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Creating Internal System Scrapbooks

By Kathy Broady MSW 13 Comments

A fun and creative way to increase system communication and overall system familiarity is to make a scrapbook displaying pages that describe each of the people in your system. Getting to know your system is an absolute essential part to your healing and recovery, but doing system work doesn't have to be drudgery.  A system scrapbook can be a wonderful treasure and a priceless keepsake for many years to come.  It can … [Read more...]

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Is Your Life How You Want It to Be?

By Kathy Broady MSW 4 Comments

  I’ve been thinking for hours now about what kind of profound post I would make at the beginning of this new year.  Or this new month.  Or this new day. My words are still trickling in slowly…. So, while I’m thinking, I’ve decided to ask you all what you are thinking…. What are your goals this year? this month? this week? And, seriously, if you could rule the world, what would you do?  What changes would you … [Read more...]

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Interviewing a new Therapist – Questions to Keep in Mind

By Kathy Broady MSW 18 Comments

  It appears that several of the readers of this blog have gone through the wringer in terms of finding a good trauma therapist.  When you are interviewing new therapists, in addition to clarifying that they have the skills and training it takes to provide proper treatment for your trauma issues, it is also important to ask about their approach to trauma work.  Make sure their views match or blend with your own … [Read more...]

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Integration: A Requirement for DID Therapy – Or Not?

By Kathy Broady MSW 56 Comments

  I am well aware that many trauma therapists are highly supportive of the treatment goal to integrate dissociative selves. I have a different approach to this topic.  Please understand I am not at all opposed to the idea of integration if that is what the person wants.  However, that is a very complicated topic, and I'll discuss the integration issue from that perspective at another time. In my experience, by … [Read more...]

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