Comments on: Nail Biting … Self Mutilation or Stress-Relieving Habit? http://www.deborahkingcenter.com/blog/2009/07/09/nail-biting-self-mutilation-or-stress-relieving-habit/ DEBORAH KING, J.D., author of Truth Heals: What You Hide Can Hurt You (Hay House 2009), is a health & wellness expert, attorney, national keynote speaker, frequent TV and radio commentator, and a “healer to the stars.” She is trained to address both the mind and the body’s health and disease processes. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:34:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: deborahking http://www.deborahkingcenter.com/blog/2009/07/09/nail-biting-self-mutilation-or-stress-relieving-habit/comment-page-1/#comment-3243 deborahking Sat, 17 Jul 2010 05:13:06 +0000 http://www.deborahkingcenter.com/blog/?p=351#comment-3243 Thank you Patricia, for such a heartwarming note. I really appreciate you sharing your story. Sending you my best intentions! Warmly, Deborah Thank you Patricia, for such a heartwarming note. I really appreciate you sharing your story. Sending you my best intentions!

Warmly,
Deborah

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Warmly,
Deboarh

]]> By: deborahking http://www.deborahkingcenter.com/blog/2009/07/09/nail-biting-self-mutilation-or-stress-relieving-habit/comment-page-1/#comment-3238 deborahking Sat, 17 Jul 2010 05:04:55 +0000 http://www.deborahkingcenter.com/blog/?p=351#comment-3238 Thank you! Warmly, Deborah Thank you!

Warmly,
Deborah

]]> By: deborahking http://www.deborahkingcenter.com/blog/2009/07/09/nail-biting-self-mutilation-or-stress-relieving-habit/comment-page-1/#comment-3232 deborahking Sat, 17 Jul 2010 04:48:38 +0000 http://www.deborahkingcenter.com/blog/?p=351#comment-3232 Thank you for writing. Are you still having trouble using the RSS feed? If so, let me know and I'll see if there is any information. Warmly, Deborah Thank you for writing. Are you still having trouble using the RSS feed? If so, let me know and I’ll see if there is any information.

Warmly,
Deborah

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]]> By: Patricia - Spiritual Journey Of A Lightworker http://www.deborahkingcenter.com/blog/2009/07/09/nail-biting-self-mutilation-or-stress-relieving-habit/comment-page-1/#comment-3081 Patricia - Spiritual Journey Of A Lightworker Tue, 04 May 2010 20:25:40 +0000 http://www.deborahkingcenter.com/blog/?p=351#comment-3081 I bite my nails most of my life. Finally about 15 years ago, I quit for the first time. I went several years without biting my nails. Then I went through about a year where I bit them again. Now it has been probably been about 10 years since I bit them. The way that I have stopped each time is to use nail polish on them. If I have nail polish on, I will chew the polish off instead of biting my nails. Recently I was in a very stressful place and my thumb nail and index finger on one hand broke off and I started biting those two finger nails for several weeks before the stress lessened and I quit again. Right now my finger nails are all long and nice looking. I am determined to not go back to biting my nail even through I am going through a stressful period in my recovery from incest. I bit my nails as a child to help reduce the stress of living in a home with alcohol and incest. I didn't drink or do drugs in any form to deal with the stress of incest. I bit my nails. Today I have better coping mechanisms than I did as a child. Today I write about my struggles and my victories with incest recovery rather than biting my nails. I didn't know there was a technical name for nail biting. I have read several of your articles on, I think it was the Huffington Post, about incest. Thank you for speaking out about incest. I bite my nails most of my life. Finally about 15 years ago, I quit for the first time. I went several years without biting my nails. Then I went through about a year where I bit them again. Now it has been probably been about 10 years since I bit them. The way that I have stopped each time is to use nail polish on them. If I have nail polish on, I will chew the polish off instead of biting my nails. Recently I was in a very stressful place and my thumb nail and index finger on one hand broke off and I started biting those two finger nails for several weeks before the stress lessened and I quit again. Right now my finger nails are all long and nice looking.

I am determined to not go back to biting my nail even through I am going through a stressful period in my recovery from incest. I bit my nails as a child to help reduce the stress of living in a home with alcohol and incest. I didn’t drink or do drugs in any form to deal with the stress of incest. I bit my nails. Today I have better coping mechanisms than I did as a child. Today I write about my struggles and my victories with incest recovery rather than biting my nails. I didn’t know there was a technical name for nail biting.
I have read several of your articles on, I think it was the Huffington Post, about incest. Thank you for speaking out about incest.

]]> By: Eleonora Goffman http://www.deborahkingcenter.com/blog/2009/07/09/nail-biting-self-mutilation-or-stress-relieving-habit/comment-page-1/#comment-3073 Eleonora Goffman Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:41:33 +0000 http://www.deborahkingcenter.com/blog/?p=351#comment-3073 I genuinely appreciate you taking the time to post this. I enjoyed looking through it and am looking forward to a lot more posts from you! Keep writing. I genuinely appreciate you taking the time to post this. I enjoyed looking through it and am looking forward to a lot more posts from you! Keep writing.

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]]> By: Jamey Galicia http://www.deborahkingcenter.com/blog/2009/07/09/nail-biting-self-mutilation-or-stress-relieving-habit/comment-page-1/#comment-3043 Jamey Galicia Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:08:06 +0000 http://www.deborahkingcenter.com/blog/?p=351#comment-3043 Hey, I was just searching through your website and wanted to add the RSS feed, but it isn't working with my webbrowser (I am running Opera) any specific way to get around that? Hey, I was just searching through your website and wanted to add the RSS feed, but it isn’t working with my webbrowser (I am running Opera) any specific way to get around that?

]]> By: Deidre Fulk http://www.deborahkingcenter.com/blog/2009/07/09/nail-biting-self-mutilation-or-stress-relieving-habit/comment-page-1/#comment-3040 Deidre Fulk Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:30:20 +0000 http://www.deborahkingcenter.com/blog/?p=351#comment-3040 Thanks for the stress information. Definitely helpful. Thanks for the stress information. Definitely helpful.

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