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...