New year, new you? Goals, not resolutions, will help you move away from self-injury
January brings lots of heavy expectations – people want to turn over a new leaf. But self-improvement is a journey, not just a decision.
January brings lots of heavy expectations – people want to turn over a new leaf. But self-improvement is a journey, not just a decision.
The Victoria Derbyshire show on BBC2 will feature a short film about camouflaging self-injury scars with special make-up.
[cmsms_row][cmsms_column data_width=”1/1″][cmsms_text] This is Ben’s story; it’s written by Ben, and we’re grateful to him for sharing his past pains and on-going struggle. Ben talks about drugs, cutting, and boderline personality disorder. My drug use and self-injury were interconnected. But the drug use was a different way of achieving the same goal which was to […]
“we found that CBT-based psychological therapy may have led to a small-to-modest reduction in the number of patients repeating self-harm behaviours.”
Naëlle explains how self-injury can feel like no choice at all, and that choosing to move away from self-injury is hard and worthwhile.
Emma resorted to self-injury when here relationship with her father got worse and worse. Struggling to feel worthy, Emma worked hard to gain her confidence and happiness.
Self-help and self-care can replace self-injury. Especially if we get a little extra support at tough times.
Nobody else is involved, it’s just you and your choice, your decision, your behaviour.
It’s easy to get trapped in cyclical thinking – we have to change our thoughts.
We hope you like our new motto for 2014, which is also the wording on this year’s wristbands. These few simple words are the key to making positive changes, and can relate to any area of our life that needs improving, changing, or renewing. Our daily life is governed by our actions, our behaviours, our […]
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