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Our New DID Community Forum is OPEN!

By Kathy Broady MSW 10 Comments

  Yes! The New DDCF Forum is HERE! Wow.  Happy days are here again.  Because, after a long battle of bumbling and fumbling around with our old forum platform, I’m enormously pleased to announce that the shiny new DDCF forum platform is bright and beautiful.   Yes, our new forum site is now open and it’s working splendidly!    The DDCF Community is adjusting to the new look, the new feel, the new features, and we … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Forum Support, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Featured post #1, Fun!, Internal Communication, Online Therapy, Therapy Homework Ideas Tagged With: awesome community, DDCF, DID Community, DID Forum, DID friendships, DID healing journey, Discussing Dissociation Community Forum, Dissociative Identity Disorder, forum for dissociative trauma survivors

The Impact of Change: DDCF Forum is Moving and Improving

By Kathy Broady MSW 6 Comments

  Addressing the Impact of Change While DDCF Forum is Moving and Improving   It’s an exciting week for DDCF — the Discussing Dissociation Community Forum.   Our DID Forum community has grown and strengthened and developed to the point that we need - deserve - earned! a more expansive Forum Home, and this week is migration week.  I call it "Migration Week" because this week, we are moving our Forum and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Anxiety, DID Education, DID Forum Support, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Featured post #1, Internal Communication Tagged With: Anxiety about change, DDCF, DID Forum, Discussing Dissociation Community Forum, Internal Communication, Listen to your insiders, Migration, Stressing about Change, Support for DID

Yes, We are Proud of the DDCF Community Forum Members!

By Kathy Broady MSW 4 Comments

  At the time of writing this article, we had our wonderful Discussing Dissociation Community Forum open for a few months.  Of course, it started out as a big learning curve for all of us, and even with a few bumps in the road.  Even now, much later, I have to say that the DDCF Community is going very well.  I feel really proud of our DDCF Community Forum Members -- like, really really proud!!! --- and it’s … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, DID Forum Support, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Featured post #1, Internal Communication, Online Therapy, Therapy Homework Ideas Tagged With: Creating a safe place, DDCF, DID Educational Forum, DID Forum, DID healing journey, DID spouse forum, Discussing Dissociation Community Forum, dissociative community support, Internal Communication, Proud of our members!

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

Demonstrating DID System Work with Dark Side Parts during a Difficult Time

By Kathy Broady MSW 36 Comments

  October is a particularly heavy month for most dissociative trauma survivors.  It's the changing of the seasons, and the time when darker sides of many DID systems surface.   October is when many of the darker insiders have had trauma memories, and it's typically a month when many dissociative survivors feel heightened PTSD symptoms, fear, and anxiety.  It's a month filled with significant dates for anyone … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Anxiety, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, Featured post #1, Internal Communication, Ritual Abuse, Self Injury, Therapy Homework Ideas Tagged With: Be brave!, DID healing journey, DID System Work, Dissociative Identity Disorder, From darkness to light, Healing from Ritual Abuse, Healing Process, Leaving the Darkness, Making healthy changes, October strugggles, PTSD, Treatment Goals for DID

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