Thanks for sharing this! I especially admire how you deal with it when children ask about it. That's the hardest part, I think. To find a way to explain in a simple way and without scaring them. A girl in my daughter's birthday party asked about mine last year, and I didn't tell the truth, but thinking about it now, after reading your post, I think I maybe should have. I know she's a foster child and that she has had traumatic experiences early in life, so to hear from an adult that you can feel pain inside, but that it can be better if you just tell someone and ask for help, could have been a good thing.. I really like the way you did it! I'll definitely remember that if my own daughter asks about it some day. She hasn't yet.. I do hide new wounds from them, though (I have two, but the oldest knows), cause I think it would be scary for her to know that her mother hurts herself like that. Does anyone have any thoughts on that?