Spring 2014
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BEAUTRICHFUL FOUNDER’S MESSAGE Spring 2014
This BeauTrich ful Issue Would Have Been Our
Last...How God Answered My
Mother’s Day
Prayer
By Charlene Blacer
Creating awareness for Trichotillomania is very hard. The hardest challenge are the Sufferers themselves. Yes. Because they are so secretive, it’s very challenging to move this organization forward. Being secretive is responsible for why many sufferers do not see the awareness they want to see. When you put out silence, you will get back silence. When no one steps up to educate, there is lack of education. So you see, an organization becomes successful from those who step up. Sad, because this is such a great organization. Of course, like Martin Luther King, you will face discrimination, but look at where we are today if it wasn’t for that man’s voice.
after 7 years of trying, I contemplated of closing this organization Which,
. I have tried everything including spoke
in a convention that had thousands and thousands of salon professionals; and yet only 3 of them knew what the disorder was. It’s very challenging. I have exhausted all my resources and funds. And because of our lack of funding, I have decided to close down
BeauTrichful magazine....until two days before Mother’s Day... I always pray for guidance from The Lord before I do anything. And Pinterest, a social media site, announced their Mother’s Day contest. I thought about it and decided to create a Mother’s Day board with my children. The board had to be pins about what makes your mother unique. And naturally we added a pin about the HelpMe2Stop organization I founded. There would be 50 chosen winners and each of those winners would receive their choice bouquet from Teleflora. I prayed to God that if He allows me to win the contest, it would be His sign of confirming that I’m doing a fantastic job as a single mom and as a Social Media blogger....And guess what? My board did win! I am truly humbly thankful and I know nothing is too big for God so I will let Him lead this wonderful organization. Amen. Thank You Heavenly Father.
Contest Winner
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CREDIT: Pinterest.com/CharleneBlacer/happy-mothers-day-to-a-single-mom
I owe this Glory to Our Lord
BEAUTRICHFUL NEWS MENTION Spring 2014
We are mentioned in Beauty Launchpad with Olivia Munn! This is a great message for hairstylists to understand that Trich affects anyone whether you’re famous or not.
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BEAUTRICHFUL COVERGIRL Spring 2014
I’M A MOM WITH TRI
5 Things to Know When Dating Someone With Trichotillomania By Sandy Rosenblatt
Mom
, Hairstylist and BFRB Edmonton
Support Group Founder, Kelsie Hanna, shares her
20 year life battling Trichotillomania.
CHOTILLOMANIA
PHOTOS: Jason Bischoff Photography IN HER OWN WORDS: “My son Presley is 17 months old. Although he can't speak all that great yet, his actions speak way louder than works ever could. During my maternity leave I hardly wore a wig/hair piece. I would instead, in the comfort of my home, walk around with my toque on or nothing. As my son grew and became more aware of things and could express his feelings, I saw through his eyes how he felt about me and my appearance. There is no judgment, only love. When I take my hairpiece off at the end of a long day, he watches, and smiles.
As I lay it down he stares at me and let's out an innocent giggle. His mommy is back. Back to her true self. When I reach for my toque he grabs it first. And passes it to me. I put it on. To no avail he takes it off my head and gives me that same smile and giggle. He likes my thinning hair. The way I look without anything on. I'm thankful for my disorder. As strange as it may sound. I'm thankful because I've learned to not judge others.” -Kelsie Hanna
”I'm thankful for it
because now my son, without knowing, is learning that same lesson”. TO CONNECT WITH KELSIE: Facebook.com/TrichotillomaniaUnited Twitter.com/TrichUnited
BEAUTRICHFUL TIPS Spring 2014
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About TRICH MONSTER FOUNDER,
severe health issues ). I chose to actively seek out support for those and to allow Nikki Michaella Martello myself to feel my feelings ( still a work in  progress ) and to remove those persons in IN HER OWN WORDS: “Just to share a bit my life who were/ are toxic to me/ my life of a testimony about my struggle and from my life. ( also still a work in progressed ) recovery journey... I've had trich almost all my Well putting those and other similar positive life. I started pulling when I was at least age 6 until I was age 30 ( I'm 31 now ) - I used to changes in my life think I'd always have to deal w/ trich... but then I changed my thinking, prayed hard, fought the Trich Monster hard and remained and positive and hopeful as I could... Choosing to focus as much as possible on . the good and the blessings in my life and as little as possible on the negative and difficult and stressors of my life and to remain as optimistic about those type issues as I could... ( as I have many of those struggle some issues and am critically sick w/ many
I have succeeded in recovery from Trich
I am
almost
How To Protect Yourself
600
DAYS
100% PULL FREE
FOR ALL OF US AND WE ALL DESERVE IT!!!� If you wish to donate: you can either
send the donations via Paypal my email is nikki.m.martello@facebook.com and let me know it's for the Trich Monster Protection Packages or send a check to me with Trich Monster Protection Package in the note spot all donations will then be transferred to a now!!! I am so proud of separate account I am creating for this project. if you choose to send a check this accomplishment! I want to help you all My address is realize your potential for recovery as I have and c/o Nikki Michaella Martello Trich Monster Protection Package am experiencing. 38718 N. 29th Ave. Phoenix, AZ 85086 THANK YOU!
RECOVERY IS VERY POSSIBLE
Against Trichotillomania
BEAUTRICHFUL SINGLE MAM Spring 2014
IN HER OWN WORDS: “Hi my name part of my life is behind me now, i is Emma Baxter, i am 23 and live in the missed out on education and work north east of England due to the ocd being that severe it
iv been a long term ocd sufferer and had gotten transferred to a psychologist in 2006 for extreme
left my home, at the same time i had also had a huge fall out with my father and his new girlfriend at the time, i was
was so life consuming. After
depressed and stressed, then along
overcoming ocd however i feel i may
comes surgery day, thankfully i had the
have subconsciously replaced it with
support from my mam, brother and
Trichotillomania as whenever i got
family, and my boyfriend at the time, i
anxious or stressed id feel almighty
was very unwell and almost needed a
relief from pulling my hair out, i had
blood transfusion but thankfully my
done it on occasion as a teen around
body pulled through. All in all it
13 but only on my eyebrows and arm
eventually made me stronger. The
hair, i remember having to always
problems with Trichotillomania first
draw my eyebrows in throughout
started after me and my son moved
school as they were so fine they
out of my family home for the first time
weren't even visible. At 12 me and the
and although i thought i had gotten rid
rest of my family aunties cousins etc
of ocd completely i did struggle from
had to get x-rayed due to my grandma time to time, and often had issues with having tetanus and doctors found a
timing i.e. trying to get rid of routines
hole in my heart, but said it would be
which kept me being late for
ok but did explain why i often turned
everything, i struggled to find work and
blue under my eyes, fingernails and
when i did find work my ocd crept in,
toenails went blue often and running
never as bad as i had had it, but
caused me to feel faint, and a
enough to loose my job, having no
throbbing painful tongue and short
one to understand why i couldn't
breath. But at 15 i was informed i did
break out of it or change my habits i
in fact need surgery so i was put on to
was stressed and anxious most of the
a waiting list, around the time of my
time, when i did first start pulling my
GCSE's my appointment came
hair it was very satisfying and relieving
through for my surgery, which terrified
at first, but soon after it got very
me, i went a little out of control at first
serious and i kept seeing myself
means you have to devote all your
and skived school, started drinking
loosing more and more hair the
time and effort into caring for your
and even took drugs, after missing my
depression kicked in even more and
children, which i was so grateful for
GSCE tests i kicked myself up the
shame filled me, i had turned to my
throughout my pregnancy i remember
behind and stayed at home until my
stressing so bad thinking i would not
surgery date, i had fallen out with my
be able to change after birth and even
two best friends after they started
worrying about perhaps social
messaging me threatening me all
services thinking i would be an unfit
because someone else thought it
mother if my ocd carried on the way it
would be funny to spread rumours
i never felt shame telling my mam
was after birth, i am very relieved that
about me when in fact i had not even
anything, she helped me through a...
behavioural therapy as it was completely taking over my life however that did not do any help for me, it was not until 2010 when i had my son the symptoms lessened partly due to simply not having the time to over obsess and do the things that i used
being a single mam to do,
mam in the past for everything,
miscarriage at 3 months pregnant, but i just had
others with ocd and trichotillomania
the UK and volunteer for ocd action
which has helped me immensely
locally, I am paying for salons across
having people to talk to that is also
the north east of England to give out
suffering and know what it is like,
my booklets to clients and to raise
before i had the help from others i
awareness to all staff in salons as all of
found it impossible to stop pulling but
us trichsters know how difficult it is to
now with help and encouragement
get seen by salons and how shameful
i have to thank my family and instagram trichsters for their help and support
too much shame to tell her that i was pulling my hair out. I had a lot of outside pressure and still do from my sons family from his dads side, his dads mam often makes me feel useless and ashamed of my life, often bringing up that i cant cope, that im a single parent, that i need to step up, always saying that i haven't achieved anything i have no qualifications...etc. which brings me down even more, i want to be strong, and not listen but when its said over and over again over 3 years (the age of my son) it does drag you down. And that did not help my trich. I have redone my GCSE's since leaving school, and plan on doing more courses this September. I eventually admitted to myself and family about my hair pulling mainly due to being unable to hide or cover the bald spots anymore which led me to create a blog and twitter dedicated to helping
from other pullers i managed to stop
it is to go and sit in a busy salon and
for over 1 month however iv had
have someone consulting your hair
relapses but keep motivated to finally
who has never even heard of
accomplish being pullfree its now
Trichotillomania.�
almost 3 weeks of being pull free for
Thanks for reading,
the 3rd time. i have had this for 2
Emma
years now at my worst i had pulled out every single hair from the top of my head. I am now looking at doing a fundraising walk or hike to fund for more Trichotillomania Salons across
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How HelpMe2Stop Stops For almost a decade, HelpMe2Stop salons have been helping Sufferers become pull-free. The longest pull-free client, reported, is
Trich! over 8 years. HelpMe2Stop provides training to any salon or sufferer interested. For details: www.bit.ly/DreamHairClass
BEAUTRICHFUL WORLD NEWS Spring 2014
TRICH WORLD NEWS
Be brave, you’re not alone, says Melksham student By Richard McAllister
Emma Simonsen wants to help other sufferers Teenager Emma Simonsen has
trichotillomania, a condition
more people to know about the
teamed up with a national
that causes her to pull out her
psychological condition.
charity to launch a campaign to own hair. The 17-year-old of raise awareness of
Trichotillomania compells
Willow Close, Melksham, wants people to pull out the hair on
their head and, in some cases, on
She said: “It started with me breaking
“There are other people like them out
other parts of their body such as
off split ends – I don’t know exactly
there and they’re not weird – they just
eyebrows or eyelashes. Emma, an A-
when it changed to pulling out the
need to be able to talk to someone
level student at The Corsham School,
hairs.
who understands just what they are
is working with Winchester-based charity, Fixers, which supports young
going through.” “I was desperate and panicking
people aged
Emma has
16-25 to
been going
tackle issues
to a
of concern to
counsellor
them.
for about a year, which
With its help
she said
she is hoping
had been
to create a
very helpful
website to
and much
help other
of her hair
young people
has grown
understand
back.
the condition. Fixers has She said:
helped
“There is a real
other young
lack of
people
information
campaign
and
on issues
understanding
such as
around the
self-harm,
issue.
suicide and bullying.
“I hid it from my family for about a year
because I thought it wasn’t normal.
and a half.
For more information visit: “I did some research and learnt that
“I would cover up any patches that I
it’s a known condition and that I
had made and throw away any hair
wasn’t alone.
that fell on the floor. “If there’s someone out there in a “I was very ashamed of it.”
similar situation, I want them to understand that they’re not alone.
Emma first developed a fascination with her hair when she was 12 .
www.Fixers.org.uk
BEAUTRICHFUL SPONSORSHIP Spring 2014
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