Recently I've come up with an idea that I think could help a lot of people who are working to recover and stop self harming. It's very similar to the butterfly idea, in which you would draw a butterfly on your body wherever you would usually self harm. Then the butterfly would motivate you not to hurt yourself, so the butterfly would stay safe. My idea is to draw an angel or something of the sort on your body where you would self harm as a reminder that there is an angel trying to protect you, be it guardian angel or whatever you believe in. If you hurt yourself, you're not letting the angel do its job and protect you, so that would make them sad. Your goal is to keep your angel happy and let them do their job in protecting you. I think this would be a lot more effective for those of you who believe in angels and would get a lot of positive feedback. I'm trying it myself, and if really does work.
I ask all of you who are struggling to try this, and for everyone to help get the message out. Use the tag "Guardian Angel Project." It can't do much good if only my readers know about it. Tell your friends and write it into your stories to get the idea out. I believe In you guys. So get to recovering and get to sharing, because we could do some real good here, and we have work to do.