TRIGGER WARNING ***** This post talks about God and abuse One of the sessions we attended at the Healing Together Conference was entitled “Where were you, God?” We were so drawn and a little triggered to this discussion because we were abused using the Bible and religion, to shame us, keep us in order, and… Read More Where Were You, God?
First, we’d like to acknowledge, that we did a horrible job of keeping up with our blog this year. We know it; we accept it; now we are moving on from it. We will try to be do better this year, but there is no guarantee. So here we are again at the Healing Together… Read More 2024 Conference Weekend
As promised the first post on the Healing Together Conference. So, how do you show your love ones, friends, and supporters about what it means to live with that DID, so that they can better understand the struggle of living with unhealed trauma and dissociation? If you are like us, it has been really hard to… Read More How to talk about DID???
We really wanted to update everyone before today, but we got sick. Part of it was being worn out from the conference, part was dealing with some residuals affects of triggers we had from the conference, and part of it was being around people, especially kids, after being in self-imposed quarantine due to my poor… Read More Quick update
This weekend is the weekend we wait all year for – The Healing Together Conference. For those of you that don’t know or haven’t heard us talk about this conference a million times it is a one-of-a-kind annual conference for people living with dissociation and DID/NOS, their loved ones, and mental health professionals. It is… Read More Conference Weekend 😁
This week we’ve been listening to Echoes in Death by J. D. Robb. First of all, we listen to books on cd because they help with the panic attacks when we have to go out into public. Listening to the story keeps us more present. We also do it because we love to read but… Read More Put the Past Behind You
NOTE: MAY CONTAIN TRIGGERS – Just so readers know the plural we, us, our in quotes stands for my system (the way “we” think of ourself)- my core and the 14 alters or parts that “we” currently are aware of living together to make up our whole. “We” don’t know what it is about family… Read More BLEEP, BLEEP, BLEEP FAMILY
We are now in group therapy along with our individual therapy – the last couple of weeks we have been doing a group activity with music. We’ve basically been putting together a playlist of songs for self-care. The more interesting thing about this activity though was why we choose the song we did. So we… Read More Music Self- Care
We are back to writing. We were talking to our therapist today about how for the longest time posting on our blog has gone by the wayside. We started with this new therapist back in at the beginning of the year (Feb 2022). She is absolutely the best! Not only did we feel almost immediately… Read More We Are Updating Our Site
Note: Because I am a person living with Dissociative Identity Disorder, I use the plural pronouns of we, us, etc. because this is who we are. To make a long story short, our iPad went out over the Thanksgiving holidays and we had to purchase a new one. With our new iPad, we got three… Read More The Me You Can’t See Series
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