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Attachment to the Perpetrator

By Kathy Broady MSW 35 Comments

  I saw another television documentary on Jaycee Lee Dugard - the young woman who was kidnapped at age 11, held captive for 18 years, and found alive, along with her two daughters on August 26, 2009. At the time of the documentary, Jaycee was about 40 years old. Jaycee spent 18 years held captive in the backyard of a registered, violent sex offender, Phillip Garrido.  Garrido fathered Jaycee's two daughters, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, Family Members of Trauma Survivors, Friends of Multiples, mental health, Physical Abuse, sexual abuse, therapy, Therapy and Counseling, Therapy Homework Ideas, Trauma Tagged With: Abuse, Abusive Families, Abusive Relationships, Attachment Issues, Attachment to the Perpetrator, DID / MPD, dissociative disorders, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Garrido, Jaycee Dugard, Jaycee Lee Dugard, Kathy Broady, Kidnapping, Kidnappped, Perpetrators, Phillip Garrido, Registered Sex Offenders, Sadistic Abuse, Sadistic criminals, Sex Offender, Sex Offenders, sexual abuse, Sexually Abused, Stockholm Syndrome, Trauma Bond, Trauma Survivors, trauma therapist, Trauma Therapy

Safety First – Recognizing and Leaving Domestic Violence

By Kathy Broady MSW 10 Comments

      Hello, hello,   Tonight at 9 pm CST, I will be presenting on BlogTalkRadio. You are welcome to listen to the radio show or to participate by calling in.  I’ll be glad to hear from you! For more information, please go to blogtalkradio.com/dvmemorial   Safety First - Recognizing and Leaving Domestic Violence (part 1) Domestic Violence (DV) is a form of sexual and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Anxiety, Domestic Violence, emotional pain, Family Members of Trauma Survivors, Fear, mental health, Physical Abuse, Prevention of Sexual Abuse, Trauma, trauma therapist Tagged With: Abusive Marriages, Abusive Relationships, BlogTalkRadio, Current Day Abuse, Current Safety, Current-day Safety, Domestic Abuse, Domestic Violence, DVMemorial, Family Violence, Internet Radio, Kathy Broady LCSW, Leaving Abusive Relationships, Radio Show, Recognizing Abuse, Safety First

Now I have lost my father…

By Kathy Broady MSW 32 Comments

“So thanks to all of this therapy, I have lost my father.” “You haven’t lost your father….You did lose the father that you thought you had…” “OK, I get it.  I didn’t have the perfect dad…. And my therapy has successfully shattered my romanticized image of my narcissistic father.  Is that how you would say it?” “I would say, the patient, born to a depressed mother, idealized her father so as to not feel completely … [Read more...]

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10 Life-Lessons I’ve Learned from Multiples, part 2

By Kathy Broady MSW 19 Comments

    To continue the previous post, here are five more life-lessons I’ve learned from my years working with those with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID/MPD). By their life example, multiples have shown me:   6. Spiritual Strength even Under Persecution Most survivors with DID and long-term severe abuse have had various religious / spiritual connotations mixed in with that abuse, creating a version of … [Read more...]

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