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Managing Urges Part 7: If All Else Fails…Take the Bull by the Horns
Sometimes it’s just better to dive in and face a problem head on. What stops us is the fear of it. But ironically, when you face a fear head on you actually make it smaller. It’s like when I did a fire...
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Managing Urges that Come at 03:00 Part 8
So far in my “Managing Urges” series, we have covered the following ways of coping: helping others, distraction, releasing anger, channeling emotion, changing the moment, spirituality, facing the...
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Do You Hate Yourself After Cutting?
Do You Hate Yourself After Cutting? I hear from many cutters* that they loathe themselves after they succumbed to cutting after struggling to fight off the urge. This is true of my patients at the...
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Steps in the Chain to Self-Harm
In my last blog I explained what a Chain Analysis was and how to use it. In today’s blog, I am going to offer an illustration of what a Chain Analysis might look like when completed. The following is...
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Nia Misses from Toronto, ON and a member of my Facebook group The Cutters Safe Place* says that she often feels like she is drowning in the seductive urge to cut hrself. She claims that she finds the...
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Did You Know that Exercise Can Reduce the Urge to Cut?
One of my assignments at the State Hospital where I work is running an exercise group. I used to take the individuals to the park on the hospital grounds and have them walk around it at least twice...
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When Everything Seems to be Going Wrong
The economy is in the toilet, your so called friends have disappointed you, your family doesn’t understand you, you’re worried about finding a job. Your grades are suffering- and God knows what else....
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How Can I Be Grateful When Nothing is Going Right?
In my last post I discussed the importance of being grateful. Have you ever noticed how pleasant it is to be around people who are grateful for you or what you have done for them? That’s how you will...
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Avoid Toxic People
Now that you are practicing gratefulness in your life and have made a list of 200 things in your life that you are thankful for you have found that not everyone shares your new attitude that there is...
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Trying to be Perfect Makes for Imperfect
A high school girl in my Facebook group, The Safe Place for Cutters, wrote: “i haven’t cut in a really long time…for me, i was feeling so lost in life and the pain from cutting helped center me. i’ve...
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