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A Double-Sided Halloween Weekend

By Kathy Broady MSW 31 Comments

  It’s Halloween weekend again -- a season full of flashbacks and trauma for many dissociative trauma survivors.  It feels dark.  It feels scary.  In some ways, it's the worst time of the year, and if this is the case, the flashbacks are pretty horrific.  So......... let's do a less scary flashback with this article.    Think back to 2010.  That year, back in 2010, I was reminded of the dichotomy our society … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Depression, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, Family Members of Trauma Survivors, Mind Control, Ritual Abuse, Supportive Spouses, Therapy and Counseling, Trauma, trauma therapist Tagged With: 2010 World Series Championship, 2010 World Series Game 3, Anxiety, baseball, Being hated, Body Memories, Celebrations, Compassion, Darkness, Depression, DID / MPD, DID Survivors, dirty money, dissociative disorders, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dissociative Trauma Survivors, Double-sided, Feeling hated, Flashbacks, Forced into darkness, Gentleness, Greed, Halloween, Halloween weekend, Hate Crimes, Healing, Internal World, Kathy Broady, Kindness, Little Bo Peep, Mental Torment, money is the root of all evil, PTSD, Pumpkin, RA, Ritual Abuse, Sadistic Abusers, Sadistic Ritualized Abuse, San Francisco Giants, Secrets, Sex Slave Industry, Sex Slavery, Terror, Texas Rangers, Trauma Survivors, Violence, Warmth

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, RA, Risks of Violence, Ritual Abuse, Sex Slavery, Therapy Process, TLC, Trapped, Trauma, Trauma Survivor, trauma therapist

Picturing a Group of Insiders – a Dissociative System

By Kathy Broady MSW 13 Comments

describing Dissociative Identity Disorder

  Isn’t this an interesting picture of Dissociative Identity Disorder?!     Assuming the artist of this picture is a trauma survivor with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID / MPD), this drawing shows many of the system insiders.  I can't say that I know this person has DID for sure -- meaning -- I haven't met the artist, I haven't met their inside people, I haven't met the treatment team, and I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Artwork, Child Alters, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Internal Communication, Self Injury, sexual abuse, Trauma Tagged With: Cat, Cat-child, Cats, Child Parts, DID / MPD, DID Artwork, DID Survivors, Disorders, Dissociation, dissociative, dissociative disorders, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Health, Hidden Child Parts, Hidden in the Shadows, Hiding, Internal Communication, Internal Systems, Kathy Broady, mental health, pain, Pictures of DID, Picturing Dissociation, Protector Parts, Self Harm, Self Injury, Sex Slavery, sexual abuse, Sexual Exploitation, Shadows, SI, Trauma Survivor, What dissociation looks like

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

CIA MIND CONTROL: Out Of Darkness Into The Light

By Kathy Broady MSW 14 Comments

  I don’t typically use other web-sites as the source of my blog posts, but today I want to share some important information out there to my readers.   Survivors of mind control need the validation and encouragement that this Press Release gives.   I welcome discussions, questions and comments to the following information.   Cathy O'Brien and Mark Phillips Cathy O'Brien and Mark Phillips share their true … [Read more...]

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