I’ve been making videos and talking about trauma for months now and it has occurred to me that perhaps I should talk about what trauma is. In our culture, trauma is often trivialized, with people...
In the first four videos of this series, I talked about the possible motivations driving your protector parts that seem to imitate your abusers. Their intentions are good but the ways they put those...
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. Imagine you are hiking up a mountain. We’re not rock climbing...
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 to the first video. In this video, I want...
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 lead to the end of friendships or...
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 talk about how these...
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 to talk about today. Why It Matters The...
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. As I have discussed...
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 be minutes, hours, or even multiple days...