OK, so it's not new, really, but I've had this idea that I've started working on.
I'm an avid knitter, and often when I'm fighting urges (or when I'm sad, or happy, or anything really, I'm a little obsessed) I pick up my knitting. The thing is, I hate working my negative energies into gifts, because for me, each stitch in a gift is like a little prayer for the person I'm making the object for. So what I've done is this: I've started making myself a "safety blanket". I will work on it whenever I feel like it, but especially when I am feeling unsafe. I don't even use metal needles, so they can't be a danger to me; I use bamboo, so they're about as dangerous as a chopstick. When I am finished with the afghan, I will have an object to remind me of all the times I did something besides SI when the urge hit, and I will have a lovely wool afghan to curl up in when I am feeling unsafe in the future.
Love,
Stevie
A new coping strategy
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A new coping strategy
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And it felt like a winter machine that you go through and then you catch your breath and winter starts again, and everyone else was springbound. And when I chose to live, there was no joy, it's just a line I crossed. I wasn't worth the pain my death would cost, so I was not lost or found....But when you live in a world, well, it gets in to who you th ought you'd be. And now I laugh at how the world changed me. I think life chose me after all.
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And it felt like a winter machine that you go through and then you catch your breath and winter starts again, and everyone else was springbound. And when I chose to live, there was no joy, it's just a line I crossed. I wasn't worth the pain my death would cost, so I was not lost or found....But when you live in a world, well, it gets in to who you th ought you'd be. And now I laugh at how the world changed me. I think life chose me after all.
--Dar Williams
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That's lovely Stevie 
I can't knit (I can never work out which way to do it, because I'm left handed, but I do things in righthanded ways
), but I can crochet, and I find it soothing, albeit a bit repetitive.
I can't knit (I can never work out which way to do it, because I'm left handed, but I do things in righthanded ways
), but I can crochet, and I find it soothing, albeit a bit repetitive.
the time to tell a person you care is now the paper crane chain of hope 
If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find.
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