Watch your language!

What language do we use when referring to hair plucking?

I suffer from

Looking for a cure

I am a trich sufferer

I have had trich - sounds like a disease

What does all this language MAKE us?
- victims
- powerless
- sick
- abnormal

Let me suggest that plucking or pulling is JUST SOMETHING WE DO.
It's not WHO WE ARE.

When we stop defining ourselves by our trich, freedom is within reach.

I've been free, and I've given up my freedom. Why I would do that - I don't know. I don't care to obsess on it anymore than I care to obsess on my eyelashes and eyebrows. And I obsess - what's not there, how they're growing in, how great they look, and oh, what's that? There's one sticking out. Once I've seen that, it's all I can think about. There are a whole host of obsessive behaviors that accompany the trich. I am committed to being free from those as well. The same as an alcoholic can't have just one drink, or even one sip. All these behaviors lead to a slippery slope back to trich-ville.

Ok, back to the language. So, I've had a set-back. All that means is that I gave up my freedom. I chose plucking over not plucking. So what. Really. So what!? I'll start again. This time I'm laughing. I'm not in despair. I'm not depressed and mad at myself and asking 'why, why, why did I do this after I was doing so well'. It just doesn't matter. I keep looking forward and refuse to let the past or my trich to define me or limit my possibilities.

Don't let it limit your outlook on who you are and what you can accomplish.

Add your thoughts to this blog. We can support and strengthen one another. But only to a point. In the end, you are going to have to choose what you're committed to and decide with each action, behavior or movement if it aligns with your commitment to yourself.