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Land of the Free?

By Kathy Broady MSW 9 Comments

For folks in the USA, it’s the July 4th holiday weekend.  Barbecues, picnics, swimming parties, and fireworks are happening all over the country.  Red, white, and blue stars and stripes are visible in every direction.  It’s a fun holiday – most people are in festive moods.     The point of the Independence Day holiday is to celebrate freedom.  It’s about being free, living in a land that is free, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Compulsive Hoarding, Depression, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Domestic Violence, emotional pain, mental health, Physical Abuse, Ritual Abuse, Therapy and Counseling, Trauma, trauma therapist Tagged With: Anorexia, Anxiety, BMI Scale, Bulemia, Categories of Weight, Child Abuse, Compulsive Hoarding, Creating Freedom, Date Rape, Depression, DID / MPD, DID Survivor, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Domestic Violence, DV, Eating Disorders, emotional pain, Family Violence, Fear of People, Fear of public places, Fears, Feeling Trapped, Freedom, Healing, Hiding in the corner, Hoarders, Hoarding: Buried Alive, Human Trafficking, Incest, Independence Day, Independent Thinking, Invisible Jail, July 4th, Kathy Broady, MC, Mind Control, Obese, Obesity, Obesity Table, Obsessions, OCD, Ongoing Abuse, Organized Abuse, Prostitution, Risks of Violence, Ritual Abuse, Sex Slavery, Therapy Process, TLC, Trapped, Trauma, Trauma Survivor, trauma therapist

12 Tips for Reducing Shame

By Kathy Broady MSW 56 Comments

  Need some tips for reducing shame? One of the hardest areas of healing work in trauma disorders is dealing with shame.  For many survivors of sexual abuse, healing work involves learning about a lot of intense memories that leave them feeling a great deal of shame, humiliation, and embarrassment.  These are difficult emotions to process, and the memory material is typically very overwhelming. Some survivors … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Depression, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Featured Posts #3, Self Injury, sexual abuse, therapy, Therapy and Counseling, Trauma Tagged With: Abuse, Amnesia, Anxiety, Depression, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dissociative Survivors, Dissociative Walls, emotional pain, Healing, Host Alters, Internal System, Kathy Broady, Memory Work, Pornography, Prostitution, PTSD, Safety, Self Injury, Sex Offenders, Sex Slave Industry, Sex Slavery, sexual abuse, Sexual Exploitation, Shame, Suicidal Behavior, Suicidal Feelings, Suicidal Thoughts, Trauma Disorders, Trauma Survivors, trauma therapist, Trauma Therapy, treatment for DID

Organized Perpetrator Groups for Mind Control, Sexual Exploitation, and Ritualized Abuses

By Kathy Broady MSW 13 Comments

    I am writing this blog article in response to a blog comment / question sent to me re: the frequency of ritual / cult abuse.  I am also going to clarify what the term "organized abuse" means to me. For the purposes of this blog response, I am going to give an answer based on my personal experience as a trauma therapist that specializes in Dissociative Disorders.  Some day I will check into the official … [Read more...]

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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 19 Comments

Not for Sale - stop Human Trafficking

    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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