Are Littles Actually Children?

Littles often appear as children in the internal world and act and speak like children. But ARE they children? The short answer is: It depends. The longer answer is that some are and others aren’t...

Then and Now, Part 3: Anchors

This is the last video in this 3-part series on helping parts stuck in trauma time understand that it’s 2025 and not some year in the past. Last week I talked about using a timeline. Today, I want to...

A Plan for Dealing with Flashbacks

In her book Letting Go of Self-Destructive Behaviors, therapist and trauma expert Lisa Ferentz provides readers with a plan for dealing with flashbacks. Flashbacks are memories of trauma that feel...

Then and Now, Part 2: Timeline

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...

Do You Have PTSD?

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...

Then and Now

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...

Do Parts Need Names?

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...

What Is Trauma-Informed Therapy? Part 2

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...

Choices and Shame

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...