Why Is It Hard to Identify and Express Your Needs After Childhood Trauma?
Childhood trauma can make it difficult to identify or express your needs. Learn how ignoring your needs can develop as a survival strategy.
Can Psychosis Mean That I’m Making Up My Dissociative Symptoms?
When someone comes to the realization that they have a Complex Dissociative Disorder, is it possible/common for other forms of psychological distress to get mixed up in it as a…
Why Do I Keep Hoping My Abusive Parent Will Change?
Learn why hope for an abusive or neglectful parent to change can persist into adulthood and why letting go of that hope can bring profound grief.
What Do You Do if You Try to Hold a System Meeting and Nobody Comes?
“I tried the daily system meeting you talked about in a video, but hardly any parts showed up when I tried.”—YouTube comment So, what do you do if you try…
How Your Environment Can Affect Your Nervous System
Learn how noise, lighting, movement, seating, and other environmental factors can send threat or safety signals to your nervous system after trauma.
How do I differentiate the core me from the alters? Like when do I just “go mute” and when is it because the alter can’t speak?
Your question is just two short sentences, but there is so much that could be said in response! I can’t talk about all the thoughts this raises, but I hope…
What Is Interdependence? A Healthy Alternative to Codependence
Learn how interdependence differs from codependence and hyper-independence and how healthy relationships can include both autonomy and connection.
How Childhood Abuse or Neglect Can Affect Your Self-Worth as an Adult
Learn how childhood abuse or neglect can teach conditional self-worth and why old standards about performance, approval, and mistakes may continue into adulthood.
How Environmental Cues Can Influence Switching in DID and OSDD
Learn how contextual cues such as places, people, music, and activities may influence switching or bring different DID or OSDD parts closer to the front.
The Hidden Energy Cost of Hypervigilance
Learn why constant threat monitoring from hypervigilance uses mental resources and can leave you exhausted, even when you haven’t done much physically.
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