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Creating your own Safe Environment for your DID Parts

By Kathy Broady MSW 16 Comments

    Many dissociative trauma survivors struggle with how to tend to their child parts, and how to create a safe environment for those inside parts. For lots of DID survivors, it can feel quite difficult and challenging to know how to gently and tenderly care for their injured or upset child parts, especially when their own experience of childhood was anything but gentle or tender.  This task feels … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Child Alters, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Featured post #1, Internal Communication, Therapy Homework Ideas Tagged With: basics of existence, Be Consistent, Build communication, build safe places, helping children who are hurt, How to help a child, Internal Communication, Listen compassionately, Listen creatively, Safety and Comfort, Talk with your insiders

The Forum is New. These PUPPIES are NEWER!

By Kathy Broady MSW 17 Comments

  I have had a lot of new things happening this month! We've just finished the FIRST MONTH of the Community Forum -- and wow!  So much has happened there.  It's been an incredible busy month there, that's for sure.  More stories about that later.  I have another story to tell today! Also this month, as you can see by the picture above, I have had the wonderful privilege of having six of the most sweetest … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Child Alters, DID Forum Support, Featured post #1, Fun!, Puppies, Stories for Child Insiders Tagged With: DID Community Forum, DID Forum, Discussing Dissociation Community Forum, Meeting new people, Newborn puppies, Silver kelpies, when puppies are born

Five Wishing Stars — A New Story Video for DID Kids

By Kathy Broady MSW 10 Comments

  Hello! Sometimes I don't understand how quickly time passes.  I realize that's probably a funny thing to say to folks who have Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), with time distortion, amnesia, inside people of all ages, insiders from all different times of your life, who experience life in many layers of time all at the same time .... !  But you know, for ME, it's back around to the beginning of yet … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Child Alters, DID Education, DID Forum Support, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Featured post #1, Fun!, Kathy's Video Comments, Stories for Child Insiders, Therapy Homework Ideas Tagged With: comfort for child parts, Dissociative Identity Disorder, fireworks, Five Wishing Stars, Happy New Year, scared of the night, sleepy time story time, stars, video for DID kids

Wishing you a Fun, Happy Aussie Christmas!

By Kathy Broady MSW 20 Comments

  Merry Christmas, and Happy Holidays! Do you know that in Australia, it is summer time during the Christmas holidays?  That's so strange for me, after having spent most of my life with Christmastime being in the middle of a cold, snowy winter.   But yep!  Down under, right now, it's very very summer time!  Even so, it's time for a happy Aussie Christmas! Just for fun -- I want to share a few pictures that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Child Alters, Featured post #1, Fun!, Stories for Child Insiders Tagged With: Christmas in Australia, Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, Santa having fun

An Example of Doing Internal System Work with a DID System

By Kathy Broady MSW 76 Comments

  One of the most important elements to working with DID Systems is doing internal system work.  Sometimes these techniques and processes are a little hard to explain, but fortunately, I have the permission to show you an example of some real-life, honest-to-goodness internal system work done with a dissociative system. This person had been feeling very down and discouraged a few days before this.  It was also … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Child Alters, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, Fear, Featured post #1, Ritual Abuse, Self Injury Tagged With: Child parts in DID systems, DID Memory Work, DID System Work, Doing Inside Work, Feeling afraid, Feeling Suicidal, Healing from Ritual Abuse, Helping traumatized children, Keeping external safety, Working with Dark Side parts

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