WHAT ARE BODY-FOCUSED REPETITIVE BEHAVIORS?

Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviours (BFRBs) are repetitive behaviours directed towards the body. They can include skin picking, hair pulling and nail picking, among others.

You may have heard them by other names:

Dermatillomania, Trichotillomania, Onychotillomania.

For some people, these behaviours happen almost automatically, sometimes without consciously realising they have started. For others, the behaviour may be preceded by a strong urge, a feeling that something is not quite right, or an increasing need to correct, remove, smooth, check or make something feel "right."

The behaviour can provide a temporary sense of relief, satisfaction, numbness, completion or calm.

But the relief doesn't necessarily last.

The behaviour may then be followed by frustration, regret, disappointment or a renewed determination to stop — only for the cycle to automatically begin again the moment you stop resisting it.

BFRBs are not simply a matter of lacking willpower.

The behaviour is on a looping pattern in your subconscious. It is a distraction tool your subconscious designed to help your nervous system regulate in times of stress and overwhelm.

It can show up in the most unlikely places - even when you are relaxing.

WHAT CAUSES BFRBs?

BFRBs can involve a complex subconscious interaction between thoughts, attention, sensory experiences, emotions, expectations and learned responses. Over time these responses become increasingly automatic. Fighting the urge to pick or scratch or pull, only intensifies it. The aim of this program is to shift emphasis away from fighting the urge to ……………………………

IS THIS YOU?

• Find yourself repeatedly picking, pulling or manipulating an area of your body?

• Sometimes begin the behaviour without consciously deciding to do it?

• Become fixated on a particular imperfection, sensation, hair, skin area or nail?

• Feel that something needs to be corrected, removed or made "right"?

• Find yourself thinking about the behaviour even when you don't want to?

• Experience a strong sense that something is unfinished or not quite right?

• Have difficulty knowing when to stop?

• Find yourself becoming increasingly particular, fastidious or perfectionistic?

• Feel compelled to regain a sense of control when something doesn't feel right?

• Promise yourself that you will stop, only to find yourself doing it again?

• Experience frustration or disappointment with yourself afterwards?

• Wish you could have more choice about what you do next?

  If you answered yes, this program is for you.

Why Hypnotherapy for BFRB?

Stopping a unconscious repetitive behaviour rarely works when you consciously tell yourself `don’t do it’.

This may be because the behaviour is no longer driven by conscious choice.

Hypnotherapy works by shifting subconscious thought patterns that shape our responses.

Rather than concentrating on suppressing the behaviour, we work on changing the underlying subconscious drivers that activate the fixation.

Stop fighting yourself

If you have spent years telling yourself:

• I have to stop

• Why can’t I control this?

• I’m not going to do this again.

• I just need more discipline.

You already know how exhausting and futile that approach is.

The question is… are you ready for a new approach?

Because you know the answer is out there. Other individuals don’t fixate, don’t pick, don’t scratch like you do. They don’t battle themselves. They don’t pick at themselves.

What do they do differently?

WHAT IS THE MINIMISE BFRB HYPNOTHERAPY PROGRAM?

The Minimise BFRB Program is a four-part hypnotherapy program consisting of four sessions.

In each hypnotherapy session we work together to target specific unconscious obsessive nervous responses .

Each hypnosis session runs for 75 minutes, making the MBFRB program a relatively short treatment time.

Recordings of each session are provided for the client to keep.