Self-Harm and Believing in Your Self-Strength: Audio Blog

When you’re feeling down in the dumps, you stop believing in yourself. You start to think that you don’t have the strength to push forward or that no one will care if you do. We’ve all been there and felt this way, but some of us have found ways to climb the ladder out of that hole.

For self-harmers, it tends to be a little more difficult to step on that ladder.

An Excerpt from Noon on Self-Strength

One of the characters in my novel, Noon, struggles with self-harm and suicide throughout the book, life I’ve discussed in past blogs. She rides a rollercoaster of emotions and when that rollercoaster spirals down, she spirals down with it.

During my years of struggling, that spiral kept going and going and when it stopped, I decided it was time to find a way out. It took time and effort to climb up that ladder and for Fay and others struggling, it will happen. There is hope and by believing in the strength you have inside of you, you can make it to the top.

The short paragraph from one of Fay’s chapters allows you to step inside her brain and into her thoughts. Her thoughts are not positive because it is during a time when she doesn’t believe in herself. However, by relating to this paragraph and to the character, you may feel as if you are not alone. You can realize that if others have gotten out of the bottom of the pit, you can too.

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