The Elephant in Your Life: How Solving the Big Thing Frees You from Pulling, Panic & Procrastination
Host discusses how addressing significant life stressors reduces anxiety and hair-pulling behaviors, offering insights on tackling overwhelming tasks and reclaiming mental space.
1 Jul 2025
From Panic to Peace in 30 Seconds: The Bizarre Trick That Can Stop Pulling
The host explores the dive reflex technique, using cold water to stimulate the vagus nerve, which reduces anxiety and the urge to pull hair, offering a free coping tool.
10 Jun 2025
Is Hustle Culture Fueling Your Hair Pulling Habit?
Sophie Cliff discusses productivity archetypes and how striving for achievement can clash with personal energy cycles, potentially leading to stress-related habits like hair-pulling, in this interview.
4 Jun 2025
How Decluttering Can Help Your Hair Pulling Related Anxiety
The host discusses how decluttering, inspired by Rose Morrison's 5-4-3-2-1 grounding method, reduces anxiety and improves focus, making hair-pulling management easier.
28 May 2025
Afraid to See a Stylist? Here’s What Helped Me After Trichotillomania Damage
Host discusses strategies for overcoming the fear and anxiety associated with visiting a hair stylist after experiencing hair pulling, offering practical tips for a more confident salon experience.
20 May 2025
When the Urge Acts Out: Treating Trichotillomania Like a Pet or Child That Needs You
In this episode, I share a transformative moment from a hypnosis session where my trichotillomania urge appeared as a gentle cat kneading at my scalp, not to harm me, but to offer comfort and ask for connection.
This visualization shifted my experience from shame to care, helping me meet my urges not with control, but with compassion. Whether it’s a needy cat, a hyper dog, or a child craving love. this reframing of your hair pulling urges as an outside entity that needs your attention and care can unlock a more sustainable, nurturing approach to your own self care that reduces the urge to pull. f you’ve ever felt at war with your body and your hair pulling cravings, this reframe might offer you a new path.
13 May 2025
Plan to Succeed - How to Set Yourself Up for a Pull Free Day
In this episode, we’re talking about how to prepare before you’re triggered so you can stay pull free. From planning ahead to managing unstructured time, I’m sharing what works for me and what might work for you too. You’ll learn about:
How to identify places and times you’re most likely to pull,
Simple plans and setups for daily triggers like driving or desk work,
The “unstructured time loop of doom” and how to break it,
Creating short, repeatable protocols to stay grounded, and
Why small shifts in your day can lead to big changes over time
6 May 2025
Overwhelm, Anxiety, and Cravings - How to Reset without Pulling
Feeling overwhelmed, anxious, and on the verge of a hair-pulling session? You’re not alone. In this episode, I walk you through a real-life Monday moment when my brain was buzzing, my to-do list felt impossible, and the urge to pull was *intense*. Instead of spiraling, I pivoted to reset mode.
You’ll hear how I:
• Tuned into my menstrual cycle to understand my emotional state
• Used a 20-minute journaling session to clear mental clutter
• Got focused on what I needed to do that day
• Moved my body instead of pulling my hair
If you struggle with trichotillomania or any body-focused repetitive behavior (BFRB), this episode is your invitation to pause, regroup, and gift yourself a reset.
29 Apr 2025
5 Seconds to Stop: Ending Hair Pulling with Mel Robbins' Method
In this episode, I dive into Mel Robbins’ life-changing "5 Second Rule" and how I’ve used it to stop pulling out my hair. You’ll hear the backstory of how Mel discovered this tool during one of the most challenging periods of her life, and why it works as a powerful pattern interrupter — not just for BFRBs like hair pulling, but for everyday decisions that require courage. This rule helped me disrupt the urge to pull, but also helped me take action toward a life where I don’t need to pull to cope. Whether you're dealing with a body-focused repetitive behavior or just stuck in a cycle that isn’t serving you, this episode is a must-listen.
22 Apr 2025
When Bills Trigger Body-Focused Behaviors: Hair Pulling and Financial Fear
Money stress, especially these days, can be all consuming, derailing our mindset, habits, and closing us off to opportunities and appreciation. In 2013, it triggered my hair pulling big time in ways I couldn’t ignore.
In this episode, I share how financial fear became a Body Focused Repetitive Behavior (BFRB) trigger, what it taught me about fear and control, and the small steps I took to start healing.
Raw, real, and for anyone whose body responds to money anxiety.
15 Apr 2025
3 Ways to Journal Your Way to Healthy Hair
Journaling is one of the most powerful tools you can use to excavate negative thoughts and feelings, process emotions or difficult experiences, and relieve anxiety. It can be a cathartic experience, as well as help you organize you thoughts, your time, and your life.
These are my top three suggestions for starting a journaling practice whether you are a veteran journaler, a casual journaler, or have never been interested in journaling. This is a practice that can actually help you so that the practical physical tips for not touching or pulling your hair can work more effectively since you are giving yourself a new and improved emotional outlet.
Here's the link to the Bustle article on journal ecosystems: https://www.bustle.com/wellness/journal-ecosystem-tiktok
8 Apr 2025
Hair Pulling in the Media
Have you ever noticed and really tuned into a character in a book, movie, or show that was pulling out their hair? I know I have! Hair pulling in the media can tell us what this behavior conveys to the outside world, but we can check in with ourselves and decide if this resonates or reflects our own experiences.
1 Apr 2025
Seeking Professional Help
In today's episode I'm going through the experiences I had seeking out professional help for my mental health in the form of hypnotherapy, talk therapy, and going on SSRI anti anxiety medication. I hope this is helpful for you if you are considering one of these routes to help quell your hair pulling habit!
25 Mar 2025
Tug of War: My Hair Pulling Triggers
In this episode, I talk more in depth about the pitfalls and situations throughout my daily life that trigger a craving to pull out my hair. It's a combination of anxiety inducing spots in my day or week, or times when my mind is working through hard problems or just plain bored.
I hope some of these descriptions help you uncover important information about your daily life and schedule, and how you can start managing these trouble spots to head off hair pulling before you put your hand to your head.
18 Mar 2025
Top 5 Ways to Stop Pulling TODAY!
Ending your hair pulling habit can take time, energy, and commitment. But a lot of times, we just need some useful practical tips and practices to help stop pulling just for an afternoon, an hour, or just for the day, so that you can buy yourself some time and runway for other more long term practices and strategies to settle in. This is my top 5 list of things you can do today to help stop pulling out your hair and freeing your sprirt!
10 Mar 2025
How my Trichotillomania Journey Started
I don't know about you, but I have a very specific origin story about pulling out my hair. Some start when they are little, and some, like me, start when they are older. This is how I started, and then COULD. NOT. STOP. pulling out my hair. I pulled my hair out consistently for over ten years before I found the tools to let go of this self soothing habit, and this is how it all started.
10 Mar 2025
Welcome to Save Your Hair Free Your Spirit!
Welcome to Save Your Hair Free Your Spirit, my podcast where I share my experiences literally tearing out my hair and my journey to stop this painful habit.
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