Welcome Kim,
I have not gone as long without cutting as you. I just celebrated 3 months! whoo Hoo! I have found that as I work on stuff the makes me feel good about myself I think about cutting less. I am on a totally spiritual bent right now and find connecting to my source in that way seems to make the thoughts go away. I don't know why, it just has been working for me. I found for me just plain therapy wasn't making it any better. I improved every area of my life and was basically happy but I still hurt myself on almost daily basis except when I was doing something spiritually oriented. This lead me to seek out a transpersonal counselor. It has been an interesting journey so far. I have only just started though so can't really say it is going to work. I am still triggered often and the urge comes over me. It irritates the heck out of me because I have been working so hard on getting better and I really do feel massively better but that darn urge is still there. I think it is linked to the addiction cycle and I wonder how long alcoholics continue to crave alcohol after recovery.
Carrie

<font color=green>But the implicit and usually unconscious bargain we make with ourselves is that, yes, we want to be healed, we want to be made whole, we're willing to go some distance, but we're not willing to question the fundamental assumptions upon which our way of life has been built, both personally and societally.--Bill Plotkin, Soulcraft