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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

How Do You Define Yourself?

By Kathy Broady MSW 8 Comments

  How do you define yourself? I saw this beautiful poem tacked to the wall of a kind and generous charitable organization. I read it over and over, and couldn't leave without writing it down. I do not know the author, but whoever they are, they have put a wonderful, inspiring message out. I am pleased to be able to share it with you. So many of you feel defined by what has happened to you, or by what your Abusers … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Depression, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, Family Members of Trauma Survivors, mental health, Physical Abuse, sexual abuse, Trauma Tagged With: baby ducks, Courage, Defining yourself, disappointment, Dissociative Trauma Survivor, Faith, forgiveness, Inspiration, relationships, Resilience, Rising above, Strength, Surviving abuse, Who are you

10 Truths for Adult Survivors of Sexual Abuse

By Kathy Broady MSW 25 Comments

My previous post was written about childhood sexual abuse. Children are young, small, and without resources.  Grasping the innocence of those children is easily seen and understood.   But for some folks, trauma and abuse doesn't stop in childhood.  It may have started in childhood, but it might not have ended yet. What then?     What about those situations where an adult is battling sexual … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Domestic Violence, emotional pain, Fear, Internal Communication, Introjects, Mind Control, Physical Abuse, Prevention of Sexual Abuse, Ritual Abuse, sexual abuse, Therapy and Counseling, Therapy Homework Ideas, Trauma, trauma therapist Tagged With: Abuse, Adult survivors, Adult-aged sexual abuse, Affects of Dissociation, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Complex Dissociation, Courage, CSA, Current Day Abuse, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Effects of Child Abuse, Healing from Sexual Abuse, Mind Control, Ongoing Abuse, Preventing Sexual Abuse, sexual abuse, Trauma, use of force

Baby Pies — A Bird Story

By Kathy Broady MSW 20 Comments

I do have some short little stories I would like to share that are on the fun side. Animals have always been very important to me, and for most years of my life, I have had a variety of pets – lots of cats, dogs, horses – and when I was little I had a pet raccoon called Petunia, a pet pig called Snorkie, and a pet calf called Grassyhopper.  I would be writing for a very long time if I started through the list of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Child Alters, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Maggies, Stories for Child Insiders Tagged With: Bird, bird rescue, bird stories, birds, Child Parts, Child parts with DID, Courage, DID / MPD, DID Survivors, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dissociative Trauma Survivor, Fish, Fishing line, foot injuries, hand-feeding birds, helping birds, Inside Kids, Kathy Broady, magpies, Outdoors, pet pig, pet racoon, Petunia, Recreation, Shopping, stories for the kids, Survival, Trust, Walks Inside

Mind Control in the Media

By Kathy Broady MSW 8 Comments

  So the TV show, “One Life to Live,” is doing it again.  They are bringing the concepts of  DID / MPD, dissociation, dissociative splitting, programming, and mind control into the story line. I haven’t quite decided what I think about this yet – I’m waiting to see where they go with it – but I did want to start an area open for discussion in case any of the readers of this blog have anything to say about … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Mind Control, One Life to Live, Physical Abuse, Ritual Abuse, Trauma Tagged With: Abuse, Busting the programming, Courage, DID / MPD, DID Survivors, dissociative disorders, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Electrical Shock, Freedom, Freedom of Thought, Kathy Broady, MC, Mind Control, Mind Control Techniques, One Live to Live, Programmed Selves, Programmers, Programming, RockingComplacency, Safety, Svali, Thinking for yourself, Trauma

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