Spring 2014

BeauTrichful®

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Trich Nonprofit

Saved by Prayer

Mother’s Day

Momswith

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Trich Monster Protection Package

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.

Which, after 7 years of trying, I contemplated of closing this organization. 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.

This Beau ful Issue Would Have Been Our Last...How God Answered My

PrayerBy Charlene Blacer

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CREDIT: Pinterest.com/CharleneBlacer/happy-mothers-day-to-a-single-mom

I owe this Glory to Our Lord

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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.

CREDIT: nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/creativeage/launchpad_201405/index.php?startid=23#/44

5 Things to Know When DatingSomeone With TrichotillomaniaBy Sandy Rosenblatt

I’M A MOM WITH TRI

Mom, Hairstylist and BFRB Edmonton

Support Group Founder, Kelsie Hanna, shares her 20 year life battling Trichotillomania.

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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”.

PHOTOS: Jason Bischoff Photography

CHOTILLOMANIA

TO CONNECT WITH KELSIE:Facebook.com/TrichotillomaniaUnited

Twitter.com/TrichUnited

How To Protect Yourself

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About TRICH MONSTER FOUNDER, Nikki Michaella Martello  IN HER OWN WORDS: “Just to share a bit of a testimony about my struggle and recovery journey... I've had trich almost all my life. I started pulling when I was at least age 6 until I was age 30 ( I'm 31 now ) - I used to 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

severe health issues ). I chose to actively seek out support for those and to allow myself to feel my feelings ( still a work in progress ) and to remove those persons in my life who were/ are toxic to me/ my life from my life. ( also still a work in progressed ) Well putting those and other similar positive

changes in my life I have succeeded in recovery

from Trich. I am almost

Against Trichotillomania

600 DAYS 100% PULL

FREE now!!! I am so proud of

this accomplishment! I want to help you all realize your potential for recovery as I have and

am experiencing. RECOVERY IS VERY POSSIBLE

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 separate account I am creating for this project.

if you choose to send a check My address is

c/o Nikki Michaella MartelloTrich Monster Protection Package

38718 N. 29th Ave. Phoenix, AZ 85086

THANK YOU!

IN HER OWN WORDS: “Hi my name is Emma Baxter, i am 23 and live in the north east of England

iv been a long term ocd sufferer and had gotten transferred to a psychologist in 2006 for extreme 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

to do, being a single mam means you have to devote all your time and effort into caring for your children, which i was so grateful for throughout my pregnancy i remember stressing so bad thinking i would not be able to change after birth and even worrying about perhaps social services thinking i would be an unfit mother if my ocd carried on the way it was after birth, i am very relieved that

part of my life is behind me now, i missed out on education and work due to the ocd being that severe it was so life consuming. After overcoming ocd however i feel i may have subconsciously replaced it with Trichotillomania as whenever i got anxious or stressed id feel almighty relief from pulling my hair out, i had done it on occasion as a teen around 13 but only on my eyebrows and arm hair, i remember having to always draw my eyebrows in throughout school as they were so fine they weren't even visible. At 12 me and the rest of my family aunties cousins etc had to get x-rayed due to my grandma having tetanus and doctors found a hole in my heart, but said it would be ok but did explain why i often turned blue under my eyes, fingernails and toenails went blue often and running caused me to feel faint, and a throbbing painful tongue and short breath. But at 15 i was informed i did in fact need surgery so i was put on to a waiting list, around the time of my GCSE's my appointment came through for my surgery, which terrified me, i went a little out of control at first and skived school, started drinking and even took drugs, after missing my GSCE tests i kicked myself up the behind and stayed at home until my surgery date, i had fallen out with my two best friends after they started messaging me threatening me all because someone else thought it would be funny to spread rumours about me when in fact i had not even

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 depressed and stressed, then along comes surgery day, thankfully i had the support from my mam, brother and family, and my boyfriend at the time, i was very unwell and almost needed a blood transfusion but thankfully my body pulled through. All in all it eventually made me stronger. The problems with Trichotillomania first started after me and my son moved out of my family home for the first time and although i thought i had gotten rid of ocd completely i did struggle from time to time, and often had issues with timing i.e. trying to get rid of routines which kept me being late for everything, i struggled to find work and when i did find work my ocd crept in, never as bad as i had had it, but enough to loose my job, having no one to understand why i couldn't break out of it or change my habits i was stressed and anxious most of the time, when i did first start pulling my hair it was very satisfying and relieving at first, but soon after it got very serious and i kept seeing myself loosing more and more hair the depression kicked in even more and shame filled me, i had turned to my

mam in the past for everything, i never felt shame telling my mam anything, she helped me through a...

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miscarriage at 3 months pregnant, but i just had 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

others with ocd and trichotillomania which has helped me immensely having people to talk to that is also suffering and know what it is like, before i had the help from others i found it impossible to stop pulling but now with help and encouragement

from other pullers i managed to stop for over 1 month however iv had relapses but keep motivated to finally accomplish being pullfree its now almost 3 weeks of being pull free for the 3rd time. i have had this for 2 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

the UK and volunteer for ocd action locally, I am paying for salons across the north east of England to give out my booklets to clients and to raise awareness to all staff in salons as all of us trichsters know how difficult it is to get seen by salons and how shameful

it is to go and sit in a busy salon and have someone consulting your hair who has never even heard of Trichotillomania.” Thanks for reading,Emma

Facebook.com/HelpWithTrichi Facebook.com/TrichotillomaniaHelp 

Twitter.com/HelpWithTrichiInstagram.com/helpwithtrich

i have to thank my family and instagram trichsters for their help and support

How HelpMe2Stop StopsFor 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

Be brave, you’re not alone, says Melksham student

By Richard McAllister

Emma Simonsen wants to help other sufferers

TRICH WORLD NEWS

Teenager Emma Simonsen has teamed up with a national charity to launch a campaign to raise awareness of

trichotillomania, a condition that causes her to pull out her own hair. The 17-year-old of Willow Close, Melksham, wants

more people to know about the psychological condition. Trichotillomania compells people to pull out the hair on

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their head and, in some cases, on other parts of their body such as eyebrows or eyelashes. Emma, an A-level student at The Corsham School, is working with Winchester-based charity, Fixers, which supports young people aged 16-25 to tackle issues of concern to them.

With its help she is hoping to create a website to help other young people understand the condition.

She said: “There is a real lack of information and understanding around the issue.

“I hid it from my family for about a year and a half.

“I would cover up any patches that I had made and throw away any hair that fell on the floor.

“I was very ashamed of it.”

Emma first developed a fascination with her hair when she was 12 .

She said: “It started with me breaking off split ends – I don’t know exactly when it changed to pulling out the hairs.

“I was desperate and panicking

because I thought it wasn’t normal.

“I did some research and learnt that it’s a known condition and that I wasn’t alone.

“If there’s someone out there in a similar situation, I want them to understand that they’re not alone.

“There are other people like them out there and they’re not weird – they just need to be able to talk to someone who understands just what they are going through.”

Emma has been going to a counsellor for about a year, which she said had been very helpful and much of her hair has grown back.

Fixers has helped other young people campaign on issues such as self-harm, suicide and bullying.

For more information visit: www.Fixers.org.uk

HelpMe2StopAdvertising Info

BeautTrichful is a seasonal magazine that can be viewed online or purchased through- BeautTrichful.com

Sponsorship as low as $50. To include your salon in our worldwide listing locator guide, bit.ly/BeautyHelps

For Trichotillomania Hair Loss Solution Classes bit.ly/DreamHairClass

Send ad for the Spring 2014 issue to press@helpme2stop.org.

To be our CoverGirl/Guy for future issues, please email your edited story to press@helpme2stop.org

To send donated hairpieces, wigs, head coverings, etc, please mail along with detailed description to HelpMe2Stop, POB 202, Bartonsville, PA 18321

HelpMe2Stop wishes to thank social media for many of the images in this issue.

HELPME2STOPPOB 202 Bartonsville, PA 18321 570.HELP.020 Press@HelpMe2Stop.org

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