Dear Ones, I do not really even know what I want to say, except I hope you come to next week’s TLC Retreat in Maryland. This is an event that has become a pivotal point in my year, and I would have to also say, my life. Before I even started TLC, but had met [...]
Good morning world! Sometimes, I just wonder who I am writing to. How did you get to this blog, what is your life story, are we neighbors but don’t know it? So very interesting. Today, I want to share something about my personal process, and how it is a big part of why I am [...]
Dear ones, As we have been looking at the work focus for the rest of the year at TLC, something came to mind for me on a personal level in response to the first week of October being Trichotillomania Awareness Week. Leslie has just inserted information on the TLC Hands-Down-A-Thon in the next IN TOUCH newsletter, and [...]
Dear ones, Today is Saturday, and when I awoke, I felt like I had cement in my veins. Wednesday evening of this week, I made the choice to euthanize our geriatric German Shepherd, Ben. My heart aches so, and there is a big lack of presence in our home now. Ben was 11 years, 7 [...]
Dear ones, Woke up today pondering the upcoming TLC Retreat and what it means to me, and thought I would share some musings on it. Why come to a TLC Retreat? To honor your process, the truth of your life experience, to allow yourself the space to step outside of your habituated routines of behavior, [...]
Good morning Dear Ones! Hmmm… I have a bunch of stuff on my mind, so I may just ramble a bit until I hit my stride. Is trich life-threatening? Not often, but it can certainly be life-threatening. For a variety of reasons. Physically, one can develop a trichobezoar, or hair ball blocking the digestive system. [...]
Good Evening, World! I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while – and then it slips my mind. In fact, I wanted to write a short meditation on this concept for my little book Pearls, but again, I forgot! So today is the day. (Because I sent out a text about it on Monday… [...]
Dear One, (yes, that means you) This is a powerful week for me. On May 20th, 1990, I flew to Seattle to do a local talk show on trichotillomania. At the time, I owned and operated a small answering service with my dear friend and business partner, Dana. I had recently discovered others suffered, and [...]
Good morning world, Been a lot longer than I expected since my last blog entry – now it is time to catch up! I did a 7-day mindfulness retreat with Jon Kabat-Zinn, got my little book PEARLS – meditations on recovery from hair pulling and skin picking published (only available through TLC right now www.trich.org), [...]
February 21, 2010 – 10:25 am
Good morning World! I am getting ready to begin my 7 day MBSR training this afternoon, and thought I’d like to post this before I disappear for a week. A while back, on the TLCTrichSupport email listserve (sign up at www.trich.org) someone posted how poorly she felt as she had put together some time and [...]
