Break Free from BFRB 30 Day Bootcamp
Welcome to the Break Free from BFRB 30-Day Bootcamp — your no-nonsense, science-backed, soul-nourishing reset.
In one month, you’ll uncover your triggers, ditch the shame, retrain your brain, upgrade your lifestyle, calm your nervous system, and build healthier habits that actually stick.
Expect breakthroughs, identity shifts, somatic release, deep self-love, and a whole new level of awareness — with daily assignments, powerful tools, and a daily dance party (yes, really).
Ready to stop picking or pulling and start living like the main character of your life?
Suit up. Bootcamp starts now. (New student? Purchase the course today.)
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Module 1: Loving What Is - But Taking Charge
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Lesson 1: What Are BFRBs, Really?
Meet your 30-day journey! Learn what BFRBs actually are, set your intention, explore your origin story, and start dissolving shame. Cue your first dance break.
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Lesson 2: Triggers as Treasures
Learn why every urge carries information. You’ll track your patterns and start interpreting triggers as signals, not enemies.
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Lesson 3: Shame vs. Guilt (and the Bridge to Empathy)
Shift from “I am bad” to “I did something that doesn’t serve me.” You’ll learn Brené Brown–inspired tools to dissolve shame through empathy and self-compassion.
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Lesson 4: The F-Word: (Self) Forgiveness
Explore the emotional power of forgiveness — including a Ho’oponopono script to use on your own hands, and a personal story from the jungle.
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Lesson 5: Byron Katie’s Work: Loving What Is
Using The Work, you’ll challenge long-held beliefs and shift from victimhood to empowerment. Custom BFRB-focused prompts included.
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Lesson 6: Rewrite Your Identity, Hollywood Style
You’re not “a picker” or “a puller.” You’re the director of your own movie — and today you rewrite the script of your BFRB-free self.
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Module 2: Set Yourself Up For Success - Your Environment
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Lesson 7: Wheel of Life
A holistic snapshot of where you are and where you want to go. You’ll choose your top 3 goals for the next six months.
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Lesson 8: Food As Medicine (Nourishing Your Brain, Skin & Hair)
Pantry makeover time. Learn which foods support skin, hair, nails, and your brain — and which ones sabotage your healing.
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Lesson 9: The Power of Sleep
Understand how sleep affects impulses, hormones, and picking/pulling behavior. You’ll build your personalized Sleep Sanctuary.
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Lesson 10: Declutter Your Life
Physical clutter = mental clutter = emotional overwhelm = more urges. Today you clear space for the new you.
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Lesson 11: It Takes a village
Learn why connection prevents compulsive spirals, how to build supportive relationships, and choose an accountability buddy.
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Lesson 12: Optional Supplements for Skin, Hair & Brain Health
A non-prescription, research-supported list of supplements for skin, hair, nails, and brain health. No journaling or deep work — just a cabinet cleanse.
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Module 3: Hardware - The Body Keeps The Score
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Lesson 13: Somatic Release (Movement, Trauma & Daily Exercise)
Learn why movement matters for trauma and impulse control. Choose your daily exercise commitment for the rest of the bootcamp.
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Lesson 14: Feel It to Heal It aka Healthy Anger
Learn how suppressed emotions, especially anger, fuel skin picking and hair pulling. This lesson explores healthy emotional expression, somatic release, and safe ways to move anger through the body to reduce BFRB urges.
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Lesson 15: Dance - The Ritual, the Medicine, the Magic
A celebration of ancient movement traditions and your own aliveness. In today’s dance party we shake it for the ancestors.
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Lesson 16: Breathwork 101
Learn the basics, practice box breathing, and explore breath patterns for calming your nervous system.
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Lesson 17: EFT Tapping for BFRBs
Learn how EFT tapping helps calm the nervous system and reduce urges related to skin picking and hair pulling. This lesson introduces Emotional Freedom Technique as a practical tool for impulse regulation and emotional release in BFRB healing.
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Lesson 18: Nature Therapy & Grounding
Discover how nature therapy and grounding calm the nervous system and support healing from skin picking and hair pulling. This lesson explores forest bathing, earth connection, and simple grounding practices to reduce BFRB urges.
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Module 4: Software - Neuroplasticity + Self Love
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Lesson 19: Your Brain on BFRBs (Awareness Without Panic)
Learn what happens in the brain during compulsive behaviors like skin picking and hair pulling. This lesson explores brain function, impulse control, and science-backed ways to calm the BFRB brain.
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Lesson 20: Neuroplasticity: The Science of Change
You can rewire your brain. Learn how habits reverse and practice a habit-reversal assignment.
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Lesson 21: Meditation: Stillness as a Superpower
Meditation is impulse-control training in disguise. Today you begin a daily practice.
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Lesson 22: Love All Your Parts - Internal Family Systems
Meet your protectors, understand Internal Family Systems, and watch Inside Out to see your inner world in cartoon form.
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Lesson 23: Self-Love & Reparenting
Learn how self-love and reparenting support healing from skin picking and hair pulling. This lesson explores inner child work, nervous system safety, and compassion-based tools to reduce shame and calm BFRB urges.
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Lesson 24: Intergenerational Trauma & Epigenetics
Explore how intergenerational trauma and epigenetics influence BFRBs. This lesson explains how inherited stress patterns affect skin picking and hair pulling — and how healing truly can “end with you.”
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Lesson 25: Feed Your Mind (Mental Nutrition for BFRB)
You’ll overhaul your media diet and learn how digital consumption impacts impulse control and nervous system regulation.
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Module 5: Know Thyselves - Your Inner Compass
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Lesson 26: Intuition: Your Inner Compass for Impulse Control
Learn how to strengthen intuition to interrupt skin picking and hair pulling urges. This lesson explores the science of intuition, nervous system awareness, and practical tools to catch BFRB impulses early and regain control.
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Lesson 27: Dharma: Discovering Your Life’s Purpose
Discover how living out of alignment with your purpose can fuel compulsive behaviors. This lesson explores dharma through science, psychology, and ancient wisdom to help you reconnect with meaning, direction, and a life that supports BFRB healing.
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Lesson 28: Throat Chakra Is a Bitch: Speak Up, Sis!
Many BFRBs come from years of silencing yourself. This lesson explores the link between self-expression and compulsive behaviors and invites you to start using your voice — because when you don’t speak it, your body acts it out.
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Lesson 29: Create Your Future: Creative Expression & Vision Boarding
Creativity is therapy. In this lesson, you’ll reconnect with creative play and then build a vision board for your future self, helping your brain shift toward a new, healthier reality filled with purpose, confidence, and ease.
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Lesson 30: You Are Enough - Progress Over Perfection
Perfectionism fuels BFRBs — and this lesson helps you let it go. We celebrate your 30-day commitment, reinforce that done is better than perfect, and anchor the truth that you are already enough.
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heal BFRBs with gaby aziz
Gaby picked her skin AND pulled her hair daily for 25+ years.
She turned the last 8 years into a healing experiment, and even became a certified trauma informed coach as a result.
Now she lives BFRB-free — and she packed everything that worked into a 30-Day Bootcamp.
Break free from trichotillomania, dermatillomania, and other Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors — the holistic way.
Start today.

