When we work with our DID system, we can face situations where traumatized parts were cut off from the normal world. They have never been in contact with it and all they know is the world that the abusers created around them. Especially in organized abuse, the world that they know will have a limited […]
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Rescripting with DID parts: Same Technique – different Missions
[Disclaimer: This article is based on personal experience with a bunch of different but similar rescripting techniques. For DID therapy, rescripting in IFS barely differs from rescripting with IRRT or similar techniques because all of them have to be adapted. Once they are adapted we can notice two different patterns for inner processes instead of just […]
Tipps & Tricks for Digital Conferences for Survivors
Digital options for networking and advocacy are becoming more important. It is a lot easier to invite a bunch of people from all over the country to a video conference than it is to bring them all together in one place. Add special interests or a niche topic and it starts to become impossible […]
Managers, Exiles and Firefighters in DID
Using IFS for DID therapy is a mixed bag. There is advanced training that does support DID therapy but many people with DID who are confronted with the basic training feel alienated and like something about it is off. It was not developed with dissociative barriers in mind. There is still a basic dynamic that […]
Epiphany #10: Paradox Lost
What is this? Some would insist it is a vase. Others would swear it is two faces. Neither of them is right. It is both a vase and two faces. It needs the existence of the vase to get two faces. It needs the faces to make a vase. Yet it is […]
Dealing with Intrusive Thoughts
Intrusive thoughts are thoughts that suddenly appear in our head and that we perceive as stressful and beyond our control. The content is often shameful or mean and there is a certain tone to them. Such thoughts can be very distressing, especially if they are never actually quiet. And thoughts are not as easy to […]
Avoiding the inner Tug of War
Once we are aware that we go through different stress responses and that parts feel most comfortable in states that match their action systems we can use that knowledge to examine inner dynamics that cause us trouble. We might be drifting apart in response to the external situation we are in. The result is a […]
Extended Summer Break
This year, we are taking a longer summer break to finish working on our book manuscript. Thank you for your patience. Sign up for our Newsletter to receive a message as soon as there are new posts available. The form is at the very bottom of the page. […]
Separating inside and outside reality
One of the tricky problems with complex trauma is that our healthy separation between inside reality and outside reality is under-developed. We struggle with both sudden overwhelm from outside events and a tendency to take our inner experience as a literal reflection of outside reality. Separating ourselves from outside events You might know […]
Learning how to Reflect about Reality
In our quest to make sense of ourselves and the world we will spend quite some time reflecting about experiences. We already shared how to reflect on inner experiences. Now we will look at how to make sense of the world around us. Constructivism We all know only fragments of all the things there […]
Learning how to Reflect about the Inner Experience
Those of you who have read books on DID treatment have seen the phrase ‘the phobia of the inner experience’ and noticed that the reflection about this experience is a basic skill for all inner work. But scientists always forget to explain what the Inner Experience is supposed to be. How would we know? Nobody […]
Non-Sleep-Deep-Rest (chained relaxation exercise)
When we are dealing with cPTSD and chronic dysregulation, relaxation is not a beginner’s exercise. It is important to learn Orientation & Grounding first and reduce chronic dysregulation. Trying to relax while being in a stress response will have negative effects. When we are in fight/flight and we try to hold still, the tension will […]
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