Mother’s Day. Mother's Day is a hard day for a lot of dissociative trauma survivors. It’s a day full of mixed emotions, painful longings, unhealed heartbreak. It's so complicated, especially when you think about how important mothers are to their children, and what their behavior teaches their children. Mother's Day hurts the people who were hurt so much by their mothers. Mothers are a complicated subject, … [Read more...]
20 Types of Dissociative Splits
It always amazes me when dissociative trauma survivors tell me that after they've met three or four of their inside alters (or maybe even a few more than that, but not many), that they think they've met everyone in their system. They think they don't have that many dissociative splits in their DID system, or they think that they are "done" meeting their insiders. That never makes sense to me. Oh, I … [Read more...]
One Mother’s Heart…
Once upon a time, my little boy grew up. He grew, and he grew, and he grew until he was big enough to live by himself. Then that day came.... That terrible horrible lousy no-good day when I had to help my son move into his own place. Gosh. I really dreaded that day. It was truly a terrible horrible lousy no-good day. It was a lot of work. There were boxes upon boxes to haul, big pieces of furniture to … [Read more...]