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When you have DID or OSDD, healing from complex trauma can sometimes feel impossible because there are so many aspects of the healing process involved. Dissociative systems developed to meet…

If your desired future seems unreachable, you might benefit from focusing closer to where you are now. This doesn’t mean giving up your dream. It means approaching your dream in…

When different parts want different things, it is often helpful to begin by understanding the needs and fears underneath each goal rather than immediately trying to force agreement. Many systems…

When your capacity changes from day to day, planning for the future can feel overwhelming or even impossible. Many trauma survivors and dissociative systems become discouraged because they try to…

When some parts resist change, you are most likely to succeed in moving forward if you do it slowly, in small steps. For example, you may have decided that you…

After surviving complex trauma in childhood, some people understandably want to eliminate uncertainty. This is often not possible, so one approach to making decisions without certainty is to make the…

People may not become aware they are part of a dissociative system until adulthood for a variety of reasons. A big reason is that the system may not feel safe…

Fragments are often more focused or specific than alters. They typically hold a specific emotion, memory, or function. Alters tend to have a broader range of experience or a more…

While it might feel odd to think of yourself this way, yes, you are an alter like the others in your system. If you are the part who has been…

An alter’s sense of identity may develop from experience or need: an authority figure in their life may have told the part how evil they were, and the part took…