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2014 in review for Discussing Dissociation

By Kathy Broady MSW 1 Comment

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 190,000 times in 2014. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 8 days for that many people to see it. Click here to see the complete report. … [Read more...]

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When Blogs are a Healing Resource for Dissociative Trauma Survivors

By Kathy Broady MSW 25 Comments

  I am still amazed by the excellent group discussion and active participation that was generated by my last blog post.  Considering that one of the main purposes of this blog is to “discuss dissociation”, I think that’s good!     Thank YOU  for your active interest.  I genuinely appreciate that.   I have been contemplating a number of different follow up topics after such an intense discussion.  … [Read more...]

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10 Benefits of Being Multiple

By Kathy Broady MSW 80 Comments

Are there any benefits to being multiple?   In the typical process of trauma therapy, your therapist and the dissociative trauma survivor will spend a great deal of time talking about how difficult it is to be multiple -- and it is difficult, no doubt about it.  For the typical multiple, there were years and years of pain and horror and abuse requiring the need to split over and over into a number of … [Read more...]

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