Book Recommendations


Cut: Mercy for Self Harm by Nancy Alcorn


Relief without Cutting: Taking Negative Feelings to God by Amy Baker


Inside a Cutter’s Mind: Understanding and Helping Those Who Self-Injure by Jershua Clark and Earl Henslin


Lies Women Believe: And the Truth that Sets Them Free by Nancy Leigh DeMoss (Also see Lies Young Women Believe by DeMoss and Gresh)


Because He Loves Me: How Christ Transforms Our Daily Life by Elyse M. Fitzpatrick


Helping Teens Who Cut: Understanding and Ending Self-Injury by Michael Hollander


Cutting: A Healing Response (Gospel for Real Life) by Jeremy Lelek


Breaking the Addictive Cycle: Deadly Obsessions or Simple Pleasures by David Powlison


Self-Injury: When Pain Feels Good by Edward T. Welch

Article Links

True Woman | Self-Harm: Five Ways to Respond with Love and Truth

RESOURCES: Cutting & Self-Harm | Counseling One Another

Going for Blood | CCEF

The First Cut Is The Deepest: Self-Harmers In The Church – 20schemes