Trich Talks!

Daniela @elarocp is a psychology student in Mexico who has lived with trichotillomania (hair pulling) and trichophagia (hair eating) since birth. Besides being a student, Daniela also loves to write, dance, listen to music, and a little bit of everything else! Daniela’s trichotillomania has become part of her personal identity and has impacted the way she perceives life. Most recently, Daniela’s trichophagia resulted in her needing to undergo surgery that left substantial scarring.

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This episode is brought to you by HabitAware. My Keen2 brings awareness to my trichotillomania by giving my wrist a gentle hug or vibration when I’m doing the scanning behavior. Bring awareness into your life by visiting barbaralally.com/habitaware and use code LALLYLOVE for 10% off sitewide!

Did you know HabitAware also offers virtual peer coaching? This one-to-one peer-based program will coach you through shifting mindset, practicing healthy strategies and creating your personal roadmap to recovery. To work with me, Ellen or Aneela, head over to habitaware.com/coaching today.

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Thank you so much for listening to this episode of Trich Talks.

Begin your journey to self-acceptance with trichotillomania by enrolling in my course, Sharing Our Stories. Sharing Our Stories does a deep dive into your relationship with trichotillomania by using my guided journal, My Trichster Diaries, as our workbook. You can learn more at barbaralally.com

Lori @lori.lee86 has been living with trichotillomania since she was 10 years old. Now at 61, and after doing a lot of work, she finally feels like she is on the recovery side of it all!

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This episode is brought to you by HabitAware. My Keen2 brings awareness to my trichotillomania by giving my wrist a gentle hug or vibration when I’m doing the scanning behavior. Bring awareness into your life by visiting barbaralally.com/habitaware and use code LALLYLOVE for 10% off sitewide!

Did you know HabitAware also offers virtual peer coaching? This one-to-one peer-based program will coach you through shifting mindset, practicing healthy strategies and creating your personal roadmap to recovery. To work with me, Ellen or Aneela, head over to habitaware.com/coaching today.

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Thank you so much for listening to this episode of Trich Talks.

Begin your journey to self-acceptance with trichotillomania by enrolling in my course, Sharing Our Stories. Sharing Our Stories does a deep dive into your relationship with trichotillomania by using my guided journal, My Trichster Diaries, as our workbook. You can learn more at barbaralally.com

Madison @Madison_lathrop has lived with dermatillomania (skin picking) and trichotillomania (hair pulling) since childhood. During the last three years, Madison has gone through tremendous growth within herself as well as her body-focused repetitive behaviors (BFRBs). She took two huge steps in her journey by shaving her head as well as attending therapy. If you’re thinking of going to a therapist, Madison’s advice is this: just do it.

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This episode is brought to you by HabitAware. My Keen2 brings awareness to my trichotillomania by giving my wrist a gentle hug or vibration when I’m doing the scanning behavior. Bring awareness into your life by visiting barbaralally.com/habitaware and use code LALLYLOVE for 10% off sitewide!

Did you know HabitAware also offers virtual peer coaching? This one-to-one peer-based program will coach you through shifting mindset, practicing healthy strategies and creating your personal roadmap to recovery. To work with me, Ellen or Aneela, head over to habitaware.com/coaching today.

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Thank you so much for listening to this episode of Trich Talks.

Begin your journey to self-acceptance with trichotillomania by enrolling in my course, Sharing Our Stories. Sharing Our Stories does a deep dive into your relationship with trichotillomania by using my guided journal, My Trichster Diaries, as our workbook. You can learn more at barbaralally.com

Treja @trejabeauty is a permanent makeup and paramedical tattoo artist as well as educator. Treja has been in the beauty industry for almost 20 years with her work having been featured in magazines and commercials. Part of being in the permanent makeup and paramedical tattoo industry means that Treja has worked closely with people who have trichotillomania. It has brought tears to her client's eyes (her own too!) when they leave their appointment with newfound confidence—no longer having to worry about their missing eyebrows or eyelashes anymore.

To learn more and work with Treja please visit https://www.trejabeauty.com/

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This episode is brought to you by HabitAware. My Keen2 brings awareness to my trichotillomania by giving my wrist a gentle hug or vibration when I’m doing the scanning behavior. Bring awareness into your life by visiting barbaralally.com/habitaware and use code LALLYLOVE for 10% off sitewide!

Did you know HabitAware also offers virtual peer coaching? This one-to-one peer-based program will coach you through shifting mindset, practicing healthy strategies and creating your personal roadmap to recovery. To work with me, Ellen or Aneela, head over to habitaware.com/coaching today.

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Thank you so much for listening to this episode of Trich Talks.

Begin your journey to self-acceptance with trichotillomania by enrolling in my course, Sharing Our Stories. Sharing Our Stories does a deep dive into your relationship with trichotillomania by using my guided journal, My Trichster Diaries, as our workbook. You can learn more at barbaralally.com

During finals week of her senior year of college, Marie-Elena @thepluckapp_ studied on her laptop in the library, not realizing she pulled countless eyelashes and eyebrows out...

Then the idea of Pluck came to her!

Pluck is an AI chrome extension that recognizes when you're pulling using the webcam on your laptop, and then sends a pop-up screen with a replacement behavior and affirmation to refocus yourself in the present moment.

To be the first to test out the AI, head to: https://www.thepluckapp.com/

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This episode is brought to you by HabitAware. My Keen2 brings awareness to my trichotillomania by giving my wrist a gentle hug or vibration when I’m doing the scanning behavior. Bring awareness into your life by visiting barbaralally.com/habitaware and use code LALLYLOVE for 10% off sitewide!

Did you know HabitAware also offers virtual peer coaching? This one-to-one peer-based program will coach you through shifting mindset, practicing healthy strategies and creating your personal roadmap to recovery. To work with me, Ellen or Aneela, head over to habitaware.com/coaching today.

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Thank you so much for listening to this episode of Trich Talks.

Begin your journey to self-acceptance with trichotillomania by enrolling in my course, Sharing Our Stories. Sharing Our Stories does a deep dive into your relationship with trichotillomania by using my guided journal, My Trichster Diaries, as our workbook. You can learn more at barbaralally.com

Jess @jessloufawcett lives with trichotillomania, dermatillomania, as well as autism. Although she still pulls and picks, her relationship with her body-focussed repetitive behaviors (BFRBs) has changed for the better. Jess’s advice for those outside of the BFRB community: if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.

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This episode is brought to you by HabitAware. My Keen2 brings awareness to my trichotillomania by giving my wrist a gentle hug or vibration when I’m doing the scanning behavior. Bring awareness into your life by visiting barbaralally.com/habitaware and use code LALLYLOVE for 10% off sitewide!

Did you know HabitAware also offers virtual peer coaching? This one-to-one peer-based program will coach you through shifting mindset, practicing healthy strategies and creating your personal roadmap to recovery. To work with me, Ellen or Aneela, head over to habitaware.com/coaching today.

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Thank you so much for listening to this episode of Trich Talks.

Begin your journey to self-acceptance with trichotillomania by enrolling in my course, Sharing Our Stories. Sharing Our Stories does a deep dive into your relationship with trichotillomania by using my guided journal, My Trichster Diaries, as our workbook. You can learn more at barbaralally.com

Barbara @barbara_valliere1337 has had trichotillomania, specifically eyelash pulling, for over 20 years. Although this was new and shocking to Barbara at such a young age, she did not have to experience her trichotillomania alone. Her twin sister also developed trichotillomania at the same time she did. Together they were able to lean on each other for support, try different management strategies, and make peace with this disorder.

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This episode is brought to you by HabitAware. My Keen2 brings awareness to my trichotillomania by giving my wrist a gentle hug or vibration when I’m doing the scanning behavior. Bring awareness into your life by visiting barbaralally.com/habitaware and use code LALLYLOVE for 10% off sitewide!

Did you know HabitAware also offers virtual peer coaching? This one-to-one peer-based program will coach you through shifting mindset, practicing healthy strategies and creating your personal roadmap to recovery. To work with me, Ellen or Aneela, head over to habitaware.com/coaching today.

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Thank you so much for listening to this episode of Trich Talks.

Begin your journey to self-acceptance with trichotillomania by enrolling in my course, Sharing Our Stories. Sharing Our Stories does a deep dive into your relationship with trichotillomania by using my guided journal, My Trichster Diaries, as our workbook. You can learn more at barbaralally.com

J. Dana Trent is a speaker, professor, award-winning spirituality author, and minister. A graduate of Duke Divinity School, she teaches world religions and critical thinking at Wake Technical Community College in Raleigh, North Carolina. J. Dana recently published her memoir, Between Two Trailers that includes her experience with trichotillomania, the hair-pulling disorder.

J. Dana’s Between Two Trailers:

Home, it turns out, is where the war is. It’s also where the healing begins.

Dana Trent is only a preschooler the first time she uses a razor blade to cut up weed and fill dime bags for her schizophrenic father, King. While King struggles with his unmedicated psychosis, Dana’s mother, the Lady, a cold and self-absorbed woman whose personality disorders rule the home, guards large bricks of drugs from the safety of their squalid trailer. But when the Lady impulsively plucks Dana from the Midwest and moves the two of them south, their fresh start results in homelessness and bankruptcy. In North Carolina, Dana becomes torn between her gritty midwestern past and her newfound desire to be a polite southern girl, struggling to reconcile her shame with an ache to figure out who she is, and where she belongs.

But the past is never far behind. After persevering through childhood and eventually graduating from Duke University, Dana imagines that her hidden Indiana life is finally behind her, only to realize that running from her upbringing has kept her from making peace with the people and places that shaped her. Ultimately, Dana finds that though love for family is universally complicated, there is no shame in survival, and for those who want it, there is always a path home.

Get your copy of Between Two Trailers here

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This episode is brought to you by HabitAware. My Keen2 brings awareness to my trichotillomania by giving my wrist a gentle hug or vibration when I’m doing the scanning behavior. Bring awareness into your life by visiting barbaralally.com/habitaware and use code LALLYLOVE for 10% off sitewide!

Did you know HabitAware also offers virtual peer coaching? This one-to-one peer-based program will coach you through shifting mindset, practicing healthy strategies and creating your personal roadmap to recovery. To work with me, Ellen or Aneela, head over to habitaware.com/coaching today.

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Thank you so much for listening to this episode of Trich Talks.

Begin your journey to self-acceptance with trichotillomania by enrolling in my course, Sharing Our Stories. Sharing Our Stories does a deep dive into your relationship with trichotillomania by using my guided journal, My Trichster Diaries, as our workbook. You can learn more at barbaralally.com

Gessie Perez @triumphanttrichster has had trichotillomania since age 11. Once living in shame and secrecy, she has since become a proud advocate and "Triumphant Trichster." Gessie is the author of two books about trichotillomania and the founder of Trichster Sisters, a program in which she sends care packages to young girls with trichotillomania and acts as a mentor. Gessie serves as the Programs Director for The Lyder Foundation for BFRBs, a non-profit dedicated to supporting BFRBs in communities of color. She is also a peer coach with HabitAware, facilitating their kid and teen hangouts. In her professional life, Gessie works as a care provider for kids with developmental disabilities. To learn more about Gessie you can visit her website triumphanttrichster.com

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This episode is brought to you by HabitAware. My Keen2 brings awareness to my trichotillomania by giving my wrist a gentle hug or vibration when I’m doing the scanning behavior. Bring awareness into your life by visiting barbaralally.com/habitaware and use code LALLYLOVE for 10% off sitewide!

Did you know HabitAware also offers virtual peer coaching? This one-to-one peer-based program will coach you through shifting mindset, practicing healthy strategies and creating your personal roadmap to recovery. To work with me, Ellen or Aneela, head over to habitaware.com/coaching today.

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Thank you so much for listening to this episode of Trich Talks.

Begin your journey to self-acceptance with trichotillomania by enrolling in my course, Sharing Our Stories. Sharing Our Stories does a deep dive into your relationship with trichotillomania by using my guided journal, My Trichster Diaries, as our workbook. You can learn more at barbaralally.com

Carmen has struggled with trichotillomania in varying intensities for 16 years now and it has been something that she has felt very alone with. Having the opportunity to share her experience is incredibly important to her because it will show others with trichotillomania that there is no reason to be ashamed.

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This episode is brought to you by HabitAware. My Keen2 brings awareness to my trichotillomania by giving my wrist a gentle hug or vibration when I’m doing the scanning behavior. Bring awareness into your life by visiting barbaralally.com/habitaware and use code LALLYLOVE for 10% off sitewide!

Did you know HabitAware also offers virtual peer coaching? This one-to-one peer-based program will coach you through shifting mindset, practicing healthy strategies and creating your personal roadmap to recovery. To work with me, Ellen or Aneela, head over to habitaware.com/coaching today.

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Thank you so much for listening to this episode of Trich Talks.

Begin your journey to self-acceptance with trichotillomania by enrolling in my course, Sharing Our Stories. Sharing Our Stories does a deep dive into your relationship with trichotillomania by using my guided journal, My Trichster Diaries, as our workbook. You can learn more at barbaralally.com