131: Could Meditation Be The Solution To Chronic Skin Picking & Hair Pulling? (Science Based)

What if the key to healing from chronic skin picking, hair pulling or nail biting isn't learning how to control the behaviour, but learning how to feel your feelings? Picking, pulling and biting are ways of changing how we feel. They can help us escape anxiety, discomfort, boredom or other emotions we don't quite know how to handle. But when we learn how to actually sit with and process those feelings, we begin to reduce our need to escape them in the first place. In this episode, you'll disc...

You know there are habits that would be good for you. Exercising, meditating, journaling, doing the deeper work on yourself... And yet, no matter how many times you try, you just can't seem to stay consistent. Maybe you find the motivation when things get really bad, but as soon as life starts feeling better, those good habits slowly fall away again. There's a reason this keeps happening, and it might not be what you think. In this episode, you'll discover: ✨ Why waiting until things get bad ...

Why can chronic skin picking, hair pulling or nail biting become so incredibly addictive? You know the behaviour is hurting you. You desperately want to stop. And yet, your brain keeps pulling you back towards it again and again. There’s actually a reason for this — and when you understand what your brain has learned through these behaviours, so much starts to make sense. In this episode, you'll discover: ✨ How positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement and unpredictable rewards can combi...

If evenings are when your picking, pulling or biting tends to get worse, this episode is something you can actually come back to and use when you need it. After a whole day of doing, thinking and being “on”, it can be incredibly difficult to suddenly slow down. Your body might be tired, but your nervous system is still carrying everything from the day and picking, pulling or biting can become the way you decompress. This episode is designed to give you another way. In this episode: ✨ I'll gui...

If you had a good childhood, it can be really confusing to look at the ways you struggle today and wonder… why? You might even feel guilty exploring your past because your parents loved you, gave you so much, and other people had it far worse. But having a good childhood doesn't mean you received everything you emotionally needed. In this episode, you'll discover: ✨ Why you can have loving, well-intentioned parents and still carry emotional wounds from childhood ✨ How the emotional patterns w...