Healing as Mountain Climbing
https://youtu.be/yICL4xuH4Po I don’t know who came up with this metaphor, so I can’t give credit, but I find it is an excellent way to sum up the process of healing.…
Persecutors as Protectors Part 4
https://youtu.be/H2rDM5_5DBE This is the next-to-last video in my series about protectors disguised as persecutors. If you missed the others you can click on the card on the screen to go…
Relationships May Be Affected by Therapy
https://youtu.be/F1Eli24sM14 One of the risks of therapy, particularly for people who have DID or other complex trauma, is a loss of relationships. How is it that your healing can potentially…
Persecutors as Protectors Part 3
https://youtu.be/Xe6bbgafgms In this series, I’ve been sharing different ways perpetrator-imitating alters may be attempting to help even though you may not be experiencing it as helpful. Today, I want to…
Angry Alters: Why It Matters
https://youtu.be/c8oIZR8JMi8 I recently talked about some important reasons members of your system might be angry with you. You might think “so what?” if they are angry. That’s what I want…
Persecutors as Protectors: Part 2
https://youtu.be/3_M1vtM9qKY The vast majority of people who have DID had childhoods full of horrific and inescapable trauma. For these children safety just didn’t exist or it was fleeting and temporary.…
Losing Time
https://youtu.be/D0c2IZutg1w If you have DID, you’ve probably experienced lost time. That is, there may be periods of time in your normal life that you have zero recollection of. It might…
Persecutors as Protectors, Part 1
https://youtu.be/rp4jFIswH88 A New Way of Thinking In the past, some alters were called “persecutors” or persecutory alters. This is now an outdated term. We now prefer to call these alters…
Your Alters Might be Mad at You!
https://youtu.be/tvvuK4a2Hck Did you know your alters might be mad at you even if you think you have done nothing that should have angered them? Let’s take a look at five…
Dissociation Without Memory Loss
https://youtu.be/eBbKel8IOjg I talked in a previous video about what dissociation is and how it is losing contact with the present moment in some way. It’s not always the case that…