You just picked your skin. What can you do to protect yourself from infection and begin cultivating a healthy, compassionate relationship to your skin?

Breathing exercises are an excellent way to deal with anxiety. Box breathing is a particularly potent one. In fact, it’s so effective that Navy Seals use it – and they certainly find themselves in, shall we say, slightly unnerving and stressful situations.

Deep layers of our experience often carry the information that needs to be worked through and dealt with, but those layers don’t speak English - or any other language you can find a course for. They speak through our bodies.

In 2001, the U.S. Surgeon General identified racial trauma as the attributing factor to ethnic and racial disparities. Racial trauma is often accompanied by other elements of systemic racism such as socio-economic equality that further perpetuates the racial trauma.

Keeping a journal is not just a way to keep track of your urges or vent about the miserable day you’ve had. Sure, a journal can do both of these things and it can be a useful, healthy thing to do, but they can help with much more than that.

There are two ways for you to relate to your thoughts. You can be glued to them or you can be free from them. Take your pick.

When you’re having a hard time finding one replacement habit on your BFRB journey try creating a whole self-soothing kit!

A long yet still not deep enough overview of anxiety management. Take the ideas and gives them your own spin.

Here are four different exercises that will help you understand some aspects of your BFRBs a bit better: what triggers you, what the urge is really like and how it relates to your thoughts and feelings.

Michel Foucault wrote: “What is true for writing and for love relationships is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don’t know where it will end.”