Maryam Amir – Self harm and healing in Islam

Messages from you who practice self harm, wondering if God hates

you, worrying that he wants to punish you. God didn't create you

to hate you. If you're practicing self harm, it's likely because

you're so overwhelmed with what's happening in your life, you feel

like this is one form of control that you have, and you're not

thinking the same way you would be if you were in a healed state. Law

says, Well, don't swim or be happily love

that rope when you're climbing a mountain of pain is what keeps you

grounded, reading Quran in translation, remembering His names

and attributes as you walk through nature. But you know what you also

need when you climb a mountain, a backpack full of supplies, and

that is seeking professional help and support, processing what

you're going through, through journaling, investing in your own

healing, will be a form of healing in your relationship with God,

because you won't be projecting your hatred and loathing for

yourself onto the way that you think he sees you. God created you

for a reason. He's with you through all you're going through,

and you are worth your own healing.