About Libby Ramsey

I'm Libby Ramsey, and I wrote Unclench. I have no clinical credentials, and I don't make medical claims. I write as a young woman and aspiring health coach who lived these habits for years and slowly found what actually helped me settle them.

For a long stretch of my life I bit my nails down to nothing and picked at my skin when I was anxious, usually without noticing I'd started. I tried to stop the way most people do, with willpower, and it never held. The habits turned out to be downstream of something I hadn't named yet: a nervous system that stayed switched on when it didn't need to be. It ran quietly in the background for years, and I mostly took it for my personality.

So I went looking. I read what reputable sources say about the stress response and how the body lets tension go, and I turned it into a simple daily practice I could actually keep up. Over a few weeks the urges quietened, because the system underneath them was calmer. This book is that approach, written down plainly. I wrote it because I wish someone had handed it to me years earlier.

Everything here is offered as something to try, not as a treatment or a promise. I lean on reputable sources rather than my own authority, and I'm honest about the limits. Persistent grinding is also a dental issue, so see a dentist. Picking or biting that feels compulsive deserves a mental-health professional, and constant anxiety is worth a doctor's time.

The wider site is written in the same spirit: calm, practical, judgment-free, with sources on every health page so you can read further and, when it matters, talk with a professional.