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Videos for DID Systems and Dissociative Trauma Survivors

By Kathy Broady MSW 3 Comments

Hey!    How are you today?  I hope you are doing well. I have something super exciting to share with you.   Through the years lots of folks have asked me to make more videos, and that has been on my 10-mile long To Do list for looooong awhile.   Videos are such a wonderful way to say things that are hard to say in writing.  There's no doubt that they are important. I'm happy to finally say I've gotten some … [Read more...]

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Being Hated, Feeling Hated, Overcoming Self-Hatred

By Kathy Broady MSW 56 Comments

  Practically every dissociative trauma survivor that I have spoken to has said to me that at some point in time or another, they have felt hated, truly hated.      What's worse, they didn't feel hated by strangers -- they felt hated by their loved ones. These trauma survivors felt hated by their mothers, their fathers, their siblings, their spouses, their children, their friends.  They felt hatred from the … [Read more...]

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Cats and Dogs and Trauma Survivors

By Kathy Broady MSW 34 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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