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Real Little: Holiday Season Follow-Up

By Kathy Broady MSW Leave a Comment

  Hello Real Littles! It’s Carlita here, with the Littles from TRibe, and we’ve been wondering how all your holidays went?  Ours was definitely full of so many feelings about All The Things! So. Many. Feelings. About. So. Many. Things.  Which means that our holiday season truly was All The Things — it was beautiful, it was sad, it was frustrating, it was happy, it was scary, it was peaceful, and it was … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Artwork, Child Alters, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, Fun!, Internal Communication, Real Little, The Power of Music, Therapy Homework Ideas Tagged With: All the Things, Breathing space, choosing special foods, Feelings Cone, Fermented tomatoes, make a feelings tree, Real Little, Real Little Holiday Season, Rescue by Lauren Daigle, Tree Ornament

Today is Human Trafficking Awareness Day: January 11

By Kathy Broady MSW 1 Comment

#WearBlueDay: 11 January. National Human Trafficking Awareness Day.

    National Human Trafficking Awareness Day    Human trafficking exists.  It most certainly, absolutely, without question exists. It does.  Everyday.  Everywhere.  How very sad is that. How do I know trafficking exists?  Because I've spoken to, interacted with, listened to, walked with, and sat beside many women who were (are) trapped in human trafficking, specifically in sex trafficking.  I've … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, emotional pain, Fear, Featured Home, Mind Control, Trauma Tagged With: #WearBlueDay, dissociative slavery, enslaved, entrapped, Freedom and safety, January 11, National Human Trafficking Awareness Day, Sex trafficking, Wear Blue Day

REAL LITTLE Holiday Activities: making the holidays easier for DID kids

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REAL LITTLE Holiday Season at Discussing Dissociation

REAL LITTLE Holiday Activities ~ making the holidays easier for DID kids ~   This article is a follow up to the  Real Little Holiday Season — Made especially for Dissociative Kids   which is currently posted in the new Real Little section on the Discussing Dissociation home page.  Do you see it there? TRibe has created most of these ideas written below, but of course, I've added a few things in here and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Child Alters, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Featured Home, Fun!, The Power of Music, Therapy Homework Ideas Tagged With: Carlita from TRibe, choosing special foods, DID music, holiday music for DID kids, make a feelings tree, music for multiples, pick a present, Questions for Little People, Real Little, Real Little Holiday Season

3 Years! Happy Anniversary DDCF — a DID forum community like no other!

By Kathy Broady MSW 1 Comment

Third anniversary_DDCF_2021

Yep.  AMAZING.  THREE INCREDIBLE YEARS for DDCF --- the Discussing Dissociation Community Forum. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU.   Where to begin with all the good things that come to mind for our DDCF forum group? Let me list out three significant milestones that describe where we are at in our third year of community.   1.  Over 100,000 posts, and nearly 3000 different topics so you know... … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, DID Forum Support, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Therapy Homework Ideas Tagged With: 3rd anniversary, DDCF, DDCF Community Forum, DID Forum Support, DID friendships, Dissociative Identity Disorder, kind people, Thank you, three incredible years

RESCUE at SOLSTICE — and a song for sharing.

By Kathy Broady MSW 17 Comments

Rescue_Solstice_2021.

  This powerful article has been written by TRibe:   We offer our polyphonic version of this beautiful song — ‘Rescue’, by Lauren Daigle — as a prayer this solstice for any dissociative trauma survivors who have known, or continue to know, the horror of ritual abuse at this time of year.  May the message of this song bring you comfort. May its grace give you the courage to do the difficult system work … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, Music, Ritual Abuse, The Power of Music, Trauma Tagged With: as sung by TRibe, Healing from trauma, MultiMusic, music for comfort, music for multiples, Rescue by Lauren Daigle, Ritual Abuse, safety and protection, Summer Solstice, Tips for Healing after Trauma, Winter Solstice

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