What is the Butterfly Project?

the butterfly project is for all the people who used to cut themselves. Basically you draw a butterfly on the part in your body you used to cut, and everytime you feel like wanna cut yourself you have to imagine you will kill that butterfly, so you won't do it.

The Butterfly Project is an initiative that was started for those who struggle with self harm, you, or someone you love, draws a butterfly on your body (usually where you would self harm) and your goal, is to keep the butterfly alive by not engaging in self harming behaviours :)

The Butterfly Project is a project aimed at helping people find a better way to cope when they have the desire to self-harm, the idea is to draw a butterfly on your arm instead of each cut.

The butterfly project is for people who have the urge to self harm. Basically what it is, is if you ever have the urge to self harm, you draw a butterfly with a pen or marker where you wanna hurt yourself.

The Butterfly Project has been created for self-harmers who feel they are ready to stop and need the motivation or support to do so. A member’s hypnotherapist, who found this idea on an online blog and felt that it was a good idea that should be promoted as a distraction, has recommended it.

The butterfly project is a self harm awareness/help campaign. The people draw butterflies where they would like to harm themselves, and then name the butterfly after someone they love. As long as the butterfly is on there, self harming would result in "killing" the person they named the butterfly after. They can't scrub it off either. People also draw butterflies on their wrists to show support for those going through a hard time with self harming.

I know that often our first reaction when we are angry is to lash out at other people. Often anger is brought about because of great frustration or deep hurt. But what happens if you've been taught to never lash out at other people? Or what happens if you always feel to blame, even when you couldn't possibly be? Often this leads to us lashing out at ourselves because we don't feel able to lash out at others. You could also replace "lash out" with "express feelings" in this example very easily. If you've never learned how to express yourself, you may feel unable to communicate strong emotions like anger.

The butterfly project is a project to help people who self harm resist to the urges to cut, They draw a butterfly where they self harm (with a permanent marker) and it represents someone they care about to help them they strong and try not to harm/"kill" the butterfly before it fades away, when it fades away, another is drawn.

1. when you feel like you want to cut, take a marker or pen and draw a butterfly wherever the self-harm occurs. 2. Name the butterfly after a loved one, or someone that really wants you to get better. 3. No scrubbing the butterfly off. 4. If you cut before the butterfly is gone, it dies. If you don't cut, it lives. 5. Another person may draw them on you. These butterflies are extra special. Take good care of them. 6. Even if you don’t cut, feel free to draw a butterfly anyways, to show your support. The Butterfly Project has personally helped me a lot and I know that it has helped a lot of other people I know too. My best friend drew a butterfly on my wrist and it has helped me stay clean so much. I really like this project.

The butterfly project is a way to help self harmers try to stop their cutting or burning or whatever method they use. The affected person, and sometimes those who support them, draw butterflies on whatever place they tend to self harm. The point is to let the butterfly, typically drawn in sharpie or another permanent marker, fade on its own. When it fades, you've succeeded and you've let the butterfly fly away and be free. To self harm in that place means that you've hurt your butterfly and you must start over, washing it off and drawing a new one.