Accepting My Skin Picking: Is This Really Recovery?
What if I stopped fighting my skin picking? What if I stopped begging for a cure? What if I stopped agonizing over and hating it? What if I just let it be? What if I accepted it? Those are...
Is BFRB Recovery Possible? Professionals Weigh In
There are many opinions or even just curiosity throughout the body-focused repetitive behaviour (BFRB) community about whether recovery is possible. With how much is still unknown about BFRBs, it can probably seem premature to even make that call. But...
Skin Picking Recovery: Challenges and Opportunity
Angela Hartlin has a long history with excoriation (skin-picking) disorder (also called dermatillomania). You may be familiar with her story, but if not, the disorder had a grip on her life from a young age. During her teens and...
The Benefits of Peer Support Groups in BFRB Recovery
If you’re familiar with the Canadian BFRB Support Network’s story at all, then you know that the organization started as a small gathering of people with trichotillomania and other body-focused repetitive behaviours (BFRBs) in our founder’s living room. It...
9 Tips to Kick-Start Your BFRB Recovery
Talking about recovery for your body-focused repetitive behaviour (BFRB) is all fine and well, but where do you even start? Like how recovery itself may look different from person to person, getting started with approaching recovery at all may...
What Is BFRB Recovery? What Can It Look Like?
If there’s one thing to learn from the body-focused repetitive behaviour (BFRB) community, it’s that different people have different steps they take to reach recovery and that recovery looks different from person to person. That can make it difficult...
Steps to BFRB Recovery: BFRB Awareness Week 2021
re·cov·er·y /rəˈkəv(ə)rē/ a return to a normal state of health, mind, or strength. the action or process of regaining possession or control of something stolen or lost. Google/Oxford Languages Recovery can seem like an elusive thing when you have...
Call for Story Submissions: BFRB Awareness Week 2021
Sometimes we can feel like we can only share our story if we have a piece of sage advice to share, or the answer to burning questions, but that’s not the case. At CBSN, sharing our stories, no matter...
Preventing Mask Acne as a Skin Picker (the Less to Pick, the Better)
Mask acne, or maskne as it has been dubbed, is something that many of us might be dealing with as public spaces reopen. It’s meaning we’re out in public more, and in many cases wearing a mask is still...
How to Spot Those Preying on the BFRB Community (Bad Actors)
While it’s a nice notion to think that everyone has good intentions and is only meaning to help, there are, unfortunately, those who prey on the vulnerabilities of others. This is true in the body-focused repetitive behaviour community as...
13 Hairstyles for Trich Hair Loss (Ungendered)
Feeling good about yourself is something that most everyone strives for, and when you have trichotillomania, that can often be a challenge because of bald spots, thinning, and hair loss. Getting a new haircut or being able to achieve...
An Inside Look at BFRB Coaches
You may have heard of coaching before, such as with life coaches, but did you know there are also folks out there offering coaching for body-focused repetitive behaviours (BFRBs)? Maybe you’ve seen them across the internet and read their...
An Inside Look at BFRB Treatment Providers
While often sought out, treatment options for body-focused repetitive behaviours (BFRBs) can seem elusive. Because of how little knowledge there currently is about BFRBs, many treatment providers don’t know about them, but suppose you do find someone that says...
Mental Health Resources and COVID-19
By Angela Hartlin Along with the rest of the world, Canadians have been experiencing the devastations caused by the COVID-19 crisis. With access to effective treatments for trichotillomania (compulsive hair pulling), excoriation disorder (skin picking disorder), and other body-focused...
A Fluffy Addition to Your BFRB Toolbox: BFRB Dogs Feature
You may have heard of service dogs or even emotional support animals, and maybe you’ve even seen these animal companions employed for those with body-focused repetitive behaviours (BFRBs). Haley Sciola, founder of BFRB Dogs describes them as follows. “A BFRB...