It’s Sunday morning, and I am coming off of an incredibly busy week. There’s a part of me that wants to post here daily, but that is effectively curtailed by the feeling that I must write something profound, or not write at all. Hmmm. One thing I do know, is that as I become more [...]
My dearest friends, and I really do mean friends! I am so deeply touched by the overwhelmingly loving and thoughtful responses I have received on my new blog. I so look forward to developing this as a wonderful exchange forum, for us all to grow together in recovery. My comment about “friends” is very apt, [...]
To live in a behavioral prison with bars forged of compulsion – is something the trich community understands all too well. Yesterday, I had a really powerful experience relating to this topic I would like to share. As I was driving over to the TLC office, I noticed that an old house on Mission Street [...]
Over one hundred years ago, the name trichotillomania was coined by a French dermatologist working with a young man who pulled his hair. In 1989,when I originally learned there was a name for what I had been doing for 20 years, I was overwhelmed. First with relief – OMG there’s a name and other people do [...]
As you can see, a couple of weeks ago I posted a couple times to get used to even having a blog – then forgot to post when I was in Boston! I am happy to report the conference went extraordinarily well, and I am now looking forward to this year’s Retreat. I hope to see many [...]
