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A Double-Sided Halloween Weekend

By Kathy Broady MSW 31 Comments

  It’s Halloween weekend again -- a season full of flashbacks and trauma for many dissociative trauma survivors.  It feels dark.  It feels scary.  In some ways, it's the worst time of the year, and if this is the case, the flashbacks are pretty horrific.  So......... let's do a less scary flashback with this article.    Think back to 2010.  That year, back in 2010, I was reminded of the dichotomy our society … [Read more...]

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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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