Journaling is one of the most powerful tools you can use to excavate negative thoughts and feelings, process emotions or difficult experiences, and relieve anxiety. It can be a cathartic experience, as well as help you organize you thoughts, your time, and your life.

These are my top three suggestions for starting a journaling practice whether you are a veteran journaler, a casual journaler, or have never been interested in journaling. This is a practice that can actually help you so that the practical physical tips for not touching or pulling your hair can work more effectively since you are giving yourself a new and improved emotional outlet.

Here's the link to the Bustle article on journal ecosystems: https://www.bustle.com/wellness/journal-ecosystem-tiktok

Have you ever noticed and really tuned into a character in a book, movie, or show that was pulling out their hair? I know I have! Hair pulling in the media can tell us what this behavior conveys to the outside world, but we can check in with ourselves and decide if this resonates or reflects our own experiences.

In today's episode I'm going through the experiences I had seeking out professional help for my mental health in the form of hypnotherapy, talk therapy, and going on SSRI anti anxiety medication. I hope this is helpful for you if you are considering one of these routes to help quell your hair pulling habit!

In this episode, I talk more in depth about the pitfalls and situations throughout my daily life that trigger a craving to pull out my hair. It's a combination of anxiety inducing spots in my day or week, or times when my mind is working through hard problems or just plain bored.

I hope some of these descriptions help you uncover important information about your daily life and schedule, and how you can start managing these trouble spots to head off hair pulling before you put your hand to your head.

Ending your hair pulling habit can take time, energy, and commitment. But a lot of times, we just need some useful practical tips and practices to help stop pulling just for an afternoon, an hour, or just for the day, so that you can buy yourself some time and runway for other more long term practices and strategies to settle in. This is my top 5 list of things you can do today to help stop pulling out your hair and freeing your sprirt!

I don't know about you, but I have a very specific origin story about pulling out my hair. Some start when they are little, and some, like me, start when they are older. This is how I started, and then COULD. NOT. STOP. pulling out my hair. I pulled my hair out consistently for over ten years before I found the tools to let go of this self soothing habit, and this is how it all started.

Welcome to Save Your Hair Free Your Spirit, my podcast where I share my experiences literally tearing out my hair and my journey to stop this painful habit.