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I’m Thankful for the Readers of this Blog

By Kathy Broady MSW 27 Comments

  It’s Thanksgiving weekend here in the US, and besides the wonderful traditional family meal and pleasant times with my kids, this time frame reminds me of something else. Discussing Dissociation has been up and visible for nearly one year now.  Yep, in a few days, it will be a year already! Wow.  Where has the time gone??!!! There is truth to the saying that time flies, or is it because time flies when … [Read more...]

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What if you don’t like being Multiple?

By Kathy Broady MSW 61 Comments

  This week, the readers here have posted a wide variety of reactions to the idea that being multiple could have benefits.  If you haven't yet read all the comments on that blog, please do so.  They are very interesting. When people have DID/MPD, they have experienced life as a multiple since their childhood.  It is their norm - basically the only way of life they know.  Multiples typically have not experienced … [Read more...]

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Thinking Ahead — Preparation for Working with your Child Parts

By Kathy Broady MSW 13 Comments

  As I continue to write posts about working with child parts, I want to encourage you to think about this topic as well.   Read the following questions, and be honest with yourself – think about them.  Journal about them, and make these questions the topics of discussion in your internal meetings.  Try the acronym exercises if you need a starting place. What are your beliefs about child parts?  Who are they?  … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Child Alters, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, mental health, therapy, Therapy and Counseling, Therapy Homework Ideas Tagged With: Abuse, Acronym, Child Alters, Child Parts, Comfort, Communication, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Healing, Homework, Inside Kids, Internal Communication, Internal System, Kathy Broady, Kid Parts, Listening, Memories, Multiplicity, Process, Protect, Protect the children, split personality, therapy, Therapy Homework, Thinking ahead, Trauma, Trauma memories

When It’s Dark and Scary on the Inside…

By Kathy Broady MSW 22 Comments

    Trauma survivors with Dissociative Identity Disorder can see an internal world.  Step back, turn around an look inside - it will be there. What happens if you have looked inside and all you see is a lot of darkness, or desolation, and not so many people with welcome arms?   First of all, think about what internal darkness means to you as an individual.  There are a variety of … [Read more...]

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25 Ways to Avoid Self-Injury and Prevent Self-Harm

By Kathy Broady MSW 69 Comments

  Survivors of sexual abuse often struggle with self-injury (SI). Survivors often use dissociative walls to contain and separate intense emotions from themselves.  This allows them to stay numb, and to not feel.  They can split off their unmanageable, uncomfortable, or conflicting feelings into other parts of themselves, as frequently seen in Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID/MPD). As those dissociative walls … [Read more...]

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