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...
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...
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...
BFRB New Year’s Resolutions
We’re closing in on the new year. Tonight, in the last moments of 2020, the countdown will begin. Five. Counting down. Four. Maybe it’s a chant with your circle of people. Maybe it’s a thought in your head. Three....
Dealing with Feelings of Isolation this Holiday Season
In the past, we’ve shared advice on how to navigate the holiday season for going to family gatherings with people who might not necessarily understand having a body-focused repetitive behaviour. Many of us have been in the position where...
Being Kind to Yourself When You Have a BFRB
Having a body-focused repetitive behaviour (BFRB) can be frustrating, making it tough to be kind to yourself and easy to fall into the cycle of being hard on yourself instead. There’s this idea that we should have the power...
Beyond My BFRB
When you have a body-focused repetitive behaviour (BFRB), it can feel all encompassing. It can consume your time, make home in every thought, and shape the way you go about life. It can be the lens that you see...
BFRB Support During Social Distancing
Over the past several months, we’ve had to make a number of adjustments in the wake of the global pandemic that has put cities in lockdown and encouraged social distancing in very nearly all aspects of life. This has...
The Moments that Make a Difference
CBSN Does Mindfest 2020 Last week, the Canadian BFRB Support Network had the privilege of having a table at Mindfest, an annual mental health fair hosted at University of Toronto’s Hart House. Our greatest takeaway from this year’s...
Top 5 BFRB Christmas Gifts
Those who celebrate Christmas often have a wish list of gifts they would like to receive. Sure, it might seem like something a child will do to prep for Santa, but many teens and adults also have a list...