Self-Mutilation/"Cutting"

[Sherri]

Ashley worked for Mercy Ministries in Nashville for a period of time. They deal with all kinds of addictions, abuse, etc. in girls from teenage through early twenties. The director Nancy Alcorn wrote a great book last year on cutting, and Ashley got to edit it. It's the only book like it that we know of from a Christian perspectie.

Nancy believes that it's definitely a spiritual matter, the same for eating disorders. It's a form of self abuse and control mainly. She thinks that it's a substitute (demonic) for the blood of Jesus. As girls sacrifice their own blood, it takes the place of what Jesus did for them on Calvary - thus a deception and a form of emotional release, but from the wrong source. I'm not sure how much of this is covered in the book; honestly I can't remember. But I know that this is her premise.