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...
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 This is now an outdated term.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 “perpetrator-imitating parts,” which is...
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 possible reasons. Now let’s look at it from their...
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 dissociation leads to amnesia, such as when one...