Wow, it’s hard you guys. I’ve been using cognitive behavioral techniques from the skin picking pages to stop biting my nails and while I have been largely successful in letting my nails grow, it’s been really tough. I have also been far from perfect at it. I’ll “clean” my nails now, which is tantamount to biting them but not really all the way. Ok, that’s gross.

Anyway, skin picking, which is the same as nail biting in almost every way, is a big deal for people with acne, and I’d love to help people stop doing it. What I’m noticing, however, is that you’ve got to have a lot of motivation to change because it’s a tough habit to break.

I’ll keep truckin’ along and posting my experience in my thread on the picking board along with pics if you’d like to follow along. I could use support!

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Ok you guys. I started. Who’s starting with me?! I posted my BEFORE pics in my Skin Picking Messageboard post. I’ll keep a log there on how it’s going.

Hey you guys. Sorry, we didn’t get to a video today. We’re working on skin picking pages, and as often happens around here, it’s blowing up into something bigger and bigger. I’m very excited to launch it, hopefully next week. It’s going to include a cognitive behavioral program to help people stop picking at their skin. Skin picking is a big issue that I’ve been wanting to tackle for years. I also want to do a weekly video blog about it. I’ll be joining everyone in the program and I plan on updating everyone weekly on how it’s going for me. I don’t pick at my skin, but I bite my nails, which it turns out is pretty much an identical issue to skin picking. So we can all do it together! Have a fun weekend!