12 episodes
Untapped Potential Podcast Raffaela
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In this podcast, we dive deep into the nuances of living and dealing with a BFRB (body focused repetitive behavior) and how to UNTAP your potential in healing from one. This podcast is brought to you by Raffaela Marie, a Dermatillomania Coach who knows from personal experience what it's like to struggle with a BFRB. On her quest to heal herself, she dove down the rabbit hole into human psychology and behaviour so that she could take this knowledge and experience and help others to heal as she did.In a nutshell, she found what it takes to heal and it's not as impossible as most people think it is! Now she's sharing all her tips, strategies, and invaluable insights with the world on this podcast.
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12: Guided self-care after a picking or pulling session
Are you feeling lost, frustrated, disappointed? Knowing what to do after a picking or pulling session can be hard.In this episode, let Raffaela guide you through the real-time process of caring for yourself after a picking or pulling session so that you can move through it with more ease.This process will help you to reduce the severity and frequency of sessions in the long term.
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11: How to be rid of it - The intense highs and lows of healing
Have you ever felt like you've made progress in healing from skin picking, hair pulling, or nail biting... and then the next day you feel like you're moving 10 steps backward?This happens again and again and it feels like an exhausting, devastating, and painful cycle full of intense highs and lows that are somehow outside your control...There is a better way to deal with this that no one is talking about EXCEPT right here in this episode!Learn how to manage yourself in the lows so that ...
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10: How to replace a BFRB
Odds are you've probably already tried replacing skin picking, hair pulling, or nail biting with something else, or you've at least been thinking about it. There's a reason why it never really works how we'd like it to. Find out why in this episode!Shift your perspective on what it means to "replace" a BFRB* and learn 3 unconventional yet highly effective methods to help you do so.* Body Focused Repetitive Behaviour
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9: The human beneath addiction | Adam Hudson
Adam Hudson is not only a great friend but also an incredible coach, dedicating himself to supporting women in their journey to reconnect with themselves and reclaim their personal power. His work extends to a mental health facility, where he assists individuals in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction as well as eating disorders.In this episode, we delve into the deeper layers of addiction, including behavioral addictions like chronic skin picking. We shed light on the humanness underlyin...
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8: ADHD and body focused repetitive behaviours (BFRBs)
Is there a link between BFRBs and ADHD?There is! This episode explores how this impacts you and how you can become the master of your own mind and behaviour through ditching societal "norms" and learning how to live for yourself.Raffaela explores this topic through sharing her story of learning to live harmoniously with ADHD and how it helped her to recover from chronic skin picking.If you have ADHD or suspect you have ADHD, and you're also on your healing journey from a BFRB, then this empow...
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7: Healing yourself and your child who picks their skin | Athena Niccolaides
Hear it from someone who has lived it!Athena is a former client of Raffaela and mother of 2 beautiful daughters, one of whom struggles with chronic skin picking (14yrs). This is her story of healing and transformation, going from being anxious and not knowing what to do to becoming a source of calm and secure guidance for her daughter as she embarks on her own healing journey.
Customer Reviews
Great insight into BFRBs
For someone struggling with a Body-Focused Repetitive Behavior, Raffaela’s approach is different from anything I’ve seen before. I suspect her insight could help with any addiction, as well as improve your life even if you are not struggling with a body-focused repetitive behavior.
You are changing my life!
I am just so floored with gratitude in discovering this podcast. Thank you so much Raffaela.
I have been struggling with skin picking for the past 16 years, which has progressively started to worsen and widen into other body focused behaviors. I am exhausted by how much mental and emotional capacity is has taken. Exhausted by the shame cycles and exhausted by feeling captive to this behavior.
I have read book after book, searched for support, tried all the methods, the replacement behaviors, tracking the BFRB’s throughout the day, etc., but always find myself in relapse.
I have only just listened to the first episode but it has given me a ground breaking and transformative light bulb moment. I can feel the mountains moving! This understanding of skin picking through the lens of childhood and seeing it as a behavioral addiction has laid out a new path of understanding for what I need to do to heal. It is a lifestyle change. Seeking out nurturing activities, doing the deep work to address my self sabotaging inner critic, continuing through IFS therapy (which I just want to give a major nod to the powerful and transformative work that can happen in this specific type of therapy), continuing on the path of self awareness in addressing, communicating, feeling and expressing when I am enduring those deeply uncomfortable emotions and strengthening resilience towards big uncomfortable feelings…and lastly continuing to find ways to access emotional regulation.
I was diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome earlier this year and have thankfully found healing and recovery through neural reprocessing and brain rewiring/ brain training exercises. The symptoms had become debilitating and I found a path to recovery by addressing the root from the stance of healing a dysregulated nervous system. Similarly, I can see how much my skin picking is tangled up inside this disconnection and emotional dysregulation which is also very much tied into me having a severely dysregulated nervous system.
All the puzzle pieces are clicking. Thank you for this new hope and for all the clarity you have given me. I have found hope that I have not felt for so many years.
We can do hard things! Extending my hope to everyone out there on their journey to healing from BFRB’s! I look forward to continuing through all the other podcasts you’ve created. You are an angel!
The Mind-Body Connection
Raffaela has come to a similar solution for BFRBs that Dr. John Sarno used in “Healing Back Pain”. He believed chronic pain was the result of repressed emotions.
Since your typical psychologist, psychiatrist, and dermatologist have no idea what to do about this, Raffaela’s approach seems like a positive next step.