During our healing journey we will experience quite a few things that will be too big for us, too intimidating and scary, so frightening that we are kicked outside our Window of Tolerance because we don’t have the capacity to work with them. When we are faced with memories we can always try to contain […]
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The potential problem with cPTSD criteria in the ICD-11
Trauma specialists have struggled for 3 decades to get the cPTSD diagnosis officially acknowledged in the major diagnostic manuals. And they succeeded in the ICD-11. It is a reason to celebrate. But some of the very same specialists who fought so hard are now expressing concerns about the precise diagnostic criteria that were used. While […]
The Reason for phase-oriented Treatment
The recommended way to do trauma treatment is in 3 phases. They have been called by slightly different names over the decades but the goal of the phases never changed. First there is stabilization, then a form of processing and finally a phase of reintegration and adapting to the changes. The phases are not […]
Creating our own hell: Reenactments
Although TraumaTime is long past, many survivors struggle to create a life that is safe, peaceful and meaningful. It is as if we are somehow jinxed. We start out with good intentions and end up with the opposite of what we wanted. Sometimes that’s because we don’t have the support or resources we need and […]
Grounding Meditations (advanced)
I have recently switched out the mindfulness app on my phone. I used to use Smiling Mind, which is a mental health focussed app meant for people who want to reduce stress and stress-related symptoms. It offers very clear instructions with the purpose of stabilization and grounding and it is ideal for beginners and […]
Book Review: The Finding Solid Ground Program Workbook
Book review The Finding Solid Ground Program (Workbook) by H. Schielke, B. Brand & R. Lanius Written for: traumatized people (especially cPTSD) in the first phase of healing people who struggle with unsafe behaviors a lot inclusive of people with structural dissociation therapists who work with the people listed above Special focus: stabilization […]
Helping masochistic parts
CN: We talk about sexuality, pain, BDSM, (organized) abuse and explicit problems with masochism that can happen after extreme abuse and offer interventions that include sex education and experiments with sexual pleasure. Please don’t read this when you are unstable and stop reading when you get triggered too much. Like, now. If you are already […]
Overcoming patterns of appeasement and submission
We think of appeasement as a collection of social behaviors that aim to restore a safe relationship and maybe attachment with another person who is perceived as more powerful or threatening. If we gave them any cause to be angry with us, we need to fix it and make them calm down and like us […]
Unintentionally destabilizing a DID System
There are a lot of individual things that can go wrong in DID therapy. And there are also predictable patterns where a certain type of mistake will lead to a certain type of problem. Of course that won’t fit every system on the planet. But it fits often enough to be more than random. We […]
Summer Break!
Hello my friends, Like every summer, we are taking some time off. We will be back in a couple of weeks. Take good care Theresa
Techniques of science denial and DID
CN: this article mentions organized abuse, ritual abuse, mind control, abuser organizations, stigma and infuriating bullshit There is a lot of misinformation out there about DID. Some of it is based on a lack of knowledge and we can help by pointing towards scientific resources. In other situations, what we encounter is plain denial […]
Exercise for crisis prevention
We can think of our experience with stress as a spectrum. At one end of the spectrum we are relaxed and not stressed at all, at the other end we experience crisis. And then there are stages in between. We can use the spectrum to assess our situation. That way our interventions can be […]
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