Improve Your System Communication with This 1 Daily Practice
Want a simple daily habit that builds trust and system communication? This video explains the power of daily system meetings in DID recovery.
Want a simple daily habit that builds trust and system communication? This video explains the power of daily system meetings in DID recovery.
Nonverbal trauma memories are common in complex trauma. This video explains why they rarely connect to a single event and how focusing on symptoms reduces intensity.
Four recommended books for DID recovery—helpful with or without a therapist. Learn skills, reduce chaos, and build progress between therapy sessions.
Most trauma memories are nonverbal. Learn how unrecognized trauma memories appear as feelings, body sensations, or impulses and why identifying them matters.
This video builds on the previous overview of system parts by breaking down emotional parts (EPs) into seven common subtypes. Each type—fight, flight, fear, shame, needy, perpetrator-imitating, and helper—developed to protect the system in different ways. Understanding these categories can make your system feel less confusing and open the door to greater self-compassion.
Your sense of smell is deeply tied to memory and emotion. Because it connects directly to the brain’s fear center, it can trigger flashbacks—but it can also stop them in their tracks. This video shares how to use scent as a grounding tool for DID or trauma-related flashbacks.
https://youtu.be/5ixP4TjxAuA One of your senses transmits its sensory information directly to your amygdala. Because of this, this sense is the quickest trigger for flashbacks. This sense is also the quickest…
This video explores one of the most common fears for people with DID or OSDD: “If I don’t remember the trauma, how can this be real?” You’ll learn how trauma affects memory storage, why nonverbal memories matter, and why the absence of clear memories doesn’t mean the absence of trauma.
Safety is the key condition for recovery from DID and complex trauma. Without safe living circumstances, the nervous system stays in survival mode, protectors won’t let go of old strategies, and healing stalls. This video explains why unsafe environments make recovery so difficult and why finding safety is the first step on the healing journey.
DID doesn’t arise by chance. One of the most important circumstances that shapes it is the experience of scared or scary caretakers. This video explains why caretakers are so critical for babies, how unpredictable or unsafe caretakers create a no-win survival dilemma, and how dissociation and parts can develop as a way to cope.