- For everyday you go without self harming or purging, add a colourful link to a paper chain.
- If you relapse, just add a white link to the chain and carry on without any disruption.
Over time the paper chain will grow in length and you can see your progress, so that even if you do relapse, there are still day you go on without hurting yourself. (The colourful links)
Over time and through your recovery watch the amount of coloured links increase, and the amount of white links begin to decrease.
If you feel like hurting yourself, look at the paper chain and realize how far you have made it, and realize you've resisted before you can do it again.
Also if you want to date the white links so you can look back and see the date of when you gave yourself beautiful battle scars.
