Meryl DeCosta

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1,272 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 11 Aug

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SkinPick: Honest conversations about skin picking (excoriation disorder) · Supporting Someone with Skin Picking: Your Questions Answered · 11 Aug 2026 podcast

So you use your initiative, you find the right moment, but again, have a conversation with that pe with that person.

person.

Like, when do you want me to talk about this?

You want me to talk you want me to approach you the moment that you walk in after a long day at work and I'll meet you at the door and that's when we have the conversation?

Probably not.

Is it like when is a good time?

So I think what's can be really important is wait until you're both calm.

And you've had a bit of rest and you're in a good space.

And you could ask what would now be a good time to talk?

So again, all you're doing is that you're creating spaces.

You're not confronting, you're not being uh corrective, you're just creating spaces.

for them to feel comfortable to then respond.

We did speak a little bit about tone.

So I think it's quite important to lead with empathy.

So ask yourself, am I trying to understand them or am I trying to stop the behavior?

So people often remember how you made them feel more than the words that you used.

So it's really important.

So again, when we look at those statements out of context, they don't seem so bad.

But in context of BFRBs, it can really make someone feel really poorly.

And then permission, again, kind of going back to what we were saying a little bit earlier.

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