Many trauma survivors have the experience, at some point, of understanding why a trauma response is happening but then discovering that response continues to happen. Understanding why a trauma response…
A common experience with DID and OSDD is a person wanting to heal but still struggling to do things that would help. The desire to heal is often challenged by…
I'm supposed to be healing. Why am I feeling worse emotionally? Regardless of the reason a client is seeing me, one of the things we talk about at the very…
Progress in healing can sometimes feel destabilizing for a period of time because it can disrupt routines. Many systems have certain habits, routines, and ways of functioning which they have…
When times get stressful, your more of nervous system’s resources are needed to cope with the increased demands. This leaves fewer resources available to work on healing and making progress.…
Your system may protect you from change as a risk management strategy. That is, change may be viewed as avoidable risk. From your protectors’ points of view, change is not…
Healing involves change, and change can feel unsafe. Oftentimes, change can be viewed as unnecessary risk by parts of a dissociative system. The current situation is a known quantity and…
It might seem paradoxical, but successful efforts to heal can leave you feeling as though your situation worsened for a period of time. This can happen because you become more…
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…
Why Healing Can Feel So Hard Why healing can feel blocked, inconsistent, or difficult and what may be getting in the way. Core Concepts: Why Healing Feels So Hard Even…