This is my labor of love.
I promised myself that someday I would put together all of the gems I've discovered from private practice, my personal journey, and parenting my daughter through repetitive behaviors, into a simple program that could help more people find more freedom. 18 years after getting my doctorate, 2,400 patients, one world-wide viral pandemic, and 457 chai lattes later, I've finally made that promise a reality...
... and I've decided to make everything FREE.
If you're struggling with body-focused repetitive behaviors like hair pulling, skin picking, or nail, lip, & cheek biting... you're in the right place!
You're not alone.
You're not broken.
You do not have a willpower problem.
Period.
I deeply understand...
I understand these behaviors. I understand the pain, the shame, and the isolation that they cause. I understand not only because I've worked with many, many patients who struggle with body-focused repetitive behaviors over the last 15 years, but because I intimately know what it's like to be in a body where pulling my hair, picking my skin, and biting my nails and cheeks is something I desperately wanted to stop, while at the same time it was one of the best ways I knew to find calm and balance.
I know this because ...
I'm a puller, picker, and biter myself.
I've spent the last 35+ years of my life researching and experimenting with strategies and tools to find freedom from these behaviors for myself, my daughter, and my patients. I’ve spent many of those years miserably failing. But over the years, patterns of things that really work started to emerge. I look forward to sharing some of these hard-earned gems with you. Hopefully I can help you find a little bit straighter path to freedom than the windy road I took. These are the programs I wish I would have had when I was scared and alone as a 9-year-old in Mrs. Bennett's 4th grade class.
These programs are my gift to you.
Body-focused repetitive behaviors (BFRB) are SUPER COMMON! They just seem rare because we get embarrassed and don't talk about them, but they actually affect 2-5% of the population.
On the low end that's 156 million people worldwide!
After you've watched your welcome video above, you're ready to start on your 3 steps to more freedom.
Each of the 3 steps contains crucial knowledge and skills. They were designed to build upon each other. Upon completion of each course, you'll receive an invitation to register for the next one. All of the classes are free-of-charge.
Step 1: Choose Your Awareness Course
FREE 1-HOUR MINI AWARENESS COURSE
After watching the welcome video above, choose the awareness course below that is specific for your behavior or needs. If you have multiple repetitive behaviors, I suggest you start with the one that's bothering you the most right now. You'll gain access to your course immediately and can binge-watch the 3 videos and corresponding quizzes to help you learn more about your behavior.
*This course gives you the foundational knowledge you'll need to be able to learn how to melt your urges in Step 2. Upon completion you'll receive an invite to register for the Beyond Urges course.
FREE!
For pullers.
1-2 people out of every 100 silently struggle with repetitive hair pulling. If you pull from your scalp, eyelashes, eyebrows, pubic area, or legs you're not alone.
For pickers.
Repetitive skin picking is very common and is estimated to affect between 1.4-5.4% of the population. This makes it more common than peanut allergies!
For biters.
Biting may be the most familiar repetitive behavior. For some it can become chronic. If you bite your nails, cuticles, skin, lips, or cheeks, we've got you covered!
For families.
Feeling confused and helpless about how to help your loved one? Join the club! Take our family awareness course to learn how you can be more skillful in your support.
Step 2: Learn How to Melt Your Urges
BEYOND URGES - 5 DAY PROGRAM
You don't need to spend your life fighting yourself and your urges...learn how to melt them instead! In this 5-day video course, I'll show you the 5 simple steps that I use to work with urges and melt them on the spot. I'll send you a new video each day where you'll build your skills, one-by-one, so you know exactly what to do when an urge arises. By the end of the 5 days, you will have learned and practiced each of the 5 steps and will be well on your way to finding more freedom from even the most intense and nagging urges. Urge melting is a learnable skill just like riding a bike. You've got this!
*You'll be invited to sign up for this course after completing your Step 1: Awareness Course.
FREE!
Step 3: Make Your Results Last
BEYOND BFRB 12-WEEK IMMERSION - STARTS NOVEMBER 1st
This course is about helping you find more freedom and creating a structure to make your results last. This program is based on the science of epigenetics. I've shaken out the gold nuggets of what I typically cover in a year of private sessions into a step-by-step program that will walk you systematically towards more freedom in your body, brain, and life. Each month we'll focus on one aspect of how you can support your physical body to find more freedom. This is a live weekly Zoom class. We'll meet for 12 weeks. All sessions will be recorded. You don't want to miss this course!
*You'll be invited to join this course after completing your Step 2: Beyond Urges program. Enrollment closes October 26th.
Free
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Parents need love too!
One other area that I'm a reluctant expert in is parenting a loved one through these behaviors. I know first-hand how helpless and painful it feels to watch someone you love struggling. How desperate I was to make things better. How guilty I felt. How the harder I tried to help, the more resistance I met and the worse things got.
Believe it or not, our mutual struggle working through repetitive behaviors has brought my teenage daughter and I closer together than ever. I've learned a ton from her and I'm happy to share my hard-earned lessons with you in a free course I've created just for you.
We're in this together.
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