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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

Real Little Holiday Song — Music for Littles, by Littles

By Kathy Broady MSW 5 Comments

Real Little Holiday Song

Yep, it's here, it's here! The Real Little Holiday Song is ready for all the littles to sing along! First, I'll share the video with you, (see below), and then further below that, you can see all the words to the song. I placed the words in a lovely teal font color -- hopefully they will be fun to read. Teal is just the best color, I think. What is your favorite color? If you listen to the Real Little Holiday Song … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Child Alters, Depression, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Fear, Featured post #1, Fun!, Internal Communication, Real Little, Stories for Child Insiders, The Power of Music, Therapy Homework Ideas Tagged With: 2021 Holiday Season, Angry, be kind to children, children's music, confused, excited, feelings and emotions, holiday music for DID kids, Peaceful, Real Little Holiday Season, Sad, Scared, The Littles from TRibe

Real Little Holiday Season — Made especially for Dissociative Kids

By Kathy Broady MSW 5 Comments

Real Little Holiday Season

It's that time of year again --- the holidays are nearly here, and holidays can be very complicated.  Are you feeling happy?  sad?  scared?  angry?  confused?  peaceful?   There are so many different emotions connected to the holiday time of year. This year, here at Discussing Dissociation, we have something brand new planned for the little ones for the dissociative systems, starting now, in the holiday … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Child Alters, DID Education, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Family Members of Trauma Survivors, Featured post #1, Fun!, Internal Communication, Real Little, Stories for Child Insiders, The Power of Music, Therapy Homework Ideas Tagged With: 2021 Holiday Season, Activities for Child Parts, All the feelings, All the Things, Carlita from TRibe, Christmas activities for kids, DID kids, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Holiday feelings, holiday music for DID kids, Real Little, Real Little Holiday Season

The Process of Healing Dissociative Identity Disorder

By Kathy Broady MSW 3 Comments

P4-2 DID Conference

  The first P in the P4 name belongs to PROCESS. What does the healing process look like for a dissociative system?   The fundamental element of healing for a dissociative system involves an ongoing process of connection, communication, and compassion for all system members.  It is the very complicated but deeply rewarding process of bringing those who were once forced apart back together as a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Featured Middle #2, Internal Communication, P4-2 DID Conference Chicago, Therapy Homework Ideas Tagged With: DID conference in Chicago, DID healing process, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Healing Process, Listen on all levels, P4-2 DID Conference, Sit in your heart., The Writing Team, Trust in a connection.

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

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