Best wishes for the new, fresh year
Whatever the holiday season has meant to you, we wish you the very best in 2012. January brings a fantastic opportunity to review your life goals and consider new ways to seek health and happiness. It is a shiny, bright new year. May you have the determination to become who you want to be during 2012. We wish you all the very best for everything you set out to achieve and experience. We know life can be hard, can be awful. Take pleasure in the small things. Love yourself. Love others. And take time every day to seek out the peace and ...
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Poll results – your fave social networks
Thank you to everyone who took part in our social networks poll. Wedge created this poll to discover which are your favourite social networks, which ones you don't care much about and which ones you think you'll be using more over the coming year. The results show that: 65% of you love Facebook, with Twitter and then Tumblr coming second and third. The ...
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“You kept me from seriously harming myself tonight”
We know what it feels like to be desperate to stop the pain, to seek relief by any method. We know what it's like to struggle with people, with our emotions and our self-injury. We hope our website with its wealth of ideas and information is of some help to others, and we're always pleased to hear from people who are ...
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Emergency ‘Read this first’ page
We recently launched our new emergency web page: Read this first. The purpose of this article is to provide immediate support and distraction for people who are overwhelmed by intense feelings of emotional distress and about to hurt themselves. We hope that people will choose to read through the interactive page *before* making the decision to self-injure. As always, we don't tell ...
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Magazine opportunity (UK) – for a Mother
Is your family coming to terms with self-injury? Would you be willing to share your story in That's Life magazine? Christina is writing an article about self-injury, and would ideally like to talk to a mother who found out her child was self-injurying. Christina would be especially interested in talking with sons or daughters who had been hurting themselves ...
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Letting go
How much of the past are you carrying around with you? All that baggage can get very heavy can't it? It weighs you down. But what purpose does it serve? I suggest, none. Of course our present selves are a cumulation of past experiences. Bad things happen to good people. And sometimes we do things that we regret and feel guilt ...
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Don’t be afraid to change medical professionals
If you see a GP or counsellor under the NHS – it is your NHS – owned by the country, working for you. If you are seeing someone privately – it’s your money. You are the customer. The first counsellor I saw via the NHS had me in tears after the first session, and not for the right reasons. For me, he ...
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The purpose of our refreshed Support Forum
Earlier this week we launched our shiny new Support Forum. Our tired old message board had been closed for month while we talked about how we can best support our members in a fast and modern manner. The way people interact on the Internet has changed over the years, and we wanted to ensure our supportive community was in desperate need ...
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Our new Support Forum is open
Our refreshed new Support Forum is now open and ready to support you. We closed down our old message board a month ago to give us time to reassess the needs of our members and how we might best provide community support and guidance for people in emotional distress and struggling with self-injury. Our new forums are sleeker, faster ...
