Archive for category: self harm

/ January 6, 2009 11:40 pm

Self-Injury Part 3: For Those Desiring to Help – with Jose Cano – Counselor – Teen Mania’s Honor Academy

What can you do to help someone dealing with self-injury The decision to stop “Cutting” is not an easy one to make for the person that has fallen dependent upon it. Yet, in order for them to be successful, the decision needs to come from the person that struggles with it. The individual has to own the personal decision in [...]

/ January 6, 2009 11:39 pm

Self-Injury: Part 2 – Powerful Steps to Overcoming Cutting – with Jose Cano – Counselor – Teen Mania’s Honor Academy

1. One must acknowledge Christ as our primary source of help through: Prayer Word Study and Meditation (See “Who You Are in Christ” References) Church Fellowship 2. One must decide to Change their way of coping. Unless God does a miracle, it would be unrealistic to expect the person to change their habit from one day to the next. God [...]

/ December 27, 2008 8:07 pm

Part 1: Self-Injury Part One: What Is Cutting All About? – with Jose Cano – Counselor – Teen Mania’s Honor Academy

I’m Fine I bleed away my problems I scratch them all away My problems drip away from me And slither down the drain My problems are dissolved in crimson My scarlet poison makes them die A piece of metal shatters them And through my veins the pieces fly These scars upon my skin Tell tales of secret pain But come [...]

/ December 18, 2008 10:56 pm

Only Once – a testimony about self harm and cutting

The author wishes to remain anonymous Seven and a half years ago, I was sitting in a science class with my friends, watching time tick by too slowly as it always did. The teacher was shouting at the class, insulting our intellect and dismissing us as unruly yobs with no future. A few days previously a friend of mine had [...]