What is the Butterfly Project?

The Butterfly Project is a project (for lack of a better word) that is designed to help someone stop self harming. Here's how it works: When you get the urge to self harm, you take out a pen or a marker of some sort and draw a butterfly where ever you feel like harming. You give your butterfly a name, often one of someone you love or who wants you to get better. You then wait for the butterfly to naturally fade. You aren't allowed to try to scrub it off. If you cut before it's gone, you've killed it. If you stay clean, the butterfly lives. Once it's faded, don't just relapse. Draw more butterflies until the urges are all gone. May all your butterflies live my lovelies.

It's for people who are trying to stop to self harming. You draw a butterfly on where you normally self harm and if you self harm before the butterfly washes out you killed your butterfly. Keep drawing butterflies each time you want to self harm, it really helps to stop.

When you feel like you want to cut, take a marker, pen, or sharpies and draw a butterfly on your arm or hand. Name the butterfly after a loved one, or someone that really wants you to get better. You must let the butterfly fade naturally. NO scrubbing it off. If you cut before the butterfly is gone, you’ve killed it. If you dont cut, it lives. If you have more than one butterfly, cutting kills all of them. Another person may draw them on you. These butterflies are extra special. Take good care of them. Even if you don’t cut, feel free to draw a butterfly anyways, to show your support. If you do this, name it after someone you know that cuts or is suffering right now, and tell them. It could help.

The butterfly project is an alternative to self harm, basically you and your friends/family or anyone you care about draw pictures of a butterfly wherever it is that the person usually harms themselves and they can't self harm until the butterfly fades naturally, no scrubbing it off, other wise you kill the butterfly

The Butterlfly Project helps people which are herming themselfes. How it works is, that a person draws a butterfly onthe hand arm of the person which is harming hisself. You have to say when you harm yourself, the butterfly will diw. I want you to protect it and take good care.

It is where you draw a butterfly wherever you want to cut, and if you do cut, the butterfly dies. If the butterfly fades naturally, no scrubbing it off, you have set it free.

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I shall just post the rules.... as its a beautiful project. =] 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 can be an extremely helpful resource for those who self harm. When the urge to self harm arises a person is to draw a butterfly where they would normally self harm, then name it after a loved one or someone important to them. Should they self harm before the butterfly fades (it cannot be washed off) the butterfly 'dies'. This is an interesting representation of the affects of self harming behavior on those the individual loves.

The Butterfly Project (also known as the Butterfly/Phoenix Project) is an organisation dedicated to helping young people deal with mental health issues, including self harm.