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2009 CONFERENCE ON CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN

By Kathy Broady MSW 1 Comment

Next week, I will be attending the 2009 CONFERENCE ON CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN. AbuseConsultants.com will be an exhibitor at this conference. If you are attending this conference, please stop by my exhibit table and let’s chat for awhile! . http://www.ccawonline.org/try_2.html   2009 CONFERENCE ON CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN March 2-4, 2009 Dallas Texas CO-PRESENTED BY GENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTER AND THE DALLAS … [Read more...]

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Current Day Abuse – When Dissociative Survivors are Trapped, Owned, and Exploited as Adults

By Kathy Broady MSW 18 Comments

    Dissociative Identity Disorder is created from severe, chronic child abuse, but does that abuse automatically stop in childhood? Unfortunately, no, it does not.   All too many survivors continue to be trapped in abusive environments long after their childhood has ended.  Sometimes this abuse continues with the same family-related perpetrators that abused the survivor all throughout the childhood … [Read more...]

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Is Your Life How You Want It to Be?

By Kathy Broady MSW 7 Comments

  I’ve been thinking for hours now about what kind of profound post I would make at the beginning of this new year.  Or this new month.  Or this new day. My words are still trickling in slowly…. So, while I’m thinking, I’ve decided to ask you all what you are thinking…. What are your goals this year? this month? this week? And, seriously, if you could rule the world, what would you do?  What changes would you … [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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