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Cats and Dogs and Trauma Survivors

By Kathy Broady MSW 30 Comments

Felini my Cat

  Pets are very important to trauma survivors for a variety of reasons:   A place to express love, affection, and tenderness Many abuse survivors have difficulties with attachment issues due their extensive histories of trauma, abuse, and neglect.  Because people were the perpetrators, trauma survivors frequently find it difficult and complicated to express caring and affection to other people.  And yet, … [Read more...]

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10 Benefits of Being Multiple

By Kathy Broady MSW 80 Comments

Are there any benefits to being multiple?   In the typical process of trauma therapy, your therapist and the dissociative trauma survivor will spend a great deal of time talking about how difficult it is to be multiple -- and it is difficult, no doubt about it.  For the typical multiple, there were years and years of pain and horror and abuse requiring the need to split over and over into a number of … [Read more...]

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Holidays for DID Trauma Survivors… Making it Nice for the Littles

By Kathy Broady MSW 18 Comments

  I hope you are all having a good holiday season..... I had hoped to post these thoughts a couple days back, but unfortunately, I didn’t have the chance until now.  And even though it’s the day after Christmas, I still want to approach the topic.  I’m proposing that it’s not too late to make a difference this year. In my experience, from listening through the years, holidays are typically very difficult times for … [Read more...]

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