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...]
What Happens to the Light?
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...]
Turning Self-Injury into Self-Soothing
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...]
Who’s Looking at You In the Mirror?
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...]
A Real Unicorn?!! Really?
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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