I am super excited to annouce that my new Keen2 bracelets are here! Thank you HabitAware! It’s been almost three years since I purchased my first set of Keen bracelets. These bracelets are a gift to me, and a much needed blessing as I am struggling after having the baby. HabitAware put a lot of […]
Trichotillomania Herbal Teas
Herbal Teas and Flowers for People with Trichotillomania About a year ago I started drinking herbal teas as a way to stay healthy. I began just by googling the benefits of different teas that I saw on Amazon. I started purchasing the ones I thought would help me with my hair health and then went […]
Want To Stop Pulling? Cut Your Thumbs Off.
I discovered the secret to stop pulling my hair out and all I had to do was cut my thumb off. Okay, not really OFF, but damn I cut it so good. Sliced right through it in the most horrid way. Practically took the whole tip-off. I was trying to cut a jalapeno for my […]
Finding A New Hairdresser When You Have Trichotillomania AND Social Anxiety
You would think since I have a blog and I talk to complete strangers about personal things that finding a hairdresser should be no problem for me. I mean, after all, I tell the world I have trichotillomania, why not a hairdresser? The thing about me is I have terrible social anxiety when it comes […]
Healing From A Freak Accident
I really wanted to get back to you guys sooner than 6 weeks or whatever it’s been since the last blog post but I had a freak accident about 3 weeks ago. I was out walking my dog and all I remember is going down and hitting the pavement and coming too. I’m not really […]
The Menstraul Monster
My period is back. It actually came back at 4 months postpartum (I’m 9 months PP now) and I am still exclusively breastfeeding my baby. I have no idea why it came back so early, usually, I get at least a year after having a baby? With my period came so many triggers for my […]
New Year, Old Trichs
Last year, I lost a lot of loved ones and went through a very hard post-partum depression because of my husband’s job. My husband works in management in the restaurant business and that was rocked hard last year because of a lack of employees. He was working ALL THE TIME, I rarely saw him or […]
Negative Body Image Issues Triggering Trichotillomania and PPD
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been very insecure about my body, since childhood. These thoughts literally consume me 24/7 during my postpartum period. If you’ve ever suffered from eating disorders and negative body image issues and then had a baby, you know what I mean. Postpartum depression is almost unavoidable when you […]
Hair-Pulling As a Coping Mechanism for Dealing with Death
In less than two months there have been four deaths in my family. All this death right after having a baby has my anxiety through the roof. I can’t even process my feeling most days and it makes it hard to manage my hair pulling and other BFRB’s. I find myself pulling at my hair […]
My Fear of Talking To People Birthed A Big Secret
I suffer from social anxiety in a big way. I avoid a lot of conversations with people that I probably SHOULD BE having. I could write a book on the things that I don’t say. If anyone can keep a BIG secret, it’s me. I hid my hair pulling for years, and in a way, […]
Falling In Love With Someone Who Has an Anxiety Disorder Like Me
This has been such a stressful and eventful year I can’t even begin to break it all down for you but I’m going to try and recap it a bit here so I can get you caught up … Last year around this time my husband and I split and a few months after that […]
Selling My Home Was Trichy
A lot has happened in my life since my divorce last year. I do mean A LOT. Way too much to catch you up in this session of my saga. I had to sell the house that I loved. When I split with my husband, we agreed that I would keep the house in exchange […]
Finding Trichotillomania Support for Parents
About a year and a half ago I had the pleasure of attending the BRFB conference that was held in San Francisco, California and it was absolutely one of the most amazing experiences that I have ever had as someone battling with Trichotillomania. For years I always struggled alone thinking that I was weird and […]
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