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Thinking Ahead — Preparation for Working with your Child Parts

By Kathy Broady MSW 13 Comments

  As I continue to write posts about working with child parts, I want to encourage you to think about this topic as well.   Read the following questions, and be honest with yourself – think about them.  Journal about them, and make these questions the topics of discussion in your internal meetings.  Try the acronym exercises if you need a starting place. What are your beliefs about child parts?  Who are they?  … [Read more...]

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Lists of 100 Reasons

By Kathy Broady MSW 6 Comments

  This is an excellent journaling exercise that can be adapted to any topic at any time. The entirety of the exercise is to find a difficult or complicated topic. Ask yourself a question about that topic and then write out 100 responses to that question. For lots of people, one hundred sounds like a huge number for a writing exercise, but once you start thinking about the issue in smaller increments, you might be … [Read more...]

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Working with Difficult and Destructive Alters

By Kathy Broady MSW 62 Comments

  I'm going to take a slight detour in the internal communication series and write a little about working with difficult alters.  It is crucial to work with these internal parts, no matter how challenging and hopeless things seem in the beginning.  Your therapy and healing will never be resolved unless you approach the issues connected with these difficult insiders. And for that matter, the whole process of … [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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