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Are Newborn Babies Born with Innocence and Purity? How about You?

By Kathy Broady MSW 30 Comments

You probably thought I was going to talk about kids, or children, or babies. And I might. But first, what about newborn puppies? This post is partly for fun -- because you know I just can’t resist sharing more pictures of my puppies ! But to be fair, I do have a few thoughts related to trauma issues when I look at these pictures.  I am starting to think that I might just have to make a “puppy series”.  :) First, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Child Alters, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Family Members of Trauma Survivors, Puppies, Therapy Homework Ideas, Transference Issues Tagged With: Blaming children, Bulldog puppies, Child Parts, Children are innocent, DID / MPD, DID Survivors, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Externalizing Blame, Externalizing Responsibility, Good vs. bad, I am bad, Innocence, Kathy Broady, Multiplicity, Newborn babies, Newborn puppies, Olde English Bulldog, Olde English Bulldogge, Projection, Projection of blame, Puppies, Purity, Transference, Trauma Survivors, Working with child parts, You are not bad

Sorting through Transference Issues

By Kathy Broady MSW 26 Comments

  In response to some questions asked about my previous blog article about Mother’s Day, I’ve decided to follow up with an additional post on the topic of transference.  Transference isn’t necessarily an exciting topic, but it is fundamentally important to understanding the dissociative therapy treatment process.  Hopefully, this article will help to clarify more about the importance of these … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Child Alters, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, Family Members of Trauma Survivors, therapy, Therapy and Counseling, Therapy Homework Ideas, Transference Issues, Trauma, trauma therapist Tagged With: Abandonment, Abandonment Issues, Abuse by Mothers, Abusive Family Dynamics, Child Parts, DID / MPD, DID Survivors, DID Therapy, Displacement, Displacing Issues, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Distraction, emotional pain, Externalizing Responsibility, Family Dynamics, Father Transference, Goals for DID Therapy, Healing, Honest communication, Honesty, Kathy Broady, Maternal Abuse, Maternal Transference, Momma Trauma, Mother Abuse, Mother Fantasies, Mother Neglect, Mother Transference, Mother's Day, Mothers, Motivation, pain, Roles of Therapists, Surrogate Target, Talking with your therapist, Therapeutic Process, therapy, Transference, Transference Issues, Trauma Survivors, trauma therapist, Unresolved Mother Issues, Wasted Therapy, What is transference?, Working through mother issues

What Did Your Mother Teach You?

By Kathy Broady MSW 29 Comments

  Mother’s Day.  Mother's Day is a hard day for a lot of dissociative trauma survivors.  It’s a day full of mixed emotions, painful longings, unhealed heartbreak.   It's so complicated, especially when you think about how important  mothers are to their children, and what their behavior teaches their children. Mother's Day hurts the people who were hurt so much by their mothers. Mothers are a complicated subject, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Child Alters, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, Family Members of Trauma Survivors, therapy, Therapy and Counseling, Therapy Homework Ideas, Transference Issues, Trauma, trauma therapist Tagged With: Abandoned by my mother, Abandonment, Abuse, Abusive mothers, Bad Mothers, Caring, Child Parts, Compassion, Compassionate Women, Corrective Emotional Experience, DID / MPD, DID Survivors, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dissociative Survivors, Dissociative System, Emotional Healing, emotional pain, Female Therapist, Gentleness, Good Mothers, Guilt, Healing, Hurtful Mothers, Kathy Broady, Kid Parts, Kindness, Mother Issues, Mother Transference, Mother's Day, my mother abandoned me, Neglectful Mothers, Patience, Projection, Safe Therapists, Self-less, Separate the past from the present, Shame, Transference, Transference Issues, Trauma, Trauma Survivors, trauma therapist, Trauma Therapy, Working through mother issues

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...]

Filed Under: Depression, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, Internal Communication, mental health, Self Injury, therapy, Trauma, trauma therapist Tagged With: Anger, Blame, Chronic Depression, Depressed Parts, Depression, DID/MPD, Displacement, Displacement of Emotion, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dissociative System, Dissociative Wall, Emotional Expression, Feeling Depressed, Healing, Internal Communication, MDD, Memory Work, Misdirected Anger, Projection, Self Injury, Suicidal Thoughts, Transference, Trauma memories, Trauma Survivor, trauma therapist, Trauma Therapy, Trauma Work, Treatment Goal for DID

Expressing Anger Instead of Pain

By Kathy Broady MSW 37 Comments

  Every now and then, Dr. Paul Weston (Gabriel Byrne) from HBO's series, "In Treatment" comes out with a good line, full of depth, and accurate to the therapy process. In one of the episodes I saw this week, Dr. Weston says, "Is it easier to be angry with me than to look at your own pain?"  His client was throwing all kinds of angry jabs at him when clearly she was angry, upset, and miserable about her own … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, HBO's Series "In Treatment", mental health, therapy, Therapy and Counseling, trauma therapist Tagged With: Anger, Complex Dissociation, Conflict, Deflecting Pain, DID/MPD, dissociative disorders, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dr. Paul Weston, Family Dynamics, Fear, Gabriel Byrne, Guilt, HBO Series In Treatment, Host Alters, Host Part, Humiliation, In Treatment, Kathy Broady, Listening, Looking at your pain, Memories, Ongoing Abuse, Ongoing Trauma, Ongoing Violence, pain, Perpetrators, Projection, Sadistic Abuse, Shame, Switching, Talking to Insiders, Therapist, therapy, Transference, Trauma memories, Trauma Survivors, trauma therapist, Traumatic Memories

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