“For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by injecting them with a virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.” –Proust

The idea that something is an illness is a terribly contagious message of powerlessness more overwhelming than any germ. It infects one’s mind. Reflect on this as you answer the following questions:

• How does it help to believe that trich is an illness or an incurable compulsive behavior?
• How does this belief empower you (or your hair pulling child)?
• How does it improve your life (or that of your hair pulling child)?
• If you didn’t believe this, how would it change your approach to hair pulling?

Abby Rohrer’s Summer 2010 Live Teaching Schedule

• Advanced Live Event with Abby Rohrer: Thurs-Sun, June 10-13, 2010
• Introduction to Ending Trichotillomania: Friday, July 16, 2010
• Mastering Your Anxiety: Sat & Sun, July 17-18, 2010

Every Live Event is a unique experience of healing and empowerment for each and every participant. We begin with an outline but what happens from there is directed by the needs of the attendees–this turns into an in-the-moment, dynamic “magic of healing” experience! Come prepared to participate 100% and to leave your “old baggage” here in Colorado! [Read the rest of this entry...]