☆Picking Me's 5th Birthday☆
☆Sponsored by☆
who will match up to $500 raised for our event!
Join us as we celebrate 5 whole years of awareness, resources, support and community!
Since starting #PickingMe in 2016, we never dreamed of how much we'd grow and how many amazing people we'd meet in our mission for Skin Picking Disorder advocacy. Our birthday isn't just a marker of our nonprofit's age, but a reflection of all the awesome Skin Picking and BFRB strugglers and supporters who make up our #PickingMe community. It's because of YOU Picking Me Foundation is turning 5 and we can't thank you enough.
This year we'll be hosting a virtual party and raffle! Come celebrate and support the Skin Picking community in our Zoom Room with:
☆ BFRB Raffle ☆
☆ Creative Writing Workshop ☆
☆ #BFRBWeek Video Screening ☆
☆ Community Hang ☆
Unable to attend? Please considering donating in honor of our 5th here.
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With your ticket purchase, you will also receive a sweet virtual #PickingMe goodie bag in your inbox! Our goodie bag contains:☆Coupons from Habit Aware, Get Speks, Stick With It Ink & The OCDOPUS
☆Canadian BFRB Support Coloring Pages
☆ Zoom Party Background
☆ Spotify Playlist
& much more!
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We truly need YOU to continue what we do! Are you in?
And don't forget to check out our list of raffle items below!
*PLEASE NOTE: RAFFLE ITEMS CAN ONLY BE SHIPPED TO US AND CANADA
☆ Grand Prize ☆
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Scholarship to Kimberley Quinlan's BFRB School
Value: $197What’s included in BFRB School?
Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors (BFRB) School is packed with the very same picking and pulling prevention information and techniques Kimberley teaches her clients in face-to-face sessions.When you sign up for BFRB School, you’ll receive instant access to resources that will guide you to:
Correct Your reaction to Your Thoughts and Feelings: Learn how to have a better relationship with your negative thoughts, strong emotions, and uncomfortable sensations.
Change Your Behaviors: Learn how to identify your urges to pick your skin and pull your hair and implement effective and compassionate behavior changes to your daily lifestyle so that you can reduce your hair pulling and skin picking.
Implement a Mindful Lifestyle: Learn how to create a mindful lifestyle that will support you in your long-term recovery from Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors.
PLUS, you’ll receive a BONUS audio training called, What is getting in the way of YOUR recovery! This will help you identify areas that you can focus on as you move through the course.
Kimberley is committed to supporting you throughout this process. If you have any questions, she meets bi-monthly on Facebook and Instagram for her LIVE MAGIC MONDAY Q&A hour (every second and fourth Monday at 12 PM PDT) where she answers questions and troubleshoots any concerns you may have.You will have unlimited access to the course materials, course updates, and the course BONUS.
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Blots Silicone Stress Ball: Slammer by Speks
Value: $24.95Meet Blots, the softest silicone stress balls you can find. In three ergonomic shapes that fit perfectly in your palm, we bet you can’t find a more satisfyingly squeezable desk toy. Slammer is wonderfully weighted for that satisfying smack.
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The Anxiety Sisters' Survival Guide: How You Can Become More Hopeful, Connected, and Happy
Value: $14.99A warm and practical guide to coping with anxiety—and finding ways to laugh anyway.
Got anxiety? Join the club. More specifically, join the Anxiety Sisterhood. Abs and Mags, aka the Anxiety Sisters, have spent the past thirty years figuring out how to outsmart their anxiety-ridden brains, and the last five years sharing what they’ve learned with a growing online community of like-minded sufferers who are looking for ways to cope better every day.
Whether you’re looking to better understand and manage panic, worry, grief, stress, or phobias, or just want to pause the endless spin cycle in your head, you’ll find real-world, research-based techniques, exercises, and insights—without the clinical, confusing, one-size-fits-all approach that isn’t so helpful when your mind is racing, your triggers are in overdrive, and you just want to get back to feeling normal . . . ish.
Most of all, this is a handbook for fighting Shrinking World Syndrome—that isolating, lonely feeling that comes from letting your anxiety run the show. The stories and suggestions in this book will remind you that you’re not alone. You don’t have to eliminate anxiety from your life in order to feel okay . . . and, yes, even happy.
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Color Your Fears: A Workbook Using Exposures to Combat OCD Obsessions by Not Alone Notes
Value: $10According to the International OCD Foundation, exposure and response prevention (ERP) therapy is the gold-standard treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Color Your Fears: A Workbook Using Exposures to Combat OCD Obsessions, was created by the founders of the letter-writing project, Not Alone Notes. This coloring book is meant to be a tool used in ERP with a therapist or for therapy homework.
Inside are blank coloring pages, each vaguely representing a common OCD “theme,” such as an empty report card for a fear of getting bad grades, a light switch for a fear of fires, and a toilet for a fear of germs. Each page is also paired with a blog post-like story to provide both instructions and a reminder that you are not alone.
We encourage you to color in these pages in ways that support exposure therapy. Maybe you write yourself getting straight C’s on the report card, and then you put the colored page visible near your desk. Or you could draw fires starting because the light switch wasn’t turned off “just right.” Most importantly, do not feel limited by the themes suggested with each page. OCD is exceptionally creative, so there is no reason we can’t be creative with our exposures.
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Pick N Peel Stones &Hook
Value: $27.99This project started with my love of "Satisfying Videos". You know the ones, 10 minutes of someone carving wood or soap on You Tube. They are so relaxing! So I started looking for a product that would give me that sweet sweet dopamine and serotonin release at home.
I found nothing and I really looked everywhere! I could not believe there isn't something out there. Then the wheels started turning. What if I could make something? What would I want it to look like? Through months of playing with this idea , and many dead ends, I think I finally came up with something great. Pick 'N Peel stones.
The stones are palm sized lava rocks with all kinds of awesome nooks and crannies for the stone filler to get into. The filler itself is a latex based glue that pulls away , ever so wonderfully, with the help of an arts and craft dental hook or tweezers. I have also hand-dipped one side of each stone in the glue to completely cover it and allow you to slowly peel it away. Picking and peeling one of these stones takes as long or as fast as you want it to. Sitting on the couch , I can pick one clean in about 45 minutes!
I can't get enough of these things! I wondered though , if I would be the only one. So I tested the waters. I talked to friends & family and asked if they would like to try a stone or two. Lo and behold , it's a hit ! I got wonderful feedback from people I know would be brutally honest, not just my mom ( who loves them btw).
I got a great photographer to take some pictures and help me set up this page . I started making stones to sell and here we are!
☆ Runner Up ☆
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Scholarship to Kimberley Quinlan's BFRB School
Value: $197What’s included in BFRB School?
Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors (BFRB) School is packed with the very same picking and pulling prevention information and techniques Kimberley teaches her clients in face-to-face sessions.When you sign up for BFRB School, you’ll receive instant access to resources that will guide you to:
Correct Your reaction to Your Thoughts and Feelings: Learn how to have a better relationship with your negative thoughts, strong emotions, and uncomfortable sensations.
Change Your Behaviors: Learn how to identify your urges to pick your skin and pull your hair and implement effective and compassionate behavior changes to your daily lifestyle so that you can reduce your hair pulling and skin picking.
Implement a Mindful Lifestyle: Learn how to create a mindful lifestyle that will support you in your long-term recovery from Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors.
PLUS, you’ll receive a BONUS audio training called, What is getting in the way of YOUR recovery! This will help you identify areas that you can focus on as you move through the course.
Kimberley is committed to supporting you throughout this process. If you have any questions, she meets bi-monthly on Facebook and Instagram for her LIVE MAGIC MONDAY Q&A hour (every second and fourth Monday at 12 PM PDT) where she answers questions and troubleshoots any concerns you may have.You will have unlimited access to the course materials, course updates, and the course BONUS.
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Pick N Peel Stones &Hook
Value: $27.99This project started with my love of "Satisfying Videos". You know the ones, 10 minutes of someone carving wood or soap on You Tube. They are so relaxing! So I started looking for a product that would give me that sweet sweet dopamine and serotonin release at home.
I found nothing and I really looked everywhere! I could not believe there isn't something out there. Then the wheels started turning. What if I could make something? What would I want it to look like? Through months of playing with this idea , and many dead ends, I think I finally came up with something great. Pick 'N Peel stones.
The stones are palm sized lava rocks with all kinds of awesome nooks and crannies for the stone filler to get into. The filler itself is a latex based glue that pulls away , ever so wonderfully, with the help of an arts and craft dental hook or tweezers. I have also hand-dipped one side of each stone in the glue to completely cover it and allow you to slowly peel it away. Picking and peeling one of these stones takes as long or as fast as you want it to. Sitting on the couch , I can pick one clean in about 45 minutes!
I can't get enough of these things! I wondered though , if I would be the only one. So I tested the waters. I talked to friends & family and asked if they would like to try a stone or two. Lo and behold , it's a hit ! I got wonderful feedback from people I know would be brutally honest, not just my mom ( who loves them btw).
I got a great photographer to take some pictures and help me set up this page . I started making stones to sell and here we are!
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☆ #PickingMe Prize ☆
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One on One Dermatillomania Management Session with Lauren McKeaney
Value: $100#PickingMe CEO & founder, Lauren McKeaney, knows first-hand about Dermatillomania, having struggled with the disorder for most of her life. Get a chance to chat with Lauren on management strategies, self-acceptance and more!
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#PickingMe Bundle
Value: $50Our very own #PickingMe Bundle includes a fidget-filled Fiddle Pack, Derma Resource Packet & Sticker Pack! Get your PMF swag on with these sweet items.
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Pick N Peel Stones &Hook
Value: $27.99This project started with my love of "Satisfying Videos". You know the ones, 10 minutes of someone carving wood or soap on You Tube. They are so relaxing! So I started looking for a product that would give me that sweet sweet dopamine and serotonin release at home.
I found nothing and I really looked everywhere! I could not believe there isn't something out there. Then the wheels started turning. What if I could make something? What would I want it to look like? Through months of playing with this idea , and many dead ends, I think I finally came up with something great. Pick 'N Peel stones.
The stones are palm sized lava rocks with all kinds of awesome nooks and crannies for the stone filler to get into. The filler itself is a latex based glue that pulls away , ever so wonderfully, with the help of an arts and craft dental hook or tweezers. I have also hand-dipped one side of each stone in the glue to completely cover it and allow you to slowly peel it away. Picking and peeling one of these stones takes as long or as fast as you want it to. Sitting on the couch , I can pick one clean in about 45 minutes!
I can't get enough of these things! I wondered though , if I would be the only one. So I tested the waters. I talked to friends & family and asked if they would like to try a stone or two. Lo and behold , it's a hit ! I got wonderful feedback from people I know would be brutally honest, not just my mom ( who loves them btw).
I got a great photographer to take some pictures and help me set up this page . I started making stones to sell and here we are!
Note From Founder
Dear #PickingMe Fam,
When I set out 5 years ago with a hashtagged slogan printed on a nail file and stress ball, my original ‘ Fiddle Pack’ for skin picking management and awareness, I thought a few people would find my advocacy for this disorder helpful. I in no way comprehended the enormity of the misunderstood and underreported dermatillomania community or how my fdn would help it grow. And nothing honors me more than working every day to serve this deserving community.
I can’t believe that we are embarking on our 5th year, and I’m so grateful to all of you who've helped make that possible. This year is different. As countless business appeals have stated before us, these are unprecedented times, but we have seriously been affected and are actually in dire need of funding. In fact, we might lose our literal foundation, our 1 room office that we need for numerous reasons which I’ll share more about in upcoming communications, but largely to maintain our business address to keep our nonprofit's 501(c)3 listing. I apologize for my sad news and abrupt ask, but I think I was ashamed of not raising enough money lately and have been trying to solve this on my own, without asking for the community’s help.
And now I need you more than ever. Fellow skin pickers worldwide need you. Please, help us continue to do what we do. Will you purchase a bday ticket to celebrate our milestone or donate to help keep our doors open? This would mean so much and we'd love to see you all on Zoom as we celebrate turning 5! I can’t wait for our phenomenal raffle prizes, community chat, and more! And did I mention your ticket purchase and/or donation will help sustain #PickingMe?
Thank you for being here for me along the way. I’m so grateful for your support and hope to have you with us in the future. Please, don't think someone else will donate today, and pass up this opportunity to help ensure Picking Me can continue doing its much needed work! We truly need YOU to do what we do.
Much love and support,
Lauren McKeaney
#PickingMe CEO & Founder
We need YOU to help us continue and do what we do.
By purchasing a ticket and joining our Zoom party
Thank you for #PickingMe over Skin Picking
