This episode is deep, humourful, honest, and doesn't mess around. If you're easily offended... perhaps skip this one.

In this episode, we talk with Laura Bloodniece, a self-worth and confidence coach for high-functioning women, pilates instructor, and remedial and soft tissue therapist.

Laura shares her journey of breaking free from multiple toxic relationships, leading her to develop a stronger sense of self and unshakeable confidence. We dive into the valuable lessons she learned from overcoming the victim mindset and understanding the impact of toxic cycles.

Stick around until the end to learn a simple, actionable step to help you reclaim your power and transform your life.

Book recommendation - Dark Side of the Light Chasers by Debbie Ford
Find it here:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/774565.The_Dark_Side_of_the_Light_Chasers

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"You just need to let yourself feel your feelings!"

If you listen to this podcast, you most likely get that already.

You get that it's important to feel, you get why you struggle to feel certain emotions, you know where it comes from, and can possibly even pinpoint exact moments in which you learned to suppress.

The question is now, how to actually feel which is where most people get stuck.

Until now! In this episode, Raffaela runs you through 2 practical techniques you can use to help you access emotion so that you can process it and deepen your connection with yourself even further.

If you'd like more support, reach out here:
https://raffaelamarie.com/Contact-Us

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My name is Raffaela Marie. I'm a holistic BFRB coach who has healed from 15 years of chronic skin picking myself and dedicated my life to helping driven women do the same. Through my podcast, free resources, and programs, I teach strategies to overcome urges, build emotional safety, and expand into authenticity. My approach goes beyond quick fixes, focusing on root causes and long-term recovery.

Oof... off days...

You know those days when you feel like you're functioning at 10% of your usual brain power and where it appears that, once again, fate got its calendar muddled up and so decided to hastily jam a month's worth of misfortune into 24 hours...

Those days. You know it?

Yup, they're not fun but they are part of life and when we don't know how to navigate them we can so easily end up in a picking, pulling, or biting sessions as a means to cope...

Which, as you know, turns our "off" day into an "OFF" day.

In this episode, Raffaela shares with you a powerful mindset shift that will allow you to navigate your "off" days with more ease and grace so that you can reduce skin picking, hair pulling, and nail biting in the long term.

Not only that but when you implement what you learn in this episode you will feel way better about yourself overall.

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My name is Raffaela Marie. I'm a holistic BFRB coach who has healed from 15 years of chronic skin picking myself and dedicated my life to helping driven women do the same. Through my podcast, free resources, and programs, I teach strategies to overcome urges, build emotional safety, and expand into authenticity. My approach goes beyond quick fixes, focusing on root causes and long-term recovery.

"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will rule your life and you will call it Fate." - Carl Jung

The more present and conscious we become, the more control we have over ourselves and our lives.

So where do we start to become more present and conscious?

And if you've already been on this path a while, how do we take it even deeper?

In this episode, you'll learn how to identify the subtleties of when you're living unconsciously because it's not always so obvious! When we miss these subtle red flags we end up feeling overwhelmed, burnt out, under-appreciated, anxious, and frustrated with life.

This episode will help you to become the captain of your own ship rather than the second in command or a deck scrubber.

Enjoy!

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My name is Raffaela Marie. I'm a holistic BFRB coach who has healed from 15 years of chronic skin picking myself and dedicated my life to helping driven women do the same. Through my podcast, free resources, and programs, I teach strategies to overcome urges, build emotional safety, and expand into authenticity. My approach goes beyond quick fixes, focusing on root causes and long-term recovery.

In this life-changing episode, you'll learn...

- the origins of overwhelming thought
- what your inner critic has to do with it
- how you can break the cycle so that you can experience more peace and confidence

BONUS: Raffaela shares a simple, powerful tool that will help you to break the cycle immediately!

When you do this you will be taking a massive leap in healing from your BFRB.*

*BFRB - Body Focused Repetitive Behaviour

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🙋‍♀️Send me a message here

My name is Raffaela Marie. I'm a holistic BFRB coach who has healed from 15 years of chronic skin picking myself and dedicated my life to helping driven women do the same. Through my podcast, free resources, and programs, I teach strategies to overcome urges, build emotional safety, and expand into authenticity. My approach goes beyond quick fixes, focusing on root causes and long-term recovery.

This is a deep, raw episode about how unhealthy and toxic dynamics within our relationships can make recovery from a BFRB* impossible...

Unless we're willing to do what it takes to empower ourselves to change and build healthy connections within ourselves and those around us!

Raffaela shares a very personal story about her own relationship and how this played are large role in her recovery from chronic skin picking.

Feel grounded, inspired, and deeply moved by this powerful eposide.

*BFRB: Body Focused Repetetive Behaviour

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My name is Raffaela Marie. I'm a holistic BFRB coach who has healed from 15 years of chronic skin picking myself and dedicated my life to helping driven women do the same. Through my podcast, free resources, and programs, I teach strategies to overcome urges, build emotional safety, and expand into authenticity. My approach goes beyond quick fixes, focusing on root causes and long-term recovery.

Sometimes a big piece of our puzzle to healing from a BFRB* is that life is chaotic! We often find ourselves surviving instead of thriving.

And it's not because you aren't doing enough, or because you aren't strong enough, or you don't have the willpower.

It's simply because you're lacking a powerful, foundational system that helps you to get shit done in a way that is flexible and can account for the unexpected...

Because life doesn't always go to plan and without the right system to support us it gets incredibly overwhelming...

Which leads to a picking, pulling, or biting session to cope.

In this episode, Raffaela shares with you the framework for a powerful yet simple system that she uses for herself and her clients to bring the chaos of life into order so that you can feel in control, on top of things, and unshakable.

*BFRB: Body Focused Repetitive Behaviour

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🎯Join the 7-Day Skin Picking Recovery Challenge

🙋‍♀️Send me a message here

My name is Raffaela Marie. I'm a holistic BFRB coach who has healed from 15 years of chronic skin picking myself and dedicated my life to helping driven women do the same. Through my podcast, free resources, and programs, I teach strategies to overcome urges, build emotional safety, and expand into authenticity. My approach goes beyond quick fixes, focusing on root causes and long-term recovery.

Perfectionism plays quite a significant role in your healing journey from your BFRB*.

If we don't learn how to overcome our perfectionistic ways then it's going to be very hard for us to release the need to engage in self-destructive behaviours like chronic skin picking, hair pulling, and nail biting.

In this episode we look at WHERE perfectionism comes from, what it has to do with your BFRB, and one unbelievably simple yet powerful exercise you can do to help yourself break free from perfectionism so that you can thrive.

*BFRB - Body Focused Repetitive Behaviour

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🎯Join the 7-Day Skin Picking Recovery Challenge

🙋‍♀️Send me a message here

My name is Raffaela Marie. I'm a holistic BFRB coach who has healed from 15 years of chronic skin picking myself and dedicated my life to helping driven women do the same. Through my podcast, free resources, and programs, I teach strategies to overcome urges, build emotional safety, and expand into authenticity. My approach goes beyond quick fixes, focusing on root causes and long-term recovery.

It's time to pull back the veil of what it's like to have healed from chronic skin picking so that we can set some realistic expectations and allow you to see how truly achievable it is!

Ready to be inspired?

PS: There's a new function available to you 🥳 Above, you'll notice there's a "send us a text message" button. By clicking on this button you will be able to send a message straight to Raffaela's podcast account!

This is a really easy and simple way to share your thoughts on how you enjoyed this episode or this podcast as a whole or even ask questions! Raffaela is looking forward to hearing from you.

Enjoy🧡

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🎯Join the 7-Day Skin Picking Recovery Challenge

🙋‍♀️Send me a message here

My name is Raffaela Marie. I'm a holistic BFRB coach who has healed from 15 years of chronic skin picking myself and dedicated my life to helping driven women do the same. Through my podcast, free resources, and programs, I teach strategies to overcome urges, build emotional safety, and expand into authenticity. My approach goes beyond quick fixes, focusing on root causes and long-term recovery.