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Stark Contrasts in Ways to Approach Child Development

By Kathy Broady MSW 10 Comments

      Today, or tomorrow, my first grandson will be born. He’s not even born yet, and he’s been the center of all things for quite some time. Of course, his arrival is one of the main reasons I’ve come to Texas — I didn’t want to miss those first moments of seeing his precious new life.   Or miss the experience watching my son beam with joy when he holds his first son. Or miss the first weeks of complicated … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Child Alters, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Family Members of Trauma Survivors, Featured post #1, Mind Control Tagged With: 2-year olds, Child Abuse, Child Development, Child guidance, DID kids, DID System Work, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Newborn babies, Nurturing vs Abusing, Protecting Children, Teaching a child, Teaching young children, when children are hurt, When children are injured

What if you don’t like being Multiple?

By Kathy Broady MSW 3 Comments

  Hi everyone, I selected this article to re-blog because it already has 46 comments connected to it, and links to an article about the benefits of being multiple with 59 comments.  Wow !! That tells me y'all have a lot to say about these topics, and I'm certainly interested in hearing more. I'm not multiple, so I don't really have a say. I'm looking forward to hearing from those of you that know all … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder Tagged With: Benefits of multiplicity, Child Abuse, DID / MPD, DID Survivor, Dissociative Identity Disorder

What Do You Think about Violence?

By Kathy Broady MSW 8 Comments

  Violence. What do you think about violence? It's everywhere in our world. As I'm writing this, there are news headlines about violence and riots in Baltimore Maryland. There have been violent racial riots in St. Louis Missouri making headlines for months. White police have been shooting innocent black men. A black teenager in Oklahoma shot and killed an innocent white Australian man. My news channel just … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Depression, DID Education, Domestic Violence, Fear, Physical Abuse, Puppies Tagged With: Aggressive Personalities, Attacking others, Bullying, Change your life, Child Abuse, Domestic Violence, Kelpie puppy, Personal choice, Refuse Abuse!, Stop hurting others, Stop the Abuse, Violence, Violence in the news, Violence towards women, War

Pinwheels to Prevent Child Abuse

By Kathy Broady MSW 22 Comments

    Hey Everyone --   I received an email about this, and wanted to pass along the news to you as well. On April 16, 2013, at 9 am, Prevent Child Abuse America will be making a dramatic visual statement in New York City. In their words, they are turning the "Big Apple" into the "Big Pinwheel" by displaying around 5000 pinwheels in Times Square. The pinwheel is the new national symbol for child … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Domestic Violence, Family Members of Trauma Survivors, Mind Control, Prevention of Sexual Abuse, Trauma Tagged With: April 16, Big Apple, Big Pinwheel, bright futures, Child Abuse, Children, Dissociation, Dissociative Identity Disorder, flashing lights, Kathy Broady, Mind Control, Mind Control Techniques, national symbol, national symbol for child abuse prevention, New York, New York City, NYC, Pinwheels, Pinwheels for Prevention, Prevent Child Abuse America, Prevention of Child Abuse, safety for children, spinning, Times Square, Triggers, West Virginia

Is THIS Abuse? Yes or No?

By Kathy Broady MSW 27 Comments

Many times I get asked what abuse is. I understand this question, and the need for that question because many of the dissociative survivors who I speak with grew up in such chronically abusive homes that abuse was normal.   Normal is just normal to them.  What I would define as abuse was their norm, their everyday, their usual, their expected.  And once abuse is “just how it is”, it becomes tricky and confusing to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, Domestic Violence, emotional pain, Family Members of Trauma Survivors, mental health, Physical Abuse, sexual abuse, Therapy Homework Ideas, Trauma Tagged With: Abuse, Angry mothers, Child Abuse, Complacency, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Emotional Abuse, Flirty fathers, Kathy Broady, Neglect, Obey your father and mother, sexual abuse, trauma and neglect, What is abuse?, What is child abuse?

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