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Life-Changing Heartbreak Hurts

By Kathy Broady MSW 38 Comments

    Something about heartbreak totally changes a person. Repeated heartbreak. Changes your life. I’m not sure I can put words to it yet, but I know it happens.   Depression. Sadness. Loss. Grief. Pain.   It consumes your thoughts, your mind, your time. What hurts the most?   Abandonment?  Abuse?  Neglect?  Betrayal?   Dishonesty? Physical pain?   Sexual trauma?   Aloneness?   I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Depression, emotional pain, sexual abuse, Trauma, trauma therapist Tagged With: Abandonment, Abuse, Alone, Aloneness, Betrayal, Broken Heart, Depression, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Emotion, Emotional, Emotional Healing, emotional pain, Grief, heartbreak, Hurt, Kathy Broady, Listening, Loss, Neglect, pain, Sadness, sexual abuse, Sexual Trauma, Trauma, Trauma Survivors

Mothers and Mother’s Day for Trauma Survivors

By Kathy Broady MSW 32 Comments

    For dissociative trauma survivors, Mother’s Day is often a painful time. For survivors with Dissociative Identity Disorder, mother issues are usually complex and difficult to sort out.  Momma-trauma comes in a variety of forms.     For some survivors, their mothers were simply not there to protect them from the violent abuse of the perpetrator, including the father or other sadistic … [Read more...]

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Developing Internal Communication – Starting with the Basics

By Kathy Broady MSW 63 Comments

  There are a variety of ways to develop basic, effective skills in internal communication with your dissociative system.  Most of these skills are very similar, even the same, as the communication skills used with real people in the everyday world.  There is no fancy trick to learning to talk to your inside people.  Everyone can do this.   Remember, it's like talking to other people.   Have you … [Read more...]

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Internal Communication – The Core of Treatment for Dissociative Identity Disorder

By Kathy Broady MSW 53 Comments

Continuing with the topic of Internal Communication, I ended the previous article, Overcoming Instability Issues and Unsuccessful Memory work with this list of Dissoci-ACTION steps:   Focus first on relationship building with your parts.  Get to know them.  Talk to them.  Learn their names.  Overcome your fears of who they are.  Appreciate their strengths.  Develop friendships with them.  I … [Read more...]

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10 Qualities Therapists Recognize in Good Clients, part 2

By Kathy Broady MSW 11 Comments

Hello, I hope this day finds you doing well. The first part of this article certainly caused a little stir, and maybe raised a few eyebrows along the way.  Please know, my intention in posting these blogs is not to offend anyone.  If you have any questions or concerns about anything I've posted, please comment and let me know what you're thinking!  And here's a big Thank You! to the folks who did comment to the … [Read more...]

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