You Keep Doing Something You Want To Stop.
Maybe you pick your skin, pull your hair, bite or pick your nails or cuticles, or engage in another body-focused behavior. You may have tried to stop many times. You may even understand exactly what you're doing and still find yourself doing it.
If this sounds familiar, it doesn't mean you're weak, lacking willpower, or failing at recovery.
There is a reason the behavior keeps happening.
I specialize in helping people understand and change Body Focused Process Addictions™ (BFPAs™)—behaviors that can become deeply reinforced ways of responding to stress, anxiety, boredom, loneliness, sensory discomfort, emotional pain, or simply the need for relief, stimulation, or soothing.
What I help you do.
The goal isn't just to make the behavior stop. It's to understand what the behavior has been doing for you and develop new ways of responding to urges, emotions, sensory needs, and difficult moments.
You Are Not Failing. There Is a Reason This Is So Difficult.
One of the most frustrating things about a BFPA™ is knowing you don't want to do it and doing it anyway. These behaviors can become automatic because the brain learns from what provides relief, comfort, stimulation, or satisfaction. Over time, the behavior can become a familiar response to particular emotions, situations, sensations, or environments.
That doesn't mean you have no control.
It means learning to recognize when the behavior starts to take over and finding ways to create more choice in those moments. It means learning to notice when the urge begins to narrow your choices and finding ways to create more space to respond differently.
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