Recently, I discussed the three reasons it’s important to help any of your trauma-holding parts who are stuck in trauma time become oriented to the present. That is, it’s important to help those parts...
A significant portion of people who have DID or OSDD also qualify for a diagnosis of PTSD. This isn’t really surprising because DID and OSDD usually involve a lot of trauma. What I want to talk about...
Early in recovery, many systems have trauma-holding parts who are stuck in the past. They have no idea that the body is no longer 8 or 12 or whatever year and that it’s now an adult. Whatever...
You might wonder if parts need names. It’s certainly a reasonable question. After all, how can you communicate with and cooperate with parts if you don’t know their names? Should you name them? The...
In part 1, I talked about the first four of eight important principles of trauma-informed care. They are: Today, I’m going to cover the other 4 principles. 5. Avoiding Re-traumatization. Another...
This is a hard topic and it won’t apply to all of you. But unfortunately it will apply to some of you. Today I’m talking about shame people have as a result of choices they made during their childhood...
ave you ever heard about trauma-informed therapy and wondered what that looks like? How does being trauma-informed impact therapy? All therapists should understand trauma, so how important can it be...
When you think about system communication, what does that look like to you? You might be surprised at what I’m going to share with you as forms of communication from members of your system...
Last week, I talked about why you might want to tell your kids about your DID or OSDD. This week, I’m going to talk about how you might tell them if you decide you want them to know. It’s important...