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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.

10 Steps for Doing Healing Work with Your DID System

By Kathy Broady MSW 31 Comments

  Have you just discovered that you are multiple? Do you have new insiders surfacing and creating havoc? Is this a tough time of year for you? Are you feeling highly triggered right now? Is your system struggling, feeling dark, chaotic, and separated? Are you experiencing memories, flashbacks, nightmares, and other PTSD symptoms?   For the dissociative survivor, the process of healing from severe … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Featured Post, Featured post #1, Internal Communication, Prevention of Sexual Abuse, Therapy Homework Ideas Tagged With: Building Relationships, Creating Safety, DID healing process, DID System Work, DID Therapy, Healing from trauma, Healing Journey, Internal System Work, Memory Work, Saddest Little Bear Story Pack, Safety First, Steps for trauma healing, trauma history, Where to start for DID healing

Remembering Favorite Memories instead of Re-living Bad Memories

By Kathy Broady MSW 13 Comments

  During trauma recovery and the road to healing for dissociative trauma survivors, there is so very much focus on bad memories, abuse memories, body memories, painful memories, icky memories, difficult memories, vacant memories, your memories, their memories, nobody claims them memories.... Of course, this memory work is part of healing, and resolving the conflicts and heartbreak as much as possible is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Depression, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, Fun!, mental health, Puppies, Therapy Homework Ideas Tagged With: Bad memories, Body Memories, Dissociative Trauma Survivors, End of the year, Memory Work, Newborn babies, Positive memories, PTSD, Remembering the good things, What made you smile?, Wild peacocks

I Had a Great Time – Thanks for Asking

By Kathy Broady MSW 43 Comments

. *** trigger warning for dissociative trauma survivors *** The collage and the material discussed in this blog is emotionally intense and could be triggering.  Please be sure that you are in a safe place before reading further. . Trauma survivors with dissociative identity disorder often have to live a double life.  There is the public face, full of pretty smiles and general surface chatter that says “I’m fine”, … [Read more...]

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Depression and Dissociative Identity Disorder, part 2

By Kathy Broady MSW 45 Comments

  Welcome to the second half of “Depression and Dissociative Identity Disorder”.  The first seven tips have been previously posted.  At this point in time, I will continue with the list of tips for how to specifically address chronic depression for trauma survivors with DID:   8. As the memories surface, feelings will also surface.  Expressing genuine emotion is key to working through depression.  Crying tears of … [Read more...]

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