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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...]

Filed Under: Child Alters, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, mental health, therapy, Therapy and Counseling, Therapy Homework Ideas Tagged With: Abuse, Acronym, Child Alters, Child Parts, Comfort, Communication, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Healing, Homework, Inside Kids, Internal Communication, Internal System, Kathy Broady, Kid Parts, Listening, Memories, Multiplicity, Process, Protect, Protect the children, split personality, therapy, Therapy Homework, Thinking ahead, Trauma, Trauma memories

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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Using Collage as a Way of Communicating

By Kathy Broady MSW 11 Comments

  Creating a collage is another way of allowing your internal system parts to tell more about themselves. Pictures can be a powerful way of communicating.  And a collage - a collection of pictures - can tell a lifetime of stories. Most trauma survivors were repeatedly told by their abusers, "Do not tell". Violence, threats, abuse, and pain often accompanied these rules.  How many times did you hear "don't say … [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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Working with Cult – RA – Mind Control and Extreme Torture and Abuse

By Kathy Broady MSW 37 Comments

      "Have you worked with clients that have 'extreme torture' trauma history in cult-RA and/or mind-control (governmental experiments)? If so, what has worked?"       Thanks for the question.  What a doozy!!!   Yes, I have worked with trauma survivors that have talked about extreme torture, cult / RA abuse, mind control and governmental experiment traumas.  Bunches of clients through the years have … [Read more...]

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