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The Impact of Change: DDCF Forum is Moving and Improving

By Kathy Broady MSW 6 Comments

  Addressing the Impact of Change While DDCF Forum is Moving and Improving   It’s an exciting week for DDCF — the Discussing Dissociation Community Forum.   Our DID Forum community has grown and strengthened and developed to the point that we need - deserve - earned! a more expansive Forum Home, and this week is migration week.  I call it "Migration Week" because this week, we are moving our Forum and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Anxiety, DID Education, DID Forum Support, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Featured post #1, Internal Communication Tagged With: Anxiety about change, DDCF, DID Forum, Discussing Dissociation Community Forum, Internal Communication, Listen to your insiders, Migration, Stressing about Change, Support for DID

Yes, We are Proud of the DDCF Community Forum Members!

By Kathy Broady MSW 4 Comments

  At the time of writing this article, we had our wonderful Discussing Dissociation Community Forum open for a few months.  Of course, it started out as a big learning curve for all of us, and even with a few bumps in the road.  Even now, much later, I have to say that the DDCF Community is going very well.  I feel really proud of our DDCF Community Forum Members -- like, really really proud!!! --- and it’s … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, DID Forum Support, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Featured post #1, Internal Communication, Online Therapy, Therapy Homework Ideas Tagged With: Creating a safe place, DDCF, DID Educational Forum, DID Forum, DID healing journey, DID spouse forum, Discussing Dissociation Community Forum, dissociative community support, Internal Communication, Proud of our members!

Creating your own Safe Environment for your DID Parts

By Kathy Broady MSW 16 Comments

    Many dissociative trauma survivors struggle with how to tend to their child parts, and how to create a safe environment for those inside parts. For lots of DID survivors, it can feel quite difficult and challenging to know how to gently and tenderly care for their injured or upset child parts, especially when their own experience of childhood was anything but gentle or tender.  This task feels … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Child Alters, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Featured post #1, Internal Communication, Therapy Homework Ideas Tagged With: basics of existence, Be Consistent, Build communication, build safe places, helping children who are hurt, How to help a child, Internal Communication, Listen compassionately, Listen creatively, Safety and Comfort, Talk with your insiders

What Happens When you Don’t Talk to Your Insiders?

By Kathy Broady MSW 62 Comments

  What Happens When you Don’t Talk to Your Insiders?   So there are lots of articles and videos from Discussing Dissociation that speak about being kind to your people, and talking inside, and building a team with your DID System.  I tend to go on and on about how important it is to talk to your insiders. Easier said than done, right?   What about the folks who feel too scared to speak to their … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Featured post #1, Internal Communication, Self Injury Tagged With: DID Healing, DID System Work, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Internal Communication, Listening to others, Self Injury, Stop hurting yourself!, Trauma and Abuse

Examples of Successful Progress in the DID Healing Process

By Kathy Broady MSW 94 Comments

  Kathy, what do you see when your clients are making progress?   Someone asked me recently how I measure progress in my clients, and what I look for when I see DID systems moving effectively in their healing.  They wanted to know how I could “prove” my clients were getting better. Those are good questions, because you know when you are feeling better, but what is it that I am looking for or what am I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Featured post #1, Internal Communication, Self Injury, Therapy Homework Ideas Tagged With: DID healing journey, DID System Work, DID trauma survivors, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Examples of progress, Internal Communication, Memory Work, Progress in DID healing, Protective helpers, You can do it.

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