Why I Will Not Pick for 28 Days

I have just taken a vow not to pick at my skin for 28 days from now. I prefer not to take vows unless I am certain I can keep them because I believe the consequences of breaking them are serious. The reason I have taken this vow is because I believe I can and need to stop picking and because I know that if I can do it it might help someone else believe they can do it too. The weather is getting hot again and for my own health and peace of mind I can't afford to worry about having to cover my skin all the time. So I will have to let my skin heal. I've replaced the Daily Count box on the right with the day in the 28 days I'm at and a line about how I'm feeling. I'll update it as I'm able to or when there's a change.

Starting Over

What a year it's been. I moved to a new country and went back to school last September. Little did I know how much my life would change! After more than half a year of living on different continents and barely talking to each other, my husband and I decided to separate. It now looks like we're headed for divorce. He was such an important part of my life, really my other half, so it's been a difficult adjustment. Thankfully the separation has been fairly amicable and I have new friends who take good care of me and whom I love. I'm sorry to say though, that with so much more time alone, and so many new challenges to tackle, I've fallen back into picking. Despite this my mind frame is relatively positive (hence the slight changes to the page design), and with a long holiday coming up soon, I feel it's time to make another concentrated effort to kick this picking habit once and for all. I'm reinstating the Daily Count. I'm also going to think long and hard about who I am and who I want to be, now that I'm on my own again and don't really have anyone else's expectations to live up to. It's not often that we have the space and time to find ourselves, so I'm looking at it as a blessing. Over the next few months, my missions are healing, strength (physical and mental), and spiritual growth. Tomorrow, of course, is a new moon, the perfect day to begin.