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Self Injury Through Time (SITT)

A new theatre group for people with personal experience of self-harm - starting 16th January 2024 at acta Community Theatre
Creative Collaborations
May Playlist - AMBIVALENCE

For May we are inviting suggestions to add to our playlist on the theme of AMBIVALENCE - take a look at others' suggestions for inspiration
Women Listening to Women Archive NOW AVAILABLE at Bishopsgate Archive

We are very excited to announce that the archive developed from our Women Listening to Women Oral History Project now has a permanent home at Bishopsgate Archive in London. The archive includes oral histories, administrative papers, ephemera, photographs and logbooks relating to Bristol Crisis Service for Women (BCSW) and Self Injury Support (SIS).

Self Harm in Primary Age Children Summary
Past Event: Women Listening to Women: A History of Self-Injury & Mental Health Activism

Find out about the gendered stereotypes of self-harm, and how pioneering women-led services like Self Injury Support have countered them.
Women Listening to Women website, podcasts and exhibition launched!

Our Women Listening to Women oral history project has launched a host of new resources including an exhibition, podcasts and a brand new website. Find out about the history of the incredible women who made the organisation what it is today, and used empathy and listening to change understandings of self-injury.
SiS Statement on Serenity Integrated Mentoring & High Intensity Network

A statement from Self-Injury Support about Serenity Integrated Mentoring (SIM) model and the High Intensity Network (HIN) approach
What is self-harm? Signs and causes
Guide to support students through COVID-19
Were you involved with the Bristol Crisis Service for Women between 1986 and 2014?

Get involved with our heritage project! Over the next 18 months we will be recording oral histories of the women who founded, worked and volunteered at the pioneering Bristol Crisis Service for Women. We want to capture as many memories of being involved with this groundbreaking organisation from as many women as possible, so if you or someone you know have got something to share, please get in touch.
Women Listening to Women

We are recruiting volunteers to help us research and record the story of how feminist activists created the Bristol Crisis Service for Women, a groundbreaking peer-led organisation for women in distress.
Free to self-injure? Should self-harm be prevented?
The interpretive difficulties of self-harm in “Sharp Objects”

UK Support Groups and Other Services

Comprehensive listing of local and national self-harm and self-injury support groups and organisations
Women's Self Injury Support Services - Temporary Service Suspension

After some careful thought, we have come to the decision to temporarily suspend our listening support services in the new year. This includes our helpline, text, email, & webchat support services. We understand that a temporary closure may not feel like a positive thing & could feel difficult, but we want to reassure you that we want to be here to offer the best support that we can & in order to do that, we need to take a break now to in place the things in place that will help us do that
Casual Sex As Self Harm

For months I would go to the areas of town where lone women were told not to go. I would purposely go to the places and do the things that I knew were putting me at risk. I fooled myself into thinking I was in control, that it was a calculated risk. I wasn't finding people on a dating app, I wasn't going on blind dates or finding people through mutual friends. I was going to the bars that people would advise me to avoid and actively looking for a one night stand.
Rainbow Journal - Personal Self-Help Diary
What if I don't want to stop self-harming?
Distractions and alternatives
Helpful responses to self-injury

Short and long term helpful responses to self-injury
About Us - Our Vision, Our Mission, Our Values

Read more about our vision that anyone who uses self-injury knows they are not alone; that everyone understands that self-injury is a complex and important issue we should all care about and that together we tackle both the causes and stigma of self-injury.
Where You Harm and What You Do
Reducing self-harm worksheet