in person at the 2017 ⌠Continue reading Community Spotlight: Alison Dotson: Showing Up for OCD Awareness
Finding the Good in Trichotillomania, Dermatillomania & Other BFRBs
Do you wish you never pulled that very first hair or picked that very first blemish? No one wants to be afflicted with a BFRB that buries us in shame and makes us want to run away and hide. But wishing something away isnât going to send it away. Itâs your choice to actively pursue ⌠Continue reading Finding the Good in Trichotillomania, Dermatillomania & Other BFRBs
How to Build & Maintain Your Happiness Muscles
In our first step to a âNew Year, Improved You,â we talked about letting go of the need to be perfect so that we could make room in our lives to do the hard work to continuously improve. In our second step to a âNew Year, Improved You,â Ellen Crupi, our Director of Keen Awareness, shared tips ⌠Continue reading How to Build & Maintain Your Happiness Muscles
How to Reset Your Mindset
In our first step to a âNew Year, Improved You,â we talked about letting go of the need to be perfect so that we could make room in our life to do the hard work to continuously improve. We also talked about how unnecessarily fearing failure sets us up to fail. All of this takes ⌠Continue reading How to Reset Your Mindset
New Year, Improved You: Resist Perfection.
Notice itâs not âNew Year, New You.â We arenât wiping the slate clean. We arenât starting from scratch. You are who you are and if youâre here, you have one desire: to take what you have and make it better. To Improve You. But, where is the room for improvement, if you are already perfect? ⌠Continue reading New Year, Improved You: Resist Perfection.
New Year, Improved You â A Series of Tools to Help You Make the Best of 2018
Hereâs to a New Year & an IMPROVED YOU! 2018 starts TODAY. Itâs not about a new you, itâs about making the current you BETTER. In this 3-part blog series, weâre giving you actionable tools to help you IMPROVE you. 1. âď¸Â Repel Perfection Did you resolve to stop hair pulling or skin picking ⌠Continue reading New Year, Improved You â A Series of Tools to Help You Make the Best of 2018
Learning to Self-Care and Self-Love Yourself First
For many of us, the never-ending cycle of the rat race leaves us physically and emotionally exhausted. The world we live in today is filled with so much to do. It is so busy and the âfomoâ (fear of missing out) is just too great. We drain ourselves, and GO, GO, GO without stopping to ⌠Continue reading Learning to Self-Care and Self-Love Yourself First
END THE STIGMA: Mental Healthiness for (not just) Tech/Startup Culture
As part of The HabitAware mission to end the stigma around body focused repetitive behaviors (bfrbs like hair pulling / trichotillomania, skin picking / dermatillomania, nail biting / onycophagia), our team coordinates events to share our first hand experience, build understanding around mental health issues & raise donations for TLC Foundation for Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors. ⌠Continue reading END THE STIGMA: Mental Healthiness for (not just) Tech/Startup Culture
#BFRBWeek 2016: Our favorite BFRB Advocates & âStorytellersâ
Itâs BFRB Awareness Week 2016 and we want to thank all those in the community for making some noise! One of the best ways to learn about ANYTHING and overcome anything is through story-telling.  If you want to better understand how Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors (BFRBs) shape (or distort) peopleâs lives, I highly recommend âŚ
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