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Current Day Abuse – When Dissociative Survivors are Trapped, Owned, and Exploited as Adults

By Kathy Broady MSW 18 Comments

    Dissociative Identity Disorder is created from severe, chronic child abuse, but does that abuse automatically stop in childhood? Unfortunately, no, it does not.   All too many survivors continue to be trapped in abusive environments long after their childhood has ended.  Sometimes this abuse continues with the same family-related perpetrators that abused the survivor all throughout the childhood … [Read more...]

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Working with Difficult and Destructive Alters

By Kathy Broady MSW 62 Comments

  I'm going to take a slight detour in the internal communication series and write a little about working with difficult alters.  It is crucial to work with these internal parts, no matter how challenging and hopeless things seem in the beginning.  Your therapy and healing will never be resolved unless you approach the issues connected with these difficult insiders. And for that matter, the whole process of … [Read more...]

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Working with Cult – RA – Mind Control and Extreme Torture and Abuse

By Kathy Broady MSW 37 Comments

      "Have you worked with clients that have 'extreme torture' trauma history in cult-RA and/or mind-control (governmental experiments)? If so, what has worked?"       Thanks for the question.  What a doozy!!!   Yes, I have worked with trauma survivors that have talked about extreme torture, cult / RA abuse, mind control and governmental experiment traumas.  Bunches of clients through the years have … [Read more...]

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SAFETY FIRST: Assessing Safety of Sexual Abuse Survivors

By Kathy Broady MSW 33 Comments

  The violence must end for healing to truly begin.       Current safety is the foundational building block of healing for people who have been sexually abused.   It is a known fact that children are being abused and exploited on a daily basis by sexual predators. Any child trapped in an abusive situation will naturally continue to use trauma-based coping strategies. They need safety in order to develop … [Read more...]

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