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This is Easter Weekend

By Kathy Broady MSW 39 Comments

    Hi, This is Easter weekend. For DID trauma survivors with a ritual abuse (RA) background, this is a very difficult weekend, full of difficult memories, painful emotions, and system conflicts.   *** I’m going to speak of some of the horrors of ritual abuse – here is your trigger warning – for those of you that need one of those. ***   With ritual abuse, anything that represented something … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, Fear, Fun!, mental health, Mind Control, Prevention of Sexual Abuse, Ritual Abuse, Self Injury, sexual abuse, Therapy Homework Ideas, Trauma Tagged With: Darkness, Day church vs Night Church, DID, DID / MPD, DID Survivors, dissociative disorders, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Easter, Easter baking, Easter eggs, Easter treats, Easter Weekend, Good vs. Evil, Healing, Healing from Ritual Abuse, Kathy Broady, Multiple Personalities, Multiplicity, Opposite, Painful emotions, RA, Ritual Abuse, Ritually Abused, Sadistic Abuse, Sadistic criminals, sexual abuse, Sexual Violence, Sexually Abused, Spiritual Abuse, Spiritually Abused, System Conflicts, Trauma Survivors, Violence

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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Fear and Mistrust

By Kathy Broady MSW 37 Comments

  The NICSA Survey (Negative Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse) from AbuseConsultants asks if trauma survivors have felt an impact on their feelings of fear and ability to trust. It is abundantly clear from the results of the survey that dissociative survivors of severe, chronic traumas typically have lives filled with fear. For victims of childhood sexual abuse, fear becomes their constant companion, a way of … [Read more...]

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Negative Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse Survey

By Kathy Broady MSW 10 Comments

    April is Child Abuse Prevention month. Education is one of the biggest factors in the prevention of child abuse.  Those of you that have been sexually abused or physically abused know the effects of that abuse all too well.  Child abuse can affect the entire life of the survivor, and the seriousness of its effects cannot be ignored. If you are a trauma survivor, you can help to inform others about the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Depression, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Friends of Multiples, mental health, Prevention of Sexual Abuse, Self Injury, sexual abuse, Supportive Spouses, therapy, Therapy and Counseling, Therapy Homework Ideas, Trauma Tagged With: Abuse, AbuseConsultants.com, Anxiety, Bipolar, Child Abuse, Childhood Sexual Abuse, CSA, Depression, Detachment, DID, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Eating Disorders, Fear, Kathy Broady, mental health, Mental Torment, Ongoing Violence, Prevention of Abuse, Psychiatric Disability, Self Harm, Self Injury, Self-Multilation, sexual abuse, Sexual Deviations, SI, Sleep Complications, Suicidal Behavior, Therapeutic Relationship, therapy, Therapy for DID, Trauma, Trauma Survivors

HBO’s “In Treatment” – Is That What Therapy is Like?

By Kathy Broady MSW 17 Comments

How many of you have been watching the award-winning HBO Series, "In Treatment" with Gabriel Byrne, Dianne Wiest, and John Mahoney?  This HBO series is currently near the beginning of its second season, centered around how Dr. Paul Weston (Byrne) conducts therapy sessions with four different clients, and then his own individual therapy process with his own therapist, Dr. Gina Toll (Wiest). In my opinion, the "In … [Read more...]

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