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This is Easter Weekend – Please Stay Safe

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Hello, It's a difficult ritual holiday weekend again, and I want you to know I am thinking of you. Please stay safe. Warmly, Kathy   CLICK on this article for more information: For DID trauma survivors with a ritual abuse (RA) background, this is a very difficult weekend, full of difficult memories, painful emotions, and system conflicts.   Copyright © 2008-2018 Kathy Broady MSW and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, Fear, Mind Control, Physical Abuse, Ritual Abuse, Self Injury, sexual abuse, Trauma Tagged With: DID Healing, Difficulties at Easter, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Don't believe lies, Easter eggs, Easter treats, Easter Weekend, Healing from Ritual Abuse, Ritual Abuse, sexual abuse, Stay safe from violence, Staying safe

SAFETY FIRST: Assessing Safety of Sexual Abuse Survivors

By Kathy Broady MSW Leave a Comment

This SAFETY FIRST post is one of the very first posts ever written on Discussing Dissociation,  and purposefully so, because of the importance of this topic. This post was recently reblogged by Trauma and Dissociation -- thank you. Having safety in your life is absolutely crucial and critical for healing for dissociative survivors, so it is good to bring this topic back up to the surface again. Be safe everyone -- … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Domestic Violence, Internal Communication, Physical Abuse, Ritual Abuse, Self Injury, sexual abuse, Therapy Homework Ideas, Trauma Tagged With: Be safe, Current Day Abuse, DID Therapy, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Domestic Violence, Ongoing Abuse, Physical Abuse, RA / SRA, Safety First, Safety from Sexual Abuse, sexual abuse

25 More Ways to Avoid Self-Injury and Prevent Self-Harm

By Kathy Broady MSW Leave a Comment

  Let's continue with the theme from yesterday,  25 Ways to Avoid Self Injury .   Here is Part 2:  25 More Ways to Avoid Self Injury and Prevent Self-Harm .   This now totals 50  ideas for distraction techniques that can be very helpful when you are battling self-injury.   Which ideas work best for you? How long can you stretch time out between self-harming episodes? If you have Dissociative … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Depression, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, Fear, mental health, Self Injury, Therapy Homework Ideas, Trauma Tagged With: Disorders, Dissociation, dissociative, Dissociative Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder, distraction techniques, Health, Kathy, mental health, pain, prevent self-harm, Self Destructive Behavior, Self Harm, Self Injury, sexual abuse, Trauma (medicine)

Is THIS Abuse? Yes or No?

By Kathy Broady MSW 27 Comments

Many times I get asked what abuse is. I understand this question, and the need for that question because many of the dissociative survivors who I speak with grew up in such chronically abusive homes that abuse was normal.   Normal is just normal to them.  What I would define as abuse was their norm, their everyday, their usual, their expected.  And once abuse is “just how it is”, it becomes tricky and confusing to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, Domestic Violence, emotional pain, Family Members of Trauma Survivors, mental health, Physical Abuse, sexual abuse, Therapy Homework Ideas, Trauma Tagged With: Abuse, Angry mothers, Child Abuse, Complacency, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Emotional Abuse, Flirty fathers, Kathy Broady, Neglect, Obey your father and mother, sexual abuse, trauma and neglect, What is abuse?, What is child abuse?

Three Difficult Scenarios involving Fathers

By Kathy Broady MSW 82 Comments

  It’s Father’s Day.  Father's Day is all about those endearing, positive, caring fathers.  But what about the abusive fathers? Fathers.  Yep, fathers are as difficult a topic for dissociative trauma survivors as mothers. Fathers often are heavily involved in the trauma history for dissociative survivors.  Most DID survivors I know have far too many painful memories involving their fathers.   I decided I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Child Alters, Depression, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, Family Members of Trauma Survivors, Fear, Physical Abuse, Self Injury, sexual abuse, Trauma Tagged With: Abandonment, Abuse, Addictions, Anger, Anxiety, Body Memories, Child Abuse, Childhood rules, Depression, DID / MPD, DID Survivors, Dissociation, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, Family rules, Father Issues, Fathers, Fathers as Perpetrators, Fathers that abandon their children, Fathers who are abusive, Fear, Flashbacks, Happy Father's Day, Healing, Internal Systems, Kathy Broady, Making your own decisions, Painful, Perpetrators, Physical Abuse, Saying No, Self Destruction, Self Esteem, sexual abuse, splitting, Splitting Process, Trauma Survivors

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