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Kathy’s Video Comments: Making a Strong Foundation for Dissociative Healing

By Kathy Broady MSW Leave a Comment

  Hello, Silly ol' me is using a tree metaphor once again to talk about Dissociative Identity Disorder and the very many different areas of healing work to do in DID therapy.     It's "Tree Tree-ment" for dissociative trauma treatment. Ha ha ha.   :mrgreen:  :lol:  :roll:  :mrgreen:    This particular video follows along with the article,  50 Treatment Issues for Dissociative Identity Disorder  . I call this … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Artwork, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Kathy's Video Comments, mental health, Puppies, therapy, Therapy and Counseling, Therapy Homework Ideas, trauma therapist Tagged With: DID Treatment Goals, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dissociative Survivor, Giant tree, Kathy's video comments, Strong foundation, Trauma Survivor, Treatment Goal, Tree trunks

10 Comforting and Corrective Truths for Childhood Sexual Abuse Survivors

By Kathy Broady MSW 17 Comments

  Every survivor of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) that I know has a lot of enormously difficult days when they struggle desperately with feeling bad, feeling lousy, feeling at fault, feeling pain.  Those struggles can last for years.  Healing does come, but on those difficult days, remember what is true.   When the hard days come, it might be hard to remember.... It was not okay that anyone touched your … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Child Alters, Depression, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, Family Members of Trauma Survivors, mental health, Physical Abuse, Self Injury, sexual abuse, Therapy Homework Ideas, Trauma Tagged With: childhood abuse, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Comfort, Corrective Emotional Experience, Corrective Experience, CSA, I'm not bad, Innocence, It's not my fault, It's not your fault, sexual abuse, Trauma Survivor, You are beautiful, You are not bad

Maizy’s Go Away or Fly Away Kind of Day

By Kathy Broady MSW 30 Comments

Maizy is a quiet little cow.  She talks when she wants to, but that’s not very often. Maizy doesn’t like noise, and she doesn’t like crowds, and she doesn’t like bunches of people everywhere near and around. Maizy isn’t that sure about people – she only likes one or two people, here and there.  And even then, she’s not completely sure.  People are not her favorite. Mostly, Maizy likes her own space. She likes … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Anxiety, Child Alters, DID Education, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Fear, Fun!, Stories for Child Insiders, Therapy Homework Ideas Tagged With: Avoiding People, Dissociative Trauma Survivor, Fear of People, Isolation, Kathy Broady, Maizy, Safety, Stories for Child Parts, Trauma Survivor, Withdrawal from People, Withdrawing

Turning Self-Injury into Self-Soothing

By Kathy Broady MSW 70 Comments

  Self-injury is a problem all too common for trauma survivors with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID / MPD) or Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD).  For that matter, self-injury (SI) is an issue for other populations of people as well.  This discussion will focus more on the effects of trauma and abuse and how self-injury can be addressed effectively.  However, because self-injury is actually a very … [Read more...]

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A Real Unicorn?!! Really?

By Kathy Broady MSW 24 Comments

This article is written for the child parts of the DID survivors that read this blog. Hey Kids, did you see the news yesterday?  Hmmmm…. probably not, because most kids don’t watch the news.  And because of that, I wanted to make sure to let you know about something I saw in the news that might interest you.   Look!  Look!   They found something that looks like a real unicorn!!     If you look … [Read more...]

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