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Wishing Happiness for You in the New Year

By Kathy Broady MSW 8 Comments

  Hello Hello!   Happy New Year to You!   It’s the beginning of a new time, a New Year, and nearing the end of the Holidays.  How are you feeling?  I hope that you found joy in something that warms your heart.  My wish is that you can walk peacefully through this holiday season with a priceless treasure to hold on to for years to come. I had that goal for myself too, and when I was asked what I wanted … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, mental health, Therapy Homework Ideas, Trauma Tagged With: Abuse, DID / MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Good Memories, Happy New Year, Healing, Healing from Abuse, Kathy Broady, Memories, Trauma, You can do it.

What Happens to the Light?

By Kathy Broady MSW 29 Comments

It's Winter Solstice week -- time that is often difficult for far too many dissociative trauma survivors. It's a time where days are short, and nights are long. Far too long. It's a day where light feels complicated. Fractured. Broken. Dark. I haven't forgotten. I know that many of you are hurting and remembering intense hurts right now. This year, I wanted to write something not as heavy, but still acknowledging … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Artwork, Child Alters, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, Fear, Mind Control, Physical Abuse, Ritual Abuse, sexual abuse, Trauma Tagged With: 21 December, Broken, December 21, DID / MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dissociative Trauma Survivors, Kathy Broady, Light, RA, Ritual Abuse, SRA, Summer Solstice, Trauma, Trauma Survivors, Winter Solstice

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...]

Filed Under: Borderline Personality Disorder, Depression, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, emotional pain, mental health, Physical Abuse, Self Injury, sexual abuse, Therapy and Counseling, Therapy Homework Ideas, Trauma, trauma therapist Tagged With: Abandonment, Abuse, Addictions, Addictive Behaviors, Alcohol Abuse, Alcoholics, Borderline, Borderline Personality Disorder, BPD, Chocolate, Comfort, Corrective Emotional Experience, cutting, DID / MPD, DID Survivors, dissociative disorders, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dopamine, Drug Abuse, Drug Addicts, Emotional Eating, emotional pain, Healing, Healing from Abuse, Healing from Sexual Abuse, Healing Process, Health, How to find comfort, Hurting, Kathy Broady, Lack of comfort, Left alone, Neglect, Over-eating, Overcoming trauma, pain, Psychological pain, Relaxation, Relaxing, Self Harm, Self Injury, Self soothing, self-destructive behaviors, Seratonin, SI, Trauma, Trauma Survivor, trauma therapist, Treatment Goals for BPD, Treatment Goals for DID, Wound Care, Wounds

Who’s Looking at You In the Mirror?

By Kathy Broady MSW 15 Comments

The following drawing is a DID survivor’s response to my question:    Can you picture dissociative identity disorder?   *** If you are a dissociative trauma survivor, please read the following article with caution.  Some of the topics presented in this blog article could create an emotional reaction from your internal system as several difficult but important topics are mentioned.  Please be sure to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Artwork, Child Alters, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Internal Communication, Therapy and Counseling, Therapy Homework Ideas, Trauma, trauma therapist Tagged With: Abuse, AbuseConsultants.com, Adult Parts, Anger, Artist, Blank Face, Child Parts, Connection to the Body, Creativity, Dark Hole, Depersonalization, Describing Dissociation, DID / MPD, DID Artist, DID Artwork, DID Survivors, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dissociative Specialist, Dissociative Systems, Fear, Feeling Numb, Host Parts, In the circle, Insiders, Internal Communication, Internal Doorways, Internal System, Kathy Broady, Looking in the Mirror, Mirror Images, Mirrors, Multiplicity, Numb, Out of body experiences, pain, Paint Palette, Pictures of DID, Picturing DID, Protective Bubbles, Reflection in the mirror, Separation from the body, Shame, Significance of Circles, Significance of Colors, Stranger in the Mirror, Trauma, Trauma Survivors, trauma therapist

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...]

Filed Under: Child Alters, DID Education, DID/MPD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Fun!, Stories for Child Insiders, Therapy Homework Ideas, Trauma Tagged With: Abuse, AbuseConsultants.com, Amnesia, Betrayal, Child Development, Child Parts, Childhood Development, Childhood Needs, Childhood Playtime, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Childhood Trauma, Corrective Emotional Experience, DID / MPD, DID Survivor, Dissociative Amnesia, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dissociative Walls, emotional pain, Grief, Have fun!, Internal System, Kathy Broady, Kid Parts, Loss, Multiples, Neglect, Sadness, Sexually Abused Children, Too much pain, Trauma, Trauma Survivor, Treatment Goals for DID, Unicorn, Unicorn found in Italy, Unmet Needs, Working with child parts

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