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Inspiration for DID Trauma Survivors from the Students of Stoneman Douglas High School

By Kathy Broady MSW 13 Comments

    Inspiration. Such amazing strength of spirit. Words of such encouragement - resilience - inspiration - hope - written even in despair By two young, heartbroken, high school students who survived a deadly horrific trauma.   Surprised and terrified by a horrible act of fatal violence in their very own school. Needing to express their overwhelming feelings, two of the drama students wrote this … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Anxiety, DID Education, emotional pain, Family Members of Trauma Survivors, Fear, Featured post #1, The Power of Music, Therapy Homework Ideas, Trauma Tagged With: Andrea Peña, Comfort, Courage, Fear and terror, Healing music, Inspiration, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, PTSD, Sawyer Garrity, Shine, Survivors of a school shooting, Trauma Survivors

What is Christmas Without Music?

By Kathy Broady MSW 15 Comments

  Music is a must in life. And Christmas is just not Christmas without music.  Not for me anyway. Music can soothe the soul like nothing else. It can create joy and smiles when the heart is heavy.  It can create a spot of hope, even in the darkest moments. Music reaches deep within where nothing else can touch. With that in mind, I've decided to share some of my most favorite Christmas carols with you today -- … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Depression, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, mental health, Stories for Child Insiders, The Power of Music, Therapy Homework Ideas Tagged With: Charlie Brown Christmas, Christmas carols, Christmas music, Comfort, Comfort and joy, For King and Country, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Little Drummer Boy, Music is magical, Pa rum pa pum pum, Self soothing, Soothing music, The First Noel, What Child is This

Kathy’s Video Comment: Self Injury and Dissociative Identity Disorder

By Kathy Broady MSW 23 Comments

  Hello Everyone, The last posts have been about Depression and Dissociative Identity Disorder. A typical close neighbor to feeling depressed and struggling with the after-effects of trauma is addressing the self-injury monster. Self injury, self destruction, self harm -- and the numerous ways to say it -- are some of the most read about topics on this blog. There are lots of folks wrestling with these … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Depression, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, Kathy's Video Comments, Self Injury, Therapy Homework Ideas Tagged With: Comfort, Depression, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Kathy's video comments, Preventing self-injury, Safety First, Self Destructive Behavior, Self Harm, Self Injury

10 Comforting and Corrective Truths for Childhood Sexual Abuse Survivors

By Kathy Broady MSW 17 Comments

  Every survivor of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) that I know has a lot of enormously difficult days when they struggle desperately with feeling bad, feeling lousy, feeling at fault, feeling pain.  Those struggles can last for years.  Healing does come, but on those difficult days, remember what is true.   When the hard days come, it might be hard to remember.... It was not okay that anyone touched your … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Child Alters, Depression, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, Family Members of Trauma Survivors, mental health, Physical Abuse, Self Injury, sexual abuse, Therapy Homework Ideas, Trauma Tagged With: childhood abuse, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Comfort, Corrective Emotional Experience, Corrective Experience, CSA, I'm not bad, Innocence, It's not my fault, It's not your fault, sexual abuse, Trauma Survivor, You are beautiful, You are not bad

A Story About Jasmine

By Kathy Broady MSW 13 Comments

Hi Everyone, This beautiful story was sent to me via email.  I didn’t write this story, but I thought it was so heart-warming that I would pass it along to the rest of you.  I hope you like it as much as I do. ===== In 2003, police in Warwickshire , England , opened a garden shed and found a whimpering, cowering dog.  The dog had been locked in the shed and abandoned.  It was dirty and malnourished, and had quite … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Child Alters, emotional pain, Family Members of Trauma Survivors, Puppies, Self Injury, Stories for Child Insiders, Supportive Spouses, Therapy Homework Ideas, Trauma Tagged With: Adopting others, Appropriate mothering, Being kind to others, Caring for others, Caring for yourself, Caring for yourself and others, Comfort, Comforting, Discussing Dissociation, Dogs helping others, gentle nature, Gentle spirit, Gentleness, Greyhound dog, Healing, Healing emotional pain, Healing from Abuse, Healing Journey, How to comfort, Jasmine, Kathy Broady, Kindness, nurturing, Pets that heal, Puppy stories, Service dogs, Soothing, Stories for children, Therapy dogs, Trauma and Abuse

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