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Remembering Favorite Memories instead of Re-living Bad Memories

By Kathy Broady MSW 13 Comments

  During trauma recovery and the road to healing for dissociative trauma survivors, there is so very much focus on bad memories, abuse memories, body memories, painful memories, icky memories, difficult memories, vacant memories, your memories, their memories, nobody claims them memories.... Of course, this memory work is part of healing, and resolving the conflicts and heartbreak as much as possible is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Depression, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, Fun!, mental health, Puppies, Therapy Homework Ideas Tagged With: Bad memories, Body Memories, Dissociative Trauma Survivors, End of the year, Memory Work, Newborn babies, Positive memories, PTSD, Remembering the good things, What made you smile?, Wild peacocks

Happy Holiday Greetings, and Ending those Unhappy Holidays

By Kathy Broady MSW 7 Comments

  Happy Holiday Greetings!   I hope you have had a great holiday season so far.  My hope is that you are making these days as beautiful and special for yourself as you can.   There are lots of ways to provide Christmas cheer for your DID system, even if you are in a rough spot. Please read through this blog if you don't know what I'm talking about.  There are lots of articles that have ideas for FUN stuff.  … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Anxiety, Child Alters, Depression, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Domestic Violence, emotional pain, Family Members of Trauma Survivors, Fun!, Physical Abuse, Prevention of Sexual Abuse, Puppies Tagged With: Christmas puppies, Creating Safety, Dysfunctional Family, Happy Christmas, Happy Holidays, Holiday greetings, Merry Christmas Animals, Silver kelpies, Unhappy holidays

Ever Been in a Mood?

By Kathy Broady MSW 18 Comments

  Have you ever been in a mood? Sometimes it's hard to know which mood is what.   For the picture above, what mood do you see?  Here are some of the options I see: Bored Irritated Frustrated Disappointed Sadness   What about this mood?  What moods do you see in the pictures below?     Do you see ....... … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Artwork, Depression, DID Education, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, Fear, mental health, Therapy Homework Ideas Tagged With: Changing moods, DID Artwork, Emotional, Mixed emotions, Moody, What do I feel?

Do You have Athazagoraphobia?

By Kathy Broady MSW 38 Comments

  Athazagoraphobia.   I have learned a new word today. Athazagoraphobia.   Athazagoraphobia is the fear of being forgotten, ignored, or being replaced.   Athazagoraphobia.   Ooooh boy, what a powerful word that relates to intense feelings held by soooo many dissociative trauma survivors. And since abandonment and neglect is often a huge and prominent part of the trauma history, is there any … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Depression, DID Education, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, Family Members of Trauma Survivors, Fear, Friends of Multiples, mental health, Supportive Spouses Tagged With: Abandonment, Alzheimer's, Athazagoraphobia, Being ignored, Chronic neglect, Dementia, Depression, Fear of abandonment, Fear of being forgotten, Left alone, Low Self-Esteem, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Phobia of being forgotten

What Do You Think about Violence?

By Kathy Broady MSW 8 Comments

  Violence. What do you think about violence? It's everywhere in our world. As I'm writing this, there are news headlines about violence and riots in Baltimore Maryland. There have been violent racial riots in St. Louis Missouri making headlines for months. White police have been shooting innocent black men. A black teenager in Oklahoma shot and killed an innocent white Australian man. My news channel just … [Read more...]

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