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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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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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How To Practice Being Mindful

I run a group therapy for individuals diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. We always start the group off with a mindfulness exercise that I will elaborate on later on in this post. Many of...

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Proven Steps to Stop Those Powerful Urges

A young woman who is a member of my private group for cutters in Facebook* wrote to tell me how proud she was that she had not cut herself for three months. I love to hear stories of progress and asked...

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Turning Darkness into Light

The silver lining in the painfulness and loneliness of human plight is the awe inspiring creativity that it brings out in people.  This in turn brings hope and inspiration to others. The following...

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Warning: Worrying About Stress is More Damaging than Stress Itself.

In his book Ageless Body, Timeless Mind, Deepak Chopra says that worrying about stress is more damaging than stress itself. Which brings me back to something I have said previously: It is not events...

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