The Butterfly Project

The Butterfly Project is a project made to help self harmers. You draw a butterfly on the place where you want to self harm or a place you feel comfortable drawing one.

Under the butterfly write the name of someone who cares about you, who you love, or who wants you to get better and stop hurting yourself. You can’t wash the butterfly off yourself and if you hurt yourself before it naturally fades, the butterfly “dies”. If you don’t self harm, it lives.

You can also ask someone you love to draw the butterfly on you and write their name (which may work better than drawing them on your own). You can draw a butterfly on yourself to show your support for a friend or anyone who self harms.

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Some people end up tattooing a butterfly on them. Pictured below is a tattoo of a butterfly on a wrist. The person put their name under the butterfly to represent staying clean for themselves and not just others.