Battle Lines: A Message to Those Who Self-Harm

This is a message to all the brave, exhausted soldiers out there doing battle right now, those waging a silent, internal civil war.

I’m calling out to you who stand on those perilous front lines, pressed up hard against the fight, in the brutal and bloody trenches of conflict.

I’m reaching out because of the urgency of the moment, because of all that is being lost, because I look around and the violence seems to be winning.

I think you understand that, because the war has gotten the best of you before, too.

You show the scars.

You bear the bruises.

You wear the wounds.

I know that the battle…

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