Self-Injury Recovery & Awareness: Discover Your Layers and Heal from the Inside with Amanda Beausoleil (Episode #108)

By Vision Beyond Sight on Healing, podcast, Vision Beyond Sight

Dr. Lynn Hellerstein of Vision Beyond Sight speaks with Amanda Beausoleil, founder and Executive Director of Self-Injury Recovery & Awareness (SIRA), to talk about self-injury or nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI). Discover eye-opening and empathetic insights on this often-considered taboo topic through Amanda’s own experience with it and her inspiring recovery.

Self-injury knows no age and face, and we should all break away from the stigma of talking about it. Learn the signs and symptoms to look for in your loved ones and ways to approach them. Know that you are not alone and you can find help through peer support groups and the nonprofit SIRA with its programs and weekly Zoom meetings. Check out SIRA’s “Layers to Discovery,” a tailor-made literature for the self-injurer psyche, guiding those in need to find freedom, power and healing from the inside.

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What is self-injury or NSSI (nonsuicidal self-injury)?
Why are people engaging in self-injury and why could it be habit-forming?
Amanda’s own experience with self-injury
How she found help through her pediatrician
Finding community and connection in peer support groups
The taboo around self-injury
How to be aware of loved ones engaging in self-injury and how to help them
How to find help for NSSI
SIRA nonprofit and how to get involved
Self-injury has no age or face
The stigma of self-injury
SIRA’s ebook “Layers to Discovery”
Amanda’s recovery
SIRA’s goals and programs
Finding power within yourself

About Amanda Beausoleil:

Amanda Beausoleil is the Founder and Executive Director of SIRA, a nonprofit that helps people recover from self-injury through an effective and powerful peer-group support model. Amanda struggled with self-injury for 15 years. She found recovery through a self-injury peer support group in New York. In 2019 she left the corporate world and a longstanding career in fashion working for the industry’s most respected brands (Saks Fifth Avenue, Tory Burch, and Coveteur) to take the peer support group and launch it into a full-fledged 501(c)3. She now brings her lived experience and professional expertise as Executive Director.

Connect with Amanda Beausoleil and SIRA:

Website | Facebook | LinkedIn | Instagram

SIRA offers weekly meetings via Zoom. For a schedule, visit www.thesira.org. SIRA meetings are one hour in duration. For information on how to join, email SIRA at info@thesira.org for the password.

SIRA’s Layers to Discovery: Self-injury is complex, dynamic, and multi-layered. Self-injury has much to do with inner-child work, which is why we believe that the layers discussed in this book will help you understand and discover the “why” of your self-injury.

Other Resources for Self-Injury Support:

The International Society for the Study of Self-Injury (Itriples.org)

Cornell’s Self-Injury & Recovery Resources

The Psychology of Self-Injury Podcast by Dr. Nicholas Westers

“If you’re someone listening engaging in self-injury, know that you are not alone. You are always welcome to come to one of our peer support groups. If you are a parent, loved one or partner of someone engaging in self-injury, you’re not alone either. There are other people out there that are trying to find the answers. Just know, focus not on the answers necessarily, but the support and listening.” – Amanda Beausoleil

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Dr. Lynn Hellerstein, Developmental Optometrist, co-owner of Hellerstein & Brenner Vision Center, P.C., award-winning author and international speaker, holds powerful and inspiring conversations with her guests in the areas of health, wellness, education, sports and psychology. They share their inspirational stories of healing and transformation through their vision expansion. Vision Beyond Sight Podcast will help you see with clarity, gain courage and confidence. Welcome to Vision Beyond Sight!

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